Silvio Ceccato was an Italian philosopher and linguist.

Born in Montecchio Maggiore

Montecchio Maggiore

Montecchio Maggiore is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is situated approximately 12 km west of Vicenza and 43 km east of Verona, SP 246 passes through it....

, he studied law and music. In 1949 he founded the international magazine Methodos, which was published until 1964.

In 1956 he designed and built Adamo II, the first Italian prototype of artificial intelligence, which he had intended to reproduce man's mental states. Those same years he lectured on the philosophy of science

Philosophy of science

The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...

 at Milan University, where he directed the Cybernetics and Linguistic Studies Centre, until he went to IULM.
He later retired from the academic world and wrote books about happiness.

Works

• Il linguaggio con la Tabella di Ceccatieff (1951)
• Adamo II, Congresso Internazionale dell'Automatismo, Milano, 8-13 aprile 1956, pp. 1-8
• Linguistic analysis and programming for mechanical translation (1961)
• Un tecnico fra i filosofi (1962/1964)
• Corso di linguistica operativa (1969)
• Il gioco del Teocono (1971)
• La mente vista da un cibernetico (1972)
• La terza cibernetica. Per una mente creativa e responsabile (1974)
• L'ingegneria della felicità (1985)
• Il linguista inverosimile (1988, with Carlo Oliva)
• Mille tipi di bello' (1995)
• C'era una volta la filosofia (1996)

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