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2Natural aptitude (Naturell) in Kant’s doctrine of characterIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 2996-2907. 2018.In his first two Critiques, Kant makes a distinction between the empirical and the intelligible character. Yet, in his Pragmatic anthropology Kant adds the human beings’ “natural aptitude” to the customary dichotomy of “way of sensing” and “way of thinking”. In this paper, I investigate Kant’s concept of natural aptitude in his Pragmatic anthropology and in his Lectures on anthropology. Most probably, Kant’s sources lie in the Scholastic doctrine of the “character of scholars”. The “good mind” t…Read more
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302Stumpf on categoriesIn Denis Fisette & Riccardo Martinelli (eds.), Philosophy form an Empirical Standpoint. Essays on Carl Stumpf, Brill. pp. 203-227. 2015.Stumpf’s doctrine of the categories is of great importance for our understanding of his philosophy. This theme had been widely discussed among German thinkers after Kant; Brentano himself had repeatedly dealt with it since his early works. However, Stumpf considerably diverges from Brentano on this crucial philosophical topic. Although a systematic discussion can be found only in Stumpf’s posthumous Erkenntnislehre, his core ideas on the categories can be traced to his early work on space of 187…Read more
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9Kant sul "pragmatico" e le origini del pragmatismo in Ch.S. PeirceEsercizi Filosofici 10 (2). 2016.Peirce’ s intellectual debt to Kant’ s transcendentalism has been long recognized. In this essay I investigate Kant’ s thoughts on “what is pragmatic” as a source of inspiration for him. Peirce was well acquainted with this often neglected facet of Kant’ s philosophy, that influenced both the core idea and the lexical coinage of his pragmatism. Both thinkers drew attention to the consequences of cognition for human actions. Pointing at the definition of the meaning of a defined notion, however, …Read more
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465Qu’est-ce que Kant doit être pour nous? Wundt et Külpe interprètes de l’Esthétique transcendantaleLexicon Philosophicum 2 213-233. 2014.Together with other influential psychologists of the time, Wundt considers internal data as absolute evidence, grounding psychology on this assumption. In opposition to his former mentor, Külpe aims at rehabilitating Kant’s transcendental aesthetics. Yet, he is far from embracing transcendentalism and rejects Kant’s skepticism as to the possibility of a scientific psychology. Nevertheless, Külpe believes that Kant is right in considering internal data as unreliable for scientific purposes: accor…Read more
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Il dibattito antropologico in Germania dal secondo SettecentoGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 28 (3): 597. 2008.
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Ehrenfels, Höfler and Witasek competently contributed to a musical aesthetics based upon the principles of the Graz school. In spite of a shared general psychological framework, they deeply differ in applying it to the aesthetics of music. A double tendency can be pointed out. Ehrenfels and Höfler enthusiastically supported Richard Wagner and vindicated the aesthetic value of his music. Accordingly, they made large use of analogies between musical and organic Gestalten. In a platonic vein, Höfle…Read more
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Affinità, ritmo, empatia. La musica nel pensiero di Theodor LippsDiscipline Filosofiche 12 (2). 2002.
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633Metafisica ingenua. Il problema delle categorie in Paolo Bozzi e Carl StumpfTeorie and Modelli 18 (1): 63-76. 2013.The paper compares the ideas developed by Bozzi and Stumpf with regard to unity, identity, and causality. Although Bozzi’s formulation is independent from the one made by Stumpf in his Erkenntnislehre, these two positions share the same innovative importance granted to perceptual experience and to the problem of the origin of categories. Thus, despite different levels of awareness and formalization, in both authors we see the features of what we can call – analogous- ly to Bozzi’s naïve physics …Read more
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52Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf (edited book)Rodopi. 2015.The purpose of this book is to highlight Carl Stumpf's contributions to philosophy and to assess some of the aspects of his work. This book brings together several specialists of Stumpf and the school of Franz Brentano, and includes fourteen original studies (in English and German) on the various aspects of Stumpf's philosophy, and some of his unpublished writings. This book is divided into four sections, and also includes a general introduction on the reception and actuality of Stumpf's philoso…Read more
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421Le problème de l'intensité dans la psychologie de Brentano et de StumpfIn C.-E. Niveleau (ed.), Vers une philosophie scientifique. Le programme de Brentano, Demopolis. 2014.Many nineteenth-century psychologists assume that the measurement of psychic intensity is a prerequisite to the development of a truly scientific psychology. In the first edition of the Psychology from an empirical point of view, Brentano deals with this question. He assumes that all psychic phenomena admit of a certain intensity. Later on, Brentano retreats this doctrine and claims that only sensible phenomena admit of an intensity, whereas intellectual presentations do not. As a consequence, B…Read more
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7Part III. Influences: IntroductionIn Denis Fisette & Riccardo Martinelli (eds.), Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint. Essays on Carl Stumpf, Brill. pp. 315-319. 2015.An Introduction to Carl Stumpf's influences over other philosophers.
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15Filosofia e musica: bilanci, prospettiveNuova Informazione Bibliografica 10 (1): 123-134. 2013.Il panorama editoriale odierno mostra ormai con chiarezza i segni di una rinascita e al tempo stesso di una profonda trasformazione della filosofia della musica. Il momento appare quindi particolarmente favorevole per una riconsiderazione della storia più recente di un problema che fin dall’antichità non ha mai smesso di offrire materia di riflessione al pensiero filosofico ai più alti livelli.
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C. Stumpf, La rinascita della filosofia. Saggi e conferenze (edited book)Quodlibet. 2009.Formatosi alla lezione di Franz Brentano e di Hermann Lotze, maestro a Halle di Edmund Husserl e in seguito, a Berlino, dei fondatori della psicologia della Gestalt – Köhler, Koffka e Wertheimer – Carl Stumpf fu uno dei massimi esponenti della filosofia del suo tempo. Filosofo dai vasti interessi, ma anche psicologo di rango, attento studioso di filosofia della musica e pioniere dell’etnomusicologia, Stumpf è una figura indubbiamente originale, il cui lungo itinerario intellettuale appare sempre…Read more
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280Nature et caractère dans l’Anthropologie kantienneEsercizi Filosofici 6 (2): 366-375. 2011.In this essay I analyze Kant's concept of character in the light of the concept of nature adopted in Kant's Pragmatic anthropology. In the Preface, Kant contrasts mechanical nature with freedom and opts for a pragmatic, rather than a physiological anthropology. In the Anthropological characteristics, however, Kant introduces his teleological concept of nature. Accordingly, he defends the view that there is no basic contrast between the purpose of nature (in the latter sense) and human freedom.
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2289Wolfgang Köhler on Facts and ValuesDialogue and Universalism 25 (4): 61-76. 2015.This essay is about the Wolfgang Köhler’s philosophical ideas expressed in his The Place of Value in a World of Facts of 1938. Köhler, who strongly supports a scientific world view, considers the question as to whether science is able to cope with human values, besides natural facts. Relying upon phenomenological analyses, and on his previous researches in natural philosophy, Köhler introduces his doctrine of “epistemological dualism”. From a historical point of view, this theory exhibits some s…Read more
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Music represents a crucial issue in nineteenth-century philosophy and science. Scholars generally possessed a good musical competence and contributed to the explanation of sound perception and aesthetic enjoyment in music. Reflexions on musical psychology, in turn, influenced general theories of mind, sometimes in an impressive way. Meinong plays a remarkable role within this context. Together with Mach, Ehrenfels and Stumpf, Meinong contributed to overtake Helmholtz ’ physical-physiological the…Read more
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S. Witasek, L’analisi psicologica generale del godimento musicaleAxiomathes 10 (1-3): 205-220. 1999.Traduzione del saggio di S. Witasek Zur allgemeinen psychologischen Analyse des musikalischen Genusses.
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L’antropologia al bivio. Giovanni Canestrini e il significato della scienza dell’uomoIn G. Berti & G. Simone (eds.), Il Positivismo a Padova tra Egemonia e Contaminazioni (1880-1940), . pp. 39-62. 2016.Il saggio espone le tesi di Giovanni Canestrini.
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Recensione di: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, ed. by D. Cahan, University of California Press, 1994Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 53 (1): 179-182. 1998.
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