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739Aristotle on PhantasiaProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 21 89-123. 2006.
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352Autocoscienza, riferimento dell'io e conoscenza di sé. Introduzione ad un dibattito contemporaneoTeoria 12 111-152. 1992.discussion of contemporary theories of self-consciousness
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128Husserl on the ego and its eidos (Cartesian Meditations, IV)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 645-659. 1994.Husserl on the Ego and its Eidos (Cartesian Meditations, IV) ALFREDO FERRARIN THE THEORY OF the intentionality of consciousness is essential for Husserl's philosophy, and in particular for his mature theory of the ego. But it runs into serious difficulties when it has to account for consciousness's transcendental constitution of its own reflective experience and its relation to immanent time. This intricate knot, the inseparability of time and constitution, is most visibly displayed in Husserl's…Read more
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125Kant’s Productive Imagination and its Alleged AntecedentsGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18 (1): 65-92. 1995.The notion of productive imagination is not only of crucial importance for Kant’s idea of pure reason, and for the unity of our theoretical experience, it is also stunningly seminal for post-Kantian philosophy: think, for instance, of Fichte, Schelling, the German Romantics, and of Hegel’s Glauben und Wissen. For the historian of philosophy, in particular, it is a very intriguing notion. Yet, however fundamental the notion of productive imagination is, it is not easy to determine its precise rol…Read more
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121Construction and Mathematical Schematism Kant on the Exhibition of a Concept in IntuitionKant Studien 86 (2): 131-174. 1995.
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89Imagination and judgment in Kant's practical philosophyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (1-2): 101-121. 2008.My aim in this article is to understand the role of imagination and practical judgment in Kant's moral philosophy. After a comparison of Kant with Rousseau, I explore Kant's moral philosophy itself — unlike Hannah Arendt, who finds in the enlarged mentality of the third Critique the ground for the activity of imagination in a shared world. Instead, I place the concept of moral legislation in its background, the reflection on particulars relevant to deliberation, and discuss the mutual relation o…Read more
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85Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens, or Homo Politicus? Protagoras and the Myth of PrometheusReview of Metaphysics 54 (2): 289-319. 2000.WHEN NIETZSCHE CALLED MAN THE YET UNFINISHED ANIMAL, he echoed a phrase that had remote origins. In classical German philosophy, the idea of man as a Mängelwesen, a lacking and underdetermined being, was shared by Herder, Kant, and even Hegel and Marx, among others. It was brought to clear expression by Schiller when he wrote: “With the animal and plant, Nature did not only specify their dispositions but she also carried these out herself. With man, however, she merely provided the disposition a…Read more
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63Reason in Kant and HegelKant Yearbook 8 (1): 1-16. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant Yearbook Jahrgang: 8 Heft: 1 Seiten: 1-16.
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62Imagination and HobbesGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 24 (2): 5-27. 2003.Whether or not we think that Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy regarding the end of the Gutenberg galaxy and the advent of the civilization of the image has come true in the era of sophisticated computer-enhanced imagery, it seems indisputable that images play a central role in our existence. We are constantly bombarded and inescapably surrounded by images. Publicly accessible and reproducible images are a singularly effective way to find and exemplify a visual representative for what they picture, or…Read more
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52Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" within the Tradition of Modern Logic (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (3): 472-474. 1997.
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51Kant’s Productive Imagination in its Historical ContextProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 119-124. 1995.
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51Hegel and Phenomenology (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The collection discusses methodological questions concerning the relevance of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary phenomenology, addressing core issues revolving around the key concepts of history, being, science, subjectivity, and di…Read more
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43Hegel and AristotleCambridge University Press. 2001.Hegel is, arguably, the most difficult of all philosophers. To find a way into his thought interpreters have usually approached him as though he were developing Kantian and Fichtean themes. This book demonstrates in a systematic way that it makes much more sense to view Hegel's idealism in relation to the metaphysical and epistemological tradition stemming from Aristotle. The book offers an account of Hegel's idealism in light of his interpretation, discussion, assimilation and critique of Arist…Read more
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39Hegel and Husserl on the Emergence of the I out of SubjectivityHegel Bulletin 38 (1): 7-23. 2017.
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28Sui documenti, e su chi li scriveRivista di Estetica 50 259-265. 2012.In my review-essay I focus on some questions left open in Ferraris’ book Documentalità. Its limits are the same as those of a descriptive metaphysics of the social world that does not investigate, but rather assumes as its starting points, problematic basic relations such as those between individual and intelligibility, the givenness of essences and our access to them, the difference between objects and objectification. Finally, Ferraris’ conflation of production and practice brings me eventuall…Read more
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26Hegel, Husserl and ImaginationIn Danilo Manca, Elisa Magrì, Dermot Moran & Alfredo Ferrarin (eds.), Hegel and Phenomenology, Springer Verlag. pp. 115-130. 2019.In this essay I deal with Hegel and Husserl on imagination. I show both the unsuspected centrality of this notion for their relative philosophies and the intrinsic merits of their positions which, though quite far apart in their conclusions, turn around very similar aspects, such as the relation between imagination and perception, presence and absence, universality and particularity, signitive and intuitive reference, negation and distance, layers of consciousness.
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26Colloquium 3: Aristotle On ΦANTAΣIAProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 21 (1): 89-123. 2006.
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25The Powers of Pure Reason: Kant and the Idea of Cosmic PhilosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.The Critique of Pure Reason—Kant’s First Critique—is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise, Kant’s oeuvre as a whole has been compartmentalized, the three Critiques held in rigid isolation from one another. Working against the standard reading of Kant that such compartmentalization has produced, The Powers of Pure Reason explores forgotten parts …Read more
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23The Unity of Reason: On Cyclopes, Architects, and the Cosmic Philosopher’s VisionIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 213-228. 2013.
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21What must we recognize? Brandom's Kant and HegelVerifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 41 (1-3): 203-219. 2012.
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10La prassi, l'istituzione, l'immaginario in CastoriadisDiscipline filosofiche. 29 (2): 121-150. 2019.In this paper I discuss the notions of practice, institution and radical imaginary in Castoriadis. In section 1 I clarify the premises of my essay by contrasting Castoriadis with contemporary social ontology and an Aristotelian concept of practice. In section 2 I approach the problem of institution by distinguishing between production and creation and highlighting the crucial problem of the new ontology of magma with its distinctive temporality as opposed to the traditional identity logic and on…Read more
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10Hegel's Aristotle: Philosophy and Its TimeIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction A “Retrieval” of Aristotle? Who Is Hegel's Aristotle? Is Hegel's Aristotle Compatible with His Idea of a History of Philosophy? The Limits of Aristotle According to Hegel The Limits of Hegel's Aristotle.
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9Thinking and the I: Hegel and the critique of KantNorthwestern University Press. 2019.The author shows that Hegel's philosophy entails a radical criticism of an ordinary conception of thinking. Breaking with the habitual presuppositions of modern philosophy and common sense, the author explains that thought, negation, truth, reflection, and dialectic for Hegel are not properties of an I and cannot be reduced to the subjective activity of a self-conscious subject. Rather, he elucidates, thought is objective for Hegel in different senses. Reality as a whole is animated by a movemen…Read more
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