Truth, Meaning and the Analysis of Natural Language

Paolo Casalegno (1952-2009) has been one of the best European philosophers working within the analytic tradition. His work was in formal logic, the semantics of natural language, and (mostly) the classical topics of meaning and truth. He was the author of excellent textbooks in both the philosophy of language and set theory. Though some of his papers were published in English in international journals such as dialectica and the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, many others are in Italian, hence inaccessible to most scholars in the international community. The collection we propose includes what we regard as his best work on meaning, reference and truth, plus two important papers in the semantics of natural language and one in epistemology. In these papers, Casalegno discusses and criticizes philosophers such as Quine, Davidson, Fodor, Peacocke, Boghossian and others.