Contact

ronzitti [at] gmail [dot] com

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Member of the laboratory « Savoirs, Textes, Langage » (CNRS UMR 8163)
http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/

Recent and Forthcoming Talks (All talks and seminars here)

• 24/11/2011, Invited seminar "Sul concetto di metalinguaggio vago" University of Venice (IT)
  
• 23/11/2011, Invited seminar "Wittgenstein e Stenius sul concetto di "evidenza" in matematica" University of Venice (IT)
  
• 11-12 November 2011 JNU VWAB conference - Helsinki (FIN)
  
• 6/05/2011 Higher-order vagueness - Lille (FR) -  link

Areas of interest

Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics, Intuitionism, Vagueness

Degrees, Titles

2002 Ph.D. (Philosophy) University of Genoa (Italy).
2012 -2016 Qualification (valid in France) "Maître de Conférences" (Section 17 Philosophie), English equivalent: Assistant / Associate Professor. Validity: 4 years (renewable).

Full-Time Academic Employment

June 2008 - June 2010 University of Helsinki (Finland).
Sept 2005 - March 2006 Archives Poincaré, Nancy (France).

Visiting Posts / Research Visits

(Summer 2010) The Wittgenstein Archives at Bergen (Norway).
(Spring 2004) University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
(Spring 2003) University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
(Fall 2002) Research Associate, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (United States).
(June 1999-December 2001) Visiting PhD student, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

Some Publications

[2011] G. Ronzitti (ed.) Vagueness: a Guide, Springer
[2010] G. Ronzitti, A note on an unpublished manuscript by Erik Stenius, Theoria 76, 91-96
[2010] G. Ronzitti, Anschauung as evidence, in Construction, P. E. Bour et al. (eds.), London: College Publications.
[2008] G. Ronzitti, Critical Study / Book Review of R. Tieszen, Phenomenology, Logic, and the Philosophy of Mathematics. In Philosophia Mathematica, Vol. 16(2), pp. 264-276
[2006] G. Heinzmann, G. Ronzitti (eds) Constructivism: Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy and Linguistics, Philosophia Scientiae, Cahier spécial 6
[2003] G. Ronzitti, On Some Difficulties Concerning the definition of an intuitionistic concept of countable set, The Logica Yearbook 2003, pp. 241-25

Work in Progress

I'm working on the following papers, in some cases a draft is available, if you are interested just write to me.

(a) Formalized proofs and evidence
(b) Erik Stenius's unpublished manuscript on paradoxes
(c) Mathematical objects and intuition of mathematical objects: some basic problems for the phenomenological account
(d) Mathematical evidence and the priority thesis
(e) Can there be vague metalanguages ?
(f) Intuition in intuitionistic mathematics (provisional title)

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent)

I also have some knowledge (or I'm studying) of the following languages (listed in decreasing order of acquired competence):

Dutch, Finnish, German, Swedish