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900Leaving the Soul Apart. An Introductory StudyPhilosophical Readings 7 (2): 3-13. 2015.In The Analysis of Mind (1921), Bertrand Russell stresses the importance of William James’ late neutral monist view of consciousness for the studies in psychology. In so doing, he focuses on a topic whose roots can be traced back to the nineteenth-century European debate on physiology and scientific psychology. In this introductory paper I shall briefly outline the path that, starting from the revival of Kant in the German scientific debate, leads to both Ernst Mach’s and William James’ question…Read more
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613Boscovich’s “philosophical meditations” in the history of contemporary thoughtMemorie Della Societa' Astronomica Italiana Supplementi 75 282-292. 2012.The content of Boscovich’s Theoria philosophiae naturalis was well-known to his contemporaries, but both scientists and philosophers chiefly discussed it during the 19th century. The observations that Boscovich presented in this text, and that he himself defined as “philosophicas metitationes”, soon showed their being a good programme for the forthcoming atomic physics, and contributed to get rid of the mechanistic paradigm in science. In this paper I’ll go back to some meaningful moments of the…Read more
Università "Suor Orsola Benincasa" Di Napoli
Italian Institute Of Human Sciences
Alumnus, 2008
Portugal