Pieranna Garavaso
210 Camden Hall
(320) 589-6289
garavapf@morris.umn.edu


Pieranna Garavaso is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Her areas of interest include epistemological and metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, and feminist epistemologies. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her dissertation was Objectivity and Consistency in Mathematics: A Critical Analysis of Two Objections to Wittgenstein's Pragmatic Conventionalism. She has recently received two distinguished teaching awards: the University of Minnesota, Morris Alumni Association Teaching Award in 2003 and the Horace T. Morse University of Minnesota Alumni .

Selected Publications

Books:

Filosofia delle donne (Philosophy of Women), coauthored with Nicla Vassallo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2007; first reprint September 2007.

Filosofia della matematica. Numeri e strutture (Philosophy of Mathematics. Numbers and Structures), Guerini, Milan (Italy), 1998.

Guest Editing:

Philip Hugly and Charles Sayward, Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, edited by Pieranna Garavaso, with commentaries by C. Cheyne, S. Shieh, and J.P. Van Bendegem, Monograph-in-Debate Series of The Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Science and the Humanities, vol. 90, Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2006.

Articles:

”Editor’s Introduction,” in Philip Hugly and Charles Sayward, Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Monograph-in-Debate Series of The Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 90, Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 11-20.

”On Frege’s Alleged Indispensability Argument,” in Philosophia Mathematica (III) 13(2005), pp. 160-173.

”Esiste una condizione necessaria per la razionalitá?” (Is there a necessary condition for rationality?), in Esperienza e razionalitá. Prospettive contemporanee, edited by Roberta Corvi, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005, pp. 127-143.

“On Behalf of the Neglected Body,” in Ikaheimo, Kotkavirta, Laitinen, and Lyyra, eds., Personhood. workshop Papers of the Conference “Dimensions of Personhood,” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2004, pp. 54-60.

"Filosofia della Matematica" (Philosophy of Mathematics), Storia della filosofia analitica (History of Analytic Philosophy), Einaudi, Turin (Italy), 2002.

"La Varietà delle epistemologie femministe" (The Variety of Feminist Epistemologies), Donne e filosofia (Women and Philosophy), Erga, 2001, pp. 218-233.

"Why the New Theorist May still Need to Explain Cognitive Significance but not Mind Doing It," Philosophia Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 1-11.

"Mens Una in Corpore Uno," Identità personale: un dibattito aperto (Personal Identity: an open debate), Andrea Bottani and Nicla Vassallo, eds. Loffredo, Naples 2000, pp. 281-309.

"The Quine/Wittgenstein Controversy: Any Role for Feminist Empiricism in It?," Epistemologia, Vol. XXII (1999), pp. 63-90.

"Il controverso rapporto fra naturalismo e femminismo" (The Controversial Relationship Between Naturalism and Feminism), in E. Agazzi and N. Vassallo, eds., Introduzione al Naturalismo (Introduction to Naturalism), Franco Angeli, March 1998.

"The Distinction Between the Logical and the Empirical in On Certainty," Philosophical Investigations, 1998.

"Actuality and Necessity," The Journal of Critical Analysis, vol. 9, No. 2 (1992). pp. 173-187.

"Anti-Realism and Objectivity in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics," Philosophica, 48 (1991, 2), 93-106.

"Frege on the Analysis of Thoughts," History and Philosophy of Logic, 12 (1991), 195-210.

"Taylor's Defense of Two Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God," Sophia, (co-authored with Lory Lemke), vol. 29, no. 1, April 1990, pp. 31-41.

"Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reply to Two Objections," Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, 1988, pp. 179-191.

Courses

Phil 4121 Philosophy of Language

Phil 3101 Metaphysics

Phil 2101 Introduction to Symbolic Logic

Phil 3141 The Theory of Knowledge

Phil 2152 Introduction to Analytic Feminism

Phil 4131 Contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy: History of Analytic Philosophy


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