G. Aldo Antonelli
Professor
Davis , Ca 95616
Websites:
Education:
- PhD., University of Pittsburgh, 1992
- Dissertation: "Revision Rules; Investigations into Non-Monotonic Inductive Definitions".
- Supervised by Nuel D. Belnap. Jr.
- Laurea in Filosofia, Università di Torino, 1986.
- Supervised by Diego Marconi.
Biography:
For detailed information see Prof. Antonelli's web site.
Areas of Specialization: Logic and applications; defeasible reasoning and knowledge representation; philosophy of mathematics; philosophy of logic; philosophy of language; early analytic philosophy.
Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2008
2012-2013 Course Schedule
Fall
On leave.
Winter
128 – Rationality
Spring
12 – Introduction to Symbolic Logic
213 – Topics in Logic (graduate seminar)
Other Courses
156 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
134 – Modal Logic
135 – Alternative Logics
189K Topics in Logic
212 Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Recent Publications
Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic, Cambridge University Press (2005).
A Note on Induction, Abstraction, and Dedekind-Finiteness, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 53, n. 2 (2012), pp. 187-92.
Notions of Invariance for Abstraction Principles, Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 18 no. 3 (2010), pp. 276-92
The Nature and Purpose of Numbers, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 107 (4), April 2010, pp. 191-212.
Numerical Abstraction via the Frege Quantifier, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 51 no. 2 (2010), pp. 161-79.
Dissertations Supervised
Lucas Halpin, "Meta-Philosophy: Contra Quine" (2011)





