Logic and the Self: After Certain Crises in Western Thought

Abstract

It is a great honor to receive this Prize, and indeed an even greater honor for me to share this with Professor Casari. But I am very conscious that we are here in the first instance to honor the memory of Professor Giulio Preti. I have had but limited access to Giulio Preti's thought, through some articles that appeared in English and French, and most specifically through an illuminating article by Professor Peruzzi. 1 But since then I have reflected especially on the time and circumstances of the young Preti, in the 1930s, and how that time relates to ours.