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Ethical properties as resultant qualities: Or, the naturalism of W.d. RossPhilosophical Writings 33 (3). 2006.The main claim of this paper is that, contrary to the received view, Ross’ doctrine of resultance does not provide a premise in favour of non-naturalism, but rather makes possible a viable form of non-reductionist naturalism. This is argued mainly by viewing resultance as constitution, where resultant properties are constituted by those natural properties from which they result. Accordingly, resultant properties and their constitutive properties can be viewed as placed in the same ontological re…Read more
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37Two Models of Qualitative Hedonism? Hutcheson e MillRivista di Filosofia 99 (3): 373-396. 2008.In this paper, two different axiologies of pleasure are attributed to Hutcheson and Mill. Hutcheson endorsed a hedonist axiology, where quality of pleasure works as a still quantitative factor, able to counterbalance other quantitative features of pleasurable mental states - such as intensity and duration. By contrast, in Mill's view of value, the quality of pleasures is the only value-making feature, silencing any contribution from other quantitative elements. Therefore, the presence of certain…Read more
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8A Précis of When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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1Response to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Sospensione riproduttiva temporanea: etica delle popolazioni e cambiamento climaticoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 57-78. 2012.
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6Punishment and CoherencePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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46Introductory Note. Population Ethics: The Unavoidability of the Quality of Life and the Ensuing ParadoxesIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 27-34. 2012.Population ethics is defined and presented, and some of the paradoxes it encapsulates are spelled out. It is argued that the concept of the quality of a life or of a life worth living can- not be avoided if inquiry on many relevant ethical and political topics is to be pursued in a theoretically fitting mode. In particular, the article deals with the asymmetry between rea- sons for not creating unhappy lives and reasons for creating happy lives, the well-known repugnant conclusion and the parado…Read more
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15He buttered the toast while baking a fresh loafPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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9Virtualization of the Real and Citizenship People, Power, Society, and PersonsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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14Democratic Equality and Freedom of Religion: Between Coercion and PersuasionPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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14Symposium: Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it MostPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.With a discussion of Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most. By Thom Hale, David Held, and Kevin Young. Guest editors Marcello Di Paola Pietro Maffettone Submission deadline Long abstract : 15 July, 2015 Full paper : […]
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Ambiente, cambiamento climatico e generazioni future [Environment, Climate change, and Future Generations]la Società Degli Individui 39. 2010.Il saggio introduce le tematiche di questo numero, soffermandosi in parti- colare sulla rilevanza etica e politica del cambiamento climatico. Dopo una rapida spiegazione dell'effetto serra naturale e artificiale, si ripercorrono le teorie che concepiscono il cambiamento climatico come un problema di giustizia distributiva. Secondo alcuni autori queste teorie non sono suffi- cienti per dare strumenti adeguati, perché il cambiamento climatico rappre- senta un problema etico nuovo, che richiede una…Read more
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2Religious Freedom and the Reasons for RightsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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10Money, Autonomy, Citizenship. Effects of the Programa Bolsa Familia on Its ParticipantsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Gridlock? MaybePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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7Thompson on Rawls and PracticesPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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6Responses to Rubenstein, Conly, Vallier, and LeverPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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59Temporary Reproductive Suspension: Population Ethics and Climate ChangeIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 57-78. 2012.This paper focuses on a specific proposal connected with the issue of mitigating climate change by reducing GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. The idea of campaigning in favour of a temporary reproductive suspension, to be addressed to a range of citizens of developed countries , is explored. Some details of the proposal are specified, and the proposal itself is defended against four objec- tions: 1. that it encroaches reproductive freedom; 2. that it subtracts from the overall value the valu…Read more
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33Particularism and individuation: Disappearing, not varying, features (review)Acta Analytica 21 (2): 54-70. 2006.Particularism denies that invariant valence is always possible and that it is needed in sound moral theorising. It relies on variabilism, namely the idea that the relevant features of a given situation can alter their moral valence even across seemingly similar cases. An alternative model is defended (the “disappearing model”), in which changes in the overall relevance of complex cases are explained by re-individuation of the constituent features: certain features do not alter their relevance in…Read more
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8Justice in the Auditorium Gardiner’s Theory of Intergenerational JusticePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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25How not to Define PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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20Where does our undestanding of life come from? The riddle about recognizing living thingsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. 2015.The essay discusses Michael Thompson's original way of combining Aristotle and Frege in understanding life and, more specifically, biological species. His approach is compared with different styles of thought of hermeneutical or phenomenological leaning.
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14Defending Punishment. Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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3The Concept of Person between the Christian Tradition and Post-modern SocietyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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18A Précis of PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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6Re-stating Statist Theories of TerritoryPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Nota introduttiva. Etica delle popolazioni: l'inevitabilità della qualità della vita e dei paradossi che ne conseguonoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 27-34. 2012.
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