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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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Individualismo metodologico e mondo delle istituzioni in PopperNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 20 (3/4). 2002.
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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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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
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K. Hübner und J. Vuillemin , "Wissenschaftliche und nichwissenschaftliche Rationalität" (review)Epistemologia 9 (1): 177. 1986.
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R. Maiocchi, "Chimica e filosofia. Scienza, epistemologia, storia e religione nell'opera di Pierre Duhem" (review)Epistemologia 10 (1): 158. 1987.
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Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (review)Epistemologia 11 (1): 153. 1988.
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73On medicine as a human scienceTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24 (1): 79-94. 2003.All the powerful influences exertedby the subjective-interpersonal dimension onthe organic or technical-functional dimensionof sickness and health do not make anintersubjective test concerning medicaltherapeutic results impossible. Theseinfluences are not arbitrary; on the contrary,they obey laws that are de facto sufficientlystable to allow predictions and explanationssimilar to those of experimental sciences.While, in this respect, the rules concerninghuman action are analogous to the scientif…Read more
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M.A. Finocchiaro, "Galileo and the Art of Reasoning. Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method" (review)Epistemologia 3 (2): 334. 1980.
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"Voraussetzungen und Grenzen der Wissenschaft", G. Radnitzky und G. Andersson (review)Epistemologia 5 (1): 177. 1982.
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4All the most important epistemological and ontological theses of Kuhn's theory of science depend to a decisive extent on corresponding ideas of Wittgenstein's theory of meaning. The semantic and ontological assumptions that determine the main trend of Kuhn's epistemology consist, respectively, of a theory of meaning as use or application of empirical terms to nature and an ontology that conceives the real as a continuous essentially amorphous and undifferentiated, in which only language and its …Read more
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II problema del rapporto corpo-mente e la chiusura causale del mondo fisicoStudium 105 (4): 505-516. 2009.
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48Erkenntnistheoretische und ontologische probleme der theoretischen begriffeJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (1): 19-53. 1997.Operationalism and theoretical entities. The thesis of the“theory ladenness” of observation leads to an antinomy. In order to solve this antinomy a technical operationalism is sketched, according to which theories should in principle not contain anything that cannot be reduced to technical procedures. This implies the rejection of Quine's underdeterminacy thesis and of many views about the theoretical-observational distinction, e.g. neopositivistic views, van Fraassen's view, Sneed-Stegmüller's …Read more
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O. Todisco, "La crisi dei fondamenti. Introduzione alla svolta epistemologica del XX secolo" (review)Epistemologia 10 (1): 151. 1987.