Biography
Dino Buzzetti (buzzetti@philo.unibo.it) is
associate professor in the History of Medieval Philosophy at Literature and Philosophy
faculty of the University of Bologna (http://www.unibo.it/default.htm
 ).
Born 1 December 1941 in Bologna, he studied engineering at Milan Polytechnic and
graduated in philosophy from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the principle of
verification in contemporary logical empiricism.
He later studied philosophy and logic at University College, London and the London
School of Economics, researching into the development of logic in Great Britain in the
19th century (William Hamilton and Augustus De Morgan); and on Leibnizian logic and
medievali and modern sources, under Prof. Heinrich Schepers.
He has taught courses on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Anselmo D'Aosta, on the
history of ancient philosophy, neo-Platonic philosophy and the medieval tradition; and on
the theory of catalogues and classification and the history of libraries.
He also holds courses on the applications of information technology to the representation
and analysis of historical documents.
His chief research interest is in the history of logical ideas and is now directed to
the use of logic and linguistic analysis in late medieval natural philosophy and theology.
He is interested in the problem of producing electronic critical editions out of
manuscript textual traditions, in humanistic information technology and the applications
of procedures for automatic elaboration to the study of anomalous textual traditions.
Since 1991 he has been a member of the History Institute of the University of Bologna
(ISTUB). He has been an editor, with Carlo Cellucci, Maurizio Ferriani, Alfonso Maier and
Cesare Vasoli, of the series "Instrumenta Rationis - Sources for the History of Logic
in the Modern Age" since 1982.
Bibliography
His publications include:
- Tradizione testuale e insegnamento nell'università di medicina e arti di Bologna dei
secoli XIV e XV (D. Buzzetti, R. Lambertini, A. Tabarroni), in "Annali di storia
delle università italiane", I (1997), pp. 77-95.
- On Proclus Comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean Logic, in "The
Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism", (a cura di John J. Cleary), Leuven, Leuven
University Press, 1997 (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1,
24), pp. 331-346.
- Textual Fluidity and Digital Editions (D. Buzzetti and M. Rehbein), in "Text
Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts", a cura di Milena Dobreva, Proceedings of
the International Conference, Sofia 21-23 September 1997 (in corso di pubblicazione).
- Digital Editions: Variant Readings and Interpretations, in ALLC-ACHÕ96:
Conference Abstracts, The 1996 ALLC and ACH Joint International Conference (Bergen, 25-29
June).
- 1996), University of Bergen, 1996, pp. 254-256.
- (http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Thaller/buzzetti.html)
- Matematica e logica nel Medioevo: Sul concetto di misura, in "Dianoia",
I (1996), pp. 61- 76.
- Il testo 'fluido': Sull'uso dell'informatica nella critica e nell'analisi testuale,
in "Filosofia & informatica", Atti del primo incontro italiano sulle
applicazioni informatiche e multimediali nelle discipline filosofiche (Convegno Nazionale
della Società Filosofica Italiana: Roma, 23-24 Novembre 1995), a cura di Luciano Floridi,
Torino, Paravia, 1996, pp. 85-93.
- Documentazione e informatica umanistica, in "Schede Umanistiche", N.S.,
VI(1996), n. 2, pp. 199-205.
- Database Edition of Non-collatable Textual Traditions (D. Buzzetti and A.
Tabarroni), in The Electric Scriptorium: Electronic Approaches to the Imaging,
Transcription, Editing, and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts, A Physical and Virtual
Conference (Calgary, 10-12 November 1995) (http://www.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor/papers/
buzzetti.html).
- Masters and Books in 14th-century Bologna: An edition as a database, in
"Storia & Multimedia", a cura di F. Bocchi e P.Denley, Proceedings of the
Seventh International Congress of the Association for History and Computing, Bologna 29
August-2 September 1992, Bologna, Grafis Edizioni, 1994, pp. 642-646.
- Image Processing and the Study of Manuscript Textual Traditions, in J. Fikfak and
G. Jaritz (eds.), Image Processing in History: Towards open systems, Max-Plank-Institut
fur Geschichte i. K. b. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen, 1993, pp. 45-63.
- 'Historical Software' e filologia: Due recenti proposte teoriche di Manfred Thaller,
in "Schede Umanistiche", N.S., iii(1993), n. 2, pp. 181-190.
- Libri e maestri a Bologna nel xiv secolo: Un'edizione come database( D. Buzzetti,
P. Pari, A. Tabarroni), in "Schede umanistiche", N.S., ii(1992), n. 2, pp.
163-169.
- Informatica umanistica, in "Schede umanistiche", N.S., i(1991), n. 1,
pp. 133-140.
- Informatica e critica del testo: il caso di una tradizione 'fluida' (D. Buzzetti
e A. Tabarroni), in "Schede umanistiche", N.S., i(1991), n. 2, pp. 185-193.
- Francesco Acri e la 'noia' della scienza, in "Filosofia e scienza a Bologna
tra il 1860 e il 1920", a cura di Guido Oldrini e Walter Tega, Cappelli, Bologna
1990, pp. 151-185.
- Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar and Philosophical Analysis of Language (a
cura di D. Buzzetti e M. Ferriani), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1987, pp.
x-269.
- La teoria dell'inferenza di John Stuart Mill e i logici di Cambridge, in
"L'epistemologia di Cambridge", a cura di Raffaella Simili, il Mulino, Bologna
1987, pp. 101-119.
- Language and Logic in the Eighteenth Century (S. Auroux and D. Buzzetti a cura
di), in "Topoi", vol. iv, no.2), D. Reidel, Dordrecht/Boston 1985.
- Current Issues in Eighteenth-century Linguistic Historiography (S. Auroux and D.
Buzzetti), in "Topoi", iv(1985), pp. 131-144.
- Storia e metodo scientifico: Mill e Comte, in "Scienza e filosofia nella
cultura positivistica", a cura di Antonio Santucci, Feltrinelli, Milano 1982, pp.
134-157.
- La grammatica del pensiero: Logica, linguaggio e conoscenza nell'età
dell'Illuminismo
- (a cura di D. Buzzetti e M. Ferriani), il Mulino, Bologna 1982, pp. 257.
- Cronaca, preistoria e storia della logica, in "Rivista di Filosofia",
lxvii(1976), pp. 484-496.
- Sulla teoria della connotazione di John Stuart Mill, in "Rivista di
Filosofia", lxvii(1976), pp. 265-288.
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