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Eva Picardi (1948 – 23 April 2017) was an Italian philosopher. Picardi's contributions have been in analytic philosophy and linguistics.
In 2009, she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College in Oxford. She translated Gottlob Frege's posthumous writings and other writings.Eva Picardi: Frege, Scritti Postumi, Bibliopolis, Napoli 1986; E. Picardi, C. Penco: Frege, Senso, funzione e concetto, Scritti filosofici1891-1897, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2001 She had a central role in the diffusion of analytic philosophy in Italy through her translation and editorship of the works by contemporary philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Paul Grice, Hilary Putnam and Michael Dummett, of whom she edited the Italian edition of The logical Basis of Metaphysics. Picardi had an intellectual partnership with Michael Dummett. She translated and edited his lectures on the Origins of Analytic Philosophy, which preceded the publication of the original book. Alle origini della filosofia analitica, Il Mulino, Bologna 1990, traduzione di Eva PicardiDummett, Origins of Analytic Philosophy, Harvard U.P. 1993 She helped Dummett find a place to play old style Tarocchi in Bologna, an occasion that was relevant for the interests in tarots by the Dummett of many books on the subject.See C. Penco, Dummett and the game of Tarot", in Teorema, XXXII/1 (Issue on Dummett's Legacy, edited by Karen Green)
Eva Picardi leaves a number of scholars who studied with her and are now teaching in Italy, England, Finland and the United States.see footnote 2, but also She has worked with philosophical figures in contemporary philosophy of language and her work has been cited by important philosophers including Donald Davidson,Donald Davidson: "Reply to Eva Picardi", in Stoecker, Ralf, ed. Reflecting Davidson: Donald Davidson responding to an international forum of philosophers. Walter de Gruyter, 1993, pp. 210-12. Saul Kripke,Saul Kripke: "Frege’s Theory of Sense and Reference"in Theoria, 74, 2008 p.190 and Michael Dummett.Michael Dummett: "Reply to Eva Picardi" in The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Chicago and Lasalle, Open Court, 2007, (The Library of Living Philosophers) pp. 521-530 She published on Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung, European Journal of Philosophy, Grazer Philosophischen Studien, History and Philosophy of Logic, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Synthese.
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