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Edoardo Zamuner received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. In the same year, he was research associate at the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology of University College London. In 2007, he held an Endeavour Research Fellowship at the philosophy department of the University of Melbourne. In 2006, Zamuner was awarded a Jacobsen Research Fellowship from the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He has been a visiting researcher at the Wittgenstein Archives of the University of Bergen and research fellow at the Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the University of Bologna. His research interests include philosophy of mind, with special emphasis on perception and emotion, self-knowledge, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Zamuner is currently working on a project regarding perception of other people's emotions.

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Language

Epistemology

Wittgenstein

Publications:

Co-Authored Book

2007. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics. Introduction, Interpretation and Complete Text. Edited by Edoardo Zamuner, E. Valentina Di Lascio and David Levy. Macerata, Italy: Quodlibet.

Co-Edited Book

2008. Wittgenstein's Enduring Argument . Edoardo Zamuner and David Levy, editors. London, New York: Routledge.

Referred Articles

2005. “Wittgenstein e il Concetto di Credenza” [Wittgenstein and the Concept of Belief]. Dianoia 10: 98-126. Bologna: CLUEB. (In Italian).

Refereed Chapters in Books

2009. “Face Value. Perceiving Other People's Happiness” in L. Bortolotti (ed.), The Philosophy of Happiness . Palgrave.

2006. “Significato Secondario e Competenza Lessicale nell'Ultimo Wittgenstein” [Secondary Meaning and Lexical Competence in Wittgenstein's Later Writings] in L. Perissinotto and S. Borutti (eds), Il Terreno del Linguaggio [The Land of Language]. Rome, Italy: Carocci, pp. 90-6. (In Italian).

2004. “Treating the Sceptic with Genuine Expression of Feeling. Wittgenstein's Later Remarks on the Psychology of Other Minds” in A. Roser and R. Raatzsch (eds), Jahrbuch der Deutschen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft . Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 104-30.

Referred Co-Authored Chapters in Books

2002. “Identifying Phrasal Connectives in Italian Using Quantitative Methods” with Fabio Tamburini and Cristiana De Sanctis, in Stefania Nuccorini (ed.), Phrases and Phraseology – Data and Descriptions . Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 55-78.

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