Birthplace: Rome
Home address: Stretta Gavino Farina 1, 07100, Sassari, Italy.
University address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sassari,
via Roma 151, 07100, Sassari, Italy.
Email: dellutri@uniss.it
Office phone numbers: +39-079-229696
Cellular phone: +39 320 421 2221
Fax: +39-079-229645
Orcid Id: 0000-0002-7822-2346
Massimo Dell’Utri is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Sassari, Italy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. He teaches courses in philosophy of language, philosophy of multiculturality, and philosophy of literature and the arts. He has served as President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (2018-2021), and he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Argumenta (https://www.argumenta.org/), as member of the European Cultural Parliament and of the Italian Society for the Philosophy of Language. He has written four books in Italian, one in English, and many articles on realism, the concept of truth, and Hilary Putnam’s thought (both in English and Italian). The book in English is Hilary Putnam’s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life (Lexington 2024). Among the articles are: Choosing Conceptions of Realism: The Case of the Brains in a Vat, “Mind”, 99 (1990), 79-90; “Metaphysics Without Ethics is Blind”: The Legacy of Hilary Putnam, “Journal for General Philosophy of Science”, 48 (2017), 501-15; Alethic Deflationism and Normativity: A Critique, “Veritas”, 63 (2018), 292-303; Plain Alethic Pluralism: The Human Face of Truth, “Synthese”, 204 (2024), 1-20. His research deals with topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, especially the concept of truth.