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252Performing the Unexpected Improvisation and Artistic CreativityDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 57 117-135. 2012.In this paper I suggest that we look to improvisation in order to understand artistic creativity. Indeed, instead of being anti-artistic in nature, due to its supposed unpreparedness, inaccuracy, and repetitive monotony, improvisation in art exemplifies and 'fuels' artistic creativity as such. I elucidate the relationship between improvisation and artistic creativity in four steps. I discuss the concept of creativity in general (I) and in reference to art (II). Then I focus on the properties and…Read more
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166Arte como desrealizaciónDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 39 175-185. 2006.The paper recognizes the failure of contemporary non-aesthetic theories of art and aims at recovering the phenomenological notion of derealization – which re-emerges in A. Dantoʼs idea of the ʻbracketting effectʼ of art –, in order to explain art and art-experience. The main point is that art makes us free from the ʻreal worldʼ through an act of derealization that leads to the establishment of possible or fictional worlds different from the one we live in. Artworks are primarly imaginary, unreal…Read more
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100Riccardo Martinelli: I filosofi e la musica (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 67 (4): 395-402. 2014.
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67We Make Up the Rules as We Go Along: Improvisation as an Essential Aspect of Human Practices?Open Philosophy 3 (1): 202-221. 2020.The article presents the conceptual groundwork for an understanding of the essentially improvisational dimension of human rationality. It aims to clarify how we should think about important concepts pertinent to central aspects of human practices, namely, the concepts of improvisation, normativity, habit, and freedom. In order to understand the sense in which human practices are essentially improvisational, it is first necessary to criticize misconceptions about improvisation as lack of preparat…Read more
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64Die transzendentale Argumentation in der Transzendentalen Logik FichtesFichte-Studien 31 255-265. 2007.
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54Negative Darstellung. Das Erhabene bei Kant und HegelInternationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism 4 124-151. 2006.
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54Genèse et récursivité: la déduction des catégories dans la Doctrine de la Science 1805 de J.G. FichteRévue de Métaphisique Et de Morale 3 (4): 521-553. 2007.
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40Die Grundbeziehung von »Leben« und »Sehen« in der ersten Transzendentalen Logik FichtesFichte-Studien 20 203-213. 2003.Die erste, noch unveröffentlichte, Vorlesung über die Transzendentale Logik wurde von Fichte in Berlin während des SS 1812 gelesen.
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33Federico Vercellone. Morfologie del moderno. Saggi di ermeneutica dell'immagine.[The Morphology of the Modern]. Torino: Trauben, 2002 (review)Analecta Hermeneutica 1 351-352. 2009.
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32What is wrong with failed art?Studi di Estetica 19. 2021.The aim of this paper is to argue that proper artistic failure may turn out to be artistically appreciated and even considered as artistically successful. A set of arguments is provided in order to overcome intentionalism, the widely accepted view according to which an artist’s intentions fix the artwork’s meaning. Instead, we propose and elaborate an alternative model: emergentism of artistic meaning and value. Emergentism explains how artistic failure can turn out to be artistically successful…Read more
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31Logik, Metaphysik, Wissenschaftslehre: Die Institutiones omnis philosophiae J.G. FichtesFichte-Studien 34 343-357. 2009.
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24A ontologia performativa de FichteRevista de Filosofia Aurora 27 (42): 801. 2015.Que contribuição a filosofia de Fichte pode dar à ontologia? Fichte posicionou-se claramente contra a ontologia enquanto descrição dos entes, isto é, contra a ontologia descritiva. A doutrina da ciência desenvolve pois uma ontologia prescritiva que pode ser entendida como um tipo de “ontologia performativa”.
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23Action as Abductive Performance: An Improvisational ModelInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (1): 36-53. 2023.According to Gilbert Ryle, improvisation is a basic feature of ordinary action. In this paper, we take this idea seriously. Action is improvisation, in that it is situated: It is shaped by attentive responses to environmental circumstances. This is a crucial aspect of agency. However, it is neglected by causal theories of action (Bratman; Mele) and only partially addressed by Thompson’s process-oriented theory. By resorting to Kant’s theory of judgment, we argue for understanding action performa…Read more
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22»Die absolute Kraft des Bildens« Image et conscience de soi dans la Doctrine de la Science de FichteFichte-Studien 41 45-71. 2014.
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21The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of s…Read more
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20Fichte nell'attuale storiografia filosofica in ItaliaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia. forthcoming.
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20Improvisation and ontology of artRivista di Estetica 73 10-29. 2020.I aim at explaining the sense in which the notion of improvisation is important for the ontology of art. In the first part, I criticize the widespread assumption of the repeatability of a musical work without transformation of its identity and defend Conversational Improvisational Emergentism (CIE) as the specific contribution of improvisation to musical ontology: in an improvisation, values and meanings of what has been played constrain what follows and are themselves retroactively (trans)forme…Read more
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20Genèse et récursivité : la déduction des catégories dans la Doctrine de la science de 1805de J. G. FichteRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 56 (4): 521. 2007.
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20Il bello dell'esperienza: la nuova estetica tedesca (edited book)Christian Marinotti edizioni. 2016.
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18La funzione logica dell'immagine nel pensiero trascendentale di FichteRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 69 (4): 685-700. 2014.
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18Paganini Does Not Repeat. Musical Improvisation and the Type/Token OntologyTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 105-126. 2012.This paper explores the ontology of musical improvisation (MI). MI, as process in which creative and performing activities are one and the same generative occurrence, is contrasted with the most widespread conceptual resource used in inquiries about music ontology of the Western tradition: the type/token duality (TtD). TtD, which is used for explaining the relationship between musical works (MWs) and performances, does not fit for MI. Nonetheless MI can be ontologically related to MWs. A MW can …Read more
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17L'art et le désir de Dieu: Une enquête philosophique, by RogerPouivet, Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017, 219 pp. ISBN 978‐2‐7535‐5386‐6; ISSN 1761‐8304pb €20 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 901-905. 2018.
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16"La vida es el absoluto". Materiali sulla relazione fra la Lebenslehre di Fichte e il raciovitalismo di Ortega. / Material sobre la relacion entre el Lebenslehre de Fichte y el raciovitalismo de Ortega / “Life is the Absolute“: Material on the Relationship Between Fichte's Concept of Lebenslehre and Ortega’s Concept of RaciovitalismRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 57 (3): 469-488. 2002.
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16Die Expressivität von Musik und ihre ethische PrägnanzDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (2): 310-316. 2012.
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15Die Grundbeziehung von »Leben« und »Sehen« in der ersten Transzendentalen Logik FichtesFichte-Studien 20 203-213. 2003.Die erste, noch unveröffentlichte, Vorlesung über die Transzendentale Logik wurde von Fichte in Berlin während des SS 1812 gelesen.
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