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    Persons, Pronouns, and Perspectives
    In Daniel D. Hutto & Matthew Ratcliffe (eds.), Folk Psychology Re-Assessed, Kluwer/springer Press. pp. 79--99. 2007.
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    Memory and subjectivity: Sartre in dialogue with Husserl
    Sartre Studies International 8 (2): 94-111. 2002.
    Memory is a privileged context for inquiry into subjective life; no wonder that the way philosophers theorize memory is indicative of their conception of subjectivity as a whole. In this essay, I turn to Sartre and Husserl with the aim of unveiling how their accounts of recollection resolve the question of identity and difference within the temporality of one's life. Tracing Sartre's arguments against Husserl's, as well as Husserl's and Sartre's own presentations of recollection, I inquire into …Read more
  •  161
    Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology
    Ohio University Press. 2009.
    Classical phenomenology -- The transcendental tradition -- The logical investigations of the I -- From the I to the ego -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Strawson on the primacy of personhood -- Wittgenstein on the lure of words -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Zahavi on transcendental subjectivity as intersubjectivity -- Contemporary arguments for the transcendental ego : Marbach, Soffer -- Schutz, Theunissen on social phenomenology -- Husserl's later thought -- The multidi…Read more
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    The Communicative Use of the Face
    Glimpse 4 69-72. 2003.
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    Riassunto: Dialogo al limite della fenomenologia
    Chiasmi International 11 156-156. 2009.
    In questo saggio sottolineo l’importanza di recuperare il fenomeno del linguaggio corrente e di tematizzare la dimensione comunicativa dell’esperienza nella ricerca fenomenologica. Più nello specifico, intendo affrontare criticamente l’attenzione che Derrida rivolge al problema del fonocentrismo in fenomenologia, che sembra aver semplicemente screditato ogni tentativo di affrontare il fenomeno della voce per paura di privilegiare la presenza e la soggettività atomistica. Mentre potrebbe essere v…Read more
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    Defining imagination: Sartre between Husserl and Janet
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (2): 133-153. 2005.
    The essay traces the double, phenomenological and psychological, background of Sartre’s theory of the imagination. Insofar as these two phenomenological and psychological currents are equally influential for Sartre’s theory of the imagination, his intellectual project is situated in an inter-disciplinary research area which combines the descriptive analyses of Edmund Husserl with the clinical reports and psychological theories of Pierre Janet. While Husserl provides the foundation for the prevai…Read more
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    Strange Life of a Sentence
    Philosophy Today 59 (2): 305-316. 2015.
    In this essay, I follow the lead of recent scholarship in Saussure linguistics and critically examine the Saussurean doctrine associated with the Course in General Linguistics, which later became a hallmark of structuralism. Specifically, I reconstruct the history of the concluding sentence in the Course which establishes the priority of la langue over everything deemed external to it. This line assumed the status of an oft-cited ‘famous formula’ and became a structuralist motto. The ‘famous for…Read more