University of Stirling

Philosophy

Current Students: Postgraduates

Postgraduate Student

Daniele Mezzadri

Daniele Mezzadri  

Daniele Mezzadri, Laurea (BA) (Bologna), M.Litt. (St. Andrews)

address

Room A6

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK
email Email: Daniele Mezzadri
  Supervisors:

Professor Peter Sullivan

Professor Peter Milne
About me

I completed my undergraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Bologna, in Italy, where I graduated in 2004. In 2005 I started a Master course in philosophy (SASP) at the University of St. Andrews and I obtained my M.Litt. degree in 2006. I started my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Stirling in 2006.

Research

My research centres on the history of early analytic philosophy, and, especially, on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and logic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in its relations to Frege’s and Russell’s thought.

Besides my research, my philosophical interests include the following areas:

The interpretation of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and philosophical methods (with regard to the debate about ineffabilism, resolution, therapy). Kant. The history of philosophy, particularly Plato, the modern period, and post-Hegelian philosophy (Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard). Philosophy of language. Philosophy of logic. Otto Weininger.
Teaching

I have been a tutor on:

PHI913 ‘From Plato to Existentialism’.
PHI9C4 ‘Logic’
Recent Presentations/Publications

“What is wrong with Russell’s multiple relation theory of judgement? A Wittgensteinian criticism” Stirling Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, University of Stirling, 11th October 2007.

“Types, Forms and Unity” Stirling Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, University of Stirling, 6th June 2008.

“Types, Forms and Unity: Wittgenstein’s Criticism of Russell’s Theory of Judgement” Understanding Wittgenstein Postgraduate Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 12th September 2008.

“Language and Logic in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Or Why ‘An Elementary Proposition Really Contains All Logical Operations in Itself’ (TLP 5.47)”, forthcoming in: Volker A. Munz, Klaus Puhl, Joseph Wang (eds.) (2009), Language and World. Preproceedings of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel/Lower Austria.