Nino Cocchiarella

Who is Nino Cocchiarella?

Nino Cocchiarella, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University, is best known for his work in formal logic and ontology.

Among his important articles: "Nominalism and Conceptualism as Predicative Second Order Theories of Predication", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 21; "Richard Montague and the Logical Analysis of Language", in Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, vol. 2, Philosophy of Language/Philosophical Logic, G. Fløistad, ed., Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague and "The Development of the Theory of Logical Types and the Notion of a Logical Subject in Russell's Early Philosophy", Synthèse, vol. 45.

His books include Logical Investigations of Predication Theory and the Problem of Universals; Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy; Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism, New York, Springer,; and Modal Logic. An Introduction to its Syntax and Semantics, Oxford, Oxford University Press,.