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    Self-Reference and Logical Memory in Hegel's Theory of the Concept
    Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos 1 (15): 129-143. 2011.
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    Klaus Brinkmann, Idealism without Limits: Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity (review)
    Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane (3): 269-288. 2012.
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    Diritto e storia in Kant e Hegel, Valerio Rocco Lozano, Marco Sgarbi (eds.) (review)
    Philosophical Explorations. (2): 193-8. 2013.
    The review is available online on Estudos Kantianos
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    In this paper, I wish to explore whether and how emotions build on a state of being motivated that is linked to character and requires the positive contribution of habit. Drawing on phenomenological accounts of motivation, I argue that the relation between emotions and character depends on the institution of an emotional space, which is responsible for our sensitivity to the values of the felt situation and yet it is open to changes and revisions.
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    Editorial Board: Karl P. Ameriks, Margaret Atherton, Frederick Beiser, Fabien Capeillères, Faustino Fabbianelli, Daniel Garber, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Steven Nadler, Alan Nelson, Christof Rapp, Ursula Renz, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Denis Thouard, Paul Ziche, Günter Zöller The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosoph…Read more
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    Situating Attention and Habit in the Landscape of Affordances
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 10 (2): 120-136. 2019.
    : This paper aims to situate the roles of attention and habit in contemporary approaches to embodied cognition with particular regard to the conceptualisation of affordances. While Chemero has argued that affordances have a relational character that rules out dispositions, Rietveld and Kiverstein have suggested that engaging with affordances amounts to exercising skills. By critically reconsidering the distinction between dispositions and abilities proposed by Chemero, as well as the standard th…Read more
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    This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s phenomenological investigations have been largely neglected due to a historical tradition that tends to consider her either as Husserl’s assistant or as a martyr. However, in her phenomenological …Read more
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    Empathy, Respect, and Vulnerability
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (2): 327-346. 2019.
    ABSTRACTThis paper reconsiders Heather Battaly’s argument that empathy is not a virtue. Like Battaly, I argue that empathy is a disposition that includes elements of virtue acquisition, but is not in itself a virtue in the Aristotelian sense. Unlike Battaly, however, I propose a distinction between care and respect. Drawing on Darwall’s view of recognition respect as well as on phenomenologically inspired views of empathy, I argue that respect can be regarded as the moral feeling that is distinc…Read more
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    In this paper, I wish to explore the contribution of the phenomenological reduction to a distinct form of empathy, which has been identified and called by Ratcliffe :473–495, 2012) radical empathy. This form of empathy brings to light the sense of reality experienced by the subject rather than a mere mental state. However, I shall consider whether and how the phenomenological reduction allows different interpretations of the same experience, thereby impacting on our understanding of another’s se…Read more
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    Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly developed in relation to philosophy of illness, disability, race, gender, sexuality, and politics, leading to the emergence of critical phenomenology as a new, prominent field for interdisciplinary research. Magrì and McQueen's Critical Phenomenolo…Read more
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    Hegel and Phenomenology (edited book)
    Springer Verlag. 2019.
    This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The collection discusses methodological questions concerning the relevance of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary phenomenology, addressing core issues revolving around the key concepts of history, being, science, subjectivity, and di…Read more
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    Social sensitivity and the ethics of attention
    European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 725-739. 2022.
    Social sensitivity is a crucial aspect of interpersonal relationships, as it is intrinsic to the understanding of other selves as subjects situated in a social world. In revitalizing such a concept in the philosophical literature, this article examines the relation between habit, attention, and critical self‐awareness that lies at the core of social sensitivity. On the one hand, I reconsider the so‐called “passivity” of habit and tackle the role of attention as the power of varying point of view…Read more
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    Towards a phenomenological account of social sensitivity
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 20 (4): 635-653. 2020.
    With the exception of James Ostrow’s 1990 study, social sensitivity has received scarce attention in philosophy, whilst it has become an important area of research in social and clinical psychology, where it is commonly known as interpersonal sensitivity. The latter is usually understood as a form of social skill to appropriately recognise and decode the appearance and behaviour of others. However, this view suffers from conceptual limitations in that it tends to reduce social sensitivity to sta…Read more
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    Social sensitivity and the ethics of attention
    European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 725-739. 2021.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 725-739, June 2022.
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    Memory and Self-Knowledge in Hegel’s Philosophy
    Hegel-Jahrbuch 2015 (1): 470-475. 2015.
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    Hegel and the Genesis of the Concept
    Symposium 20 (2): 122-141. 2016.
    According to Habermas, Hegel’s early reflections in Jena on labour and language do not bear upon logical categories. In Habermas’s view, the formative model that Hegel proposes in his early texts on labour and language is lost in his mature philosophy. In this paper, I shall propose an intra-systematic reading of Hegel’s philosophy that challenges Habermas’s dualistic reading. I shall point out the dialectical relation between labour, memory, and the logical concept. In doing so, I will emphasiz…Read more
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    Some Remarks on For-me-ness and Empathy
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (5): 625-629. 2015.
    My discussion of Self and Other takes issue with two distinct theses defended by Zahavi. The first concerns Zahavi's argument for the first-personal character of experience and its related thought experiment. My second remark is about Zahavi’s restriction of empathy to direct perception
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    L’auto-riferimento del corpo vivo Sull’abitudine in Hegel e Merleau-Ponty
    In Alfredo Ferrarin Elisa Magrì Danilo Manca (ed.), Hegel e la fenomenologia trascendentale, Edizioni Ets. pp. 81-100. 2015.
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    Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, and the Paradox of Expression
    In Danilo Manca, Elisa Magrì, Dermot Moran & Alfredo Ferrarin (eds.), Hegel and Phenomenology, Springer Verlag. pp. 131-146. 2019.
    For Hegel and Merleau-Ponty, the concept of expression is crucial to understand meaning and signification in a variety of contexts, including the aesthetic, anthropological, and psychological domain. However, they also point out the paradoxical nature of the notion of expression, in that it presupposes what it is supposed to explain, namely its principle of determination. In my reading, both Hegel and Merleau-Ponty endorse a common strategy to avoid the paradox, and their approach is rooted in t…Read more