Nino Cocchiarella, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University, is best known for his work in formal logic and ontology.
Career
21(1980); "Richard Montague and the Logical Analysis of Language", in Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, volunteer 2, Philosophy of Language/Philosophical Logic, G. Fløistad, educated, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1981) and "The Development of the Theory of Logical Types and the Notion of a Logical Subject in Russell"s Early Philosophy", Synthèse, volunteer An Introduction to its Syntax and Semantics (with Max Freund), Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2008).
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Among his important articles: "Nominalism and Conceptualism as Predicative Second Order Theories of Predication", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, volunteer 45 (1980).
His books include Logical Investigations of Predication Theory and the Problem of Universals (1986). Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy (1987).
Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism, New York, Springer, (2007). And Modal Logic.