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78Il "de Ideis" di Aristotele e la Teoria Platonica delle IdeeOlschki. 1975.The book is a reconstruction and detailed presentation (close to a commentary) of Aristotle's lost work On Ideas, based, in the main, on the testimony of Alexander of Aphrodisias in his commentary to the Metaphysics; Alexander's text is included in the critical edition by D. Harlfinger.
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Aristotle's Conception of Ontology, Coll. « Studia Aristotelica », 7Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 84 (2): 270-271. 1979.
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Un libro recente sulla teoria dei trascendentali in AristoteleRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 84. 1973.
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Principi, cause e spiegazione teologica in AristoteleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 37 (2): 123. 1982.The paper offers a rather long discussion of E. Berti's book entitled Aristotele: dalla dialettica alla filosofia prima, questioning some important aspects of the approach he adopts. (He replied to my criticism in a successive issue of the same review.)
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Le relazioni presentate al VI "Symposium Aristotelicum"Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 28 (2): 161. 1973.
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Anders Wedberg, "A History of Philosophy" (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 40 (4): 815. 1985.
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Sulle motivazioni ideologiche nella biologia anticaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 35 (4): 381. 1980.
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O. HOEFFE, "Praktische Philosophie. Das Modell des Aristoteles" (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 180. 1973.
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1La materia in AristoteleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 28 (3): 243. 1973.The paper offers a critical discussion of H. Happ's wide-ranging book entitled "Hyle. Studien zum aristotelischen Materiebegriff", Berlin 1971. While recognizing the importance of this contribution to Aristotelian scholarship I express some revervations to the approach adopted, which tends to make of Aristotle a continuator of the so-called unwritten doctrines by Plato.
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10I PresocraticiIl Mulino. 1982.The book includes a collection, in Italian translation, of essays on Presocratic philosophy by Cherniss, Cornford, Vlastos, Kahn, Verdenius, Owen and others, with a long introduction of mine which, in addition to presenting the papers, tries to give an idea of the main problems of interpretation raised by the fragments and testimonies we have about the Presocratics.
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209Aristotle's logical works and his conception of logicTopoi 23 (1): 71-100. 2004.I provide a survey of the contents of the works belonging to Aristotle's Organon in order to define their nature, in the light of his declared intentions and of other indications (mainly internal ones) about his purposes. No unifying conception of logic can be found in them, such as the traditional one, suggested by the very title Organon, of logic as a methodology of demonstration. Logic for him can also be formal logic (represented in the main by the De Interpretatione), axiomatized syllogisti…Read more
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Una storia della filosofia greca per dilettoRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 39 (4): 721-724. 1984.A review of L. De Crescenzo's book entitled I presocratici, first volume of a history of Greek philosophy which is meant to be popular and amusing but betrays much superficiality in the approach.
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |