{{Short description|Italian philosopher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western philosophy | era = Contemporary philosophy | image =Carlo Sini.jpg | name = Carlo Sini | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|12|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Bologna, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = University of Milan (Laurea, 1960) | school_tradition = Continental philosophy<br>Phenomenology<br>Hermeneutics | main_interests = Pragmatism<br>Philosophy of language | notable_ideas = ''Pensiero delle pratiche'' (thought of practices) }} '''Carlo Sini''' (Bologna, 6 December 1933) is an Italian philosopher and one of the leading figures in contemporary Italian philosophy,<ref>{{cite book|last=Leoni|first=Federico|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-25397-4_10|title=Phenomenology in Italy|chapter=Carlo Sini: A Phenomenology of Distance|publisher=Springer Nature|year=2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sunypress.edu/Books/E/Ethics-of-Writing| title=Ethics of Writing|access-date=24 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Roberto|last1=Redaelli|date=2022 |url=https://research.ncl.ac.uk/italianphilosophy/previous%20issues/volume52022/9.%20Redaelli%20-%20The%20Current%20Significance%20of%20Carlo%20Sini's%20Notion%20of%20Subject%20FINAL.pdf|journal=Journal of Italian Philosophy|volume=5|title=The Current Significance of Carlo Sini’s Notion of the Subject: A Contribution to the Debate between Postmodernism and New Realism|pages= 171–180 }}</ref> mainly known for his studies about language and hermeneutics, following the work of Charles Sanders Peirce.
== Biography == Carlo Sini studied at University of Milan with Enzo Paci. In 1976 he became professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University of Milan.{{citation needed|date= November 2024}}
He is member of Accademia dei Lincei<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lincei.it/it/content/sini-carlo|title=Sini, Carlo|access-date=24 November 2024}}</ref> from 1994 and of the Institut International de Philosophie.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://institutinternationaldephilosophie.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/membres_IIP-1.pdf|title= Institut International de Philosophie. MEMBRES DEPUIS SA CRÉATION|access-date=24 November 2024}}</ref>
He has been a member of the national directive of the Italian Philosophical Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raicultura.it/filosofia/articoli/2020/06/Carlo-Sini-La-funzione-della-filosofia-670aa7d7-fae6-4a45-baae-83cc1d4659cd.html|title=Carlo Sini. La funzione della filosofia|language=it|publisher=RAI Cultura|access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfi.it/files/download/Bollettini/BOLLETTINO%20162.pdf|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903051802/https://www.sfi.it/files/download/Bollettini/BOLLETTINO%20162.pdf|archive-date=September 3, 2020|quote=In base allo Statuto gli è subentrato nel Consiglio direttivo il prof. Carlo Sini, primo dei non eletti nel Congresso nazionale di Caserta|title=Bolllettino della Società Filosofica Italiana|date=September-December 1997|url-status=live|website=Società Filosofica Italiana|access-date=September 29, 2025|language=it}}</ref>
== Thought == Sini's thought proposes an interpretation of the work of Charles Sanders Peirce that converges towards the thought of Heidegger and phenomenology.
{{blockquote|The essential topic in Peirce's semiotics is not the sign (as in Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida) but the sign relation. For example: Sign, Object, Interpretant, taken in an inextricable correlation (each one is for the other two). Therefore, this perspective doesn’t show that there are things and among these things there are signs (road signs, military trumpet signals, etc., as described by De Saussure). It rather shows that, as a result of sign relations, there are things, defined by the concrete interpretative habit (semiosis and hermeneutics are one: it follows that any “ontology” becomes mere superstition).<ref name="AutoAD-6">{{Cite web|url=https://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/3040?fbclid=IwAR1SSpQQGGkoCV7ndNz_LPy-w6rjEXIKr7OYzGde2JkfhvwPghz9utY4eWk|title=An Interview with Carlo Sini|date=2022 }}</ref>}}
He has consequently developed a so-called "thought of practices" as a way to "recognize the errance of every image of truth": {{blockquote|The thought of practices reminds us that everyone actually puts the knowledge they have into practice, scientific and non-scientific, based on their belonging to the world (to their world), as everyone is a movable origin and limit. The knowledge of praxis, of common, everyday operations, thus constitutes that life of truth.<REF name="AutoAD-6"/>}}
Sini has openly declared to be atheist.<ref>{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXefUXXRYI|title=La costruzione del cristianesimo tra fede e ragione: il problema della salvezza|publisher=Società Filosofica Italiana|location=Bergamo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250616135832/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXefUXXRYI|archive-date=June 16, 2025|url-status=live|language=it}} (at minute 2:16)</ref>
== Publications in English == *{{cite book |title= Images of Truth: From Sign to Symbol |author=Carlo Sini |date=1993 |publisher= Humanities Press}} *{{cite book |title=Etichs of Writing|author=Carlo Sini |date=2009 |publisher= State University of New York Press}}
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== External links == {{Wikiquote}} * [https://archiviocarlosini.it/ Carlo Sini Archive] (in Italiano) * [https://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/3040?fbclid=IwAR1SSpQQGGkoCV7ndNz_LPy-w6rjEXIKr7OYzGde2JkfhvwPghz9utY4eWk An Interview with Carlo Sini] on the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
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