•  314
    This paper is concerned with the experience of suddenly becoming aware of the existence of things, understood as a shift from our ordinary concern with how things stand in the world to the recognition of the bare fact that there is something at all. I argue that the experience of existence is grounded in the adoption of a peculiar stance that withdraws from any particular object or determinate content of experience and turns instead towards experience as such. I designate this stance as the pers…Read more
  •  412
    La tesi della rivelazione asserisce che pensare ad un’esperienza nei termini dell’effetto che fa averla consente di comprendere qual è la natura di quell’esperienza. In questo testo viene presentato un argomento filosofico che mira a confutare il fisicalismo sulla coscienza partendo dalla rivelazione e da premesse aggiuntive. Ciascuna premessa viene esaminata analiticamente. Vengono descritte una strategia argomentativa a favore della rivelazione ed alcune obiezioni rilevanti. Infine, vengono br…Read more
  •  894
    This paper will be concerned with the role acquaintance plays in contemporary theories of introspection. Traditionally, the relation of acquaintance has been conceived in analytic epistemology and philosophy of mind as being only epistemically relevant inasmuch as it causes, or enables, or justifies a peculiar kind of propositional knowledge, i.e., knowledge by acquaintance. However, in recent years a novel account of the role of acquaintance in our introspective knowledge has been offered. Acco…Read more
  •  792
    Conversazione con Emanuele Severino
    Quaderni Borromaici 3 207-219. 2016.
    Quanto segue intende proporsi come il resoconto di una conversazione che Andrea Oliani, Bruno Cortesi e Pietro Vigiani, tutti studenti presso l’Almo Collegio Borromeo di Pavia, hanno intrattenuto con Emanuele Severino, volta ad enucleare, muovendo da spunti talvolta anche polemici, alcune delle concettualità fondanti quel corpus di dottrine che cade sotto il nome di severinismo. Severino è stato squisito nell’accoglierci e ospitarci nella sua dimora di Brescia, lucido e assolutamente puntuale ne…Read more
  •  780
    The thesis of experiential revelation—Rev for brevity—in the philosophy of mind claims that to have an experience—i.e., to be acquainted with it—is to know its nature. It is widely agreed that although at least moderate versions of Rev might strike one as plausible and perhaps even appealing, at least up to a certain extent, most of them are nonetheless inconsistent with almost any coherent form of physicalism about the mind. Thus far, the issue of the alleged tension between Rev and physicalism…Read more