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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.
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Philip Merlan e la metafisica aristotelicaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 25 (1): 3. 1970.The paper offers a discussion of Philip Merlan's contributions (in "From Platonism to Neoplatonism, The Hague 1960, e in some papers of his, now included in his "Kleine Philosophische Schriften", Hildesheim 1976) to the understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, with particular reference to the science of being qua being.
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La scienza greca di Von FritzRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 44 (1): 69-86. 1989.The paper was originally intended to serve as an introduction to the Italian translation of Kurt von Fritz's "Grundprobleme der antiken Wissenschaft, Berlin, 1971, pointing out the merits but also certain limitations of the book. (Because it appeared too critical it was not accepted by the italian publisher Il Mulino.)
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L'aristotele di DüringRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 39 (1): 3. 1984.The paper is a long, detailed, critical presentation of Ingemar Duering's Aristoteles. Darstellung und Interpretation seines Denkens, Heidelberg 1966, on the occasion of the publication of the Italian translation (by P.L. Donini, Milano 1976) of the same.
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From Hegel to ZellerIn Oliver Primavesi & Katharina Luchner (eds.), The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels: Akten Der 9. Tagung Der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung Vom 5.-7. Oktober 2006 in München, Steiner Verlag. pp. 309-333. 2011.The treatment of Presocratic philosophy from Hegel to Zeller.
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Unity and diversity of the sciences: the methodology of the mathematical and of the physical sciences and the role of nominal definitionRevue Internationale de Philosophie 133 (3): 384-421. 1980.The paper is concentrated on Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" and attempts to show that his account of the sciences is less uniform than it is usually taken to be but shows some awareness of important differences between the mathematical and the physical sciences.
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Oltre i fenomeni: generalizzazioni giustificate e ingiustificate nella cosmologia presocraticaNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 9 (3/4): 12-24. 1991.In this paper I discuss the issue how far Presocratic cosmology can be regarded as scientific, giving attention to some examples of their explanations of physical phaenomena.
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20I primi atomisti: raccolta di testi che riguardano Leucippo e Democrito (edited book)Leo S. Olschki. 2009.This is the fullest existing collection of the texts, for the moment only in Italian translation, with an introduction, notes, general presentation of the texts, various indexes (part of this material is to be found in an attached CD).
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Walter G. Englert, "Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action" (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 46 (2): 376. 1991.
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |