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Enrico Pasini
University of Turin
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  • University of Turin
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University of Turin
Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
PhD, 1993
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Turin, Piedmont, Italy
0000-0002-4525-187X
Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mathematics
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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  •  1
    Ars experimentandi et conjectandi. Laws of Nature, Material Objects, and Contingent Circumstances
    In 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
    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 experiments. From the Renaissance until J. H. Lambert’s writings of the 1750–1760s, we can follow a train of reflections on the art of making experiments that deal precisely with the persistence of contingency in the material objects of pure science. The other is the analysis of contingency in probabilistic terms. They develop subsequently and eventually meet, as it can be seen precisely in Lambert’s work: among the first to pursue this path are Jakob Bernoulli and Leibniz.
    Laws of Nature, Misc
  • La monadologie de Leibniz. Genèse et contexte
    Studia Leibnitiana 38 (2): 239-241. 2006.
  • Both Mechanistic and Teleological. The Genesis of Leibniz's Concept of Organism, with Special Regard to His Du rapport general de toutes choses
    In Hubertus Busche & Stephan Hessbrüggen-Walter (eds.), Departure to Modern Europe -- Philosophy Between 1400 and 1700, Meiner. pp. 1216-1235. 2011.
    Leibniz: MetaphysicsLeibniz: Philosophy of Science
  • Teleologia in Leibniz e Husserl. Brevi note a partire da un inedito leibniziano
    Discipline 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
    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, shows in Husserl’s teleology a mix of ingredients very similar to those of Leibniz’s own one -- ingredients that Husserl always relished -- but with quite different results. On the one hand, for Husserl the universal order is teleologically realised in humanity, albeit with a reference to transcendence that has never been made by him completely clear. On the other hand, perhaps thanks to being unaware of Kant’s future contributions to the field, Leibniz seems more capable to avoid certain naïver forms of teleological attribution to which Husserl might seem more prone
    Husserl and Other PhilosophersHusserl: MetaphysicsLeibniz: MetaphysicsLeibniz: Works
  •  1
    Editorial
    with Manuela Albertone
    History of European Ideas 40 (4): 451-456. 2014.
    History of Western Philosophy
  • “Molecole viventi' e “natura senza dèi': anime e microscopi tra filosofia, scienza e letteratura
    In Simone Messina & Paola Trivero (eds.), Metamorfosi Dei Lumi 6. Le Belle Lettere E le Scienze, Aaccademia University Press. pp. 42-71. 2012.
    17th/18th Century Philosophy, Misc
  •  1
    Le giustificazioni della guerra in Erasmo
    In Enzo A. Baldini & Massimo Firpo (eds.), Religione E Politica in Erasmo da Rotterdam, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura. pp. 51-82. 2012.
    Renaissance Humanism
  •  330
    La concordia e l'armonia. Leibniz e la globalizzazione di una tradizione europea
    Revista 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
    Leibniz: Philosophy of Religion
  • Detlev Clüver, geb. um 1645 in Schleswig, gest. den 21. Februar 1708 in Hamburg
    Studia Leibnitiana 26 (1): 108. 1994.
  • Cinquant’anni di storiografia filosofica in Italia: un bilancio
    Rivista 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.
    History of Western Philosophy, Misc
  •  343
    Arcanum Artis Inveniendi: Leibniz and Analysis
    In Michael Otte & Marco Panza (eds.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 35-46. 1997.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsLeibniz: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
  • Quae sunt Caesaris: l'oscillante rapporto di religione e politica in Erasmo da Rotterdam
    In Beatrice Centi & Alberto Siclari (eds.), Religione E Politica. Da Dante Alle Prospettive Teoriche Contemporanee, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura. pp. 85-108. 2013.
    Renaissance Humanism
  • La prima recezione della monadologia. Dalla tesi di Gottsched alla controversia sulla dottrina delle monadi
    Studi Settecenteschi 14 107-163. 1994.
    18th Century German Philosophy, Misc
  • L'altra faccia dell'uomo della Luna. Lambert e l'Erfindungskunst
    In 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.
  •  236
    Il carteggio fra Peano e Camillo Berneri
    In 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.
    Areas of Mathematics
  •  11
    Complete Concepts as Histories
    Studia 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
  • The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz's Aristotelianisms
    In Ohad Nachtomy & Justin E. H. Smith (eds.), Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz, Springer. pp. 81-94. 2011.
    Leibniz: Philosophy of ScienceLeibniz: Metaphysics
  • Cinquant'anni di storiografia filosofica in Italia: omaggio a Carlo Augusto Viano (edited book)
    with Enrico Donaggio
    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.
    History of Western Philosophy, Misc
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    Niklas 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.
  • La Monadologie de Leibniz. Genèse Et Contexte (edited book)
    Mimesis Edizioni. 2005.
    Leibniz: Metaphysics
  • La doctrine de la spontanéité dans la Théodicée
    In Paul Rateau (ed.), Lectures Et Interprétations des Essais de Théodicée de G.W. Leibniz, F. Steiner. pp. 155-173. 2011.
    Leibniz: Philosophy of Action
  • Dubbio e scetticismo in Erasmo da Rotterdam
    In 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
    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 judgements that are not necessary and might be dangerous to peace and concord among christians. Doubt isn’t endorsed by the christian tradition, nor by the literary one, and technical treatments (in logic or rhetorics) are not favored by Erasmus. Moreover skepticism receives the same ambiguous consideration that Erasmus has for philosophy in general. But he practices doubt nevertheless, in both forms of dubitare and ambigere. The latter is particularly important, since this practice of skepticism is particularly useful in avoiding the common error of doing what one had better omit. These ideas of Erasmus play a role in his cultural, theolocial, and ecclesiastical program, developed by him along many years, and specifically in the years of the crudest confrontation among emerging religious factions. In the works of the greats catholic skeptics, such as Huet, skepticism and fideism will be tightly connected, Erasmus supports skepticism as a means to gain for all contending parties a right to doubt and ask for suspension of judgement in matter of warlike controversy, aiming instead to concile intellectual freedom and irenic perspectives
    Renaissance Humanism
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    Alles begann mit Tschirnhaus
    Quaestio 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.
  • Segni e algoritmo nell'analisi leibniziana
    In Marco Panza & Clara Silvia Roero (eds.), Geometria, Flussioni E Differenziali, La Città Del Sole. pp. 385-412. 1995.
    Leibniz: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
  •  326
    Leibniz tras los pasos de Spinoza
    In 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
    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 he seeks information through Tschirnhaus on Spinoza’s clandestine doctrines; their personal meeting in the Hague, towards the end of the year 1676, and the subsequent distancing of Leibniz from Spinozism; the reading by Leibniz of Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma and the extension of his arguments against Spinozism to discredit Cartesian philosophy in general, and, finally, Leibniz’s retrospective evaluation of Spinoza’s thought in the Theodicy
    Leibniz, Misc
  •  639
    Ludovico Geymonat (1908-1991): filosofia e scienza
    In 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.
  • Il Reale E L'Immaginario. La Fondazione Del Calcolo Infinitesimale Nel Pensiero di Leibniz
    Edizioni Sonda. 1993.
    Leibniz: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
  • Corpo E Funzioni Cognitive in Leibniz
    Franco 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
    Leibniz: Philosophy of MindLeibniz: Metaphysics
  • Vacui ratione. Observability and Causal Powers of a Nonentity
    Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 2 (3). 2013.
    Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Misc17th/18th Century Philosophy, Misc
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Scritti filosofici . Vol. I, vol. II, vol. III
    with Massimo Mugnai
    Studia Leibnitiana 34 (1): 121-123. 2002.
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