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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 19, Reinach and Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2022.
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25Approval, reflective emotions, and virtue: sentimentalist elements in Husserl’s philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-21. forthcoming.In this paper, I focus on Edmund Husserl’s analyses of the act of approval and the role he attributes to it in his ethics. I show that we can deepen our understanding of both if we rely on his critical reflections on Shaftesbury’s theory of affections in his lecture course Einleitung in die Ethik. The sections of this course devoted to Shaftesbury are the only place in Husserl’s later philosophical production where he addresses the need to clarify the nature of approval from a phenomenological p…Read more
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8This chapter examines Edmund Husserl’s notion of idea in the Kantian sense with the aim of clarifying the distinction between ideas and essences. In particular, the chapter focuses on the occurrences of the notion of idea in the Kantian sense in Ideas I, identifies its core features, and explains why the notion of idea should not to be conflated with the phenomenologically relevant notion of essence. The chapter then points to doubts about the givenness of ideas in the Kantian sense and argues t…Read more
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28Remarks on Evidence and Truth in Husserl’s Theory of JustificationIn Daniele De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 375-400. 2023.
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48Husserl on Eidetic NormsHusserl Studies 37 (2): 127-146. 2021.Edmund Husserl often characterizes essences and eidetic laws in normative terms. Many of his statements to this effect are however highly puzzling as they appear at odds with Husserl’s general understanding of normativity. In this paper I focus on this puzzle and I argue that we can reconcile most of the apparent tensions between these two dimensions of Husserl’s philosophical thought. In the first part of the paper, drawing on the contemporary literature on kinds of norms, I focus on Husserl’s …Read more
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
PhD, 2018
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Areas of Specialization
Husserl: Phenomenology |
Values and Norms |
Emotions |
Brentano School |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Moral Normativity |