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53Hegel's NaturalismIn David S. Stern (ed.), Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, SUNY Press, Suny. 2012.Paper given at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America, University of South Carolina, October 24-26, 2008 forthcoming in the Conference Proceedings, "Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit", SUNY Press The local problem of the soul-body relation can be grasped only against the global background of the relation between Nature and Spirit. This relates to Hegel's naturalism: the idea that there is one single reality - living reality - and different levels of descriptio…Read more
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204IntroductionPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3-6. 2015.Introduction to a Forum on Michael's Thompson "Life and Action".
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5Critical Naturalism: Replies to the Critics of the ManifestoKrisis 44 (1): 125-135. 2024.In this paper, we comment and discuss the fifteen replies that interpret, solicit, problematize, and further develop our Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto (Krisis 42(1)), that have been published in Krisis 43(1). In the paper, we address four overarching topics that we see emerging from the replies: Histories and traditions of criticial naturalism; the relation between theory and praxis; the question of what is critical about critical naturalism; and finally the question of utopia. Additionally, …Read more
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Habits: Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science by Caruana F. & Testa I. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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16Forum on Robert B. Pippin, "After the beautiful"Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 7 1-40. 2015.
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34Naturalism in Question, a cura di Mario De Caro e David McArthurIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 19 (2): 409-420. 2006.
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32Habits: Pragmatist Approaches From Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.This book evaluates how the pragmatist notion of habit can influence current debates at the crossroads between philosophy, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social theory. It deals with the different aspects of the pragmatic turn involved in 4E cognitive science and traces back the roots of such a pragmatic turn to both classical and contemporary pragmatism. Written by renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and social theorists, this volume fills the need for an inter…Read more
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26Introduction: From Social Ontology to Mathematical Practice, and Back AgainTopoi 42 (1): 187-198. 2023.International audience.
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46Critical Naturalism: A ManifestoKrisis 42 (1): 108-124. 2022.The Critical Naturalism Manifesto is a common platform put forward as a basis for broad discussions around the problems faced by critical theory today. We are living in a time, e.g. a pandemic time, when present-day challenges exert immense pressure on social critique. This means that models of social critique should not be discussed from the point of view of their normative justification or political effects alone, but also with reference to their ability to tackle contemporary problematic issu…Read more
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16Life and the two-fold structure of domination: subjugation and recognition in Hegel’s master-servant dialecticsIntellectual History Review 31 (3): 427-444. 2021.In this article, the master-servant figure in the Phenomenology of Spirit is analyzed against the background of Hegel’s ontology of life as an embodied process. It is therefore argued that the theme of this figure is the question of domination in general, understood as a social relationship of subjection that can take on different historical configurations. Domination is understood as a relationship of disparity of status between dominant and dominated subjects. Therefore, domination would have …Read more
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61The Authority of Life: The Critical Task of Dewey's Social OntologyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (2): 231-244. 2017.ABSTRACT In this article I will first reconstruct a Deweyan model of social ontology, based on the process of habituation. Habit ontology leads to a social philosophy that is not merely descriptive, since it involves a critical redescription of the social world. I will argue that a habit-modeled social ontology is critical insofar as it includes an account of social transformation and of the inevitability of social conflict. Such an understanding is based on a diagnosis of social pathologies of …Read more
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5Robert BrandomIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 235-238. 2018.
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39How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted? Jaeggi, Social Ontology, and the Jargon of NormativityCritical Horizons 22 (2): 162-173. 2021.ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert bundles of practices and as having a normative structure. Here I argue that this approach is based on an a priori argument which assumes normativity as the condition of intelligibility of social criticism. I show that the intimate tension between these two sides is reflected in the socio-ontolo…Read more
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24Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical TheoryCritical Horizons 22 (2): 111-115. 2021.
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22Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life, by Andreja Novakovic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781316809723, $103.99 Hbk (review)European Journal of Philosophy 29 (1): 279-282. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 279-282, March 2021.
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65Expressive Embodiment: Hegel, Habitual Agency and the Shortcomings of Normative ExpressivismHegel Bulletin 42 (1): 114-132. 2021.In this paper I tackle the normative re-appropriation of the legacy of Charles Taylor's expressivist understanding of Hegel's theory of action. I argue that a normative understanding of Hegel's expressivist notion of agency by interpreters such as Robert Pippin, Terry Pinkard, Michael Quante and Robert Brandom, has been obtained at the price of losing sight of the principle of embodiment and of its relevance for our and Hegel's understanding of social action. I aim at relocating Hegel's notion o…Read more
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10Anerkennung über das Europa der Nationen hinaus? (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (3): 502-510. 2019.
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256How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted?Critical Horizons 1-12. 2019.n this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert bundles of practices and as having a normative structure. Here I argue that this approach is based on an a priori argument which assumes normativity as the condition of intelligibility of social criticism. I show that the intimate tension between these two sides is reflected in the socio-ontological model…Read more
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6Anerkennung über das Europa der Nationen hinaus?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (3): 502-510. 2019.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 67 Heft: 3 Seiten: 502-510.
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13Vita e dominio. Servo-padrone, assoggettamento, riconoscimentoSocietà Degli Individui 63 123-139. 2019.
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540In _"I that is We, We that is I"_ leading scholars analyze the many facets of Hegel’s formula for the intersubjective structure of human life and explores its relevance for debates on social ontology, recognition, action theory, constructivism, and naturalism.
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626Criticism from within naturePhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (4): 473-497. 2007.I tackle the definition of the relation between first and second nature while examining some problems with McDowell's conception. This, in the first place, will bring out the need to extend the notion of second nature to the social dimension, understanding it not just as `inner' second nature — individual mind — but also as `outer' second nature — objective spirit. In the second place the dialectical connection between these two notions of second nature will point the way to a critical use of th…Read more
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33Dominant Patterns in Associated Living: Hegemony, Domination, and Ideological Recognition in Dewey's Lectures in ChinaTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (1): 29. 2017.In this paper I will focus on the notion of “dominant patterns”, as revealed by the recently discovered typescript of what we can assume to be Dewey’s fragmentary and incomplete preliminary lectures notes for the Lecture Series on Social and Political Philosophy.1 I will show that the way the notion of “dominant patterns” is dealt with in the text of the lectures notes is not only consistent with the conceptual content of the whole series of the Lectures in China as published by R. W. Clopton an…Read more
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6Reshaping the geopolitics of critical theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 321-322. 2017.
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43Is Common Ground a Word or Just a Sound? Second Order Consensus and Argumentation TheoryIn Ralph H. Johnson and David M. Godden J. Anthony Blair Christopher W. Tindale Hans V. Hansen (ed.), Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, Ossa. 2007.This paper focuses on the role played by the concept of Common Ground by investigating various roles played by consensus and dissensus in different argumentation theories. A dynamic conception of Common Ground as a second order consensus will be invoked instead of a static definition as starting point, condition or result of an argumentative practice.
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123Embodied Cognition, Habit, and Natural Agency in Hegel’s AnthropologyIn Marina F. Bykova & Kenneth R. Westphal (eds.), The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 395-416. 2020.The aim of this chapter is to discuss the central role of the notion of " habit " (Gewohnheit) in Hegel's theory of " embodiment " (Verleiblichung) and to show that the philosophical outcome of the Anthropology is that habit, understood as a sensorimotor life form, is not only an enabling condition for there to be mindedness, but is more strongly an ontological constitutive condition of all its levels of manifestation. Moreover, I will argue that Hegel's approach somehow makes a model of embodie…Read more