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Maurice Finocchiaro is an American distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Finocchiaro writes widely about the history and philosophy of science, logical theory and critical thinking, and the history of modern political theory.
Background
Maurice Finocchiaro was born on June 13, 1942, in Floridia, Italy, to Biagio (an unskilled laborer) and Jane (a housemaker) Finocchiaro. He immigrated to the United States in 1957 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Education
Finocchiaro received a bachelor's degree after graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. Finocchiaro received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969.
Career
Maurice A. Finocchiaro is a distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Finocchiaro has published fourteen
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Maurice Finocchiaro was born in the Italian island of Sicily, and grew up there until age 15, when his family immigrated legally to the U.S. After finishing high school in 1960, he went to college at M.I.T., earning a B.S. in philosophy and physics in 1964. Then he went to graduate school in philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. in 1969, with a dissertation on the philosophy of history of science. His teaching career at UNLV spanned four decades (1970-2003), and it included introductory as well as advanced courses in logical theory, symbolic logic, philosophy of science, history of scientific thought, and science and religion. His scholarly activity, which continued after his retirement in 2003, includes 17 books, more than 150 articles, more than 150 book reviews, and about 200 conference presentations (many as keynote speaker). In particular, many of his books have been published by such publishers as the university presses of Oxford, Cambridge, Ya
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Maurice Finocchiaro
American philosopher
Maurice Finocchiaro (born 1942) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is known for his works on the history of science.[1][2][3]
Books
[edit]- 1973 History of Science as Explanation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
- 1980 Galileo and the Art of Reasoning. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 61.) Dordrecht: Reidel (now Springer).
- 1988 Gramsci critico e la critica. Rome: Armando Editore.
- 1988 Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pb. edn., 2002.
- 1989 The Galileo Affair. Trans. and ed. by M.A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley: University of California Press. Rpt., “The Notable Trials Library,” New York: Gryphon Editions, 1991.
- 1997 Galileo on the World Systems. Trans. and ed. by M.A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- 1999 Beyond Right and Left