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1Ars experimentandi et conjectandi. Laws of Nature, Material Objects, and Contingent CircumstancesIn Rodolfo Garau & Pietro Omodeo (eds.), Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science, Springer Verlag. pp. 317-342. 2019.The scattered and pervasive variability of material objects, being a conspicuous part of the very experience of early-modern and modern science, challenges its purely theoretic character in many ways. Problems of this kind turn out in such different scientific contexts as Galilean physics, chemistry, and physiology. Practical answers are offered on the basis of different approaches, among which, in particular, two can be singled out. One is made out by what is often called an ‘art’ of experiment…Read more
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Both Mechanistic and Teleological. The Genesis of Leibniz's Concept of Organism, with Special Regard to His Du rapport general de toutes chosesIn Hubertus Busche & Stephan Hessbrüggen-Walter (eds.), Departure to Modern Europe -- Philosophy Between 1400 and 1700, Meiner. pp. 1216-1235. 2011.
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Teleologia in Leibniz e Husserl. Brevi note a partire da un inedito leibnizianoDiscipline Filosofiche 23 (2): 21-36. 2013.This paper takes its start from the unpublished Leibnizian manuscript of which a critical edition and an Italian translation are presented by the Author in the same issue of “Discipline filosofiche‘ -- in particular from some passages concerning what we might roughly call teleological projections. A parallel analysis of Leibniz’s and Husserl’s attitudes to the attribution of teleological properties, at various levels of complexity, factuality, ideality, to the natural world and to human history,…Read more
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“Molecole viventi' e “natura senza dèi': anime e microscopi tra filosofia, scienza e letteraturaIn Simone Messina & Paola Trivero (eds.), Metamorfosi Dei Lumi 6. Le Belle Lettere E le Scienze, Aaccademia University Press. pp. 42-71. 2012.
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1Le giustificazioni della guerra in ErasmoIn Enzo A. Baldini & Massimo Firpo (eds.), Religione E Politica in Erasmo da Rotterdam, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura. pp. 51-82. 2012.
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330La concordia e l'armonia. Leibniz e la globalizzazione di una tradizione europeaRevista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 51 (129-131): 373-381. 2012.Leibniz participates in a quite important thought tradition of christian Europe, that of concordia between Christians, or between religions. With him this heritage is universalised: the globalization of concordia gives birth to Leibniz’s harmony of universal truth, that the whole of humankind can access
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Detlev Clüver, geb. um 1645 in Schleswig, gest. den 21. Februar 1708 in HamburgStudia Leibnitiana 26 (1): 108. 1994.
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Cinquant’anni di storiografia filosofica in Italia: un bilancioRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 55 (1): 118-120. 2000.Chronicle of the symposium on "50 years of philosophical historiography in Italy: A balance" held in Turin (IT) in 1999.
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343Arcanum Artis Inveniendi: Leibniz and AnalysisIn Michael Otte & Marco Panza (eds.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 35-46. 1997.
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Quae sunt Caesaris: l'oscillante rapporto di religione e politica in Erasmo da RotterdamIn Beatrice Centi & Alberto Siclari (eds.), Religione E Politica. Da Dante Alle Prospettive Teoriche Contemporanee, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura. pp. 85-108. 2013.
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La prima recezione della monadologia. Dalla tesi di Gottsched alla controversia sulla dottrina delle monadiStudi Settecenteschi 14 107-163. 1994.
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L'altra faccia dell'uomo della Luna. Lambert e l'ErfindungskunstIn Massimo Mori & Stefano Poggi (eds.), La Misura Dell’Uomo. Filosofia, Teologia E Scienza Nel Dibattito Antropologico in Germania (1760-1915), Il Mulino. pp. 49-70. 2005.
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236Il carteggio fra Peano e Camillo BerneriIn Clara Silvia Roero (ed.), Giuseppe Peano. Matematica, Cultura E Società, L’artistica. pp. 49-59. 2001.Between Giuseppe Peano and Camillo Berneri, a foremost protagonist of the Italian anarchist movement, an interesting correspondence was exchanged in the years 1925-1929. Along with a presentation of the correspondence, Peano's political attitude and the role of his international language projects in early 20th century Italian left are discussed.
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11Complete Concepts as HistoriesStudia Leibnitiana 42 (2): 229-243. 2010.Appeared in 2012. It was presented in conference form in the concluding session of the 2011 Leibniz-Kongress. Complete concepts, a key notion of Leibniz’s philosophy, are analysed in their metaphysical genesis in Leibniz’s theory of creation. Both forms they are supposed to have (collections of predicates, individual histories) are discussed in the framework of Leibniz’s metaphysics of individual essences
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The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz's AristotelianismsIn Ohad Nachtomy & Justin E. H. Smith (eds.), Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz, Springer. pp. 81-94. 2011.
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Cinquant'anni di storiografia filosofica in Italia: omaggio a Carlo Augusto Viano (edited book)Il Mulino. 2000.Acts of the symposium on "50 years of philosophical historiography in Italy: A balance" held in Turin (IT) in 1999 in honor of prof. Carlo Augusto Viano.
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2305Niklas Luhmann e la teoria dei sistemi. Presupposti e riferimenti (Prima parte: teorie del sistema sociale come sistema in equilibrio)Psicologia E Società 3 5-8. 1985.During the 19th and the 20th century the concept of system undergoes significant transformations. The interplay of biology and sociology gives rise to an olistic definition of the concept, in order to understand society by means of schemes developed in the field of theoris of organisms. It is possible to follow this development from Pareto and Henderson, to Parsons, and finally to Luhmann, by examining the various biological models to which they refer.
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La doctrine de la spontanéité dans la ThéodicéeIn Paul Rateau (ed.), Lectures Et Interprétations des Essais de Théodicée de G.W. Leibniz, F. Steiner. pp. 155-173. 2011.
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Dubbio e scetticismo in Erasmo da RotterdamIn Enrico Pasini & Pietro B. Rossi (eds.), Erasmo da Rotterdam E la Cultura Europea. Erasmus of Rotterdam and European Culture, Sismel - Edizioni Del Galluzzo. pp. 199-250. 2008.Popkin set Erasmus as the beginner of modern skepticism, and made of him an apologetic sort of sceptic, that uses doubt to make acceptable the tradition and authority of the church. The pivotal moment is the debate concerning free will. Luther is particularly upset by Erasmus’ professions of skepticism in his De libero arbitrio, although it was meant by him as an appeal to moderation: the key to Erasmus’ skepticism isn’t religious incredulity, but putting doubt to good use, in suspending judgeme…Read more
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20Alles begann mit TschirnhausQuaestio 16 27-45. 2016.Did it all begin with Tschirnhaus? This paper discusses the exemplary role that Tschirnhaus could play in the reconstruction of an empirically oriented, scientific, somewhat radical and variously unorthodox current in 18th-century German philosophy, starting from 18th-century characterizations of his intellectual image.
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Segni e algoritmo nell'analisi leibnizianaIn Marco Panza & Clara Silvia Roero (eds.), Geometria, Flussioni E Differenziali, La Città Del Sole. pp. 385-412. 1995.
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326Leibniz tras los pasos de SpinozaIn Leticia Cabañas & Oscar M. Esquisabel (eds.), Leibniz Frente a Spinoza. Una Interpretación Panorámica, Editorial Comares. pp. 71-95. 2014.The paper (an ample reworking of a 2005 Italian paper) tries to evaluate Leibniz’s enduring fascination with Spinoza and presents an overview in five stages of the development of his complex relationship to his thought, beginning with the time of Mainz, when Leibniz shows a strange urgency to get in epistolary contact with the author of the Theologico-Political Treatise, despite his public rejection of both the work and the author; then Leibniz’s stay in Paris, especially in the year 1675, when …Read more
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639Ludovico Geymonat (1908-1991): filosofia e scienzaIn Gianluca Cuozzo & Giuseppe Riconda (eds.), Le Due Torino. Primato Della Religione o Primato Della Politica?, Trauben. pp. 241-256. 2008.Ludovico Geymonat was the most important philosopher of science in 20th-century Italy, but he also engaged in the Liberation War and in political activity. Here the first part of his career, when his activity was mostly based in Turin, is aketched, and an overall balance is suggested.
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Corpo E Funzioni Cognitive in LeibnizFranco Angeli. 1996.The Author attempts to reconstruct Leibniz’s philosophy through the physiology of the processes of perception, inner sense, and general cognition, and their metaphysical implications, using both Leibniz’s published and unpublished works. The volume contains four chapters ("The Young Leibniz", "Thought Mechanisms", "The Means of Perception", "The Functions of Imagination"), and a number of hitherto unpublished texts by Leibniz
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Vacui ratione. Observability and Causal Powers of a NonentityJournal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 2 (3). 2013.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Scritti filosofici . Vol. I, vol. II, vol. IIIStudia Leibnitiana 34 (1): 121-123. 2002.
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University of TurinProfessor
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |