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40Plato and the Forms of Knowledge (review)Philosophy and History 18 (1): 39-40. 1985.A short review of Wolfgang Wieland's "Platon und die Formen des Wissens", Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982.
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46Knowledge of the Universal and Knowledge of the Particular in AristotleReview of Metaphysics 26 (2). 1972.ACCORDING TO MANY of the most authoritative interpreters and commentators of Aristotle, there is in his thought "a discrepancy between the real and the intelligible," that is to say, a failure to reconcile the requirements of his ontology with those of his logic and epistemology. From the point of view of his ontology, the individual, in effect the substance provided with matter, is basic, while the universal is derivative. From the point of view of his logic and epistemology, only the "ideal," …Read more
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Aristotele: un filosofo analista?Giornale di Metafisica 24 (n/a): 279-311. 1969.The paper offers a survey of contributions to the interpretation of Aristotle's thought by scholars belonging to the analytic tradition (G.E.M. Anscombe, J.L. Ackrill, J. hintikka, G.E.L. Owen, W.F.R. Hardie), with some general considerations on their approach.
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M. Kessler, "Aristoteles' Lehre von der Einheit der Definition" (review)Filosofia Oggi 1 (4): 429. 1978.
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La fisica di AristoteleNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 9 (3/4): 48-62. 1991.A general survey of Aristotle's contributions to physics (in the Ancient sense of the word), including his "De anima" but leaving out his zoological works, with some attention for the differences between his science and modern science.
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40Il "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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