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    ‘Ought implies Can’ and the law
    with Chris Fox
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61 (4): 370-393. 2018.
    In this paper, we investigate the ‘ought implies can’ thesis, focusing on explanations and interpretations of OIC, with a view to clarifying its uses and relevance to legal philosophy. We first review various issues concerning the semantics and pragmatics of OIC; then we consider how OIC may be incorporated in Hartian and Kelsenian theories of the law. Along the way we also propose a taxonomy of OIC-related claims.
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    In Concreto Antinomies, Predictability, and Lawmaking
    Ratio Juris 33 (4): 399-429. 2020.
    This paper investigates whether or not cases of in concreto antinomies (ICAs for short, also called indirect antinomies, accidental antinomies, normative conflicts due to the facts, predicaments, or paranomies) can be predicted. I distinguish two main theoretical positions: “Prodetection” argues that we can predict in concreto antinomies; “unpredictability” argues that we cannot predict them.I exemplify the two positions by relying on a disagreement found in the literature; then, after reviewing…Read more
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    Impossibility in the Legal Domain
    Archiv Fuer Rechts Und Sozialphilosphie 105 (2): 205-217. 2019.
    I offer a framework for impossibility in the legal domain. I argue for two main points: the use of ‘impossibility’ and ‘impossible’ in the legal domain is often incoherent; in the law we often different concepts of impossibility as well as concepts that differ from impossibility that are nonetheless called ‘impossibility’.
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    Impossibility, Non-Existence and Constitutive Rules
    Archiv Fuer Rechts Und Sozialphilosphie 104 (2): 284-297. 2018.
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    An Introduction to Metametaphysics
    Journal of Social Ontology 3 (1): 129-132. 2017.
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    Meeting Dan Sperber’s Challenge to Searlean Social Ontology
    Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior 2 (2): 120-123. 2011.
    What follows is a brief commentary to Dan Sperber's plenary lecture at ECAP7 "The deconstruction of social unreality". Sperber's main criticism to Searle's socia lontology is that Searle attributes a causal role to mere Cambridge properties. Sperber then argues that declarations do not create institutional facts causally, criticizes the Serlean theory of recognition/acceptance and put forward his thesis using the concept cognitive causal chains.
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    I investigate collective intentionality (CI) through the “Ought” implies “Can” (OIC) principle. My leading question is does OIC impose any further requirement on CI? In answering the challenge inside a Searlean framework, I realize that we need to clarify what CI's structure is and what kind of role the agents joining a CI-act have. In the last part of the paper, I put forward an (inverted) Hartian framework to allow the Searlean CI theory to be agent sensitive and cope with the problems that em…Read more
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    Impossibilità nel Diritto
    Dissertation, Università Degli Studi di Milano. 2014.
    My Ph.D. thesis œImpossibilità nel diritto€ [Impossibility in the Legal Domain] is devoted to the systematic analyses of what are called, at least prima facie, €œlegal impossibilities. My dissertation defines and isolates an area of studies - impossibility in the law - that has never been put organically together. In my work I present some case studies of normative impossibilities and discuss them from a philosophical point of view: impossible laws, impossible norms in a prescriptive theory of…Read more
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    What’s New About New Realism? Mereology and the Varieties of (New) Realism
    with Jacopo Tagliabue
    Philosophia 43 (4): 1035-1046. 2015.
    The paper set up a small “philosophical lab” for thought experiments using Digital Universes as its main tool. Digital Universes allow us to examine how mereology affects the debate on New Realism of Ferraris and shed new light on the whole notion of Realism. The semi-formal framework provides a convenient way to model the varieties of realism that are important for the program of New Realism: we then draw the natural consequences of this approach into the ontology of our world, arguing that the…Read more
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    '€œDovere implica potere'€ a tutela dei diritti?
    In Mario Cossutta (ed.), Diritti Fondamentali E Diritti Sociali, Eut Edizioni Università Di Trieste. pp. 81--92. 2012.
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    Meeting Dan Sperber'€™s Challenge to Searlean Social Ontology
    Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica--Junior 2 (2): 120--123. 2011.