nino cocchiarella (born 1933), 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(1980); "richard montague and the logical analysis of language", in contemporary philosophy: a new survey, vol. 2, philosophy of language/philosophical logic, g. flÃ¸istad, ed., 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", synthÃ¨se, vol. 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. an introduction to its syntax and semantics (with max freund), oxford, oxford university press, (2008). == external links == * the conceptual realism of nino cocchiarella * complete and annotated bibliography of nino cocchiarella   
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