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140Donald Davidson, Verità e interpretazioneIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Dizionario delle opere filosofiche, Bruno Mondadori. pp. 273. 2000.A discussion of 'Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation', a collection of 18 essays by Davidson already published since 1964. The first key idea of the book is the notion of 'radical interpretation', based on the semantic conception of truth, which contrasts with Frege's and the early Wittgenstein's conception of meaning, and is an extension of Quine's notion of radical translation. The second idea is the critique of the distinction between empirical content and the conceptual scheme that organ…Read more
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147Apel Karl-Otto, Diskurs und Verantwortung. Das Problem des Übergangs zur postkonventionellen MoralIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Dizionario delle opere filosofiche, Bruno Mondadori. pp. 48-49. 2000.In the essays collected here, Apel addresses some of the points of the discourse ethics controversy by responding to critics and developing his original formulation in different directions: a) the distinction between two stages of discourse ethics, relating respectively to the ideal community of communication and the real community; in the second stage, while maintaining the principle of equal dignity of communication partners as a regulatory idea, deontological ethics should be integrated with …Read more
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254MercantilismoIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 7302. 2006.A discussion of the curious history of a notion derived from Adam SMith's polemic against his predecessors in mattters of commercial policies
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186ReciprocitàIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 94986-94989. 2006.A discussion of distinct usages of the term reciprocity in philosophy of language, ethics, logic, anthropology and game theory
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313Ricardo, DavidIn Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A reconstruction of the philosophical, religious and political background of Ricardo's work as an economist
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155SalarioIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A reconstruction of the nineteenth-century debate on wages in relation to the issue of the absolute character of economics laws, to the issued of the ethical element in economics and their policy implications
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198Schumpeter, AloisIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 10210-10212. 2006.A short presentation of Schumpeter's work with spedial attention to its philophical backgroound
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162Robbins, LionelIn Russo A. (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A short presentation of Lionel Robbin's work with special attention at its philosophical and methodological implications.
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187MercatoIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 7302-7307. 2006.A reconstruction of the notion of Market in the history of economic ethics and economic theory
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169Paley, WilliamIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 8245-8247. 2006.A presentation of the philosophical works of WIlliam Paley.
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159Ricchezza (età moderna)In Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 9700-9703. 2006.A reconstruction on the evolution in the understanding of wealth in the political literature from the Renaissace to the eighteenth century
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123Modi di sussistenzaIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 7533-7534. 2006.A short discussion of the origin of the notion of mode of subsistence in the eighteenth-century discussion and particularly in the Scottish Enlightenment and its legacy n the Marxist theory of modes of production or social economic formations.
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550IndividualismoIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani, Milano. pp. 5619-5623. 2006.A discussion of the origin of the term individualism and its different implications, in ethics and politics, the methodology of the social sciences, and social ontology.
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593Homo economicusIn Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A reconstruction of the genesis and transformations of the idea of 'economic man'
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176Formazione economico-socialeIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 4418. 2006.The unresolved dilemma of Marxian theory is whether the overall social constellation may legitimately be called 'mode of production' because mono-causal economic explanations are acceptable or whether there is instead a more complex causality at the level of the 'ökonomische Gesellschaftsformation', i.e. the social constellation as a whole.
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224Etica economica, storiaIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 3801-3803. 2006.A reconstruction of the discussion on issues of economic ethics in the Talmud, in Islamic religious, juridical and philosophical literalture, in Medieval literature, and in Reformed casuistry.
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290Etica economica, problemiIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Encciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 3796-3799. 2006.A discussion of the historical development of the relationship between moral philosophy and political economy and economics qua disciplines, followed by a treatment of questions of justice in the contemporary discussion and then by an overview of the subdiscipline of busness ethics.
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207Egoismo in economiaIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 3277-3279. 2006.A short discussion of the emergence of the self-interest axiom during the classical phase of political economy, its roots in the previous discussion on self-love in early modern ethics and its development in the following formulation of the notion of 'homo economicus' and the definition of the agent's rationality.
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179EconomicismoIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompaini. 2006.A discussion of the birth and adventures of a concept created by Marxist authors at the time of the Russian revolution, sometimes under the term 'economic materialism' and the subsequent discussion by Polanyi of Marx's own economicist fallacy
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244Analogia iatro-politicaIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 415-416. 2006.A short reconstruction of the transformations of the Greek classical analogy between the body and the city through the Arabic philosophy, the Renaissance political thought, and the origins of modern science up to Adam Smith and the shaping of political economy.
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251MEL Guidi, Il sovrano e l’imprenditore. Utilitarismo ed economia politica in Jeremy Bentham (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 84 (1): 192-193. 1992.
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118Un Whig scettico? (review)L'Indice Dei Libri Del Mese 9 (October): 49-50. 1992.A discussion of Donald Winch's 'Adam Smith's Politics'.
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166Analisti del linguaggio in cerca di una disciplina (review)Il Manifesto 11 (May 29): 4. 1992.A discussion of 'Introduzione alla filosofia analitica del linguaggio' edited by Marco Santambrogio
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178P Werhane, Adam Smith's Legacy for Modern Capitalism (review)Quaderni di Storia dell'Economia Politica 10 (3): 187-189. 1992.First, the book does not have an original thesis. The thesisthe author wants to argue is that Smith is different from his current caricature, a legacy of his nineteenth-century image, according to which he would argue that: i) man is a maximizer of utility; ii) man is ordinarily moved by a narrow selfish interest, or at least is indifferent to the interests of others; iii) human beings are social atoms; iv) a perfectly competitive market is morally a free zone (pp. 4-5). The author recognizes th…Read more
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129M Passerin d’Entreves, Modernity, Justice and Community (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 83 (1-2): 313-314. 1991.
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245Malthus, l'utilitarismo teologico e il baule (review)Storia Del Pensiero Economico 3 (2). 2006.I discuss Malthus, Thomas Robert "The unpublished papers in the collection of Kanto Gakuen University", Pullen, John; Parry, Trevor Hughes (eds). I argue that the theological dimension in Malthus’s overall project may be stressed in the light of some of the original materials published here for the first time.
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344Sentimentalismo, consequenzialismo, etica laica (review)Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 9 (1): 255-270. 2002.I suggest that Kantian ethics, that is, the ethics of the mature Kant, that of Thomas Nagel, Karl-Otto Apel and Onora O'Neill, is not the caricature of an "engineering" approach in normative ethics that Lecaldano wants to fight in his war on deontological ethics. The ethics of Kant and the Neokantians can be for a consequentialist ethic a more fearsome and interesting adversary than such targets as "common-sense morality", non-existent "dogmatic intuitionism" invented by Sidgwick, non-existent …Read more
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194AE Galeotti, La tolleranza. Una proposta pluralista (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 89 (2-3): 493-495. 1997.
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173T Magri, Contratto e convenzione. Razionalità, obbligo e imparzialità in Hobbes e Hume (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 87 (2): 364. 1995.The author examines Hobbes and Hume in the light of recent proposals of neo-Hobbesian political theories. Magri concludes that Hobbes and Hume's strategies would be plausible from the point of view of liberal thinking if they succeeded; the difficulty, however, is that both systems fail to overcome the barrier between individual interests and moral and political principles.
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139DS Katz, Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England (review)Cristianesimo Nella Storia 12 (2): 442-443. 1991.
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