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40Die Ontologie in der Kritik der reinen VernunftKönigshausen&Neumann. 2006.The book is an analysis of Kant’s uses and definitions of the three concepts ‘transcendental philosophy’, ‘ontology’ and ‘logic’. It first focuses on Kant’s definitions of ‘transcendental’ in the Critique of Pure Reason, where the term is used for the very first time with a programmatic meaning, as the qualification of Kant’s specific philosophical standpoint. Secondly, it reconstructs Kant’s position towards metaphysics and ontology in his pre-critical and critical writings, as well as its prem…Read more
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6Hegel Within Contemporary LogicTeoria 33 (1): 297-312. 2013.In this paper I consider Hegel’s idea of logic in different passages of his work (in the Introduction to the Science of Logic, in the Vorbegriff of the Encyclopaedia Logic, in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy), and I compare it with some contemporary conceptions of logic. In my view, such a comparison is relevant in at least two senses. First, it makes possible to address the controversial question: «what kind of logic is Hegel’s logic?». Second, it allows to locate Hegel’s view within …Read more
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62»Transzendental« bei Kant und Fichte (review)Fichte-Studien 33 81-95. 2009.The article analyses Kant’s and Fichte’s uses of the word ‘transcendental’. As a matter of fact, in both philosophers the use of the word is strongly connected with the problem of definition and foundation of philosophy. According to some commentators (first of all Norbert Hinske), Kant’s use of the word shows an oscillation (Doppeltendenz) between an old (metaphysical) and a new (epistemological-critical) meaning. This semantic oscillation means that Kant’s philosophical foundation fluctuates b…Read more
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50Hegel’s Dialectic in Twentieth-Century Continental PhilosophyIdealistic Studies 39 (1-3): 87-97. 2009.In this paper I consider Benedetto Croce’s interpretation and critique of Hegel’s dialectic in Ciò che è vivo e ciò che è morto della filosofia di Hegel (1906)and I compare it with a very similar critique elaborated by Gilles Deleuze around sixty years later (in Différence et répetition, 1968, Nietzsche et la philosophie,1962 and Qu’est-ce que la philosophie? 1991). Even if they are two very different authors, belonging to very different traditions and contexts, both Croce andDeleuze criticise H…Read more
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91Contradictions: Logic, History, Actuality (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.The papers in this volume present some of the most recent results of the work about contradictions in philosophical logic and metaphysics; examine the history of contradiction in crucial phases of philosophical thought; consider the relevance of contradictions for political and philosophical actuality. From this consideration a common question emerges: the question of the irreducibility, reality and productive force of (some) contradictions.
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27John Buridan. Treatise on Consequences (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 37 (4): 393-396. 2016.Medieval logic has become an object of increased interest in the last 20 years, for many reasons. One of them is, possibly, the fact that Medievals dealt with logical questions considering their in...
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31Skeptizismus und die Begründung der Philosophie bei Kant und HegelFichte-Studien 39 95-109. 2012.
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Problems of subjectivity in contemporary history-Report on the October 2000 Cologne colloquium honoring Klaus Dusing on his seventieth birthdayGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 21 (1): 204-205. 2001.
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114Hegel's Glutty NegationHistory and Philosophy of Logic 36 (1): 29-38. 2015.Some authors have claimed that Hegel's ‘determinate negation’ should be distinguished from ‘logical’ or ‘formal’ negation, that is, from a view of negation as a contradictory forming operator. In contrast, I argue that dialectical determinate negation involves a view of negation as a contradictory forming operator, and can therefore count as formal negation in every respect. However, as it is clear in contemporary glutty semantics of negation, one may distinguish between different accounts of th…Read more
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130Dialectic and DialetheismHistory and Philosophy of Logic 34 (1): 35-52. 2013.In this article, I consider the possibility of interpreting Hegel’s dialectic as dialetheism. After a first basic recapitulation about the meaning of the words ‘dialetheism’ and ‘dialectic’ and a consideration of Priest’s own account of the relation between dialectical and dialetheic logic in 1989, I discuss some controversial issues, not directly considered by Priest. As a matter of fact, the reflection on paraconsistent logics and dialetheism has enormously grown in recent years. In addition, …Read more
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13Skeptizismus und die Begründung der Philosophie bei Kant und HegelFichte-Studien 39 95-109. 2012.
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46Immagini della dialettica hegeliana. Osservazioni su "la croce e la rosa"Archivio di Storia Della Cultura 23 279-294. 2010.This essay analyses Hegel’s use of the metaphor of «the cross and the rose», not only in the Preface to the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, which all major interpretations refer to, but also in two other texts: Wer denkt abstrakt? of 1807 and the 1829 review of Schubart's and Garganico’s Über Philosophie überhaupt... In Wer denkt abstrakt? Hegel criticizes a sentimental, as equivalent to a «non concrete», interpretation of the figure; in the Preface he claims that «reason is the rose in …Read more
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14Abstrakte Anerkennung: Über einen Fall misslungener Anerkennung beim frühen HegelIn Christoph Asmuth (ed.), Transzendentalphilosophie Und Person. Leiblichkeit  Interpersonalitã¤T  Anerkennung, Transcript. pp. 291-298. 2007.
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12The Interplay Between Logic and MetaphysicsIn Allegra de Laurentiis (ed.), Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System, De Gruyter. pp. 109-118. 2016.
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15Kant e il rapporto dello scetticismo con la filosofiaIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 543-554. 2013.
University of Cologne
PhD, 2005
Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |