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14The Epigenesis of Germs and Dispositions in Logic and Life: Kant’s System of Pure Reason and His Concept of RaceSATS 24 (2): 111-128. 2023.In the 1787 Transcendental Deduction of the Categories Kant indicates the only possible ways by which one can account for a necessary agreement of experience with the concepts of its objects (B166), using analogies between modes of explanation and biological theories about the origin of life. He endorses epigenesis as a model for his system of pure reason (B167). This paper examines various interpretive claims about the meaning of this theory of generation and its significance for Kant’s philoso…Read more
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2L'invenzione di Cartesio: la disembodied mind negli studi contemporanei: eredità o mito?EUT, Edizioni Università di Trieste. 2015.
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2From geological to animal nature in Hegel's Idea of lifeHegel-Studien 44 45-93. 2009.My aim in this essay is to lead the reader through the complexity of Hegel’s philosophical understanding of organic nature by highlighting its distinctive theoretical features and by examining these historically, both against the background of the approaches, achievements and trends of the empirical sciences of his time and in light of their scholarly reception.1 First, I focuss on Hegel’s definition of the ‘universal form’ of life, pointing to what the connection is, in his philosophy of nature…Read more
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3The Transition to Organics: Hegel's Idea of LifeIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: General Characteristics of the Concept of Natural Life The Path to the Individualization of Matter Chemistry and Individuality: The Appearance and Disappearance of Life Contradiction in Chemicals The Necessary Limits of the Inorganic The Path to the Free Individuality of Life Conclusion References Abbreviations Works Cited.
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3Reason Observing NatureIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Dialectic of Reason Observing Nature Observing the Nature of the Self References Further Reading.
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24Hegel's Confrontation with the Sciences in ‘Observing Reason’: Notes for a DiscussionHegel Bulletin 28 (1-2): 1-22. 2007.In an attempt to reconcile first-hand historical research on scientific material and philosophical concerns, this paper aims to show how Hegel took active part in the scientific debate of the time, by publicly siding with some strands of contemporaneous natural science against others, as well as how Hegel supports a considered scientific position, by providing it with philosophical justification and foundation, taking issue at the same time with formulations of British Empiricism and German Idea…Read more
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5Human diversity in context (edited book)EUT, Edizioni Università Trieste. 2020.'Human Diversity in Context' is a joint research project of the Academia Europaea and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste which aims to develop new, distinctive strategies to integrate the form and content of 'knowledge' and to awaken the sense of responsibility for social prejudices and 'us/them' dichotomies, by conveying a socially contextualised understanding of the complexity of the real world and its cultural and religious structures, facets, objects and of course, gro…Read more
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20A “Physiogony” of the Heavens: Kant’s Early View of Universal Natural HistoryHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 261-285. 2022.From 1754 to 1756 Kant wrote on such central, related topics as the axial rotation of the Earth, the theory of heat, and the composition of matter, focusing on space, force, and motion. It has been noted that each of these topics pertains to his 1755 Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, in which he drew on extant cosmogonies and the analogical form of Newtonianism developed by naturalists including Buffon, Haller, and Thomas Wright. How does Kant build on these various sources? T…Read more
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1535A new interpretation of Hegel's reading of Sophocles's Antigone, focussing on Antigone's urge to action grounded in her religious feeling, on her facing the risk of death and the consequences of this move for her sense of self-awareness, becoming also conscious of her onesidedness in respect to Creon's (equally onesided) reasons.
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25Hegel's Revisions of the Logic of BeingRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2 199-221. 2020.This essay aims to demonstrate a clear and significant difference, not merely expository revisions or additions, in the logical progression of Being between Hegel's two main versions of the Doctrine of Being. This controversial issue is analyzed by retracing and examining changes that international scholarship still widely neglects. Focusing on Hegel's introduction of the doubled transition of Quality and Quantity in the genesis of Measure, the essay argues that the main point of the revisions i…Read more
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5The land of truth of the understanding and the threatening waters of reason: maritime sources for a kantian metaphorEsercizi Filosofici 8 (2): 53-70. 2013.
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5Filosofia e letteratura degli spazi naturali e umani: prove di dialogo interdisciplinare con Theo D'haenEsercizi Filosofici 7 (1): 1-4. 2012.
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3Osservazione, legge ed organismo nella Fenomenologia hegelianaEsercizi Filosofici 3 (1): 1-8. 2008.
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13Testing the Limits of Mechanical Explanation in Kant’s Pre-Critical WritingsArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (3): 297-331. 2000.The purpose of my study is to reconstruct the historical development of Kant's pre- critical approach to mechanical explanation and cosmology. I shall focus on three main works: the 1755 Theorie des Himmels, the 1763 Beweisgrund and the 1766 Träume. I shall challenge some interpretations of the relation between mechanism and finalism, looking for the emergence of a principle of demarcation separating both ontologically and epistemologically organics from inorganics products. I shall try to show…Read more
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Tra etica e filosofia della natura: il significato della metafisica aristotelica per il problema della grandezze del sistema solare nel primo HegelAnnali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Cagliari 14. 1995.
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4Eredità Kantiane (1804–2004): questioni emergenti e problemi irrisolti (edited book)Bibliopolis. 2004.
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32Descartes’s Legacy in Kant’s Notions of Physical Influx and Space-Filling: True Estimation and Physical MonadologyKant Studien 109 (1): 9-46. 2018.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 109 Heft: 1 Seiten: 9-46.
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25Review of Angelica Nuzzo, Kant and the Unity of Reason (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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2The Challenge of ReasonIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: What Is ‘High’ and What Is ‘Low’ in the Significance of Reason The Standpoint of Reason: or When Certainty Is Not Yet Truth Philosophical Issues: Standard Views and Reappraisals References Further Reading.
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4Zwischen Naturwissenschaft und Philosophie: Hegel's phenomenological transition froni perception to understanding'In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber, De Gruyter. pp. 187. 2005.
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Hegel's Confrontation With The Sciences In 'observing Reason': Notes For A DiscussionBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 55 1-22. 2007.
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9Illusions of Imagination and Adventures of Reason in Kant’s first CritiqueIn Mario Egger (ed.), Philosophie Nach Kant: Neue Wege Zum Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- Und Moralphilosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 141-188. 2014.
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