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13Pragmatism, Transcendentalism, and PerfectionismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2 (2). 2010.The relation between Pragmatism, Transcendentalism, and Perfectionism is both obvious and difficult, and this is what prompted us to edit the present issue of the Journal. The relation is obvious, because the history of American Philosophy is deeply textured by this relation, and the transition from Transcendentalism to Pragmatism has been historically attested. Difficult, because these traditions seem to deny one another. Pragmatist philosophers have often presented themselves as the founder...
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18Diritti e identità nella cultura morale modernaIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2): 245-252. 2005.
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8Eugenio Lecaldano: l'etica, la storia della filosofia e l'impegno civile (edited book)Le lettere. 2010.
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2The life of words Cavel and a new departure for ethicsRevue Internationale de Philosophie 256 (2): 129-150. 2011.
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30John Stuart Mill e la cultura del séIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 19 (2): 319-330. 2006.
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40Discussione su "Making it Explicit" di Robert BrandomIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 12 (1): 179-196. 1999.
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89Reshaping Ethics after WittgensteinWittgenstein-Studien 4 (1). 2013.This article suggests a reading of the significance of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus for ethics, in the light of Cora Diamond’s resolute reading. The contrasts between sense and nonsense and between ethics and science are commented on and are connected to a further contrast between a specialized response to language and the world and an unspecialized response characteristic of the humanistic disciplines. The Tractatus is seen as a work which diagnoses the loss of such a fully human unspecialized …Read more
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41Forms of Life, Forms of RealityNordic Wittgenstein Review 4 43-62. 2015.The article explores aspects of the notion of forms of life in the Wittgensteinian tradition especially following Iris Murdoch’s lead. On the one hand, the notion signals the hardness and inexhaustible character of reality, as the background needed in order to make sense of our lives in various ways. On the other, the hardness of reality is the object of a moral work of apprehension and deepening to the point at which its distinctive character dissolves into the family of connections we have gai…Read more