Michele Marsonet (born 1950) is professor of

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, ...

and methodology of the human sciences, chairman of the

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

department and vice-rector for international relations at the

University of Genoa The University of Genoa () is a public research university. It is one of the largest universities in Italy and it is located in the city of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was fou ...

in Italy. Having worked as associate professor, first of

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

and then of philosophy of science, at the University of Genoa from 1992 to 1999, he was then a full professor of theoretical philosophy and institutions of philosophy. He was also dean of the faculty of arts and humanities of the University of Genoa from 2002 to 2008. His main areas of study are in

pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics� ...

, philosophy of science,

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

, methodology of the social sciences, political philosophy and philosophical logic. He has published extensively on the works of

Nicholas Rescher Nicholas Rescher (; ; 15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961. He was chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Sc ...

. He graduated from the University of Genoa (1973), then earned a PhD from the

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(1979), with subsequent periods of study at

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and

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. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of

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(Spain, Department of Philosophy),

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(Spain, Department of Philosophy), Iceland ( Reykjavík University, Department of Philosophy), Ireland (

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, Department of Philosophy),

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(Faculty of Humanities),

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( Université Libanaise, Faculty of Social Sciences), London ( King's College),

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(Department of Philosophy),

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(UK, Department of Philosophy),

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(Norway, Institute of Philosophy),

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(U.S., Department of Philosophy).

Published works

* ''Introduzione alle logiche polivalenti (Introduction to Many-Valued Logics),'' Abete, Rome 1976. * ''Logica e impegno ontologico. Saggio su S. Lesniewski (Logic and Ontological Commitment: An Essay on S. Lesniewski),'' Angeli, Milan 1981. * ''Linguaggio e conoscenza. Saggio su K. Ajdukiewicz (Language and Knowledge: An Essay on K. Ajdukiewicz),'' Angeli, Milan 1986. * ''La metafisica negata. Logica, ontologia, filosofia analitica (The Rejection of Metaphysics: Logic, Ontology, Analytic Philosophy),'' Angeli, Milan 1990. * ''Logica e linguaggio (Logic and Language),'' two volumes, Pantograf, Genoa 1993. * ''Scienza e analisi linguistica (Science and Linguistic Analysis),'' Feltrinelli, Milan 1994. * ''I love to be drunk (Science and Alc Analysis),'' ETIL, Genova 2001. * ''Introduzione alla filosofia scientifica del 1900 (Introduction to Scientific Philosophy of the 20th Century),'' Studium, Rome 1994. * ''Science, Reality, and Language,'' State University of New York Press, New York 1995. * ''The Primacy of Practical Reason,'' University Press of America, New York-London 1996 * ''La verità fallibile. Pragmatismo e immagine scientifica del mondo (Fallible Truth: Pragmatism and the Scientific World-View),'' Angeli, Milan 1997. * ''Prassi e utopia. I limiti dell'agire politico (Praxis and Utopia: The Limits of Political Action),'' Studium, Rome 1998. * ''I limiti del realismo (The Limits of Realism),'' Angeli, Milan, 2000. * ''Elementi di Filosofia della scienza (An Introduction to Philosophy of Science),'' CLU, Genoa 2008. * ''Idealism and Praxis: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher,'' Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt-Paris 2008

References

External links

''Marsonet's homepage at the university of Genoa''
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