Michele Marsonet
Michele Marsonet is professor of philosophy of science and methodology of the human sciences, chairman of the philosophy department and vice-rector for international relations at the University of Genoa in Italy. Having worked as Associate Professor, first of Logic 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, philosophy of science, metaphysics, methodology of the social sciences, political philosophy and philosophical logic. He has published extensively on the works of Nicholas Rescher.
He graduated from the University of Genoa, then earned a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, with subsequent periods of study at Oxford, Manchester and New York City. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Seville, Malaga, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, Beirut, London, Hertfordshire, Stirling, Bergen, Pittsburgh.Published works
- Introduzione alle logiche polivalenti, Abete, Rome 1976.
- Logica e impegno ontologico. Saggio su S. Lesniewski, Angeli, Milan 1981.
- Linguaggio e conoscenza. Saggio su K. Ajdukiewicz, Angeli, Milan 1986.
- La metafisica negata. Logica, ontologia, filosofia analitica, Angeli, Milan 1990.
- Logica e linguaggio, two volumes, Pantograf, Genoa 1993.
- Scienza e analisi linguistica, Feltrinelli, Milan 1994.
- I love to be drunk, ETIL, Genova 2001.
- Introduzione alla filosofia scientifica del 1900, 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, Angeli, Milan 1997.
- Prassi e utopia. I limiti dell'agire politico, Studium, Rome 1998.
- I limiti del realismo, Angeli, Milan, 2000.
- Elementi di Filosofia della scienza, CLU, Genoa 2008.
- Idealism and Praxis: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher, Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt-Paris 2008.
