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Name
  
Giovanni Piana

Region
  
Western philosophy

Schools of thought
  
Phenomenology

Role
  
Philosopher


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Born
  
April 5, 1940
Casale Monferrato, Italy

Main interests
  
Music, Aesthetics, Epistemology

Notable ideas
  
"The true philosophy tends to the elementary"

Areas of interest
  
Epistemology, Aesthetics, Music

Influenced by
  
Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gaston Bachelard

Similar People
  
Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gaston Bachelard, G E Moore, Elizabeth Anscombe

Philosophical era
  
20th-century philosophy

Piana Giovanni (born April 5, 1940) is an Italian philosopher. He taught theoretical philosophy at the University of Milan from 1970 to 1999. Later, he went to live at Pietrabianca di Sangineto (Calabria), from which he continues to write and publish.

He was a disciple of Enzo Paci and wrote his dissertation on Husserl's unpublished works.

His philosophical position is characterised by the concept of phenomenology ("phenomenological structuralism") influenced by Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Bachelard. Some indications about phenomenological structuralism are contained in the online article: "Die Idee eines phänomenologischen Strukturalismus".

His thought is oriented towards the philosophy of knowledge, the philosophy of music, and the fields of perception and imagination.

Sites quoting Piana's works

  • Bibliografia sull’estetica fenomenologica italiana 1900–1996
  • Cosmologia arcaica - Il triangolo di Sarngadeva
  • Fenomenologia, coscienza del tempo e analisi musicale
  • Le variazioni antropologico-culturali dei significati simbolici dei colori
  • Zero, uno e gli «altri» numeri: Husserl e la tradizione empirista
  • Burnout e risorse in Musicoterapia
  • La crisi delle scienze fisiche fra Ottocento e Novecento: interpretazioni filosofiche
  • Aldo Scimone, Lezioni sui Fondamenti della Matematica
  • References

    Giovanni Piana Wikipedia