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17Logic and DiscriminationHistory and Philosophy of Logic 45 (1): 46-57. 2024.The paper is about the connection between logic and discrimination, with special focus on Plumwood’s ideas in her groundbreaking article ‘The Politics of Reason. Towards a Feminist Logic’ (1993). Although Plumwood’s paper is not focused on the notion of discrimination, what she writes is useful for illuminating some basic mechanisms of thought that are at the basis of discriminatory practices. After an introductory section about the concepts of logic and discrimination and their possible interco…Read more
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8Review ArticleReview of R. Routley. Ultralogic as Universal? The Sylvan Jungle – Volume 4, edited by Z. Weber, with commentary essays by E. Mares, R. Brady, C. Mortensen. Synthese Library vol. 396. Cham, Springer, 205pp., € 90.94. ISBN 978-3-319-91973-7 (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 1-8. forthcoming.Ultralogic as Universal was drafted in 1976, appeared in 1977 as ‘Ultralogic as Universal?’ in The Relevance Logic Newsletter, 2 (1–2) and was reprinted as an appendix to Exploring Meinong’s Jungle...
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8Hegel, Beall, and the logic of VereinigungAsian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 1-13. 2024.In 2023, Beall and Ficara present what they call Hegelian conjunctions. A Hegelian conjunction is a true conjunction of contradictory opposites in which the conjuncts, separately taken, are untrue and for which simplification fails. The analysis in Beall & Ficara History and Philosophy of Logic 44 (2) 119-131, 2023 is important for various reasons. First, for overcoming the deleterious state of estrangement between two ways of conceiving and practicing logic, the “dialectical” or “continental” a…Read more
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22The Transcendental Deduction of Categories as Philosophical ProofKantian Journal 42 (3): 74-96. 2023.My aim is to reconstruct the basic steps and the fundamental idea of Kant’s transcendental deduction of categories as well as Hegel’s interpretation and reframing of Kant’s idea. Hegel’s reading is crucial for two reasons: first, for fixing the basic form of the Kantian argument and secondly, for understanding its metaphilosophical relevance. For Hegel, philosophical proof has a specific nature, which distinguishes it from scientific proof and brings it closer to a juridical one. In this perspe…Read more
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22Hegel's logic and metaphysics. By Jacob McNulty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xxi + 264 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐316‐51256‐2 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4): 1139-1141. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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80Hegelian Conjunction, Hegelian ContradictionHistory and Philosophy of Logic 44 (2): 119-131. 2023.1. In both Benedetto Croce's and Hegel's own terminology, dialectics can be understood as dottrina degli opposti (the doctrine of the opposites – Lehre der Gegensätze).1 In the dialectical process,...
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40Introduction: The Formalization of DialecticsHistory and Philosophy of Logic 44 (2): 115-118. 2023.The idea at the basis of this special issue is that reopening the old debate about the logical status of Hegel’s dialectics is extremely interesting, for various reasons.1 The first reason is that...
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Croces Deutung der Hegel'schen DialektikIn Thomas Buchheim & Jörg Noller (eds.), Philosophia Transalpina: deutsch-italienische Wechselwirkungen in der Philosophie der Moderne, Verlag Karl Alber. 2015.
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10The Blushing LiarPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 21 (2): 252-266. 2020.Suppose a person blushes iff what she says is false and she says: ‘I am blushing’. If she blushes, she doesn’t, and if she doesn’t, she does. This Blushing Liar is a new paradox, similar in some respects to the Pinocchio Paradox : Pinocchio’s nose grows iff he says some falsity, and he says: ‘my nose is growing’. Both paradoxes involve physical properties, and both, supposedly, confirm the existence of metaphysical dialetheias. In the paper, we note first that while PP relies on the rather impla…Read more
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2Ursprünge des Ausdrucks >Das Logische< beim frühen HegelArchiv für Begriffsgeschichte 52 113-125. 2010.The article analyses Hegel's use of the expression >das Logische die Logik das Logische das Logische das Dialektische
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19'Transcendental' in Kant and FichteFichte-Studien 49 333-352. 2021.The article is about the meaning of the word ‘transcendental’ in Kant and Fichte. Its aim is not merely exegetical. It is a common hermeneutical insight (now revitalised by research on conceptual engineering and conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy) that analysing the use and definitions of concepts in history, and their shifts in the development of the history of philosophy, is a crucial tool we have to understand those concepts and to assess their viability for philosophy today. In thi…Read more
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8Die Begrundung der Philosophie im Deutschen IdealismusRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2 351-353. 2009.
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54The Birth of DialetheismHistory and Philosophy of Logic 42 (3): 281-296. 2021.The aim of this paper is to lay bare the roots of dialetheism in discussions about dialectics and dialectical logic at the time of the first development of paraconsistent logics. In other words, th...
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70Hegel’s Interpretation of the Liar ParadoxHistory and Philosophy of Logic 43 (2): 105-128. 2021.In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel develops a subtle analysis of Megarian paradoxes: the Liar, the Veiled Man and the Sorites. In this paper, we focus on Hegel's interpretation of...
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13Hegel's Transcendental Ontology by Giorgi LebanidzeJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (4): 825-826. 2020.Giorgi Lebanidze's book is a welcome contribution to the literature on Hegel's logic and metaphysics. It provides a well-grounded account of the ontologico-metaphysical relevance of Hegel's thought, and locates it within a lucid reconstruction of recent debates. As the author argues in the introduction, two lines have dominated the English-speaking literature on Hegel in the last thirty years: an epistemological reading that brings Hegel close to Kant, and a metaphysical reading that decouples H…Read more
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27The Form of Truth: Hegel’s Philosophical LogicDe Gruyter. 2020.This book is a consideration of Hegel’s view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view’s relevance for contemporary philosophical logic. The literature on Hegel’s logic is fairly rich. The attention to contemporary philosophical logic places the present research closer to those works interested in the link between Hegel’s thought and analytical philosophy, Koch 2014, Brandom 2014, 1-15, Pippin 2016, Moyar 2017, Quante & Moo…Read more
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19Hegel and Priest on Revising LogicIn Can Başkent & Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (eds.), Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency, Springer Verlag. pp. 59-71. 2019.In this paper, I examine Hegel’s and Priest’s answers to three questions: “What is logic?” “Can logic be revised?” “If so, how is this done?” Considering that the two views are separated by more than 150 years in which logic has experienced its perhaps most radical revolution, the two accounts are surprisingly close. Both authors admit different meanings of “logic”. In both accounts what could be called a metaphysical concept of logic plays an important role. Moreover, both authors hold that log…Read more
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12Kant e il rapporto dello scetticismo con la filosofiaIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 543-554. 2013.
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6Dialektik und InterpretationsphilosophieIn Astrid Wagner & Ulrich Dirks (eds.), Abel Im Dialog: Perspektiven der Zeichen- Und Interpretationsphilosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 1245-1262. 2018.
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30Hegel and the Consequentia MirabilisHistory and Philosophy of Logic 39 (4): 357-364. 2018.In this paper I argue that Hegel’s treatment of dialectical inferences, in particular of Plato’s dialectics in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, belongs to the history of the logical rule that, from Gerolamo Cardano to Bertrand Russell, is known as consequentia mirabilis. In 1906 Russell formalises it as follows: and its correspondent positive form as My paper has two parts. First, I show that dialectical inferences, for Hegel, involve sentences of the form and. Hegel, following Plato, …Read more
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Figures of Hegelian Dialectics: Observations on “The Cross and the Rose”Archivio di Storia Della Cultura 23. 2010.This essay analyses Hegel’s use of the metaphor of «the cross and the rose», not only in the Preface to the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, which all major interpretations refer to, but also in two other texts: Wer denkt abstrakt? of 1807 and the 1829 review of Schubart's and Garganico’s Über Philosophie überhaupt... In Wer denkt abstrakt? Hegel criticizes a sentimental, as equivalent to a «non concrete», interpretation of the figure; in the Preface he claims that «reason is the rose in …Read more
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10Two in OneIn Martina Plümacher & Günter Abel (eds.), The Power of Distributed Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 319-328. 2016.
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Klaus Vieweg, Il pensiero della liberta. Hegel e lo scetticismo pirroniano (review)Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 22 (56): 253. 2009.
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39Die Ontologie in der Kritik der reinen VernunftKönigshausen&Neumann. 2006.The book is an analysis of Kant’s uses and definitions of the three concepts ‘transcendental philosophy’, ‘ontology’ and ‘logic’. It first focuses on Kant’s definitions of ‘transcendental’ in the Critique of Pure Reason, where the term is used for the very first time with a programmatic meaning, as the qualification of Kant’s specific philosophical standpoint. Secondly, it reconstructs Kant’s position towards metaphysics and ontology in his pre-critical and critical writings, as well as its prem…Read more
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6Hegel Within Contemporary LogicTeoria 33 (1): 297-312. 2013.In this paper I consider Hegel’s idea of logic in different passages of his work (in the Introduction to the Science of Logic, in the Vorbegriff of the Encyclopaedia Logic, in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy), and I compare it with some contemporary conceptions of logic. In my view, such a comparison is relevant in at least two senses. First, it makes possible to address the controversial question: «what kind of logic is Hegel’s logic?». Second, it allows to locate Hegel’s view within …Read more
University of Cologne
PhD, 2005
Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |