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21Piccola guida filosofica all'identità personaleEditori Laterza. 2023.Quello che ci rende le persone che siamo è l’insieme delle nostre caratteristiche psicologiche (i ricordi, le emozioni, i desideri) o la persistenza delle nostre caratteristiche fisiche? La questione dell’identità personale è tra le più dibattute nella storia della filosofia fin dalle sue origini. Facendo uso di un copioso numero di esempi tratti dal quotidiano, questo libro conduce per mano dentro uno dei temi filosofici più sorprendenti.
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39The simplicity of identity. A defense of pixelism across space, time, and worldsDissertation, Università degli Studi di Genova. 2015.This dissertation studies the way entities inhabit our world. According to my analysis, there is only one way to exist, i.e. being an arrangements of atomic entities with a five-dimensional shape. I call this thesis “pixelism”.
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22Book Review of P. Perconti, Coscienza (review)Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 4 (1): 102-105. 2013.
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57Two Geometrical Models for PixelismMetaphysica (1): 99-113. 2020.Pixelism is the combination of three metaphysical thesis, namely a radical form of exdurantism, mereological nihilism and counterpart theory. Pixelism is a theory that evaluates all the metaphysical phenomena of persistence, composition and modality in a homogeneous and consistent manner. In a pixel world, there is no identity over time and over possible worlds and nothing persists over more than an instant or a world. Entities can be univocally identified by a five-coordinates system (the three…Read more
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118Parfitians as ExdurantistsAxiomathes (6): 1-9. 2017.Derek Parfit’s thesis that identity doesn’t matter in survival has been extensively discussed except for its metaphysical robustness. How can we justify the abandonment of identity in the way Parfit suggests? My argument is the following. Those who want to endorse the thesis that identity doesn’t matter (and, therefore, abandon identity across time) should adopt exdurantism, i.e. a metaphysics according to which the world is composed by temporal parts each existing at a time and according to whi…Read more
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21Persons, Reasons, and What Matters: The Philosophy of Derek ParfitArgumenta 1 (5): 9-10. 2019.Derek Parfit played a crucial role in the XX century philosophical debate. His masterpiece, Reasons and Persons, has been highly influential both in moral philosophy, and personal identity. It is hard to overlook the fact that Parfit’s ideas gave the main contribution to the contemporary philosophy of persons. He reformulates a debate stuck in the classical contraposition between psychological and physical criteria of personal identity, by introducing his most famous idea: identity doesn’t matte…Read more
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Metaphysics |
Mereology |
Philosophy of Mind |
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Theories of Personal Identity |
Metaphysics |
Extended Cognition |
Mereological Nihilism |
Counterpart Theory |
Persistence |
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