Annibale Pastore

Valentino Annibale Pastore (13 November 1868 - 27 February 1956) was an Italian philosopher and logician.

Pastore was born in Orbassano.

He studied literature at the University of Turin under Arturo Graf. His thesis La vita delle forme letterarie (The life of literary forms) was published in 1892 in Turin. Pastore then turned to philosophy, influenced by the works of Pasquale d'Ercole, Friedrich Kiesow, Antonio Garbasso, and Giuseppe Peano, publishing his own thesis Sopra le teorie della scienza: logica, matematica, fisica (On the theories of science: logic, mathematics, physics) in 1903.

He was a professor in Turin from 1913 until 1939, leading a laboratory of "experimental logic". He eventually focused on logical aspects and procedures in science. His 1914-1915 seminary upon the concept of homo faber influenced Antonio Gramsci in his theories about the function of intellectuals in a capitalist society.

Pastore died in Turin.

Works , 1903 , 1906 Del nuovo spirito della scienza e della filosofia, 1907 Sillogismo e proporzione, 1910 Dell'essere e del conoscere, 1911 Il pensiero puro, 1913 Il problema della causalità, con particolare riguardo alla teoria del metodo sperimentale, 1921 Il solipsismo, 1923 La logica del potenziamento, 1936 Logica sperimentale, 1939 L'acrisia di Kant, 1940 La filosofia di Lenin, 1946 La volontà dell'assurdo. Storia e crisi dell'esistenzialismo, 1948 Logicalia, 1957 Dioniso, 1957 Introduzione alla metafisica della poesia, 1957