Nino Cocchiarella (born 1933) is an American philosopher who is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at

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. He is best known for his work in

formal logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premis ...

and

ontology In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exis ...

. Among his important articles are: * "

Nominalism In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. There are at least two main versions of nominalism. One version denies the existence of universalsthings t ...

and

Conceptualism In metaphysics, conceptualism is a theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate between nominalism and realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical co ...

as Predicative Second Order Theories of Predication", ''

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'', vol. 21 (1980) * "

Richard Montague Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize th ...

and the Logical Analysis of

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", in ''Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey'', vol. 2, ''Philosophy of Language/Philosophical Logic'', G. Fløistad, ed., Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1981) * "The Development of the Theory of Logical Types and the Notion of a Logical Subject in Russell's Early

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", ''

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'', vol. 45 (1980). His books include ''Logical Investigations of Predication Theory and the Problem of Universals'' (1986); ''Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy'' (1987); ''Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism'', New York, Springer (2007); and ''Modal Logic. An Introduction to its Syntax and Semantics'' (with Max Freund), Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008).

External links

"The Conceptual Realism of Nino Cocchiarella"
* Complete and annotated bibliography of Nino Cocchiarella: *

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