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502Algorithms and Arguments: The Foundational Role of the ATAI-questionIn Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, David Godden & Gordon Mitchell (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Rozenberg / Sic Sat. 2011.Argumentation theory underwent a significant development in the Fifties and Sixties: its revival is usually connected to Perelman's criticism of formal logic and the development of informal logic. Interestingly enough it was during this period that Artificial Intelligence was developed, which defended the following thesis (from now on referred to as the AI-thesis): human reasoning can be emulated by machines. The paper suggests a reconstruction of the opposition between formal and informal logic…Read more
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689Social Space and the Ontology of RecognitionIn Heikki Ikaheimo & Arto Laitinen (eds.), Recognition and Social Ontology, Brill. 2011.In this paper recognition is taken to be a question of social ontology, regarding the very constitution of the social space of interaction. I concentrate on the question of whether certain aspects of the theory of recognition can be translated into the terms of a socio-ontological paradigm: to do so, I make reference to some conceptual tools derived from John Searle's social ontology and Robert Brandom's normative pragmatics. My strategy consists in showing that recognitive phenomena cannot be i…Read more
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445Reconstruction and Pragmatist Metaphysics. On Brandom’s Understanding of RationalityVerifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 41 (1-3): 175-201. 2012.In this paper I illustrate what is reconstructive rationality, a notion that remains rather undetermined in Robert Brandom's work. I argue that theoretical and historical thinking are instances of reconstruction and should not be identified with it. I then explore a further instance of rational reconstruction, which Brandom calls “reconstructive metaphysics”, arguing that the demarcation between metaphysical and non-metaphysical theories has to be understood as a pragmatic one. Finally, I argue…Read more
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48Recognition as Passive Power: Attractors of Recognition, Biopower, and Social PowerConstellations 24 (2): 192-205. 2017.In this paper I analyze recognition as a kind of power. I analyze the notion of power in the general sense as some sort of causal capacity, and introduce the distinction between the active power of doing something and the passive power of undergoing something. Such a distinction is needed in order to capture some central features of the phenomenon of recognition, and in particular the way that ‘being recognized’ and ‘recognizing’ are intertwined. I then argue in favor of both the conceptual and …Read more
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PoliticsIn Tiziana Andina (ed.), Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. A Companion to Western Philosophy, Brill Books. pp. 241-269. 2014.
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Alberto Casadei, Poetiche della creatività. Letteratura e scienze della mente (review)la Società Degli Individui 42. 2011.
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488The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public DialogueIn Christian Kock & Lisa Villadsen (ed.), Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2012.Deliberative politics should start from an adequate and differentiated image of our dialogical practices and their normative structures; the ideals that we eventually propose for deliberative politics should be tested against this background. In this article I will argue that equal respect, understood as respect a priori conferred on persons, is not and should not be counted as a constitutive normative ground of public discourse. Furthermore, requiring such respect, even if it might facilitate d…Read more
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404Scepsis and ScepticismIn De Laurentis Allegra & Edwards Jeffrey (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel. Bloomsbury/Continuum (2012), Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 273-278. 2012.Hegel's philosophy aims at responding to the questions raised by modern scepticism concerning the accessibility of the external world, of other minds, and of one's own mind. A key-role in Hegel's argumentative strategy against modern scepticism is played here by Hegel's theory of recognition. Recognition mediates the constitution of individual self-consciousness and intersubjectivity: self-knowledge is not logically independent of the awareness of other minds. At the same time, recognition insti…Read more
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953How Does Recognition Emerge from Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena WritingsCritical Horizons 13 (2): 176-196. 2012.The paper proposes a reconstruction of some fragments of Hegel’s Jena manuscripts concerning the natural genesis of recognitive spiritual consciousness. On this basis it will be argued that recognition has a foothold in nature. As a consequence, recognition should not be understood as a bootstrapping process, that is, as a self-positing and self-justifying normative social phenomenon, intelligible within itself and independently of anything external to it.
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19Discussione su "Il dolore dell'indeterminato" di Axel HonnethIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 16 (3): 609-624. 2003.
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707Skeptische Antinomie und Anerkennung beim jungen HegelIn Klaus Vieweg & Brady Bowman (eds.), “Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie”, 8 (2003), Königshausen Und Neumann. pp. 171-178. 2003.
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6The universal form of spirit: Hegel on habit and socialityHegel-Jahrbuch 2010 (1): 215-220. 2010.
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70Brandom's Reconstructive Rationality. Some Pragmatist ThemesTowards an Analytic Pragmatism. Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language. 2009.Abstract. Focusing on part one of Tales of the Mighty Dead and on its relation to the afterword to Between Saying and Doing, I illustrate what reconstructive methodology is and argue that theoretical thinking is one of its instances. I then show that the historical understanding involved in telling the story of a philosophical tradition is another case of reconstruction: one that deepens our understanding of the retrospective character of reconstruction itself, adding something new to our…Read more
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1883Hegelian Resources for Contemporary Thought. Introductory EssayIn Italo Testa & Luigi Ruggiu (eds.), "I that is we, we that is I," perspectives on contemporary Hegel : social ontology, recognition, naturalism, and the critique of Kantian constructivism, Brill. pp. 1-28. 2016.Introductory essay to the collection "I that is We, We that is I" (ed. by Italo Testa and Luigi Ruggiu, Brill Books, 2016). In this book an international group of philosophers explore the many facets of Hegel’s formula which expresses the recognitive and social structures of human life. The book offers a guiding thread for the reconstruction of crucial motifs of contemporary thought such as the socio-ontological paradigm; the action-theoretical model in moral and social philosophy; the question …Read more