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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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Riflessioni su Wittgenstein e le sensazioni private di altre mentiNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 17 (4): 92-97. 1999.
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Il giudizio dell'autorità e il senso comunePhilosophical News 3. 2011.“How should authority relate to common sense, in making the judgements that its functioning requires?” This essay tries to address this question. Firstly, it attempts at clarifying three key concepts which are deployed in the question: the concepts of authority, common sense, and judgement. Subsequently, it claims that the elucidation of those concepts suggests that we need to settle two preliminary issues, to begin with: a. given what authority is, what roles should formal logic and other scien…Read more
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32Aquinas on Sensible Forms and SemimaterialismReview of Metaphysics 54 (1): 43-63. 2000.IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF HIS BOOK Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Robert Pasnau takes a position in a longstanding debate concerning the metaphysical status and the epistemological role of sensible forms in Aquinas’s theory of cognition. His main claim is that Aquinas was a materialist about sensation and developed “a theory of the sort that a modern materialist could love.”
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66Mind-World Identity Theory and Semantic Realism: Haldane and Boulter on AquinasPhilosophical Quarterly 50 (198). 2000.
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