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    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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    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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    The Transition to Organics: Hegel's Idea of Life
    In 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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    Reason Observing Nature
    In 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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    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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    Human 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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    A “Physiogony” of the Heavens: Kant’s Early View of Universal Natural History
    Hopos: 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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    A 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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    Hegel's Revisions of the Logic of Being
    Rivista 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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    Osservazione, legge ed organismo nella Fenomenologia hegeliana
    Esercizi Filosofici 3 (1): 1-8. 2008.
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    Testing the Limits of Mechanical Explanation in Kant’s Pre-Critical Writings
    Archiv 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
  • Tra etica e filosofia della natura: il significato della metafisica aristotelica per il problema della grandezze del sistema solare nel primo Hegel
    Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Cagliari 14. 1995.
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    Valerio Verra
    Hegel Bulletin 22 (1-2): 145-147. 2001.
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    God and Nature in Hegel's Logic
    Hegel Bulletin 20 (1-2): 65-83. 1999.
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    Logic of Being and Concept of Nature in Hegel's System
    Hegel Bulletin 11 (1-2): 98-100. 1990.
  • Schede
    Giornale di Metafisica 405. 1981.
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    Review of Angelica Nuzzo, Kant and the Unity of Reason (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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    The Challenge of Reason
    In 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.
  • Hegel's Confrontation With The Sciences In 'observing Reason': Notes For A Discussion
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 55 1-22. 2007.
  • God And Nature In Hegel's Logic
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 65-83. 1999.