Achille Varzi
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Italian philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Achille C. Varzi is an Italian-born philosopher who is John Dewey Professor of philosophy at Columbia University. He graduated from the University of Trento and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Varzi is also Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor at the University of Trento and, since 2017, Visiting Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.
Achille Varzi 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation (1999) (496)
- Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries (2000) (341)
- Holes and Other Superficialities (1994) (336)
- Parts, Wholes, and Part-Whole Relations: The Prospects of Mereotopology (1996) (285)
- Parts And Places (1999) (253)
- Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism (1996) (142)
- Vagueness in geography (2001) (127)
- Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation (1998) (126)
- Spatial Reasoning and Ontology: Parts, Wholes, and Locations (2007) (118)
- Supervaluationism and Its Logics (2007) (108)
- Speaking of Events (2000) (108)
- Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries: Towards on Ontology of Spatially Extended Objects (1997) (101)
- Boundaries, Continuity, and Contact (1997) (100)
- The Extensionality of Parthood and Composition (2008) (94)
- The structure of spatial localization (1996) (87)
- A note on the transitivity of parthood (2006) (62)
- Basic Problems of Mereotopology (1998) (54)
- Mereotopological Connection (2003) (50)
- Connection Relations in Mereotopology (1998) (49)
- Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness (2005) (49)
- Events and Event Talk: An Introduction (2000) (49)
- Counting and Countenancing (2014) (48)
- On Logical Relativity (2002) (42)
- Vagueness, Logic, and Ontology (2001) (41)
- Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism (2011) (39)
- Naming the Stages (2005) (38)
- Universalism Entails Extensionalism (2009) (38)
- Events, topology and temporal relations (1996) (37)
- Formal Ontology in Information Systems : proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS-2004) (2004) (35)
- Surrounding space the ontology of organism-environment relations (2002) (34)
- Words and Objects (2002) (33)
- Spatial Entities (1997) (32)
- Event Concepts (2007) (32)
- Promiscuous Endurantism and Diachronic Vagueness (2007) (29)
- Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of ‘Vague' (2003) (27)
- Refining Temporal Reference in Event Structures (1996) (27)
- Mereology then and now (2015) (26)
- Psychological and Social Borders: Regulating Relationships (2016) (26)
- Inconsistency without Contradiction (1997) (25)
- Reasoning about space: The hole story (2003) (24)
- On Doing Ontology Without Metaphysics (2011) (24)
- Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers (2003) (24)
- The formal ontology of boundaries (1997) (23)
- Supervaluationism and Paraconsistency (2000) (22)
- The Talk I was Supposed to Give (2006) (22)
- Complementary Sentential Logics (1990) (22)
- Occasions of Identity: The Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness (2001) (22)
- Insurmountable Simplicities: Thirty-Nine Philosophical Conundrums (2006) (20)
- On the Boundary Between Mereology and Topology (2014) (20)
- Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Logic (1988) (19)
- An essay in universal semantics (1999) (18)
- Omissions and Causal Explanations (2007) (18)
- Spatial Reasoning in a Holey World (1993) (17)
- Ontological Commitment And Reconstructivism (2001) (17)
- Events, Truth, and Indeterminacy (2002) (16)
- Some Pictures are Worth 2[aleph]0 Sentences (2000) (16)
- Modes of Connection (1999) (16)
- THE UNIVERSE AMONG OTHER THINGS (2006) (15)
- FROM AN ONTOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW (2006) (15)
- The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts (1999) (14)
- Boundaries: An Essay in Mereotopology1 (2002) (14)
- On Drawing Lines Across the Board (2016) (13)
- Parts, counterparts, and modal occurrents (2001) (13)
- Introduction: Philosophical Issues in Geography (2001) (12)
- 50 Years of Events an Annotated Bibliography, 1947 to 1997 (1997) (12)
- Surrounding Space – The Ontology of Organism-Environment Relations (2002) (12)
- What is a City? (2019) (11)
- From Language to Ontology: Beware of the Traps (2007) (11)
- Complementary Logics for Classical Propositional Languages (1992) (11)
- Cut-offs and their Neighbors (2003) (10)
- Philosophical Issues in Geography—An Introduction (2001) (10)
- The nature of logic (1999) (10)
- Some Pictures Are Worth 2 א 0 Sentences (10)
- Conjunction and Contradiction (2004) (10)
- Event Location and Vagueness (2006) (9)
- That Useless Time Machine (2001) (9)
- Counting the Holes (2004) (9)
- The Geometry of Negation (2003) (8)
- On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place (2005) (8)
- Paraconsistency in classical logic (2018) (7)
- Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events (1994) (7)
- Atoms, Gunk, and the Limits of ‘Composition’ (2016) (7)
- Back to Black (2016) (7)
- On being ultimately composed of atoms (2017) (6)
- Fictionalism in Ontology (2013) (6)
- A Note on Analysis and Circular Definitions (1998) (6)
- Review of Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Notes on Set Theory [New York, Springer-Verlag, 1994] (1996) (6)
- NATURAL AXIOMS FOR CLASSICAL MEREOLOGY (2018) (6)
- The Vagueness of ‘Vague’: Rejoinder to Hull (2005) (6)
- Unsharpenable Vagueness (2002) (6)
- Adding Convexity to Mereotopology (2014) (5)
- Review of Herbert Hochberg and Kevin Mulligan (eds.), Relations and Predicates [Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2004] (2004) (5)
- Vagueness, indiscernibility, and pragmatics: comments on Burns (1995) (5)
- Counterpart theories for everyone (2020) (5)
- DO WE NEED FUNCTIONAL ABSTRACTION (1993) (4)
- 1 On the Boundary between Material and Formal Ontology (2010) (4)
- Realism in the Desert (2014) (4)
- On the Meaning of Complementary Systems (2011) (4)
- Strict Identity with No Overlap (2006) (4)
- The Best Question (2001) (4)
- On Three Axiom Systems for Classical Mereology (2018) (4)
- Vague Names for Sharp Objects (2000) (4)
- Some Pictures Are Worth 2^(N)o Sentences (2000) (3)
- Points as Higher-Order Constructs (2020) (3)
- Variable-Binders as Functors (1995) (3)
- Musil's Imaginary Bridge (2014) (3)
- Carnapian Engineering (2019) (3)
- Beth Too, but Only If (2005) (3)
- From language to ontology (2007) (3)
- Patterns, Rules, and Inferences (2008) (3)
- TRUTH AND CIRCULAR DEFINITIONS (1993) (2)
- Review of André Gallois, Occasions of Identity. A Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness [Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998] (2001) (2)
- The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics (1999) (2)
- Indeterminate Identities, Supervaluationism, and Quantifiers (2020) (2)
- True and False: An Exchange (2000) (2)
- MODEL-THEORETIC CONVENTIONALISM (1995) (2)
- Formal Ontology In Information Systems: SProceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS-2004) (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications) (2005) (2)
- Topological Essentialism (2000) (2)
- Parts and Wholes: Foreword (2006) (2)
- Mereology (2021) (2)
- The Magic of Holes (2019) (2)
- 1 Supervaluationism and Paraconsistency (2000) (1)
- Methodological Blind Spots in Machine Learning Fairness: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science and Computer Science (2019) (1)
- Foreword to ''Parts and Wholes'' (2006) (1)
- Crimes and Punishments (2007) (1)
- The Plan of a Square (2008) (1)
- Figmentum : an essay in legal ontology (2013) (1)
- Review of Amie L. Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics (2001) (1)
- Cover To Cover (2013) (1)
- Lesser Kinds: Foreword (2007) (1)
- Critical Notice of John Heil, From an Ontological Point of View (2006) (1)
- Basic Issues in Spatial Representation (2014) (1)
- Formal Theories of Parthood (2014) (1)
- Review of Susan Haack, Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism (1998) (1)
- Appendix . Formal Theories of Parthood (2014) (1)
- Temporal Parts: Foreword (2000) (1)
- Publications received (2005) (0)
- A Concept Language for an Engineering Application with Part-whole 5.5 New Perspectives in O-odm Tennis-club V (= 1 President-mbs Tennis-player) Tennis-player V ( 1 President-mbs Tennis-club) 5.3 Modeling Wholes in Object-oriented Data Models (1996) (0)
- Ballot Ontology (0)
- Undetached Parts and Disconnected Wholes (2013) (0)
- Idiolect and Context I. the Idiolect Problem (2003) (0)
- A Slow Impossible Mirror Picture (2020) (0)
- Intuitionistic mereology (2019) (0)
- What is Mereology? (2021) (0)
- Time Travel: Foreword (2005) (0)
- From Fictionalism to Realism From Fictionalism to Realism (0)
- Topological Essentialism Roberto Casati , Achille Varzi (2017) (0)
- Review of Brian McGuinness (ed.), Language, Logic and Formalization of Knowledge [Gaeta, Bibliotheca, 1998] (2000) (0)
- Intuitionistic mereology (2018) (0)
- Fictionalism in Ontology: The 2011 Paolo Bozzi Lecture (2014) (0)
- Paraconsistency in classical logic (2017) (0)
- Formal Ontology (G9509) (2005) (0)
- Decomposition (2021) (0)
- 1 Ontological Commitment and Reconstructivism (2000) (0)
- What is a City? (2019) (0)
- Francesco Orilia: Review of Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap, The Revision Theory of Truth [Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, 1993] (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Mereology 1. 'part' and Parthood 2. Basic Principles 2.1. Parthood as a Partial Ordering 2.2. Other Mereological Concepts 3. Supplementation Principles 3.1. Parts and Remainders 3.2. Identity and Extensionality 4. Closure Principles 4.1. Finitary Operations 4.2. Unrestricted Fusions (2002) (0)
- Truth and Values: Essays for Hans Herzberger (2011) (0)
- “All the Shadows / Whisper of the Sun”: Carnevali’s Whitmanesque Simplicity (2018) (0)
- Insurmountable simplicities : 39 philosophical conundrums (2006) (0)
- Ground Mereology [ M ] is the theory defined by the following proper axioms for the Parthood predicate , ' P ' : (2003) (0)
- On Perceiving Abs nces (2022) (0)
- Atoms, Gunk, and the Limits of ‘Composition’ (2015) (0)
- Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book (2006) (0)
- Varzi ON THREE AXIOM SYSTEMS FOR CLASSICAL MEREOLOGY (2018) (0)
- What is to be done? (2006) (0)
- Ordering (2021) (0)
- 1 Boundaries , Conventions , and Realism (2011) (0)
- Logic (2021) (0)
- Self-reference Self-explained (2004) (0)
- The naming of facts (2012) (0)
- Classical Mereology (2021) (0)
- 1 Atoms , Gunk , and the Limits of ‘ Composition ’ (2015) (0)
- Playing for the Same Team Again (2007) (0)
- Basic Issues in Spatial Reasoning (1995) (0)
- Foreword to ''Lesser Kinds'' (2007) (0)
- Critical Notice of Amie L. Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics [Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999] (2001) (0)
- Logic, Ontological Neutrality, and the Law of Non-Contradiction (2014) (0)
- Natural Limits of Arti cial Realities (2007) (0)
- On being ultimately composed of atoms (2016) (0)
- 1 Counting and Countenancing (2012) (0)
- Traps in Spatial Representation (1999) (0)
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