Roberta Corvi

Strawson rightly maintained that formal logic is not satisfactory when applied to natural language because natural language contains terms with implicit logic that cannot be entirely encompassed by formal rules of inference.

According to Cassirer, knowledge is not a passive mirroring of the world, but it is a mode of objectiving and questioning reality, which requires an active processing by the human subject. Nevertheless, Cassirer admits that this task is not the prerogative of scientific knowledge alone but is also realized by other cultural activities of men...

The paper examines and comments on the theories of some contemporary american philosophers, who have approached the problem of rationality from the assumptions of pragmatist thought, drawing consequences however divergent...

The paper concerns the notion of knowledge and argues that knowledge is not to be identified only with episteme (i.e. true and demonstrated belief) but with right opinion too, if we want to avoid both skepticism and relativism. In order to get over the ancient dichotomy between doxa and episteme we have to reform both of them, adopting a systemic approach. The systemic view can help us define knowledge as a dynamic set, where change is possible and where novelties can always come out. Knowledge is a difficult achievement, but we really can grasp some truth, even if not all truth, because the world is very complex and subtle, while our cognitive skills are limited.