Dr. Arianna Betti

Aanwezigheid/At the VU

Two or three times a week normally including Friday

Docentspreekuur

Vrijdag 14:00-15:00 (periode 1 en 2)

Research

My interests are in metaphysics, in the history and philosophy of logic and semantics, and in their interplay. My specialty in history is the development of Polish logic from its Austrian origins in Prague via Vienna, in particular the work of Bernard Bolzano, Kazimierz Twardowski and Stanisław Leśniewski. This is the area in which I published most.

My most recent interest in the history of logic regards the significance of frameworks like van Heijenoort’s Logic as Language versus Logic as Calculus and, more broadly, the so-called Classical Model of Science, for the understanding of the development of 19th and 20th Century logic, especially in Poland. In the period 2008-2013 I will continue my work in this area as team leader of the ERC Starting Grant Tarski’s Revolution: A New History, and in close collaboration with my senior colleague Wim de Jong.

My systematic work in metaphysics centers on the notions of state of affairs, trope and relation, and it is inspired by and applied to the development and the use of these notions in the Austro-Polish tradition.

I have been doing research at the universities of Krakow, Salzburg, Graz, Leiden, Warsaw and Lund and held research fellowships among others from the Italian CNR, the Dutch NWO and currently the European Research Council. I am working on a book entitled Against Facts.

Work in progress & publications

Work in progress

Books & Editions
(with Venanzio Raspa) Kazimierz Twardowski, Logik 1894/5 (Lecture Notes from the Winter Term Course Given at the University of Vienna in the Academic Year 1894/5) Edition of the German manuscript, introduction and footnotes.

Against Facts. A critical analysis of the concept of state of affairs. Systematic, though relevant to historians, especially for the so-called Austrian tradition. Around 300 pages.

Publications

Special Journal Issues
(with W. R. de Jong) The Classical Model of Science I – A Millenia-Old Model of Scientific Rationality, special issue of Synthese (with papers by Martije Martijn, Sandra Lapointe, Tapio Korte, Paola Cantù, Willem R. de Jong and Arianna Betti), 2008, in press.

(with W. R. de Jong and M. Martijn) The Classical Model of Science II –The Axiomatic Method, the Order of Concepts and the Hierarchy of Sciences, special issue of Synthese (with papers by Hein van den Berg, Anita Konzelmann, Patrick Suppes, Jaakko Hintikka, Dirk Schlimm and F. A. Muller), 2009, in press.

Articles
‘Kazimierz Twardowski’ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (submitted on invitation Feb 16, 2010).

‘Explanation in metaphysics and Bolzano’s theory of ground and consequence’, Logique et Analyse 53 (208), 2010 (forthcoming)

(with W. R. de Jong & M. Martijn) ‘The Classical Model of Science – The Axiomatic Method, the Order of Concepts and the Hierarchy of Science: An Introduction’, Synthese Online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/m40715u7752q7512/?p=8eaf42d3a7244ea3a84b36d1df54340d&pi=4, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9671-0.

‘Leśniewski’s Systems and the Aristotelian Model of Science’, in: S. Lapointe, M. Marion, W. Miśkiewicz and J. Woleński (eds.) The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy - Kazimierz Twardowski’s philosophical legacy, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 93-111.

(with Jan Willem Wieland) ‘Relata-specificity: A Response to Vallicella’ dialectica 62: 4, 2008: 509-524. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121543516/PDFSTART
*This paper was the final assigment for one of Jan Willem’s 2008/09 (research) MA tutorials (Joint Paper Submission)*

(with Wim de Jong) ‘Introduction’, Synthese Online First at http://www.springerlink.com/content/04821q71p1306231 DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9416-5

(with Wim de Jong) ‘The Classical Model of Science: a Millennia-Old Model of Scientific Rationality’, Synthese Online First at http://www.springerlink.com/content/w5340m712258304m DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9416-5

‘On Leśniewski’s Characteristica Universalis, Synthese Online First at http://www.springerlink.com/content/6v5870p4185674p2 DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9423-6

‘Polish Axiomatics and Its Truth - On Tarski’s Leśniewskian Background and the Ajdukiewicz Connection’, in D. Patterson (ed.), New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 44-71.

‘Bolzano’s Universe: Truth, Logic and Metaphysics’, in Leila Haaparanta and Heikki J. Koskinen (eds.), Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, Oxford University Press (submitted on invitation, under refereeing)

‘The Strange Case of Savonarola and the Painted Fish. On the Bolzanization of Polish Thought’, in A. Chrudzimski and D. Łukasiewicz (eds) Actions, Products, and Things. Brentano and Polish Philosophy, Frankfurt: ontos, 2006, pp. 55-81.

‘Sempiternal Truth. The Bolzano-Leśniewski-Twardowski Axis’, in J.J. Jadacki and J. Paśniczek (eds.), Lvov-WarsawSchool: The New Generation (PoznańStudies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 89), Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 371-399.

‘Contre les faits’ in J. Benoist (ed.) Propositions et états de choses – Entre être et sens, Vrin, Paris, 2006, pp. 231-250.

‘Przeciwko faktom’, in: W. Strawiński, M. Grygianiec & A. Brożek, Myśli o języku, nauce i wartościach, Warszawa, Semper, 2006, pp. 235-249.

‘Propositions et états de choses chez Twardowski’, Dialogue 44, 2005, pp. 469-92.

‘Argomenti ontologici genuini e oggetti intenzionali. Commento a Alberto Voltolini’, Rivista di Estetica,  n.s., 30 (3/2005), pp. 86-90.

‘De egel en de vos – Over logica, taal en waarheid bij Leśniewski en Tarski’, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 96/3, 2004, pp. 208-216.

‘Leśniewski’s Early Liar, Tarski and Natural Language’, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 127, 2004, pp. 267-287.

(with Maria van der Schaar) ‘The Road from Vienna to Lvov. Twardowski's Theory of Judgement between 1894 and 1897’ Grazer Philosophische Studien 67, 2004, pp. 1-20.

‘Łukasiewicz and Leśniewski on Contradiction’, Reports on Philosophy 22/2004, pp. 247-71.

‘The Incomplete Story of Łukasiewicz and Bivalence’, in T. Childers & O. Majer (eds.), The Logica Yearbook 2001, Filosofia, Prague, 2002, pp. 21-36

‘Porohy sul Dniepr. Radici leśniewskiane della semantica tarskiana’, in V. Fano, G. Tarozzi & M. Stanzione (eds.), Prospettive della logica e della filosofia della scienza, Pubblicazioni della SILFS, Rubbettino, 2001, pp. 19-29.

‘Le donne nella filosofia analitica austriaca’, in M. Marsonet (ed.), Donne e Filosofia, Genova, Erga, 2000, pp. 98-118.

‘O prawdzie odwiecznej. Bolzano-Twardowski-Leśniewski’ (On Sempiternal Truth. Bolzano-Twardowski-Leśniewski - in Polish), Filozofia Nauki VI, Nr. 2 (22), 1998, pp. 51-75.

‘The Porohy on Dnepr. Leśniewskian Roots of Tarski’s Semantics’, in T. Childers (ed.), The Logica Yearbook 1998, Filosofia, Prague, 1999, pp. 99-109.

‘Il Rasoio di Leśniewski’, Rivista di Filosofia LXXIX, n.1, 1998, pp. 89-117.

‘De Veritate: Another Chapter. The Bolzano-Leśniewski Connection’, in K. Kijania-Placek & J. Woleński (eds.) The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Synthese series), 1998, pp. 115-137. 

Reviews
Nadine Gessler, Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege. Neuchâtel: 2007. History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2), 2009: 200-201.

Władysław Krajewski (ed.), Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2001, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 19 n. 1 March 2005, pp. 93-5.

Roberto Poli (ed.), The Brentano Puzzle. Aldershot/Brookfield USA/Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate 1998.

Friedrich Stadler, The Vienna Circle – Studies in the Origins, Development and Influence of Logical Empiricism, Springer, Wien/New York, 2001, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17 (2), July 2003, pp. 195-203.

Jan T. J. Srzednicki and Zbigniew Stachniak (eds.), Lesniewski’s Systems - Protothetic, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998, Studia Logica 68 (3), 2001.

Tadeusz Czeżowski, Knowledge, Science and Values – A Program for Scientific Philosophy, ed. by L. Gumański, Amsterdam/Atlanta, Rodopi, 2000, Philosophy in Review, 22 (1), February 2002, pp. 22-4.

Jan Woleński, Essays in the History of Logic and Logical Philosophy, Krakow, Dialogikon, 1999, Theoria, 3, 2001, pp. 259-63.

Francesco Coniglione, Nel segno della scienza. La filosofia polacca del novecento, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996, Europa Orientalis, XVII, 1, 1998, pp. 324-26 (in Italian).

Robert. C. Koons, Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, Religioni e Società, 27, XII, genn.-apr. 1997, p. 128 (in Italian).

Submitted - and never heard a word about the work again
‘A Note on Early Polish Semantics, Bolzano and the Woleński Thesis’, in J. Hartman (ed.), Logics and Philosophy. Towards Jan Woleński, Amsterdam, Rodopi.

Review of Venanzio Raspa, In contraddizione, Trieste, Parnaso, 1999, Studia Logica, forthcoming.

Review of Susan Haack, Evidence and Inquiry - Towards a Reconstruction in Epistemology, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993,  Religioni e Società, submitted (in Italian).

Review of Howard Robinson, Objections to Physicalism, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993, Religioni e Società, submitted (in Italian).

Review of Steven D. Edwards, Relativism, Conceptual Schemes and Categorial Framework, Avebury, Aldershot/Brookfield USA, 1990, Religioni e Società, submitted (in Italian).

Review of Paul K. Feyerabend, Ammazzando il tempo, Laterza, 1995, Religioni e Società, submitted (in Italian).

Review of F. H. Bradley, Writings on Logic and Metaphysics, James W. Allard e Guy Stock (eds.), Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994, Religioni e Società, submitted (in Italian).

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