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12The Nominalist Limit of Kim’s Ontological PhysicalismMetaphysica 25 (2): 311-338. 2024.Kim’s Ontological Physicalism (OP) presents itself as a naturalistic and monistic metaphysical framework, aligned with the causal closure of the universe and rejecting causally efficacious “exotic” properties. The foundational ontology is, in turn, monistic and materialistic, positing that the universe is composed solely of material particulars: bits of matter. In this work, we identify a notable tension between OP’s intended model and the one OP specifies. Initially, we show how the theory inev…Read more
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13Review: Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock’s Unorthodox Analytic Philosophy Texts in Philosophy, Volume 27, College Publications, 2018, 520pp., ISBN 978-1848902732 (review)South American Journal of Logic 6 165-175. 2019.
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Vladimir Jankélévitch's "diseases of temporality" and their impact on reconciliatory processesIn Marguerite La Caze & Magdalena Zolkos (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched, Lexington Books. 2019.
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8Substance metaphysics is incompatible with the causal closure of the metaphysical realmRevista Ética E Filosofia Política 1 (26): 78-102. 2023.The present paper argues that substantialist metaphysics are in tension with the physicalist idea that the universe is causally closed. The argument is a rather specific one and proceeds through three steps. The first step consists in arguing that monistic substance metaphysics allow for the existence of entities that cannot belong to the intended first order domain. This result sensitively depends on the nature of substances as invariant entities. The second step concludes that, if further doma…Read more
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76Process-based entities are relational structures. From Whitehead to structuralismManuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 1 (44): 149-207. 2021.The aim of this work is to argue for the idea that processes and process-based entities are to be modelled as relational structures. Relational structures are genuine structures, namely entities not committed to the existence of basic objects. My argument moves from the analysis of Whitehead’s original insight about process-based entities that, despite some residual of substance metaphysics, has the merit of grounding the intrinsic dynamism of reality on the holistic and relational characters of…Read more
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53An argument against nominalismSynthese 200 (5): 1-23. 2022.Nominalism in formal ontology is still the thesis that the only acceptable domain of quantification is the first-order domain of particulars. Nominalists may assert that second-order well-formed formulas can be fully and completely interpreted within the first-order domain, thereby avoiding any ontological commitment to second-order entities, by means of an appropriate semantics called “substitutional”. In this paper I argue that the success of this strategy depends on the ability of Nominalists…Read more
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Pluralità e interpretazione, Convegno di studi Università degli Studi di Genova – 22-23 novembre 2010Philosophical News 2. 2011.
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159HIV-positive status and preservation of privacy: a recent decision from the Italian Data Protection Authority on the procedure of gathering personal patient data in the dental officeJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (6): 386-388. 2012.The processing of sensitive information in the health field is subject to rigorous standards that guarantee the protection of information confidentiality. Recently, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) stated their formal opinion on a standard procedure in dental offices involving the submission of a questionnaire that includes the patient's health status. HIV infection status is included on the form. The Authority has stated that all health data c…Read more
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“dieses” Und “so Etwas”. Zur Ontologischen Klassifikation Platonischer Formen (review)Elenchos 30 (1): 164-168. 2009.
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27Presenza e relazione nel pensiero di Martin BuberEdizioni dell'Orso. 2012.È possibile istituire un nesso tra la presenza di Dio nel mondo, che Buber avrebbe descritto fin dai suoi primi scritti chassidici attraverso la nozione cabalistica di Shekinah, la presenza di Dio nell'uomo e la presenza dell’uomo a se stesso? È possibile riconoscere alla presenza il carattere fondamentale dell’accadere della relazione e, insieme, fondare la religione sull'accadere di quell’originario evento d’incontro, su una risposta al Tu? È possibile che, proprio attraverso l’evento della pr…Read more
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26Solcando il mare aperto dell’Europa all’alba del Ventesimo secolo, il giovane Martin Buber (1878-1965) ha sopra di sé diverse costellazioni, offerte tanto dal filosofare di Nietzsche, Dilthey e Simmel, quanto dalla letteratura della Jung Wien, quanto ancora da un ebraismo personale e sotterraneo, oscillante tra sionismo culturale e chassidismo. L’antitesi tra religione e religiosità offre a lui – come a noi – il sestante con il quale orientarsi in una così ardua navigazione. Forte di ciò, Buber …Read more
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Agostino Cera, Io con Tu. Karl Löwith e la possibilità di una MitanthropologieRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (2): 381. 2011.
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6Umanesimo ebraicoIl Melangolo. 2015.«All’interno di un genere umano ancora proteiforme e in divenire, sempre più persone percepiscono che cosa si stia preparando; la loro percezione cresce di giorno in giorno, e la conoscenza della crisi richiama in loro la sola controforza che può riuscire a elevare essi stessi a “signori” attraverso nuove mete, mete grandi e chiare, imponendosi su tali sediziosi mezzi. Questa controforza è quella che io chiamo il nuovo Umanesimo della fede ».
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Applied Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |