Gaetano Licata
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Gaetano Licata is an Italian philosopher and academic, known above all for having updated the classical themes of metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology in a style that goes beyond the distinction between analytical philosophy and continental philosophy. [1]
Life
Gaetano Licata was born in Palermo, Italy in 1974 and graduated in philosophy at the University of Palermo. He was one of the last graduate students of Nunzio Incardona, and carried out the Ph.D in Philosophy of Language at La Sapienza university in Rome and in Palermo. He attended the logic courses of Gabriel Sandu, student of Jaakko Hintikka, Jacques Dubucs and the seminars of semantics and metaphysics of Friederike Moltmann, student of Noam Chomsky, at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been teaching philosophy of science and logic (and related subjects) at the University of Palermo since 2004 [2].
Career
During his career, he held many conferences in universities around the world, in Macerata at the University of Macerata, in Milan at the Università degli Studi di Milano, in New York City at the Columbia University, in Paris at the Paris 1-Sorbonne, in London at the London School of Economics, in Bath at the University of Bath and in Saint Petersburg at the Christian Russian Academy.[3] During his years of teaching, he has organized cycles of seminars, meetings, and conferences attended by well-known Italian and foreign philosophers including Giuseppe Girgenti and Achille C. Varzi. He collaborates with the philosophical reviews "Theoria", "Axiomathes" and the "Giornale di Metafisica", an important Italian philosophical journal of the continental tradition directed by Giuseppe Nicolaci. In 2002 he founded the philosophical review "Studium Philosophicum" which he continues to direct with Luciano Sesta and Giuseppe Vicari, and which today has an international editorial board. He has published several monographs and essays in international journals on ancient authors, on topics of logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and theoretical philosophy[4].
Philosophy
As a scholar of medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophers, he particularly deepened the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, Gottfried Leibniz, Friedrich Schelling, Soeren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida; and, in analytical tradition, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson.
Licata deepened the problem of truth both in the analytic and in the continental context, elaborating an original intermediate position between correspondence and semantic holism that has important implications in the semantics of natural language and in Artificial Intelligence (which Licata considers as wrongly evalued nowadays[5]). Licata's idea of truth starts from Alfred Tarski's study of the concept of truth in formalized languages, and is linked with a certain coherence to the vision of Willard Van Orman Quine and to that of Donald Davidson. From 2007 onwards he has developed a philosophy of harmony, valuable in various fields of philosophical, scientific, and human activity: complexity theory, economic crisis, profound ecology, pacifism, oriental psychotherapies, the relationship between nature and technology. With his work on "The hidden order" he went beyond the philosophy of difference of the last twentieth century (Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida, and Vattimo), with the philosophy of harmony. In his several essays on Fuzzy logic, Licata has applied this type of logic to clinical diagnosis. Gaetano Licata does deepen the Philosophy of Harmony as a new humanism, for the age of capitalistic and climate crisis, and for the defense of the Christian message in the context of a secular and tolerant society[6].
Works on Licata
- Giuseppe Nicolaci, Presentazione a “Teoria platonica del linguaggio. Prospettive sul concetto di verità, Il Melangolo, Genova, 2007.
- Luigi Pagliaro, Probabilistic and fuzzy logic in the clinical diagnosis, in “Internal and Emergency Medicine” 2, 75 (2007), at https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007%2Fs11739-007-0039-5
- Giuseppina D’Addelfio, Recensione a “L’ordine nascosto. Natura e armonia all’origine del pensiero filosofico e scientifico” di Gaetano Licata, in “Giornale di Metafisica”, 2/2009.
- Michele Paolini Paoletti, Gaetano Licata, Aristotele e la teoria manipolativa della causalità, on 20/12/2015 at https://www.unimc.it/filosoficamente/eventi-bilanci/gaetano-licata-aristotele-e-la-teoria-manipolativa-della-causalita
- Lucia Sandonato, Recensione a “Philosophical Essays on Language, Ontology and Science” by Gaetano Licata and Luciano Sesta, in “Giornale di Metafisica”, 2/2016.
- Richa Bahatia, Neural Networks Do Not Work Like Human Brains – Let’s Debunk The Myth, at https://analyticsindiamag.com/neural-networks-not-work-like-human-brains-lets-debunk-myth/
Works by Licata
- Gaetano Licata, Teoria platonica del linguaggio. Prospettive sul concetto di verità, Il Melangolo, Genova, 2007, at https://books.google.it/books?id=sP4DAQAAIAAJ&q=gaetano+licata+teoria+platonica+del+linguaggio+google+books&dq=gaetano+licata+teoria+platonica+del+linguaggio+google+books&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfrcOQu6TyAhWRzoUKHa9ADqUQ6AF6BAgIEAM
- Gaetano Licata, Precision and Uncertainty. Fuzzy Logic in Clinical Diagnosis, Selecta Medica, Pavia, 2007
- Gaetano Licata, L’ordine nascosto. Natura e armonia all’origine del pensiero filosofico e scientifico, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2011, at
- https://books.google.it/books?id=3woyfO8EukoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Gaetano+Licata%22+-wikipedia&hl=it&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gaetano%20Licata%22%20-wikipedia&f=false
- Gaetano Licata, Truth and Facts. Rejection of the Slingshot Argument in defense of the Correspondence Theory of Truth, Aracne, Roma, 2011.
- Gaetano Licata, Dall'identità all'armonia. Umanismo, progresso tecnico e idea di Europa, Studium Philosophicum, Palermo, 2016.
References
- ↑ "Articoli: Gaetano Licata". Dialegesthai.
- ↑ "GAETANO LICATA". www.unipa.it.
- ↑ "Gaetano Licata | Università degli Studi di Palermo - Academia.edu". unipa.academia.edu.
- ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org.
- ↑ https://www.hilarispublisher.com/open-access-journals/synthetic-biology-journal-list-6426.html
- ↑ "Gaetano Licata". scholar.google.com.
External Links
- https://www.gaetanolicata.weebly.com
- https://www.studiumphilosophicum.weebly.com
- https://www.isspe.it/rassegna-siciliana/37-numeri-rassegna-siciliana/rassegna-siciliana-di-storia-e-cultura-n-11-d/74-heidegger-e-la-differenza-fra-essere-e-linguaggio-di-gaetano-licata.html
- https://unipa.academia.edu/NinniLicata
- http://www.morcelliana.net/3003-giornale-di-metafisica
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