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269In this essay I first set out the advantages the " multivariate democratic polity " framework proposed by Ferrara offers in comparison to other more consensus-based notions of democratic legitimacy. Secondly, I highlight some ambiguities concerning the meta-theoretical status of this frame, since it is not clear whether it consists of an adaptive realistic description, or otherwise is a normative argument. Thirdly, I cast some doubts on the compatibility between the multivariate frame and the " …Read more
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362THE IMAGINATIVE REHEARSAL MODEL – DEWEY, EMBODIED SIMULATION, AND THE NARRATIVE HYPOTHESISPragmatism Today 8 (1): 105-112. 2017.In this contribution I outline some ideas on what the pragmatist model of habit ontology could offer us as regards the appreciation of the constitutive role that imagery plays for social action and cognition. Accordingly, a Deweyan understanding of habit would allow for an understanding of imagery in terms of embodied cognition rather than in representational terms. I first underline the motor character of imagery, and the role its embodiment in habit plays for the anticipation of action. Second…Read more
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512Dewey, Second Nature, Social Criticism, and the Hegelian HeritageEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (1): 1-23. 2017.Dewey’s notion of second nature is strictly connected with that of habit. I reconstruct the Hegelian heritage of this model and argue that habit qua second nature is understood by Dewey as a something which encompasses both the subjective and the objective dimension – individual dispositions and features of the objective natural and social environment.. Secondly, the notion of habit qua second nature is used by Dewey both in a descriptive and in a critical sense and is as such a dialectical conc…Read more
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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
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Conoscere e riconoscere: L'epistemologia hegeliana del riconoscimento e il passaggio dalla prima alla seconda naturaGiornale di Metafisica 27 (1): 121-143. 2005.
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894Why is the Amphibian Status of the Human Unavoidable? Some Remarks on Robert Pippin's "After the Beautiful"Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 7 21-27. 2015.
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La genèse naturelle de la conscience et la reconnaissanceIn Buée Jean-Michel & Renault Emmanuel (eds.), Hegel à Iéna, Ens Éditions. pp. 143-156. 2015.Je vais reconstruire quelques aspects de la genèse naturelle de la conscience dans les écrits hégéliens d’Iéna, avec le but de montrer que cette reconstruction est essentielle pour comprendre la genèse des capacités fondamentales qui sont présupposées par l’interaction de la reconnaissance. En particulier, je vais défendre la thèse suivante: Hegel a jeté une base pour une Naturphilosophie de la reconnaissance, en esquissant une sorte d'histoire naturelle de l’évolution de la relation consciente …Read more
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737Scepticisme et dialectique des lumières chez le jeune HegelIn Charles Sébastien & Junqueira-Smith Plinio (eds.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung, International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Volume 210, Springer, Heidelbergh/New York/Berlin, Springer. pp. 281-297. 2013.The meaning of Enlightenment for the young Hegel (1785-1800) is closely related to the historical and theoretical moment in which skepticism became a constitutive aspect of his dialectical conception of philosophy. In this light the paper shows that the problem of skepticism understood as self-reflection of epistemological and social critique is deeply linked in the young Hegel’s writings with the archeology of the very idea of the dialectics of enlightenment.
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24Teorie dell’argomentazione. Un’introduzione alle logiche del dialogoBruno Mondadori. 2006.TABLE OF CONTENTS I. La rinascita novecentesca 1. Chaïm Perelman: la nuova retorica 2. Stephen Toulmin: la pratica logica e l’uso degli argomenti 3. Ragionamento e linguaggio: la logica naturale di Jean-Blaise Grize II. La logica informale 1. Informale vs. formale? 2. Il concetto di argomento 3. La ripresa della teoria di Paul Grice 4. La ricostruzione degli argomenti 5. La valutazione degli argomenti: le fallacie 6. Il network problem III. Dialogo e dialettica 1. La logica dialogica di Paul Lor…Read more
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610La teoria critica ha bisogno di un'ontologia sociale (e viceversa)?Politica E Società 1 47-72. 2016.In this article I argue that contemporary critical theory needs the conceptual tools of social ontology in order to make its own ontological commitments explicit and strengthen its interdisciplinary approach. On the other hand, contemporary analytic social ontology needs critical theory in order to be able to focus on the role that social change, power, and historicity play in the constitution of social facts, and to see the shortcomings of an agential and intentionalist approach to social facts…Read more
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2249Hegel's Naturalism, or Soul and Body in the EncyclopediaIn David S. Stern (ed.), Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, SUNY Press, Suny. 2012.Paper given at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America, University of South Carolina, October 24-26, 2008 The local problem of the soul-body relation can be grasped only against the global background of the relation between Nature and Spirit. This relates to Hegel's naturalism: the idea that there is one single reality - living reality - and different levels of description of it. This implies, moreover, that it is possible to ascribe some form of naturality also to the social…Read more
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Uno sguardo di passaggio. Mimesi e desiderio nelle Horae canonicae di Wystan H. Auden [A passing glance. Mimesis and desire in Horae canonicae of Wystan H. Auden] (review)la Società Degli Individui 33 68-83. 2008.In Horae canonicae W. H. Auden ha messo a tema la dimensione mimetica della condizione umana. Il saggio ricostruisce in tal senso l’antropologia negativa di Auden, prendendo le mosse dall’analisi del desiderio di riconoscimento quale elemento centrale dell’identità storica. Attraverso una lettura dei motivi della folla e del doppio, e sullo sfondo del poema The Age of Anxiety e della produzione saggistica di Auden, si mostra che la «routine della lode e del biasimo» innesca meccanismi im…Read more
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1719Second Nature and Recognition: Hegel and the Social SpaceCritical Horizons 10 (3): 341-370. 2009.In this article I intend to show the strict relation between the notions of “second nature” and “recognition”. To do so I begin with a problem (circularity) proper to the theory of Hegelian and post- Hegelian Anerkennung. The solution strategy I propose is signifi cant also in terms of bringing into focus the problems connected with a notion of “space of reasons” that stems from the Hegelian concept of “Spirit”. I thus broach the notion of “second nature” as a bridgeconcept that can play a key r…Read more
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545Criticism and normativity. Brandom and Habermas between Kant and HegelIn D. Canale G. Tuzet (ed.), The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy, Egea, Milano, Egea (pp. Pp. 29-44). 2009.In this paper, making reference to Robert Brandom's philosophical proposal - and against the background of Brandom's debate with Jürgen Habermas - I shall endeavor, first, to define the relation between recognition and normativity and then between recognition and criticism; in the final part of the paper I shall suggest a perspective that approaches recognition in terms of capacities. On this basis I attempt to see the critical attitude as something that is founded more on individual potentials …Read more
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1897Ragione e relazione: la fenomenologia di Hegel come tropologiaGiornale di Metafisica 25 (2): 371-392. 2003.This article deals with the question of skepticism within Hegel's Phenomenology. The article reconstructs the role played by the tropes of ancient skepticism in Hegel's criticism of foundationalism and monological thinking. Furthermore, the skeptical method applied by Hegel is read as a sort of negative dialectics that is constitutive of a relational theory of rationality, and which culminates in his conception of the Absolute Knowing as speculative tropology.
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17Idealismo e normatività. Robert Brandom e la ricezione americana di HegelIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 15 (2): 297-316. 2002.
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31Negli scritti dei primi anni trenta Adorno si propone di superare l’antitesi fra natura e storia senza ricadere in un modello fondativo di conciliazione. Attraverso una critica della ripresa nella filosofia contemporanea dell’accezione mitica della natura come origine e come invariante , Adorno intende recuperare il carattere polisemico dell’esperienza della natura e del suo intreccio paradossale con la storia. Il concetto di ‘seconda natura’, ripreso attraverso il confronto con Lukács e con B…Read more
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706Ontology of the False State: On the Relation Between Critical Theory, Social Philosophy, and Social OntologyJournal of Social Ontology 1 (2): 271-300. 2015.In this paper I will argue that critical theory needs to make its socio-ontological commitments explicit, whilst on the other hand I will posit that contemporary social ontology needs to amend its formalistic approach by embodying a critical theory perspective. In the first part of my paper I will discuss how the question was posed in Horkheimer’s essays of the 1930s, which leave open two options: (1) a constructive inclusion of social ontology within social philosophy, or else (2) a program of …Read more
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66Dominant Patterns in Associated Living Hegemony, Domination, and Ideological Recognition in Dewey’s Lectures in ChinaTrasactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 2017. forthcoming.: In this paper I will focus on the notion of “dominant patterns”, as revealed by the recently discovered typescript of what we can assume to be Dewey’s fragmentary and incomplete preliminary lecture notes for the Lecture Series on Social and Political Philosophy. I will show that the way the notion of “dominant patterns” is dealt with in the text of the lecture notes is not only consistent with the conceptual content of the whole series of the Lectures in China as published by R. W. Clopton and…Read more
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80"Life and Action in Ethics and Politics", Book Symposium on Michael Thompson's "Life and Action" (edited book)Philosophy and Public Issues, Supplementary Volume (2015), Luiss University Press. 2015.Book Symposium on Michael Thompson's "Life and Action" (downlodable here: http://fqp.luiss.it/category/numero/ns-supplementary-volume-2015-life-and-action) Table of Contents: Paolo Costa, "Where does our understanding of life come from? The riddle about recognizing living things" Constantine Sandis, "He buttered the toast while baking a fresh loaf" Matteo Bianchin, "Intentions and Intentionality" Arto Laitinen, "Practices as ‘actual’ sources of goodness of actions" Italo Testa, "Some consequenc…Read more
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16Hegel’s Naturalism or Soul and Body in the EncyclopediaProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 20 19-35. 2013.
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350Verkörperte Freiheit. Erste Natur, Zweite Natur und FragmentierungIn Julia Christ & Titus Stahl (eds.), Momente der Freiheit. Beiträge aus den Foren freier Vorträge des Internationalen Hegelkongresses 2011, Klostermann. pp. 73-91. 2015.
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51Selbstbewußtsein und zweite NaturIn Klaus Vieweg & Wolfgang Welsh (eds.), Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes - Ein kooperativer Kommentar zu einem Schlüsselwerk der Moderne, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, Suhrkamp. pp. 286-307. 2008.My aim in this paper is to bring into focus the concept of self-consciousness showing the reciprocal connection between the notions of recognition and second nature. The very evolution of Hegel's thought from the writings of his youth to those of his maturity reveals a strict connection between these notions. This reading will be justified through an articulate interpretation of the "Self-consciousness" section of the Phenomenology and then through an interpretation of the systematic connection …Read more
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129Dewey’s Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle’s Approach to Social RealityInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (1): 40-62. 2017.Dewey’s social ontology could be characterized as a habit ontology, an ontology of habit qua second nature that offers us an account of intentionality, social statuses, institutions, and norms in terms of habituations. Such an account offers us a promising alternative to contemporary intentionalist and deontic approaches to social ontology such as Searle’s. Furthermore, it could be the basis of a social ontology better suited to explain both the maintenance and the transformation of social reali…Read more