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21Percezione e realismo diretto in Tommaso d'AquinoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 17 (3): 631-642. 2004.
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20Hylomorphism and substantial gradualismRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 71 (4): 855-872. 2015.Resumo Recentemente o Hilemorfismo – a visão tradicional, segundo a qual, as substâncias são constituídas pela combinação de forma e matéria – tem sido alvo de renovado interesse. Este artigo centra-se na substância material e sugere que, neste caso, a constituição hilemórfica exige uma noção de forma que deve ser alargada ao conceito de energia, ou ao exercício de uma força. Neste artigo também se defende o gradualismo substancial: se a forma for assim entendida, a substancialidade possui graus…Read more
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59Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolution…Read more
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71The simple view of colour and the reference of perceptual termsPhilosophy 77 (299): 87-108. 2002.This essay deals with the problem of the status of colours, traditionally considered as the paradigmatic case of secondary qualities: do colours exist only as aspects of experience or are they real properties of objects, existing independently of human and animal perception? Recently, John Campbell has argued in favour of the simple view of colours, according to which colours are real properties of objects. I discuss the place of Campbell's position in a debated which was started by John Mackie …Read more
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La Contraddizione Vera: Giovanni Duns Scotus tra le necessita della metafisica e il discorso della filosofio pratica (review)The Medieval Review 7. 2007.
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By Knowledge & By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (review)The Medieval Review 2. 2006.
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57Libertarian paternalism and health care policy: a deliberative proposal (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (1): 103-113. 2014.Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler have been arguing for what they named libertarian paternalism (henceforth LP). Their proposal generated extensive debate as to how and whether LP might lead down a full-blown paternalistic slippery slope. LP has the indubitable merit of having hardwired the best of the empirical psychological and sociological evidence into public and private policy making. It is unclear, though, to what extent the implementation of policies so constructed could enhance the capabi…Read more
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88The four faces of omission: Ontology, terminology, epistemology, and ethicsPhilosophical Explorations 9 (3). 2006.In this paper, the ontological, terminological, epistemological, and ethical aspects of omission are considered in a coherent and balanced framework, based on the idea that there are omissions which are actions and omissions which are non-actions. In particular, we suggest that the approach to causation which best deals with omission is Mackie's INUS conditional proposal. We argue that omissions are determined partly by the ontological conditional structure of reality, and partly by the interest…Read more
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8Willing the good: empirical challenges to the explanation of human behavior (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.Science increasingly deals with human behavior: biology, neuroscience, genetics, psychology, evolutionary theory, and ethology all bring new insights into our actions and uncover new facts about our agency. However, what is the philosophical significance of their findings? The answer to this question varies according to one's background philosophical views. On the one hand, the dominant empiricist view contends that the sciences can in principle tell us everything there is to know about human ag…Read more
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1L'intelligenza della realtà e i doveri dello Stato nel pensiero politico di Giancarlo GiurovichRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 2 (2): 345-364. 2004.
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