Claudio E.A. Pizzi

Claudio E.A. Pizzi (born 20 September 1944, Milan) is an Italian logician and epistemologist.

Biography

Pizzi completed his Master's degree in philosophy from the State University of Milan in 1969. From 1976, he taught logic for three years at the University of Calabria. He then worked as a professor of logic and of philosophy of science at the University of Siena from 1979 to 2014, in which he became a full professor in 1997. Beginning from 1992, he worked for several Brazilian universities and especially for Centro de Logica, Epistemologia e Historia da Ciencia (CLE) of the University of Campinas. From 2008-2012, he taught logic of proof at the Faculty of Law of the second State University of Milan.[1]

Research activities

After completing his studies, Pizzi edited the Italian translation of G.E. Hughes and M.J. Cresswell's An Introduction to Modal Logic[2] and published two anthologies in 1974 and 1979 aimed to spread the knowledge of two areas of intensional logic unknown in Italy: tense logic[3] and conditional logic.[4] In a number of academic papers, he developed a variant of so-called connexive logic named "logic of consequential implication",[5] which turns out to be translatable in the main system of propositional modal logic and so decidable via the tableaux method.[6]

Pizzi is also known for his contributions to modal logic concerning the problem of defining necessity in terms of contingency[7] and the use of Aristotelian squares and cubes in visualizing the relations between modal notions.[8] In collaboration with Brazilian logicians, Pizzi has explored the subject of multimodal logics (i.e. of logics whose language has more than one modal primitive), to which he produced a monograph.[9] His last book (2017) contains a methodological analysis of the investigations about a plane crash which took place in 1980, known as the "Ustica massacre".

Works

  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A., ed. (1974). La logica del tempo. Torino: Boringhieri.
  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A., ed. (1979). Leggi di natura, modalità, ipotesi. Milano: Feltrinelli.
  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A. (1997). Eventi e Cause. Una prospettiva ondizionalista. Milano: Giuffrè.
  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A.; Carnielli, W. (2008). Modalities and Multimodalities. New York: Springer.
  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A. (2009). Diritto, Abduzione e prova. Milano: Giuffrè.
  • Pizzi, Claudio E.A. (2017). Ripensare Ustica. Createspace (Amazon).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Magnani, Lorenzo; Carnielli, Walter (2010). "Years of Reasoning: In Honor of the 65th Birthday of Claudio Pizzi". In Lorenzo Magnani; Walter Carnielli; Claudio Pizzi. Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery. Berlin: Springer. pp. xi–xvi. ISBN 978-3-642-15222-1.
  2. ↑ Hughes, G.E.; Cresswell, M.J. (1968). Introduzione alla logica modale. Translated by Pizzi, Claudio E.A. milano: Il Saggiatore.
  3. ↑ Pizzi, Claudio E.A., ed. (1974). La logica del tempo. Torino: Boringhieri.
  4. ↑ Pizzi, Claudio E.A., ed. (1979). Leggi di natura, modalità, ipotesi. Milano: Feltrinelli.
  5. ↑ Wansing, Heinrich (8 August 2014). "Connexive Logic". In Zalta, Edward N. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  6. ↑ M. D’Agostino, ed. (1999). Handbook of Tableau Methods. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  7. ↑ Pizzi, Claudio E.A. (2007). "Necessity and Relative Contingency". Studia Logica. 85: 305–410.
  8. ↑ Pizzi, Claudio E.A. (2016). "Generalization and Composition of Modal Squares of Opposition". Logica Universalis. 26: 1–13.
  9. ↑ Pizzi, Claudio E.A.; Carnielli, W. (2008). Modalities and Multimodalities. New York: Springer.
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