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9Hume on ShameIn Raffaele Rodogno & Alessandra Fussi (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Shame, Moral Psychology of the Emotions. pp. 79-101. 2023.David Hume is famous for developing a ‘science of man’ based on a thorough investigation of passions and sentiments. What is most surprising is that, in his sentimental geography, shame appears to play a rather marginal role. In this essay, I shall maintain that it is nonetheless possible to find room for shame in Hume, and that the most promising way to do so is to consider it in the light of a different passion on which Hume dwells at length, the passion of humility. I shall thus examine where…Read more
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Simone Pollo, Manifesto per un animalismo democratico (Roma: Carocci, 2021) (review)Rivista di Filosofia 112 (3): 522-24. 2021.
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30Ethical Preferences in the Digital World: The EXOSOUL QuestionnaireIn Paul Lukowicz, Sven Mayer, Janin Koch, John Shawe-Taylor & Ilaria Tiddi (eds.), Ebook: HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect, Ios Press. pp. 290-99. 2023.
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1Hume on Free WillArgumenta 1-14. 2023.In this essay, I discuss David Hume’s reasoning on free will as he presents it in A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. I proceed by showing how Hume’s compatibilist solution acquires meaning in the light of his sentimentally based science of human nature, which conceives human beings as reasonable, social, and active creatures. Within Hume’s empiricist, naturalistic, and sceptical approach, we deal only with perceptions and never with things themselves, and h…Read more
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1Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Hume, Passions, and Action (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) (review)Rivista di Filosofia 112 (1): 175-77. 2021.
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57Hume on ShameIn Raffaele Rodogno & Alessandra Fussi (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Shame, Moral Psychology of the Emotions. pp. 79-101. 2023.David Hume is famous for developing a ‘science of man’ based on a thorough investigation of passions and sentiments. What is most surprising is that, in his sentimental geography, shame appears to play a rather marginal role. In this essay, I shall maintain that it is nonetheless possible to find room for shame in Hume, and that the most promising way to do so is to consider it in the light of a different passion on which Hume dwells at length, the passion of humility. I shall thus examine where…Read more
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La virtù morale tra Aristotele e Bernard WilliamsIn Monica Ferrari, Matteo Morandi & Giulia Delogu (eds.), La virt? tra paideia, politeia ed episteme. pp. 618-32. 2022.
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David Hume, Adam Smith e l'illuminismo scozzeseIn Olivia Guaraldo, Andrea Salvatore & Federico Zuolo (eds.), Manuale di filosofia Politica, Quodlibet. pp. 231-48. 2022.
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A Fragmented Unity: A Narrative Answer to the Problem of the Unity of the Self in HumeIn Dan O'Brien (ed.), Hume on the Self and Personal Identity, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 201-22. 2022.
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19Constantine Sandis, Character and Causation: Hume's Philosophy of Action (New York-London: Routledge, 2019). (review)Philosophical Quarterly 72 (1): 246-248. 2021.
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346Hume, Teleology, and the 'Science of Man'In William Gibson, Dan O'Brien & Marius Turda (eds.), Teleology and Modernity, Routledge. pp. 147-64. 2019.There are various forms of teleological thinking central to debates in the early modern and modern periods, debates in which David Hume (1711–1776) is a key figure. In the first section, we shall introduce three levels at which teleological considerations have been incorporated into philosophical accounts of man and nature, and sketch Hume’s criticisms of these approaches. In the second section, we turn to Hume’s non-teleological ‘science of man’. In the third section, we show how Hume has an ac…Read more
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801On PrideHumana Mente 12 (35): 101-123. 2019.In this essay, I offer a vindication of pride. I start by presenting the Christian condemnation of pride as the cardinal sin. I subsequently examine Mandeville’s line of argument whereby pride is beneficial to society, although remaining a vice for the individual. Finally, I focus on, and endorse, the analysis of pride formulated by Hume, for whom pride qualifies instead as a virtue. This is because pride not only contributes to making society flourish but also stabilizes the virtuous agent by c…Read more
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Paul Russell, The Limits of Free Will: Selected Essays (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 109 (3): 519-521. 2018.
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Humanism and Cruelty in WilliamsIn Sophie Grace Chappell & Marcel van Ackeren (eds.), Ethics Beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 84-103. 2018.
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Hume come teorico della virtù: varietà e differenze d'interpretazioneI Castelli di Yale – Online 6 (2): 93-110. 2018.
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95Against Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: The Humean ChallengeTeoria: Rivista di Filosofia Fondata da Vittorio Sainati 38 (2): 123-33. 2018.In this essay, I discuss some elements of Hume’s virtue ethics that distinguish it from the neo-Aristotelian approach. I stress some of its characteristics – its emphasis on character traits rather than on actions, the role it reserves for moral education, its being sentimentalist – and highlight its points of strength with respect to the neo-Aristotelian version. I do that by defending an interpretation of Hume’s virtue ethics in terms of a form of subjectivism hinging on individuals possessin…Read more
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1Galen Strawson, The Subject of Experience (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 109 (2): 345-47. 2018.
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77Preserving Practicality: In Defense of Hume's Sympathy-Based EthicsIn Philip A. Reed & Rico Vitz (eds.), Hume’s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology, Routledge. 2018.In this essay, I examine the role played by sympathy in preserving the practical dimension of Hume’s ethics. I reconstruct how sympathy works for Hume by differentiating it from the contemporary understanding of empathy, and I counter some of the objections that have been moved against Humean sympathy. I argue that Humean sympathy is instrumental in bringing about a common point of view of morality, and capable of vindicating both how we form moral judgments, and how we are moved by them. I main…Read more
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50David HumeIn Giulia Belgioioso, Siegrid Agostini, Chiara Catalano & Francesca Giuliano (eds.), Storia della filosofia moderna, Mondadori Educational/le Monnier Università. pp. 317-33. 2018.
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1007Un'esile significanza: Eugenio Lecaldano sul senso della vitaEtica E Politica 19 (2). 2017.In this paper, I examine Eugenio Lecaldano’s way of tackling the issue of the meaning of life. I highlight the dependence of his individualistic approach on the specific character of the person who inquires into the meaning of life. I also sketch a weaker way of understanding the meaning of life as an attempt to provide reasons which are valid from the standpoint of the present, and which will make us continue living.
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78Hume e l'etica della virtùIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (67): 603-15. 2012.In this paper, I present some reasons in favour of an interpretation of Hume’s moral philosophy as a brand new form of "virtue ethics." By discussing some specific issues within the secondary literature in favour and against this kind of reading, I argue that Hume offers better philosophical tools to redefine the basic notion of virtue ethics than the neo-Aristotelian alternative. In particular, I maintain that the strength of Hume’s proposal lies in its pointing toward the unity of character in…Read more
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30Alessandro Ferrara, La forza dell'esempio (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2008). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 101 (1): 123-24. 2010.
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10Maurizio Balistreri, Etica e clonazione umana (Milano: Guerini 2004) (review)Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (45): 446-47. 2005.
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8Iris Murdoch, Esistenzialisti e mistici (Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2006). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 98 (2): 300-301. 2007.
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7Joseph Raz, The Practice of Value (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003). (review)Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 16 (40): 655-57. 2003.
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1Egoismo e altruismoIn Simone Pollo (ed.), L’etica: una storia per idee, Carocci Editore. pp. 127-48. 2022.
University of Pisa
PhD, 2003
Italy
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David Hume |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Meta-Ethics |
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Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
20th Century Philosophy |