Down But Not Out

Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on fiction, intentionality, depiction, and Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin (Italy). He has had scholarships at the Universities of Geneva and Sussex. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of California, Riverside (1998), Australian National University, Canberra (2007), Barcelona (2010), London (2015), Auckland (2007, 2018), and Antwerp (2019). He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-2008) and of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-2012). His publications include How Ficta Follow Fiction (Springer, 2006), as well as the “Fictional Entities” and the “Fiction” entries (with F. Kroon) of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, and A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (Palgrave, 2015).

• Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. From Hegel to Kaplan.- 3. What Is Alive and What Is Dead in Russell’s Critique of Meinong.- 4. Heidegger’s Logico-Semantic Strikeback.- 5. Descartes Errs (But So Do We All).- 6. Is the Causality of Mental States Really not Negotiable?.- 7. Wittgenstein, Kripkenstein, and Meaning Experiences.- 8. The Fall from Grace of Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis.- 9. Conclusion.- Index.