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10Christoph Horn, L'arte della vita nell'antichità (Roma: Carocci, 2004). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 97 (2): 317-18. 2006.
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25Mario Ricciardi (ed.), L'ideale di giustizia. Da John Rawls a oggi (Milano: Università Bocconi Editore, 2010). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 103 (1): 170-71. 2012.
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17Sidgwick e il fallimento dell’etica scientifica. Commento a CremaschiEtica E Politica 8 (1): 1-5. 2006.
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22Alessandro Ferrara, Vanna Gessa-Kurotschka, Sebastiano Maffettone (eds.), Etica individuale e giustizia (Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2000) (review)Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 14 (34): 647-48. 2001.
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7Maurizio Balistreri, Superumani (Torino: Express, 2011). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 103 (2): 348-50. 2012.
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187Humean Reflections in the Ethics of Bernard WilliamsUtilitas 19 (3): 312-25. 2007.In this article, I maintain that the anti-theoretical spirit which pervades Williams's ethics is close to the Humean project of developing and defending an ethics based on sentiments which has its main focus in the virtues. In particular, I argue that there are similar underlying themes which run through the philosophies of Hume and Williams, such as the view that a correct ethical perspective cannot avoid dealing with a broader theory of human nature; the conviction that this inquiry cannot be …Read more
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32Identità personale, carattere e virtù: Eugenio Lecaldano e il soggetto moraleIn Piergiorgio Donatelli & Maurizio Mori (eds.), Eugenio Lecaldano: l'etica, la storia della filosofia e l'impegno civile, Le Lettere. pp. 178-92. 2010.
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170The Self as Narrative in HumeJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): 699-722. 2015.In this paper, I return to the well-known apparent inconsistencies in Hume’s treatment of personal identity in the three books of A Treatise of Human Nature, and try to defend a Humean narrative interpretation of the self. I argue that in Book 1 of the Treatise Hume is answering (to use Marya Schechtman’s expressions in The Constitution of Selves) a “reidentification” question concerning personal identity, which is different from the “characterization” question of Books 2 and 3. That is, I maint…Read more
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21Federico Laudisa, Hume (Roma: Carocci, 2009). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 101 (1): 130-31. 2010.
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60Roger Crisp, Reasons and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006). (review)Rivista di Filosofia 99 (2): 329-30. 2008.
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 |