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Libertà e natura: la prospettiva di Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical News 1. 2010.Many philosophers have today a skeptic attitude toward the idea of free will, often because of arguments and evidence that come from neuroscience. Other philosophers claim however that no empirical evidence can shake our beliefs that we do enjoy free will and that, because of this, we are responsible for our choices and deeds. This article analyzes Wittgenstein’s view on the issue that went from the view advocated in the Tractatus to his later view that we are involved in two different perspecti…Read more
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64Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999.In Interpretations and Causes, some of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers discuss Davidson's new ideas in a lively, relevant, useful, and not always ...
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Beyond scientismIn Rosa Maria Calcaterra (ed.), New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy, Editions Rodopi. 2011.
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14Un catalogo del mondoRivista di Estetica 50 255-258. 2012.The paper discusses Maurizio Ferraris’ Documentalità by raising two objections. The first objection concerns Ferraris’ view that, in the case of all natural entities, there cannot be differences in the way a normal adult, a little child and an animal perceive them. It is claimed that this is not true for objects such as the sun that we (differently from little children and animals) cannot help perceiving as a gigantic hot celestial body. The second objection concerns the thesis that all social o…Read more
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10The architecture of knowledge: epistemology, agency and science (edited book)Roma Tre Università degli studi. 2010.
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139Naturalism and Normativity (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? For scientific naturalists, the moral is that the normative must be reduced to the nonnormative, while for nonnaturalists, the moral is that there must be a transc…Read more
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38Il migliore dei naturalismi possibiliRivista di Estetica 44 157-169. 2010.In this paper, we first set out three requirements that each e-theory – a theory whose task is to explain data – must fulfill in order to be one such good theory: i) an ontological requirement, i.e. adequate simplicity, ii) a methodological requirement, i.e. plurality of research procedures, iii) an epistemological requirement, i.e. compatibility with the best available epistemical procedures. Moreover, we will claim that from the metaphilosophical point of view, unlike scientific naturalism on …Read more
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45The Two Faces of RealismQuaestio 12 503-513. 2012.According to some philosophers, philosophical realism is an obsolete, specious and irrelevant conceptio. In this essay I argue that this thesis is deeply flawed because the issue of realism is philosophically inescapable. Then I discuss two versions of philosophical realism that are particularly widespread today: common sense realism and scientific realism. These conceptions tend to be hegemonic, and consequently often in conflict with each other. The biggest challenge for philosophical realism …Read more
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Philosophy, music and audience (Elio Matassi)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 62 (1): 69-73. 2007.
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19Mind and Causality a cura di Alberto PeruzziIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (3): 623-638. 2005.
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1110 Is Emergentism Refuted by the Neurosciences?In Antonella Corradini & Timothy O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in science and philosophy, Routledge. pp. 190. 2010.
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Università degli Studi Roma TreDipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e SpettacoloRegular Faculty
Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |