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58Temporary 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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45Introductory 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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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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32Particularism 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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22Where 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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20How not to Define PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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17Punishment without Pain. Outline for a Non-Afflictive Definition of Legal PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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16A Précis of PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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15Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 4 (2). 2014.Download
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14He buttered the toast while baking a fresh loafPhilosophy 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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14Defending Punishment. Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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14L'etica filosofica e la spiegazione del senso comune in Henry SidgwickRivista di Filosofia 91 (2): 309-332. 2000.
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13Canned Heat: Ethics and Politics of Climate Change (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such as climate change refugees and food justice. Designed as four parts, the volume: first, offers an astute diagnosis of the political and moral intricacies of climate change; second, deals specifically wi…Read more
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11Intentions and IntentionalityPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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11A Précis of On People’s Terms. A Republican Theory and Model of DemocracyPhilosophy 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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10Some consequences of Thompson’s Life and Action for social philosophyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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10IntroductionPhilosophy 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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9Elaborating Negative RetributivismPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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8In Defense of the Invasive State Discussion of Brettschneider’s When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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8Identità personale, libertà e realismo morale: studi in onore di Robert Nozick (edited book)LUISS University Press. 2007.
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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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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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7Thompson on Rawls and PracticesPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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7Gridlock, or a Period of Reflection for Triple Loop LearningPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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