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S. Bernardini, "Logica della conoscenza scientifica. Secondo la teoria di Karl R. Popper" (review)Epistemologia 4 (2): 512. 1981.
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L. Conti, "I no della scienza. Verdetto sperimentale ed incompatibilità interteorica" (review)Epistemologia 7 (1): 160. 1984.
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50Poppers methodologischer individualismus und die sozialwissenschaftenJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 35 (1): 157-173. 2004.Popper's methodological individualism and the social sciences. Popper's philosophy of social sciences poses a dilemma that arises out of the two theses of methodological individualism and situational logic. In order to find a way out of this dilemma, one must raise the question concerning the epistemological and methodological status of the `laws' of the human sciences. There are indeed `rules' from which human actions depart mostly to a negligible extent, but they remain valid or stay in effect…Read more
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E. Picardi, "Assertibility and Truth. A Study on Fregean Themes" (review)Epistemologia 6 (1): 172. 1983.
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55On thought experiments and the Kantian a priori in the natural sciences: a reply to Yiftach J.H. FehigeEpistemologia 36 (2): 277-293. 2013.This paper replies to objections that have been raised against my operational-Kantian account of thought experiments by Fehige 2012 and 2013. Fehige also sketches an alternative Neo-Kantian account that utilizes Michael Friedman’s concept of a contingent and changeable a priori. To this I shall reply, first, that Fehige’s objections not only neglect some fundamental points I had made as regards the realizability of TEs, but also underestimate the principle of empiricism, which was rightly defend…Read more
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C.R. Kordig, "La giustificazione del cambiamento scientifico" (review)Epistemologia 7 (2): 313. 1984.
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A. Antonietti, "Cervello, mente, cultura. L'interazionismo di J.C. Eccles " (review)Epistemologia 12 (1): 169. 1989.
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31Medicine as a human science between the singularity of the patient and technical scientific reproducibilityPoiesis and Praxis 1 (3): 171-184. 2003.The often-emphasized tension between the singularity of the patient and technicalâscientific reproducibility in medicine cannot be resolved without a discussion of the epistemological and methodological status of the human sciences. On the one hand, the rules concerning human action are analogous to the scientific laws of nature. They are de facto sufficiently stable to allow predictions and explanations similar to those of experimental sciences. From this point of view, it is only a trivial t…Read more
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R. Harré, "Le filosofie della scienza. Panorama introduttivo" (review)Epistemologia 8 (2): 345. 1985.
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G. Villani, Complesso e Organizzato. Sistemi strutturati in fisica, chimica, biologia e oltreEpistemologia 32 (2): 347. 2009.
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Psychology between science, technology and hermeneuticsRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 94 (3): 471-490. 2002.
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Operazionismo ed ermeneutica nella fondazione epistemologica della psicoanalisiEpistemologia 11 (1): 61. 1988.
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Verità ed epistemologia evoluzionisticaPhilosophical News 2. 2011.The theory of evolution and the theory of truth are closely connected in the pro-gram of Evolutionary Epistemology . This paper aims to show that the verybroad, naturalistic conception of cognition and truth adopted by EE, which comprises an amoeba’s reactions as well as human symbolic thinking, usually leads to confusion between “adaptation to the environment” on the one hand and knowledge on the other hand. However, the main thesis of EE can be consistently upheld if we make this distinction
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62Mechanisms, Experiments, and Theory-Ladenness: A Realist–Perspectivalist ViewAxiomathes 26 (4): 411-427. 2016.The terms “perspectivism” and “perspectivalism” have been the focus of an intense philosophical discussion with important repercussions for the debate about the role of mechanisms in scientific explanations. However, leading exponents of the new mechanistic philosophy have conceded more than was necessary to the radically subjectivistic perspectivalism, and fell into the opposite error, by retaining not negligible residues of objectivistic views about mechanisms. In order to remove this vacillat…Read more
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Paul Ricœur. Persona e ontologia, coll. « Nuova Universale Studium » n° 55Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 179 (4): 609-609. 1989.
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Individualismo metodologico e mondo delle istituzioni in PopperNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 20 (3/4). 2002.
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50Empirical Thought Experiments: A Transcendental-Operational ViewEpistemologia 33 (1): 5-26. 2009.The operational perspective here defended permits a reflexive-transcendental point of view that sharply distinguishes the two concepts, while, at the same time, maintaining the connection between them. On the one hand, simply imagining that the experimental apparatus, counterfactually anticipated in a thought experiment, has really been constructed is sufficient to erase any difference between thought and real experiments. On the other hand, this very ‘imagining’, this capacity of the mind to as…Read more
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21On thought experiments and the Kantian a priori in the natural sciences: a reply to Yiftach J.H. FehigeEpistemologia 2 277-293. 2014.
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154Causality, Teleology, and Thought Experiments in BiologyJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 46 (2): 279-299. 2015.Thought experiments de facto play many different roles in biology: economical, ethical, technical and so forth. This paper, however, is interested in whether there are any distinctive features of biological TEs as such. The question may be settled in the affirmative because TEs in biology have a function that is intimately connected with the epistemological and methodological status of biology. Peculiar to TEs in biology is the fact that the reflexive, typically human concept of finality may be …Read more