Lucia Morra

Università degli Studi di Torino | UNITO · Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche

Nordic Wittgenstein Review. As the Whewell’s Court Lectures show, Wittgenstein mentioned Hume several times in the series of lectures on belief. Towards the end of the Thirties, in fact, he came across Hume’s Abstract of the Treatise, a pamphlet that Piero Sraffa and John Maynard Keynes had ‘discovered’ at the end of 1933, re-edited in 1937 and fin...

In 1929 Ludwig Wittgenstein met Raffaello Piccoli, the Cambridge Professor of Italian, with whom he arranged several meetings in the following terms. For a long time their intellectual friendship was suggested only by the occurrences of Piccoli’s name in Wittgenstein’s Cambridge Pocket Diaries, then a paper about Piccoli including hypothesis on his...

Il saggio ricostruisce la biografia del poeta, letterato, filosofo e traduttore Raffaello Piccoli, attivo tra Napoli e Cambridge nei primi decenni del Novecento. Morto prematuramente, non riuscì a cristallizzare in forma sistematica le sue diverse intuizioni, ma queste lasciarono tracce nei movimenti di pensiero dei poeti Robert Bridges e T.S. Elio...

https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3697/66 Amongst the attendees at Wittgenstein’s lecture to the Heretics Society in November 1929, there was also Alethea Graham, a student in her fourth year at Girton College who attended also his lectures in Lent Term 1930. Excerpts from her diary mentioning the philosopher are here transcribe...

The chapter analyses the origin and evolution of the legal metaphor 'ordre public' through a comparative perspective of the legal context of discourse and a cognitive–linguistic perspective of metaphors. The first sections trace the origin of the locution back to an early speech by Montesquieu, and then consider the metaphorical function the expres...

During his long scholarly life, Brian McGuinness did substantial research into the intellectual relationships which Ludwig Wittgenstein established with Piero Sraffa and Raffaello Piccoli respectively during his first years back in Cambridge. The essay runs through McGuinness’s works on both topics, then it illustrates a few outcomes of the researc...

The essay chronicles how Ludwig Wittgenstein, Piero Sraffa and Raffaele Piccoli got acquainted in 1929, and reconstructs their friendships; then it considers how the three relationships had separate but interrelated dynamics, and finally it highlights how Wittgenstein’s political perspective was in 1929-1931 more in tune with that of Piccoli than w...

Sraffa’s diaries report that from June 1929 until late 1932 he often met with the literary scholar, poet and philosopher Raffaello Piccoli, Professor of Italian in the University of Cambridge. After a brief biographical sketch of Piccoli, the paper reconstructs the story of their friendship, thus contributing to the reconstruction of Sraffa’s biogr...

https://riviste.unige.it/aboutgender/issue/view/36 The recent Italian debate upon the wording of identity documents gives us the opportunity to focus on the relationship between politics and law in issues raised by gender-based discriminations. The essay aims at investigating asymmetries and discriminations entailed by the normative perspectives o...

An intellectual biography of Raffaello Piccoli

According to Rodolfo Sacco’s theory of legal formants, legal rules found in written constitutions, ordinary laws, court adjudications, and customs are composed of both formulated normative beliefs and unformulated assumptions. Legal interpretative practice, then, deals not only with the content of legal rules or with the structures and concepts use...

The essay lists the meetings between Sraffa and Wittgenstein from their Cambridge Pocket Diaries and builds a timeline of their friendship and intellectual intercourse with data from both their Cambridge Pocket Diaries and their correspondence and biography. The timeline distinguishes five phases: their first meetings until June 1930, the time in w...

This article highlights the advantages for researching how persons with a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome (AS) perceive their capacity to understand metaphors, and why we should consider the self-descriptions they give of their competence using metaphors. To this end, the article quotes a selection of messages that were exchanged in five threads on...

Inquiries on the intellectual relationship between Wittgenstein and Sraffa usually focus on the weekly meetings they had since October 1930. And yet, although their discussions became frequent and regular only after that time, the meetings they had from February 1929 to June 1930 may throw further light on their intellectual intercourse. The essay...

This chapter considers the occurrence in statutes and codes of law of conversational implicatures, and their use in judges’ interpretation. The question is discussed after a textual analysis of some provisions from the Italian Civil Code and of a subsection of the US Code framed by their interpretations in the two legal communities. The analysis sh...

Recent attacks on textualism are somehow dismissive of the relevance a Gricean approach to normative texts may have. Before entering the issue, the essay sketches some insights made possible by the analysis of presuppositions and implicatures in statutes and opinions. As an example, the techniques established by Sbisˆ (2007) for the retrieval of im...

The essay applies to judicial decisions the techniques Sbisà (2007) established for the retrieval of the information that texts implicitly carry with them. In order to consider the functions this kind of information plays in these kinds of texts, excerpts from opinions are analyzed looking for their presuppositions and implicatures. The examples sh...

The essay proposes a textual analysis of California Family Code sec. 7601 as recently amended. The extant section designs a new formal legal concept of parenthood; the unprecedented definition of natural parent it contains both excludes the relevance of a biological connection between parent and child and formally opens to the Courts the possibilit...

Questo volume affronta questioni di genere, legate cioè ai mutamenti intercorsi negli ultimi decenni nell’organizzazione sociale e simbolica della sessualità, della riproduzione e della parentela. Quando l’interprete giuridico è chiamato ad applicare norme relative a questioni di genere, la sua precomprensione ha un ruolo cruciale: nel passaggio er...

This chapter paper investigates some of the multifarious ways used to represent and to communicate what the body of law is and how the Law has to be understood. The analysis is based on an interdisciplinary approach, aimed to interpret political concepts and legal practices according to the more recent results of cognitive science. Pictorial metaph...

Translating the DCFR and writing the CESL have been very complex enterprises, strictly dependent one from the other. The volume describes them taking a pragmatic stance. Structured in four parts, it sets the historical and philosophical background of legal translation, and then it focuses narrowly on the legal translation processes of the DCFR and...

Il tema della traduzione è stato centrale in filosofia analitica del linguaggio perché strettamente legato al problema del significato. Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di presentare e discutere criticamente le principali teorie della traduzione, mostrando le difficoltà a cui sono andate incontro le varie definizioni di traduzione. Da una parte...

The paper explores how the neural bilateral model of language understanding proposed by Jung-Beeman (2005) and Carston’s relevance-theoretic approach of utterances comprehension (Carston 2002; 2010) can complement each other. Next, it underlines the convergences between recent findings about the neural basis of metaphor processing and Carston’s des...

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The essay deals with the mechanism of interpretation for legal metaphorical expressions. Firstly, it points out the perspective the cognitive approach induced about legal metaphors; then it suggests that this perspective gains in plausibility when a new bilateral model of language understanding is endorsed. A possible sketch of the meaning-making p...

0. Introduction 1. Truth and successfulness 1.1 Metaphor as deviance? 1.2 Degrees and dimensions of success. Towards context 2. Context and metaphor 2.1 Global and local context 2.2 Metaphor and global context 2.3 Metaphor and local context 2.4 Possible interaction between global and local context in metaphor 2.4.1 Coincidence 2.4.2 Partial coincid...

- This paper is a survey of the analytical theories of translation prior to Quine's writings on this subject, which must be read in the light of previous discussion and the observations of authors such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Schlick and Carnap. Translation became an issue of major importance in analytical philosophy in the second half of...

Comprehension is inextricably correlated to implicit/implicated/ presupposed meaning (cf. among others Levinson 2000) and to context. Following, among others, Récanati (1995, 2004) and Leezenberg (2001), both literal and non-literal language crucially require that several facets of context are taken into account in the process of understanding . We...

In this chapter we discuss the role metaphors have in legal language and what they mean for the task of clarification. Following a brief explanation of the concept of cognitive metaphor, we will examine the use and function of metaphors in legal language, and more specifically in normative texts. Here, our primary aim is to demonstrate that metapho...

In 1956 W.V.O. Quine was asked by Reuben A. Brower to write an essay specifically devoted to the theme of translation for an anthology which was to appear in 1959 edited by Brower himself. The correspondence between Brower and Quine about this contribution, recently found at the Harvard University Archives and is published here for the first time....

Egyptian hieroglyphic writing has fascinated philosophers since ancient times, while Egyptologists have often been interested in philosophical and linguistic reflections upon language and writing. This volume shows some of the main results that have arisen from this reciprocal interest, and proves that both disciplines still have many things to say...

In 1971, in his book Der Eine und die Vielen. Ägyptische Gottesvorstellungen , Erik Hornung sketched the main lines of the historical discussion between Egyptologists about the supposed monotheistic character of the ancient Egyptian religion in order to show that it is only a projection on it of the Western mentality. Ancient Egyptians could not ha...

Il saggio analizza da un punto di vista linguistico l’espressione buon padre di famiglia, usata nel codice civile per delineare il parametro della diligenza. Ne esamina la radice storica, la funzione che ha assunto nei codici moderni, e il significato che gli conferiscono i tre principali formanti del diritto, e cioè il codice, la giurisprudenza e...