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29Bringing back intrinsics to enduring thingsSynthese 197 (11): 4813-4834. 2020.According to David Lewis, the argument from temporary intrinsics is ‘the principal and decisive objection against endurance’. I focus on eternalist endurantism, discussing three different ways the eternalist endurantist can try to avoid treating temporary intrinsics as relational. Two of them, generally known as ‘adverbialism’ and ‘SOFism’, are familiar and controversial. I scrutinize them and argue that Lewis’ scepticism about them is well founded. Then, I sketch a further, to some extent new, …Read more
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22Modes of Existence: Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic (edited book)Ontos Verlag. 2006.The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal? Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone i…Read more
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13Individuals, Essence and Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2002.The book's aim is to give a working representation of what metaphysics is today. The historical contributions reveal the roots of metaphysical themes and how today's methods are linked to their Aristotelian and Leibnizian past. The volume also touches on the relationships between ontological and linguistic analysis, the questions of realism and ontological commitment, the nature of abstract objects, the existential meaning of particular quantification, the primitiveness of identity, the question…Read more
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13IntroduzioneRivista di Estetica 49 3-6. 2012.In their Introduction, the editors of the volume briefly describe how ontological questions have been taken as fundamental since the very origins of analytic philosophy, eventually gaining centrality during the last decades, and how they have been coming to the centre of interest in Italian-speaking analytic-style philosophy since the mid-1990s. The editors give a schematic outline of the overall structure of the volume and say how it can be grounded on the distinction between formal and materia…Read more
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13Ockham, Plantinga and the row of AntsIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), God, Time, Infinity, De Gruyter. pp. 1-18. 2018.
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11Diventare dueRivista di Estetica 39 103-125. 2008.1. Ramificazioni Talvolta, un’entità di qualche sorta si divide in due o più entità della stessa sorta (un’ameba in due amebe, un lombrico in due lombrichi, una pianta in due piante). Quando questo accade, si usa dire che l’entità originale si è – metaforicamente parlando – “ramificata”. Non ogni distacco di parti è una ramificazione. Né il taglio della coda a un cane né la divisione a metà di una carta da gioco lo sono, perché nel primo caso una delle entità prodotte dalla divisione non è de...
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10Three kinds of incompletenessIn Venanzio Raspa (ed.), Meinongian issues in contemporary Italian philosophy, Ontos. pp. 2--99. 2006.
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6The Place of Ontology in Davidson’s Theory of InterpretationIn Maria Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Ontos Verlag. pp. 147-168. 2008.
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210. Reason and MetaphysicsIn Maria Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Reason and Rationality, Ontos Verlag. pp. 219-240. 2012.
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1Individuals, Essence, and Identity. Themes of Analytic Metaphysics (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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Recensioni/Reviews - Varzi, Parole, oggetti, eventi e altri temi di metafisicaEpistemologia 26 (1): 186-188. 2003.
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Recensioni-Il riferimento imperscrutabile. Olismo, ontologia e teoria del significatoEpistemologia 21 (2): 355-358. 1998.
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Leibniz's principle and psycho-neural identityIn Richard Davies (ed.), Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics: Exercises in Analytic Ontology, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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