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29From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis's rethinking of scholastic accounts of causationStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 60 7-17. 2016.
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1510Adequate knowledge and bodily complexity in Spinoza’s account of consciousnessMethodus 6 77-104. 2011.This paper aims to discuss Spinoza’s theory of consciousness by arguing that consciousness is the expression of bodily complexity in terms of adequate knowledge. Firstly, I present the link that Spinoza built up in the second part of the Ethics between the ability of the mind to know itself and the idea ideae theory. Secondly, I present in what sense consciousness turns out to be the result of an adequate knowledge emerging from the epistemological resources of a body as complex as the human one…Read more
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2The completeness of de intellectus emendatione by SpinozaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 65 (1): 1-23. 2010.
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50Aristotle, Heereboord, and the Polemical Target of Spinoza’s Critique of Final CausesJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 395-420. 2016.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. in the appendix to the first part of the Ethics, Spinoza famously claims that “all final causes are nothing but human fictions”. From the very beginning of its reception until the present day, supporters…Read more
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23Sulla compiutezza del De Intellectus Emendatione di SpinozaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 65 (1): 1-23. 2010.The Tractatus de intellectus emendatione was considered by a great part of scholars an incomplete work. In this essay, instead, the Author tries to explain how, on one hand, all is demanded by the method’s argument there’s in fact in the text, so its incomplete aspects are just formal, not about content. On the other hand, the theory, about the best knowledge of singular things should be deduced by the infinite order of ideas and eternal things, has many hard problems, because the infinite can’t…Read more
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2Instrumenta mentis. Contributi al lessico filosofico di SpinozaGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 7 (3): 693-695. 2011.
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33The young Spinoza: a metaphysician in the making (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (2): 413-415. 2017.
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1Miracles and the metamorphosis of Spinoza's leviathan: On the creation of liberal thoughtRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (4): 633-658. 2011.
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711Divine Action and God’s Immutability: A Historical Case Study On How To Resist OccasionalismEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (4): 115--135. 2015.Today’s debates present ”occasionalism’ as the position that any satisfying account of divine action must avoid. In this paper I discuss how a leading Cartesian author of the end of the seventeenth century, Pierre-Sylvain Régis, attempted to avoid occasionalism. Régis’s case is illuminating because it stresses both the difficulties connected with the traditional alternatives to occasionalism and also those aspects embedded in the occasionalist position that should be taken into due account. The …Read more
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1Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell. Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular AgeRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 67 (3): 650. 2012.
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17I miracoli e la metamorfosi spinoziana del Leviatano: sulla costituzione del pensiero liberaleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 4 633-658. 2011.
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L'uomo libero a nulla pensa meno che alla morte: Spinoza contra HeideggerGiornale di Metafisica 33 (2): 371-390. 2011.In this essay a theoretical comparison is presented between the perspective developed by Heidegger in Being and time regarding authentic existence and the analogous one afforded by the ethics of Spinoza. The bearing thesis is that these two perspectives have a common theoretical presupposition: the essence of every entity is founded in its rooting in the world or nature in which it exists. Nevertheless, it appears that the results which the two authors reach are opposite. While Heidegger develop…Read more
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25Marco Sgarbi, The Italian Mind. Vernacular Logic in Renaissance ItalyJournal of Early Modern Studies 4 (1): 136-140. 2015.
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74Fixing Descartes: Ethical Intellectualism in Spinoza's Early WritingsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 53 (3): 338-361. 2015.This paper aims at reconstructing the ethical issues raised by Spinoza's early Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. Specifically, I argue that Spinoza takes issue with Descartes’ epistemology in order to support a form of “ethical intellectualism” in which knowledge is envisaged as both necessary and sufficient to reach the supreme good. First, I reconstruct how Descartes exploits the distinction between truth and certainty in his Discourse on the Method. On the one hand, this distinctio…Read more
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Sul naturalismo informatico: contro il paradigma indessicale della soggettivitàEtica E Politica 14 (1): 488-505. 2012.
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49Louis de La Forge and the 'Non-Transfer Argument' for OccasionalismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 60-80. 2014.In this paper, I investigate Louis de La Forge's argument against body–body causation. His general strategy exploits the impossibility of bodies communicating their movement by transfer of motion. I call this the ‘non-transfer’ argument . NT allows La Forge both to reinterpret continuous creation in an occasionalistic fashion and to support his non-occasionalistic view concerning mind–body union. First, I present how NT emerges in Descartes’ own texts. Second, I show how La Forge recasts it to d…Read more
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5La ragione della parola: religione, ermeneutica e linguaggio in Baruch Spinoza (edited book)Il prato. 2013.