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18LITERATURESSAY: Die Vielfalt der Lebensformen und die Einheit der VernunftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (3): 439-454. 1997.
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Recognition: Reflections on a contested conceptVerifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 42 (1-3): 33-59. 2013.
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571Is evidence from social psychology and neuroscience relevant to philosophical debates in normative ethics?Annali di Studi Religiosi 14 145-165. 2014.This article presents some considerations concerning the relevance of empirical research from neuroscience and social psychology for philosophical debates in normative ethics. While many authors hold that there are findings and theories from those fields that are relevant to normative ethics, it often remains unclear precisely how this relevance relation is to be construed and spelled out. The article critically discusses various proposals which have recently been made in this regard by philosop…Read more
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414GenereAphex 15 1-38. 2017.According to a standard interpretation of the term, ‘gender’ denotes sets of social roles and expectations conventionally associated with the sexual physiology of human beings. Originally introduced in psychology, the term is now widely used in the social sciences and humanities, as well as in the biological sciences. In this article we introduce and discuss the central themes of contemporary philosophical debates on gender. Particular attention is paid to recent feminist arguments concerning th…Read more
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73The following two theses constitute the theoretical core of all epistemic conceptions of truth: (1) The concept of truth can be explicated in epistemic terms (e.g. in terms of justified assertability under ideal epistemic conditions, ideal coherence, ideal consensus etc.). (2) The assumption that there could be truths which cannot, in principle, be known to be true is false or even absurd. The book scrutinizes theses (1) and (2). It contains discussions of the truth-theoretical approaches of Pei…Read more
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Ethischer Universalismus und interkulturelles LernenIn Horst Steinmann & Andreas G. Scherer (eds.), Zwischen Universalismus und Relativismus. Rationalität als Problem des interkulturellen Managements, Suhrkamp. 1998.
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712Ambition, Modesty, and Performative InconsistencyIn Jens Peter Brune, Robert Stern & Micha H. Werner (eds.), Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory, De Gruyter. pp. 25-45. 2017.This chapter argues that the distinction between ambitious and modest transcendental arguments, developed and deployed by various authors in the wake of Stroud’s influential critique of transcendental reasoning, may be pointless when applied to transcendental arguments from performative inconsistency that have moral statements as their conclusions. If moral truth is assertorically constrained, then any modest moral transcendental argument from performative inconsistency can be converted into an …Read more
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Dimensioni del riconoscimento: atti, atteggiamenti e relazioniIn Paolo Costa (ed.), Tolleranza e riconoscimento, Edb. pp. 73-100. 2014.
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2283Enhancement umano: un dibattito in corso (edited book)L'Arco di Giano - Rivista di Medical Humanities. 2014.Non è un caso che l’enhancement umano, cioè il potenziamento di capacità fisiche, cognitive ed emotive degli esseri umani con l’ausilio di tecnologie, sia diventato un tema centrale nei dibattiti etico-applicativi e nei tentativi contemporanei di arrivare a una comprensione più adeguata della natura umana. In esso si incontrano quesiti decisamente ricchi e complessi, sia dal punto di vista tecnoscientifico e medico sia da quello filosofico – e lo fanno in un modo che ci permette di vedere questi…Read more
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Wahrheit und moralische Richtigkeit. Was hätte eine integrative Theorie zu leisten?In Marcel Niquet, Francisco Javier Herrero & Michael Hanke (eds.), Diskursethik. Grundlegungen und Anwendungen, Königshausen Und Neumann. 2001.
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Fallibilism, Factivity and Epistemically Truth-Guaranteeing JustificationIn Nils Gilje & Harald Grimen (eds.), Discursive Modernity, Universitetsforlaget. 2007.This paper explores the question of how the epistemological thesis of fallibilism should best be formulated. Sections 1 to 3 critically discuss some influential formulations of fallibilism. In section 4 I suggest a formulation of fallibilism in terms of the unavailability of epistemically truth-guaranteeing justification. In section 5 I discuss the claim that unrestricted fallibilism engenders paradox and argue that this claim is unwarranted.
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Behauptung, Wahrheitsanspruch und Begründung. Überlegungen zum WahrheitsproblemIn Holger Burckhart & Horst Gronke (eds.), Philosophieren aus dem Diskurs, Königshausen Und Neumann. 2002.
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KonsensIn Marcus Düwell, Christoph Hübenthal & Micha H. Werner (eds.), Handbuch Ethik, J.b. Metzler. 2006.
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50Transcendental Arguments, Epistemically Constrained Truth, and Moral DiscourseIn Gabriele Gava & Robert Stern (eds.), Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 259-285. 2015.
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Der Konsens in Theorie und Praxis des Sokratischen GesprächsIn Dieter Kron, Barbara Neißer & Nora Walter (eds.), Diskurstheorie und Sokratisches Gespräch, Dipa. 1997.
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111The article suggests a reading of the term ‘epistemic account of truth’ which runs contrary to a widespread consensus with regard to what epistemic accounts are meant to provide, namely a definition of truth in epistemic terms. Section 1. introduces a variety of possible epistemic accounts that differ with regard to the strength of the epistemic constraints they impose on truth. Section 2. introduces the paradox of knowability and presents a slightly reconstructed version of a related argument b…Read more
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600Contingenza o validità universale? Rorty e Apel sul progresso moraleAnnali di Studi Religiosi 12 171-183. 2011.This paper examines two contemporary answers to the question of whether moral values and norms are apt for rational criticism and justification: Richard Rorty’s radically contextualist approach—which is centered around the notion of contingency and is characterized by a dismissal of all claims to philosophical justification—and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental-pragmatic version of discourse ethics—which encompasses highly ambitious claims to justification and universal validity. Contrasting the k…Read more
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Karl-Otto ApelIn Gisela Riescher (ed.), Politische Theorie der Gegenwart in Einzeldarstellungen. Von Adorno bis Young, Alfred Kröner Verlag. 2004.
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Verdade e correção moral. O que teria que conseguir uma teoria integrativaIn Francisco J. Herrero & Marcel Niquet (eds.), Ética Do Discurso. Novos desenvolvimentos e aplicações, Edições Loyola. 2002.
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339Die Rede von Wahrheitsansprüchen und ihre KonsequenzenIn Dietrich Böhler, Matthias Kettner & Gunnar Skirbekk (eds.), Reflexion und Verantwortung. Auseinandersetzungen mit Karl-Otto Apel,, Suhrkamp. 2003.
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262An explanatory role for the concept of truthIn Fabio Bacchini, Stefano Caputo & Massimo Dell'Utri (eds.), New Frontiers in Truth, Cambridge Scholar. pp. 15-37. 2014.
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877Recognition. Reflections on a Contested Concept.Verifiche. Rivista di Scienze Umane 42 (1-3): 33-59. 2013.In recent years the term ‘recognition’ has been used in ever more variegated theoretical contexts. This article contributes to the discussion of how the concept(s) expressed by this term in different debates should be explicated and understood. For the most part it takes the concept itself as its topic rather than making theoretical use of it. Drawing on important work by Ikäheimo and Laitinen and taking Honneth’s tripartite distinction of recognition into love, respect, and esteem as a starting…Read more
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51Common Sense, Strict Incompatibilism, and Free WillPhilosophical Inquiries 1 (1): 107-124. 2013.Peter van Inwagen and Colin McGinn hold that there are strong arguments for strict incompatibilism, i.e. for the claim that the free will thesis (F) is inconsistent not just with determinism but with the negation of determinism as well. Interestingly, both authors deny that these arguments are apt to justify the claim that (F) is false. I argue that van Inwagen and McGinn are right in taking the fact that epistemic commitment to (F) is deeply rooted in common sense to cast doubt on arguments to …Read more
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VertragIn Gert Ueding (ed.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik Vol. 9, Max Niemeyer Verlag. 2009.
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