• Città in gioco. La Smart City tra neoliberismo municipale e riduzione della complessità
    with Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Claudio Marciano
    Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione 3. 2020.
    L’articolo propone un’interpretazione critica dei processi di urbanizzazione cibernetica mettendo in evidenza, da un lato, il rapporto stringente tra Smart City e neoliberismo municipale, e da un altro, l'idiosincrasia tra determinismo tecnologico e complessità dei sistemi urbani. Nella prima parte la Smart City è descritta come una strategia di accumulazione finanziaria, uno strumento di governamentalità politica e una retorica della modernizzazione ecologica. In questa visione, la città si con…Read more
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    Emergence: A pluralist approach
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 38 (3): 339-355. 2024.
    Despite the common use of the concept of emergence, no uncontroversial theoretical framework has been yet formulated in this regard. In this paper, I examine what this circumstance suggests about the significance and usefulness of this concept. I first trace a brief history of the notion of emergence from its first formulation among the British Emergentists to its contemporary uses. Then, I outline its most common features and examine three examples of emergent phenomena, namely particle decay, …Read more
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    Feeding is a fundamental physiological need that falls within the realm of what we consider natural. However, throughout history, human beings have developed and employed several techniques to produce and manipulate food. Therefore, if the classical metaphysical distinction between natural and artefactual entities must be accepted, our food seems to predominantly fall into the latter category. Yet, discussions of artefacts do not typically involve organisms but rather material objects that canno…Read more
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    As highlighted by the last IPCC report on climate change (IPCC 2022), in addition to mitigation strategies relying on technological innovation and national and international policies, a relevant way to deal with the climate crisis is through personal behaviours such as shifting to sustainable diets. Despite being described as strategies relying on individual choices, however, the need for a global dietary change is hindered by some common narratives about food that have a relevant social dimensi…Read more
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    Emergent phenomena can be weak or strong. The former reflect epistemic limits and are ontologically innocent. The latter instantiate properties and powers not had by their components, and they are genuine, novel entities of the world. In this paper, I first show that this view rests upon two metaphysical assumptions: the Eleatic principle, and a power-based view of causation. Then, I suggest that these assumptions should be discussed, rather than passively accepted, and this for three reasons at…Read more
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    The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi (edited book)
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
    Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing together a team of experts in the philosophy of art to discuss his work, The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi presents the first philosophical exploration of Wang's art, his thought and his analysis of Chinese society. From his use of words in images to his reference to the classics of Western paintin…Read more
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    Emergencia e icnología ontológica. Hacia un textualismo metafísico
    Estudios Filosóficos 199 (68): 559-571. 2020.
    En este artículo analizaré el modelo de emergencia propuesto por Maurizio Ferraris en 2016, investigando sus raíces teóricas en su doctrina de la huella (icnología). Después de una revisión dedicada al debate emergentista clásico y contemporáneo, mostraré que la noción de emergencia desarrollada por Ferraris es ontológica y diacrónica. Este emergentismo, que se basa en los conceptos de huella y registro, también se configura como un concepto clave dentro del pensamiento de Ferraris, ya que repre…Read more
  • On the Meanings of Propaganda
    In Erica Onnis & Tiziana Andina (eds.), The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 71-86. 2019.
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    Metafisica dell'emergenza
    Rosenberg & Sellier. 2021.
    Negli ultimi anni, il richiamo al concetto di emergenza si è fatto sempre più diffuso in molte aree della filosofia e della scienza. Il termine viene usato per riferirsi alla circostanza in cui un sistema (fisico, chimico, biologico, ma anche sociale) manifesta delle proprietà e dei comportamenti che sembrano nuovi rispetto a quelli delle sue parti più semplici. Questo libro si propone di chiarire questo fenomeno, tenendo conto, da un lato, che le discipline coinvolte nel dibattito sono molte, q…Read more
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    In the last decades, countless works have been dedicated to the definition and analysis of the notion of emergence. In this article, I focus on three monographs recently written by three metaphysicians and philosophers of science, Paul Humphreys, Carl Gillett and Jessica Wilson, and I outline their models, together with the criteria considered fundamental for their formulation.
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    The complex and long genesis of the Daodejing is widely known. Whether it was originally composed by a single author, the legendary Laozi, or whether it emerged over time as a sort of collective anthology ancient sayings, the text underwent countless changes made by copyists and commentators over the centuries, and the Daodejing extensively published today is clearly something different from its first (and second) versions. For this reason, as well as for the nature of Chinese thought itself, it…Read more