Franca d’Agostini

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Full Name	Franca d'Agostini
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Sep 11, 1952(1952-09-11)
Age	72
Birthplace	Turin
Country	Italy
Birth City	Piedmont
Horoscope	Virgo

Franca d'Agostini Biography

Franca d'Agostini is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on September 11, 1952 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

Her first book, Analitici e continentali was published in January 1997 and presents a comparison between two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century: Anglo-American philosophy (primarily analytical), and European or Continental philosophy (stemming from Germany, France, Spain, and Italy). The book, now translated into several languages, has generated a lively debate and is considered a seminal text on this subject. “The image of philosophy presented here,” writes Michael Dummett, “is not, in itself, peculiar to the analytical tradition as opposed to other schools. Rather, it stands in opposition to two modern or postmodern lines of thought: relativism and deconstructionism. A relativist denies the existence of such a thing as truth, in the sense of unconditional truth. […] A deconstructionist can avoid the question of the existence of absolute truth by maintaining that objectivity is an unrealizable ideal. [..] There can never be a fruitful exchange, much less active cooperation, between these two types of postmodern philosophy and the sort that instead believes philosophy to be a vital field in which to seek the truth, and that this search is not performed in vain. Yet, the barrier of incomprehension should not exist between those adhering to the analytical tradition and those trained in the various traditions that form the vast conglomerate of ‘continental’ philosophy.” Analitici e continentali, concludes Dummett, helps to break down the barrier of “ignorance of one group’s work with respect to that of the other.”

Following this publication, D’Agostini has produced many essays and articles examining the relationship between analytical philosophy and other traditions. This topic is also the main focus of her Breve storia della filosofia nel Novecento, published in 1999. In both Analitici e continentali and Breve storia, Franca D’Agostini performs a critical-reconstructive historiography in order to clarify the fate and meaning of philosophical practice in contemporaneity. At the core of these early writings is the essential metaphilosophical question: what are the nature and rules governing philosophy, its methods and styles, its relations with literature and science, its applications and its public use? Breve storia is not so much a history of philosophy, but a history of metaphilosophy in the twentieth century. Philosophy is pictured as the “paradigmatic anomaly” of contemporary science and culture: it is the paradigm within which sciences, the arts, politics and law operate, but it is an anomaly, because it has no conceivable place within the current institutional framework of scientific knowledge. D’Agostini’s metaphilosophical studies reach their culmination with the 2005 volume Nel chiuso di una stanza con la testa in vacanza. Dieci lezioni sulla filosofia contemporanea (Carocci, 2005), which contains a reasoned and ample illustration of the nature of philosophical practice and the key themes of metaphilosophical reflection. Here D’Agostini presents an image of philosophy as conceptual analysis, addressing in particular the “super-concepts” once called the “transcendentals” (unity, truth, goodness, and all their derivatives and synonyms).

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Franca d'Agostini is one of the richest Philosopher from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Franca d'Agostini 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Franca D’Agostini (born September 11, 1952) is an Italian philosopher.

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The essential points of this study are: the “inevitable use” of the fundamental philosophical concepts (unum, verum, bonum), the fundamentally skeptical nature of the predicate of truth, the location of the problem of truth within a perspective of “first philosophy” at the intersection of the three areas of ethics, ontology and epistemology, the idea that the methodology of this first philosophy presupposes an ontological gap encompassing nonexistent objects, universals, and unrealized possibilities. D’Agostini’s philosophical perspective is further clarified in the conclusion of her manual of logic “for philosophy and the ordinary use of language” (I mondi comunque possibili), where she illustrates the close connection of logic, philosophy, and democracy, on the basis of a reconsideration of the meaning and history of the three fundamental concepts.

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