Achille C. Varzi

Recent and Forthcoming Publications (Selection)

Books

• Insurmountable Simplicities. Thirthy-nine Philosophical Conundrums (with Roberto Casati), New York, Columbia University Press, 2006.
  - Paperback edition: 2008.
  - Italian edition: Roma, Laterza Editore, 2004 (paperback edition: 2006; reprinted: Milano, Il Sole 24 Ore Cultura, 2007).
  - French translation: Paris, Albin Michel, 2005.
  - Portuguese translation: São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2005.
  - Korean translation: Seoul, Yoldaerim Publishing, 2005 (e-book edition: 2005).
  - Greek translation: Athens, Ekdoseis Tou Eikostou Protou, 2006.
  - Spanish translation: Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2007.
  - Chinese translation: Taiwan, Athena Press, 2007.
  - Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bungei Shunju, forthcoming.
  
• Ontologia [Ontology], Roma, Laterza Editore, 2005 (reprinted: 2008).
  - e-book edition: Bari, SWIF - Edizioni Digitali di Filosofia, 2005.
  - French translation: Paris, Ithaque, forthcoming.
• Parole, oggetti, eventi e altri argomenti di metafisica [Words, Objects, Events, and Other Metaphysical Matters], Roma, Carocci Editore, 2001 (reprinted: 2002, 2006).
  
• An Essay in Universal Semantics, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
• Parts and Places. The Structures of Spatial Representation (with Roberto Casati), Cambridge (MA) and London, MIT Press, 1999.
  - e-book edition: Boulder (CO), NetLibrary, 2000.
• Theory and Problems of Logic (with John Nolt and Dennis Rohatyn), New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
  - e-book edition: Boulder (CO), NetLibrary, 2000.
  - Abridged edition: Logic, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
  - Italian translation: Milan, McGraw-Hill Italia, 2003.
  - Second Italian edition (fully revised and enlarged, with complete solutions and additional exercises): Milan, McGraw-Hill Italia, 2007.
• Holes and Other Superficialities (with Roberto Casati), Cambridge (MA) and London, MIT Press, 1994.
  - Paperback edition (with revisions): 1995.
  - e-book edition: Boulder (CO), NetLibrary, 1999.
  - Italian translation: Milan, Garzanti Editore, 1996 (paperback edition: 2002).
  

Edited Books

• Metafisica. Classici contemporanei [Metaphysics. Contemporary Classics], Roma: Laterza Editore, 2008.
• Formal Ontology in Information Systems (co-editor, with Laure Vieu), Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2004.
  
• Speaking of Events (co-editor, with James Higginbotham and Fabio Pianesi), New York, Oxford University Press, 2000 [with an Introduction].
  - e-book edition: Boulder (CO), NetLibrary, 2002.
• The Nature of Logic (editor), Stanford, CSLI Publications, 1999 [with an Introduction].
• Fifty Years of Events: An Annotated Bibliography 1947 to 1997 (co-editor, with Roberto Casati), Bowling Green (OH), Philosophy Documentation Center, 1997 [with an Introduction].
  - electronic edition: Bowling Green (OH), Philosophy Documentation Center, 2005.
• Events (co-editor, with Roberto Casati), Aldershot, Dartmouth Publishing, 1996 [with an Introduction].

Edited Journal Issues

• Lesser Kinds (co-editor, with Roberto Casati), The Monist, Vol. 90/3, 2007 [with a Foreword].
• Parts and Wholes (co-editor, with Wolfgang Mann), special issue of The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 103/12, 2006 [with a Foreword].
• Time Travel (editor), The Monist, Vol. 88/3, 2005 [with a Foreword].
• Bozzetti, Papers in Memory of Paolo Bozzi (co-editor, with Carola Barbero, Roberto Casati, and Maurizio Ferraris), Rivista di Estetica, Vol. 24/3, 2003.
• Oggetti fiat [Fiat Objects] (co-editor, with Luca Morena), Rivista di Estetica, Vol. 20/2, 2002.
• The Philosophy of Geography (editor), Topoi, Vol. 20/2, 2001 [with an Introduction].
• Temporal Parts (editor), The Monist, Vol. 83/3, 2000 [with a Foreword].

Journal Articles

• ‘The Extensionality of Parthood and Composition’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 58 (2008), 108-133.
  
• ‘Supervaluationism and Its Logics’, Mind, 116 (2007), 633-676.
  
• ‘Promiscuous Endurantism and Diachronic Vagueness’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (2007), 181-189.
  
• ‘Crimes and Punishments’ (with Giuliano Torrengo), Philosophia, 34 (2006), 395-404.
  
• ‘Strict Identity with No Overlap’, Studia Logica, 82 (2006), 371-378.
  
• ‘A Note on the Transitivity of Parthood’, Applied Ontology, 1 (2006), 141-146.
  
• ‘What Is to Be Done?’, Topoi, 25 (2006), 129-131.
  
• ‘Event Location and Vagueness’ (with Andrea Borghini), Philosophical Studies, 128 (2006), 313-336.
• ‘The Universe Among Other Things’, Ratio, 19 (2006), 107-120.
  
• ‘Beth Too, but Only If’, Analysis, 65 (2005), 224-229.
  
• ‘The Vagueness of ‘Vague’: Rejoinder to Hull’, Mind, 114 (2005), 695-702.
  
• ‘Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness’, Dialectica, 59 (2005), 485-498.
  
• ‘Self-Reference Self-Explained’, PhiNews, 6 (2004), 36-39.
• ‘Counting the Holes’ (with Roberto Casati), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 82 (2004), 23-27.
• ‘Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of ‘Vague’’, Mind, 112 (2003), 295-298.
• ‘Naming the Stages’, Dialectica, 57 (2003), 387-412.
  
• ‘Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003), 208-215.
• ‘Mereotopological Connection’ (with Anthony G. Cohn), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 32 (2003), 357-390.
• ‘The Geometry of Negation’ (with Massimo Warglien), Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 13 (2003), 9-19.
• ‘On Logical Relativity’, Philosophical Issues, 12 (2002), 197-219 (volume on "Realism and Relativism").
• ‘Surrounding Space’ (with Barry Smith), Theory in Biosciences, 120 (2002), 139-162.
• ‘Events, Truth, and Indeterminacy’, The Dialogue, 2 (2002), 241-264.
  
• ‘The Best Question’, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 30 (2001), 251-258.
  
• ‘Parts, Counterparts, and Modal Occurrents’, Travaux de Logique, 14 (2001), 151-171.
• ‘That Useless Time Machine’ (with Roberto Casati), Philosophy, 76 (2001), 581-583.
• ‘Vagueness, Logic, and Ontology’, The Dialogue, 1 (2001), 135-154.
• ‘Introduction: Philosophical Issues in Geography’, Topoi, 20 (2001), 119-130.
• ‘Ontological Commitment and Reconstructivism’ (with Massimiliano Carrara), Erkenntnis, 55 (2001), 33-50.
• ‘Vagueness in Geography’, Philosophy & Geography, 4 (2001), 49-65.
• ‘Some Pictures Are Worth 2^ℵ0 Sentences’ (with Philip Kitcher), Philosophy, 75 (2000), 377-381.
• ‘Mereological Commitments’, Dialectica, 54 (2000), 283-305.
• ‘Unsharpenable Vagueness’ (with John Collins), Philosophical Topics, 28 (2000), 1-10 (volume on "Vagueness").
• ‘Topological Essentialism’ (with Roberto Casati), Philosophical Studies, 100 (2000), 217-236.
• ‘Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries’ (with Barry Smith), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60 (2000), 401-420.
• ‘The Niche’ (with Barry Smith), Noûs, 33 (1999), 214-238.
• ‘A Note on Analysis and Circular Definitions’ (with Francesco Orilia), Grazer philosophische Studien, 54 (1998), 107-115.
• ‘Inconsistency Without Contradiction’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38 (1997), 621-638.
• ‘Boundaries, Continuity, and Contact’, Noûs, 31 (1997), 26-58.
• ‘Events, Topology, and Temporal Relations’ (with Fabio Pianesi), The Monist, 78 (1996), 89-116.
• ‘Refining Temporal Reference in Event Structures’ (with Fabio Pianesi), Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 37 (1996), 71-83.
• ‘The Structure of Spatial Localization’ (with Roberto Casati), Philosophical Studies, 82 (1996), 205-239.
• ‘Parts, Wholes, and Part-Whole Relations: The Prospects of Mereotopology’, Data and Knowledge Engineering, 20 (1996), 259-86.
• ‘Reasoning about Space: The Hole Story’, Logic and Logical Philosophy, 4 (1996), 3-39.
• ‘Vagueness, Indiscernibility, and Pragmatics: Comments on Burns’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 33/Supplement (1995), 49-62.
• ‘Variable-Binders as Functors’, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 40 (1995), 303-319.
• ‘Complementary Logics for Classical Propositional Languages’, Kriterion, 4 (1992), 20-2.
• ‘Complementary Sentential Logics’, Bulletin of the Section of Logic, 19 (1990), 112-116.

Other Papers

• ‘Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism’, draft of a paper presented at the 11th Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, "Carving Nature at Its Joints", Moscow (Idaho), March 15, 2008.
  
• ‘Event Concepts’ (with Roberto Casati), to appear in T. F. Shipley and J. Zacks (eds.), Understanding Events: How Humans See, Represent, and Act on Events, New York: Oxford University Press.
  
• ‘Patterns, Rules, and Inferences’, in J. E. Adler and L. J. Rips (eds.), Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 282-290.
  
• ‘Spatial Reasoning and Ontology: Parts, Wholes, and Locations’, in Marco Aiello, Ian E. Pratt-Hartmann, and Johan van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of Spatial Logics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 945-1038.
  
• ‘Omissions and Causal Explanations’, in F. Castellani and J. Quitterer (eds.), Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences, Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2007, pp. 155-167.
• ‘Playing for the Same Team Again’ (with Matthew Slater), in J. L. Walls and G. Bassham (eds.), Basketball and Philosophy. Thinking Outside the Paint, Lexington (KY): University Press of Kentucky, 2007, pp. 220-234.
  
• ‘The Talk I Was Supposed to Give’, in A. Bottani and R. Davies (eds.), Modes of Existence. Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2006, pp. 131-152.
  
• ‘Conjunction and Contradiction’, in G. Priest, J. C. Beall, and B. Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 93-110.
• ‘Cut-offs and their Neighbors’, in J. C. Beall (ed.), Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 24-38.
• ‘Logic and Metaphysics’, draft of a paper presented at the Workshop on Logic in Philosophy, Rovereto (Italy), March 14, 2003.
  
• ‘Words and Objects’, in A. Bottani, M. Carrara, and D. Giaretta (eds.), Individuals, Essence, and Identity. Themes of Analytic Metaphysics, Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 49-75.
  
• ‘Doughnuts’, in M. Chadha and A. K. Raina (eds.), Basic Objects: Case Studies in Theoretical Primitives, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2001, pp. 41-51.
• ‘Environmental Metaphysics’ (with Barry Smith), in U. Meixner (ed.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age. Proceedings of the 22th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2001, pp. 231-239.
  
• ‘Supervaluationism and Paraconsistency’, in D. Batens, C. Mortensen, G. Priest, and J. P. Van Bendegem (eds.), Frontiers in Paraconsistent Logic, Baldock: Research Studies Press, 2000, pp. 279-297.
  
• ‘True and False: An Exchange’ (with Roberto Casati), in A. Gupta and A. Chapuis (eds.), Circularity, Definition, and Truth, New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000, pp. 365-370.
  
• ‘Events and Event Talk: An Introduction’ (with Fabio Pianesi), in J. Higginbotham, F. Pianesi, and A. C. Varzi (eds.), Speaking of Events, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 3-47.
  
• ‘The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts’ (with Barry Smith), in P. Bouquet, P. Brezillon, and L. Serafini (eds.), Modeling and Using Context. Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 339-350.
• ‘The Context-Dependence of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics’ (with Fabio Pianesi), in P. Bouquet, P. Brezillon, and L. Serafini (eds.), Modeling and Using Context. Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 507-510.
• ‘Basic Problems for Mereotopology’, in N. Guarino (ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Amsterdam and Oxford: IOS Press, 1998, pp. 29-38.
• ‘Spatial Entities’ (with Roberto Casati), in O. Stock (ed.), Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 73-96.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ‘Boundary’, in E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford: CSLI (internet publication), 2004.
  
• ‘Mereology’, in E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford: CSLI (internet publication), 2003.
  
• ‘Vagueness’, in L. Nadel (editor in chief), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 459-464.
  
• ‘Events’, in E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford: CSLI (internet publication), 2002.
  
• ‘Holes’, in E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford: CSLI (internet publication), 1996; revised 2003.
  

Reviews and Critical Notices

• Critical Notice of John Heil, From an Ontological Point of View [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003], Philosophical Books, 47 (2006), 148-154.
• Review of Herbert Hochberg and Kevin Mulligan (eds.), Relations and Predicates [Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2004], Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 10.06 (2005).
• (with Elena Casetta) Review of Benjamin Morison’s On Location: Aristotle’s Concept of Place [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002], Dialectica, 59 (2005), 75-81.
• Review of Evandro Agazzi and Nicla Vassallo’s Introduzione al Naturalismo Filosofico Contemporaneo [Milano: Franco Angeli, 1998], Epistemologia, 25 (2002), 167-171.
• Critical Notice of Amie L. Thomasson’s Fiction and Metaphysics [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999], Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63 (2001), 723-727.
• Review of André Gallois’s Occasions of Identity. A Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998], The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 79 (2001), 291-295.
• Review of Brian McGuinness (ed.), Language, Logic and Formalization of Knowledge [Gaeta: Bibliotheca, 1998], Studia Logica, 66 (2000), 437-440.
• Critical Notice of Roberto Cordeschi’s La scoperta dell’artificiale: Psicologia, filosofia e macchine intorno alla cibernetica [Milan: Masson-Dunod, 1998] and Domenico Parisi’s Mente: I nuovi modelli della Vita Artificiale [Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999], in La rivista dei libri, 9 (1999), 29-31.
• Review of Susan Haack’s Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996], in The Philosophical Review, 107 (1998), 468-471.
• Critical Notice of Umberto Eco’s Kant e l’ornitorinco and Patrizia Violi’s Significato ed Esperienza [both Milano: Bompiani, 1997], in La Rivista dei Libri, 8:2 (1998), 10-13.
• Review of Yiannis N. Moschovakis’s Notes on Set Theory [New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994], History and Philosophy of Logic, 17 (1996), 172-175.
• (with Francesco Orilia) Review of Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap’s The Revision Theory of Truth [Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press (Bradford Books), 1993], Minds and Machines, 6 (1996), 124-129.
  

Articles in Italian

• ‘Mondo-versioni e versioni del mondo’ [World-Versions and Versions of the World], to appear as Preface to the second Italian edition of N. Goodman, Vedere e costruire il mondo, Roma, Laterza Editore.
• ‘Che cos’è un derivato? Appunti per una ricerca tutta da fare’ [What Is a Derivative? Notes for a Long-Term Project], to appear as an Appendix to A. Berrini, La crisi finanziaria: oltre la cronaca, Saronno, Editrice Monti.
• ‘Nomi in crisi di identità’ [Names in Identity Crisis] (with Elena Casetta), to appear in Rivista di estetica.
• ‘Il catalogo universale’ [The Universal Inventory], draft of a paper presented at the Wandruszka Lectures 2007, Gorizia (Italy), October 27, 2007.
• ‘Congiunzione e contraddizione’ [Conjunction and Contradiction], to appear in F. Berto and F. Altea (eds.), Scenari dell’impossibile. La contraddizione nel pensiero contemporaneo, Padova: Il Poligrafo.
• ‘Vaghezza e ontologia’ [Vagueness and Ontology], to appear in M. Ferraris (ed.), Storia dell’ontologia, Milano: Bompiani.
• ‘Che cosa ci facciamo qui?’ [What Are We Doing Here?], to appear in S. Montalto (ed.), Umberto Eco: l’uomo che sapeva troppo, Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
• ‘Metafisica’ [Metaphysics] and ‘Logica’ [Logic], to appear in F. D’Agostini (ed.), Introduzione alla filosofia, Bologna: Zanichelli.
• ‘Il denaro è un’opera d’arte (o quasi)’ [Money Is (almost) a Work of Art], Quaderni dell’Associazione per lo Sviluppo degli Studi di Banca e Borsa, 24 (2007), 17-39.
• ‘Sul confine tra ontologia e metafisica’ [On the Boundary between Ontology and Metaphysics], Giornale di metafisica, 29 (2007): 285-303.
• ‘Confini. Dove finisce una cosa e inizia un’altra ’ [Boundaries], in A. Bottani and R. Davies (eds.), Ontologie regionali, Milano: Mimesis, 2007, pp. 209-222.
• ‘La natura e l’identità degli oggetti materiali’ [The Nature and Identity of Material Objects], in Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Filosofia analitica. Temi e problemi, Roma: Carocci, 2007, pp. 17-56.
• ‘Mancanze, omissioni e descrizioni negative’ [Failures, Omissions, and Negative descriptions], Rivista di estetica, 32:2 (2007), 109-127.
• ‘Teoria e pratica dei confini’ [Boundaries: Theory and Practice], Sistemi Intelligenti, 17 (2005), 399-418.
• ‘Esercizi di attenzione’ [Exercises in Attention] (with Roberto Casati), in M. Belpoliti and G. Ricuperati (eds.), Saul Steinberg (Riga, n. 24), Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 2005, pp. 398-403.
• ‘Sulla relatività logica’ [On Logical Relativity], in M. Carrara and P. Giaretta (eds.), Filosofia della logica, Cosenza: Rubbettino Editore, 2004, pp. 135-173.
• ‘Identità indeterminate e indeterminatezza linguistica’ [Indeterminate Identities and Linguistic Indeterminacy], Rivista di estetica, 26:2 (2004), 285-302.
• ‘RedPill^®’ (with Elena Casetta), in M. Cappuccio (ed.), Dentro la matrice: Filosofia, scienza e spiritualità in Matrix, Milano: Alboversorio, 2004, pp. 29-35.
• ‘Ontologia: dove comincia e dove finisce’ [Ontology: Where It Starts and Where It Ends], Sistemi intelligenti, 15 (2003), 493-506.
• ‘Sfondo e figura’ [Background and Figure] (with Roberto Casati), Rivista di estetica, 24:3 (2003), 38-40.
• ‘Che cosa c’è e che cos’è. Un dialogo’ [What There Is and What It Is. A Dialogue] (with Maurizio Ferraris), Nous. Postille su pensieri, Lecce: Edizioni Milella, 2003, pp. 81-101.
• ‘Entia successiva’, Rivista di estetica, 22:1 (2003), 139-158.
• ‘Riferimento, predicazione, e cambiamento’ [Reference, Predication, and Change], in C. Bianchi and A. Bottani (eds.), Significato e ontologia, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003, pp. 221-249.
• ‘Ineffabile sfera’ [Ineffable Sphere], Nazione Indiana, July 2003.
• ‘Parti connesse e interi sconnessi’ [Connected Parts and Disconnected Wholes], Rivista di estetica, 20:2 (2002), 87-90.
• ‘Ontologia e metafisica’ [Ontology and Metaphysics], in F. D’Agostini and N. Vassallo (eds.), Storia della Filosofia Analitica, Torino: Einaudi, 2002, pp. 81-117.
• ‘Un altro mondo?’ [A Different World?] (with Roberto Casati), Rivista di estetica, 19:1 (2002), 131-159.
• ‘I confini del Cervino’ [The Boundaries of Cervino], in V. Fano, G. Tarozzi, and M. Stanzione (eds.), Prospettive della logica e della filosofia della scienza, Cosenza: Rubbettino, 2001, pp. 431-445.
• ‘L’autoriferimento si spiega da sé’ [Self-Reference Self-Explained], Rivista di estetica 18:3 (2001), 5-7.
• ‘All the Things You Are’ (with Roberto Casati), in G. Usberti (ed.), Modi dell’oggettività, Milano: Bompiani, 2000, pp. 77-85.
• ‘Le strutture dell’ordinario’ [The Structures of the Ordinary], in L. Lombardi Vallauri (ed.), Logos dell’essere, logos della norma, Bari: Editrice Adriatica, 1999, pp. 489-530.
• ‘I trabocchetti della rappresentazione spaziale’ [The Pitfalls of Spatial Representation] (with Roberto Casati), Sistemi intelligenti, 11 (1999), 7-28.
• ‘Perché i buchi sono importanti’ [Why Holes Matter] (with Roberto Casati), Sapere, 63:2 (1997), 38-43.
  

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Last Revised: May 10, 2008