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    La filosofia di Lanza del Vasto: un ponte tra Occidente ed Oriente (edited book)
    with Paolo Trianni
    Jaca book. 2009.
    The book is the proceeding of a conference in Pisa 12007 on the philosophy of Lanza del Vasto - the unique Western disciple of Gandhi - examined under the items: his thesis work in Philosophy (Fabris), his Greek and Christian methaphysics (Salmeri), his criticism of Hegel (Vigne), the relationship with Gandhi (Manara), Trinity (Vermorel) Indian philosophical traditioon (Trianni), his henologixcal thinking (Reale) his trinitarian metaphysics (Bertini), his mystical thinking (Vannini) a logicaL an…Read more
  • Sul «metodo scientifico»
    Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 13 (1/2): 53-54. 1995.
    I illustrate my thesis; the scientific method relies on two basic options - n the kind of infinity and the kind of organization -, on which a scientist founding a new theory has to choose. Galileo was attentive to these options by means of his two last books.
  • Filosofia della fisica
    Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 13 (1/2): 36-37. 1995.
  • Having characterized the foundations of science by means of two basic options - one on the kind of the infinity, the other on the kind of the organization - I characterize the categories of all historians of science and classify them. In particular Koyré's and Kuhn's categories are explained through their choices on the two options. Mach result to be the main historian of the dominant attitudes of the historians of science.
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    Quel est le rôle de Galilée dans la naissance séculaire de la science moderne? Je réponds à la question ci-dessus à la lumière de deux nouveaux éléments. Dès le xvie siècle, Nicolas de Cues, quoiqu’il ne pratiquât pas la science expérimentale, a anticipé une partie substantielle de la révolution copernicienne et de la naissance de la méthodologie galiléenne. Le deuxième élément est l’introduction d’une nouvelle conception des fondements de la science ; ils sont définis comme constitués de trois …Read more
  •  521
    Nella storia della metafisica è stato un grande problema come chiarire l’idea della coincidentia oppositorum (la coincidenza degli opposti) di Cusano, il quale è riconosciuto comunque da Cassirer come il primo epistemologo del pensiero moderno, in particolare come colui che ha saputo conquistare l’infinito alla mente umana. Dopo alcuni secoli, ha avuto una grande importanza una idea simile a quella di Cusano, la dialettica di Hegel, la quale aggiunge una negazione ad una prima frase negata per o…Read more
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    The square of opposition and the four fundamental choices
    Logica Universalis 2 (1): 127-141. 2008.
    .  Each predicate of the Aristotelian square of opposition includes the word “is”. Through a twofold interpretation of this word the square includes both classical logic and non-classical logic. All theses embodied by the square of opposition are preserved by the new interpretation, except for contradictories, which are substituted by incommensurabilities. Indeed, the new interpretation of the square of opposition concerns the relationships among entire theories, each represented by means of a c…Read more
  • Popper's Falsificationism Interpreted by Non-classical Logic
    with Antonio Venezia
    Epistemologia 30 (2): 235-264. 2007.
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    Atomism and the Reasoning by a Non-Classical Logic
    with Romina Oliva
    Hyle 5 (1). 1999.
    Often, in the original scientific writings, a double negated statement (DNS) is not equivalent to his corresponding positive one; that means the inferring law 'non non A -> A' does not apply. Recent studies recognized in the failure of this logical law the borderline between classical and non-classical logics. Original writings by classical chemists dealing with the problem of atomism are particularly characterized by the occurrences of DNSs. An historical case, Avogadro's contribution to atomis…Read more
  • Traduzione, doppia negazione ed ermeneutica
    Studium 99 (5): 769-780. 2003.
    As a basic work of a translation I suggest to be attentive to the doubly negated propositions because they do not belong to classical logic, rather to intuitionist logic. I offer several instances of these propositions and classify the typical ways of their occurrences in a text.
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    Information science as a paradigmatic instance of a problem‐based theory
    with Emanuele Drago
    World Futures 49 (3): 251-273. 1997.
    (1997). Information science as a paradigmatic instance of a problem‐based theory. World Futures: Vol. 49, The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information, pp. 251-273