by Piergiorgio Odifreddi · TEA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788850211913
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«Le menzogne di Ulisse» is the philosophy and logic essay by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, published by TEA in paperback (286 pages, in Italian).
Odifreddi traces the history of logic from Parmenides to Amartya Sen, understood as the study of thought and language. He shows its relationship with philosophy and mathematics and presents it as a territory between God and the Devil, full of paradoxes, anecdotes and a critical look at the present.
The full title is «Le menzogne di Ulisse. L'avventura della logica da Parmenide ad Amartya Sen»; it belongs to the Saggistica TEA series.
Recommended for readers interested in philosophy, logic and mathematics who seek popular science with anecdotes and historical reflection.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
