FRANCESCO BERTO Chaire d Excellence Fellow CNRS Institut d Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Ecole Normale supérieure Sorbonne University) 13 rue du Four 75006 Paris, France Temporary Lecturer in Logic University of Venice Ca Foscari Department of Philosophy and Theory of Sciences Palazzo Marcorà-Malcanton Dorsoduro 3484 D 30123 Venice, Italy bertofra@unive.it francescoberto@tin.it 1. ACADEMIC TITLES 1.1. December, 1999: Degree in Philosophy, Venice University (Ca Foscari), with points 110/110, cum laude. Title of the thesis: Severino e la logica dialettica. La dialettica come estensione della logica formale [Severino and Dialectical Logic. Dialectics as an Extension of Formal Logic]. 1.2. January, 2002: Advanced Course in Methodologies of Online Learning, SSIS (Interfaculty School of Specialization for High School Professors, Universities of Padua and Venice). 1.3. Cultore della materia (Research Assistant) in Formal Logic (since March, 2001), Philosophy of Knowledge (since June, 2002) and Theoretical Philosophy (since November, 2004), Universities of Padua and Venice. 1.4. March, 2001 - March, 2004: Ph D in Philosophy, Venice University (Ca Foscari), Department of Philosophy and Theory of Sciences. Title of the Ph D thesis: La dialettica hegeliana come teoria semantica [Hegel s Dialectics as a Semantic Theory]. Supervisor: Prof. L.V. Tarca. 1.5. June, 2004 - May, 2006: Two-year post-doctorate in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Padua, Department of Philosophy. Supervisor: Prof. L. Illetterati. 1.6. July - August, 2006: Scholarship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana-USA. 1.7. September 2007 Postdoctoral fellowship in Ontology and Semantics, CNRS / University of Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne Ecole Normale Supérieure. Supervisor: Prof. Friederike Moltmann. 2. DIDACTIC ACTIVITY, AFFILIATION, PRIZES 2.1. Since 2000, Assistant to the course of Logic and Philosophy of Science, SSIS (Interfaculty School of Specialization for High School Professors, Universities of Padua and Venice). 2.2. 2001-2004, Assistant to the courses of Logic and of Philosophy of Knowledge, Venice University (Ca Foscari), Faculty of Philosophy.
2.3. Since 2004, Lecturer of Formal Logic, Venice University (Ca Foscari), Faculty of Philosophy. 2.4. Since 2004, Assistant to the course of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Padua, Faculty of Philosophy. 2.5. 2005-2006, Assistant to the course of Fundamental Ontology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan. 2.6. 2006, Lecturer of Logic and Philosophy of Science, SSIS (Interfaculty School of Specialization for High School Professors, Universities of Padua and Venice). 2.7. 2007, winner of the national Castiglioncello Prize for the best philosophical work by a young scholar, with the book Teorie dell assurdo. I rivali del Principio di Non-Contraddizione. 2.8. Since 2007, Lecturer in Ontology (Metaphysics) at the Sorbonne-École Normale Supérieure of Paris. 2.9. Since 2008, Lecturer in Logic at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan. 2.10. Member of the SFI (Italian Philosophical Society) and of the SIFA (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy). 3. PUBLICATIONS 3.1. Books (as author) 3.1.1. There s Something About Gödel, Blackwell, Oxford (forthcoming 2009). 3.1.2. How to Sell a Contradiction. The Logic and Metaphysics of Inconsistency, King s College Publications, London (pp. 350). 3.1.3. Tutti pazzi per Gödel. La guida completa al Teorema di Incompletezza [There s Something About Gödel. The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem], Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008 (pp. 300). 3.1.4. Logica da zero a Gödel [Logic, from Zero to Gödel], Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007 (pp. 240). 3.1.5. Teorie dell assurdo. I rivali del Principio di Non-Contraddizione [Theories of the Absurd. The Rivals of the Law of Non-Contradiction], Foreword by Graham Priest, Carocci, Rome 2006 (pp. 250). 3.1.6. Che cos è la dialettica hegeliana? Un interpretazione analitica del metodo [What is Hegel s Dialectics? An Analytic Reading of the Method], Foreword by Diego Marconi, Poligrafo, Padua 2005 (pp. 450). 3.1.7. La dialettica della struttura originaria [The Dialectics of the Basic Structure], Foreword by Emanuele Severino, Poligrafo, Padua 2003 (pp. 250; University of Venice - Publications of the Faculty of Philosophy). 3.2. Papers 3.2.1. Impossible Worlds, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, CSLI, Stanford, CA (forthcoming 2009). 3.2.2. The Gödel Paradox and Wittgenstein s Reasons, Philosophia Mathematica (forthcoming 2009). 3.2.3. 'AdÚnaton and Material Exclusion, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(2008), pp. 165-90. 3.2.4. Dialetheism, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, CSLI, Stanford, CA http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/ (with Graham Priest). 2
3.2.5. Modal Meinongianism for Fictional Objects, Metaphysica, 9(2008), pp. 205-18 3.2.6. Is Dialetheism an Idealism? The Russellian Fallacy and the Dialetheist s Dilemma, Dialectica, 61(2007), pp. 235-63. 3.2.7. Hegel s Dialectics as a Semantic Theory. An Analytic Reading, European Journal of Philosophy, 15(2007), pp. 19-39. 3.2.8. Meaning, Metaphysics, and Contradiction, American Philosophical Quarterly, 43(2006), pp. 283-97. 3.2.9. Characterizing Negation to face Dialetheism, Logique et Analyse, 195(2006), pp. 241-63. 3.2.10. Some Topics concerning Identity and Contradiction in Philosophical Logic, Epistemologia, 28(2005), pp. 219-38 3.2.10. Kant, Hegel, Frege e la priorità del proposizionale [Kant, Hegel, Frege, and the Priority of the Propositional], Il Pensiero, 46(2007), pp. 67-83. 3.2.11. Quale barba per il rasoio di Ockham? Problemi del riduzionismo metafisico [Which Beard for Ockham s Razor? Problems of Metaphysical Reductionism] (with E. Bellinelli), Divus Thomas, 47(2007), pp. 9-28. 3.2.12. Un interpretazione analitica della dialettica hegeliana [An Analytic Reading of Hegel s Dialectics], Iride, 43(2004), pp. 569-92. 3.2.13. Il primo teorema di Gödel e l indeterminabilità del riferimento (incompletezza sintattica, insaturabilità semantica) [Gödel s First Theorem and the Indeterminacy of Reference], Epistemologia, 27(2004), pp. 29-54. 3.2.14. La logica e il nulla [Logic and the Nothing], Teoria, 23(2003), pp. 115-26. 3.2.15. Modus tollens. Kant, Hegel e la critica della nozione logica di sostanza [Modus Tollens. Kant, Hegel and the Critique of the Logical Notion of Substance], Giornale di metafisica, 25(2003), pp. 129-46. 3.2.16. Dialettica come semantica [Dialectics as a Semantics], Epistemologia, 26(2003), pp. 5-44. 3.2.17. Ist eine Tautologie, Divus Thomas, 30(2001), pp. 95-136. 3.3. Volumes (as editor) 3.3.1. Scenari dell impossibile. La contraddizione nel pensiero contemporaneo [Scenarios of the Impossible. Contradiction in Contemporary Thought] (ed. with F. Altea), Poligrafo, Padua 2007. 3.4. Essays in Miscellaneous Volumes 3.4.1. Strong Paraconsistency and Exclusion Negation, in The Logica Yearbook 2008, King s College Publications, London (forthcoming). In French 3.4.2. Mondes meinongiens pour objets fictionnels, in Introduction à la logique de la fiction (eds. B. Hill and J. Dubucs), King's College Publications, London (forthcoming). 3
3.4.3. Logiche per menti contraddittorie, in Il problema "mente-corpo". Genealogia, modelli, prospettive di ricerca (eds. F. Masi and M. Giannasi), Mimesis, Milan 2008, pp. 413-32. 3.4.4. Non dire non! (Una proposta che Priest non potrà rifiutare) [Do Not say Not! (A Proposal Priest Cannot Reject)], in Scenari dell impossibile. La contraddizione nel pensiero contemporaneo (eds. F. Altea and F. Berto), Poligrafo, Padua 2007, pp. 45-61. 3.4.5. Bertrand Russell: logica e matematica [Bertrand Russell: Logic and Mathematics] (with M. Plebani), in Filosofie nel tempo. Storia filosofica del pensiero occidentale e orientale (eds. P. Salandini and R. Lolli), vol. III, Spazio Tre, Rome 2006, pp. 863-884. 3.4.6. Indiscernibili, concetto completo, ascesa semantica in Leibniz [Indiscernibles, Complete Concept and Semantic Ascent in Leibniz s Thought], in Sostanza e verità nella filosofia di Leibniz (eds. L. Perissinotto and F. Perelda), Poligrafo, Padua 2006, pp. 145-163. 3.4.7. Mediazione e immediatezza in Hegel e Wittgenstein [Mediation and Immediacy in Hegel and Wittgenstein], in Hegel contemporaneo. La ricezione americana di Hegel a confronto con la tradizione europea (eds. L. Ruggiu and I. Testa), Guerini e Associati, Milan 2003, pp. 544-560. 3.5. Translations and Reviews 3.5.1. Translation of G. PRIEST, What Is So Bad About Contrdictions?, in Scenari dell impossibile (with F. Perelda). 3.5.2. Translation of E. TEGTMEIER, Parmenides Problem of Becoming and Its Solution, in Scenari dell impossibile. 3.5.3. Translation of A. VARZI, Conjunction and Contradiction, in Scenari dell impossibile. 3.5.4. Translation of V. HÖSLE, Inferentialism in Brandom and Holism in Hegel - A Reply to Richard Rorty and Some Questions for Robert Brandom, in Hegel contemporaneo, pp. 290-317. 3.5.5. Translation of P. REDDING, Making Hegel s Inferentialism Explicit, in Hegel contemporaneo, pp. 501-522. 3.5.6. Review of F. PERELDA, Hegel e Russell. Logica e ontologia fra moderno e contemporaneo, Poligrafo, Padua 2003, Hegel-Studien, 39-40(2004/05), pp. 211-214. 3.5.7. Review of L.V. TARCA, Differenza e negazione. Per una filosofia positiva, La città del sole, Naples 2001, Divus Thomas, 3(2001), pp. 174-182. 4. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 4.1. Full three-year grant of about 33,000 for the Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Venice-Ca Foscari. 4.2. Full two-year grant of about 21,000 for the two-year post-doctorate in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padua. 4.3. Full grant of about 3,000 for the scholarship at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana-USA. 4.4. Full grant of about 25,000 per year for the ongoing postdoctoral fellowship in Ontology and Semantics at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. 5. RECENT TALKS IN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS 5.1. First World Congress on the Square of Opposition, Montreux, Switwerland, June 1-3, 2007. Talk: Strong Paraconsistency and the Intuition of Opposition. 4
5.2. PALMYR VI 6 th Paris-Amsterdam Logical Meeting of Young Researchers, University of Amsterdam, Holland, December 14-15, 2007. Talk: Realism and Anti-Realism on Double Truth. 5.3. Workshop Linguaggio e logica. Nell officina analitica, University of Catania, Italy, June 9, 2007. Talk: Impossible is Possible Tonight: dialeteismo e legge di non-contraddizione. 5.4. Workshop Logica 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, June 17-20, 2008. Talk: Strong Paraconsistency, Contradiction, and Exclusion Negation. 5.5. WCP4 The Fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency, Melbourne, Australia, July 13-18, 2008. Talk: The Gödel Paradox and Wittgenstein s Reasons. 5.6. Congress Logic, Being and Non-Being in History, University of Sydney, Australia, July 21-22, 2008. Title of the talk: Close Encounters (with Nonexistents) of the Third Kind. 5.7. ECAP6 6 th European Conference of Analytic Philosophy, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, August 21-26, 2008. Talk: Leibniz s Law, Coincident Entities and Question-Begging Predicates: an Issue in Meta-ontology. 5.8. SIFA 2008 the workshop of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bergamo, Italy, September 25-27, 2008. Talk: How to Rule Out Things with Words. 5