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43Imagination and Social Perspectives: Approaches From Phenomenology and Psychopathology (edited book)Routledge. 2017.This book investigates the phenomenon of perspectival flexibility in its different facets and with particular attention to social experience. Our experience of other individuals goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from different points of view; an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals; and the positions we take can be mediated in part by our belonging to s…Read more
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L’articulation entre concrescence et transition et sa portée ontologique chez WhiteheadArchives de Philosophie 86 (4). 2023.Résumé L’approche processuelle, incomplètement élaborée dans les travaux épistémologiques de Whitehead, nécessite un approfondissement métaphysique, que son extension à toutes les strates de l’univers permettra d’obtenir : le processus est finalement interprété en termes d’expérience. La réalité se présente alors comme un tout en constante évolution, aux parties interconnectées. L’ontologie substantialiste est remplacée par une ontologie relationniste. En résulte un dédoublement de la notion de …Read more
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7On the Notion of Processuality in Whitehead: Concrescence and Transition CorrelatedIn Alessandra Campo & Simone Gozzano (eds.), Einstein Vs. Bergson: An Enduring Quarrel on Time, De Gruyter. pp. 251-272. 2021.
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2The voice of no one: Merleau-Ponty on time and natureMimesis International. 2017.The book addresses Merleau-Ponty's so-called ontology of the flesh, a rather obscure expression that the book explains in depth by drawing from Merleau-Ponty's lecture courses, published in the last years. In light of these publications, the book shows the importance and the novelty of Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy, which until recently has been seldom addressed in its entirety. Thanks to the knowledge of the whole range of Merleau-Ponty's now published body of work and of the as yet unpublis…Read more
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14Concrescence and transition: Whitehead and the process of subjectivationMimesis International. 2021.The book deals with the complex notion of process worked out by Alfred N. Whitehead, a notion that includes his deep revision of the concepts of time and space. Throughout his whole career, Whitehead emphasized the importance of process for the account of reality. The book discusses Whitehead's concept of process starting from his works in mathematics, logic and epistemology of the natural sciences, in order to pave the way for a better understanding of Whitehead's speculative philosophy. The fo…Read more
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3In this paper I intend to demonstrate how Merleau-Ponty develops in his late thought an insightful account of reality. In opposition to the ontological primacy Husserl and Heidegger bestow to man, Merleau-Ponty’s late perspective is based on a dynamic ontology, namely on a philosophical understanding of the strict relation between nature and consciousness. With this respect, Merleau- Ponty approaches the problem of negativity, in order to explain the differences within reality without adopting a…Read more
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22Mutual Determination, Concrescence and Transition. Whitehead’s Speculative Conception of Temporal Subjectivity Interpreted from a Merleau-Pontyan StandpointChiasmi International 22 101-117. 2020.The interpretive approach adopted in this paper is influenced by Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy and in particular by his understanding of Nature, which in turn takes into consideration Whitehead’s work. Whitehead’s philosophy of organism is seen by its author as the metaphysical generalization of problems found in his investigation of natural knowledge. Whitehead admits that a speculative approach is necessitated by the very questions arising from the mathematical concepts of the material world and …Read more
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8The Problem of Nature between Philosophy and Science. Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Ontology and its Epistemological ImplicationsDiscipline filosofiche. 24 (2): 23-44. 2014.In this paper I discuss the epistemological implications of the notion of nature and of natural experience for the phenomenological approach worked out by Merleau- Ponty before and after the Phenomenology of Perception. Nature plays a decisive role in Merleau-Ponty’s approach to phenomenology and to philosophy as a whole. The subject is “in” nature and its attachments to nature are to be shown through a discussion of all those scientific approaches that can offer a clue in this respect. But at t…Read more
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10La concezione processuale della natura in WhiteheadNóema 11 1-18. 2020.La metafisica del processo, di cui Process and Reality è il manifesto e la attuazione, non nasce dal nulla, ma al contrario emerge da una complessa e prolungata meditazione condotta da Whitehead sin dai primi scritti, di carattere logico e matematico, e passa poi per una articolata riflessione sui problemi fondamentali dell’epistemologia delle scienze naturali, condotta alla luce della rivoluzione concettuale generata dalle ricerche di Einstein ma anche di molti altri studiosi.Per situare quindi…Read more
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14L’esperienza del dolore. Modelli concettuali a confrontoPhilosophical Readings 8 (1): 46-52. 2016.
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11La manifestation de la douleur comme paradigme de l’interanimalitéRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 101 (1): 25. 2019.
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8Metamorfosi. La questione dell'espressione nella filosofia di Merleau-PontyLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 9 31-47. 2016.Merleau-Ponty’s notion of expression originates from his interests in the bodily subjectivity and is rooted in his phenomenology of perception, where he discusses language and speech in the light of his notion of embodiment. Yet this first achievement leaves some questions open. In his deepening of the problems of perception Merleau-Ponty is led to relate perception and expression in the light of a renovated investigation of the ontological implications of the former, which also leads to articul…Read more
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6Nature, Negativity, Event: The Question of the Emergence of the Centre in the Ontology of the FleshChiasmi International 11 171-182. 2009.
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55Feeling and Experiencing Pain. A Comparison Between Different Conceptual ModelsHumana Mente (31): 135-150. 2016.In this paper the complex phenomenon of pain is discussed and analysed along different theoretical paths: cognitivism, hermeneutics, phenomenology. The neuro-cognitive approach is exemplified through Paul and Patricia Churchland’s writings; then H.-G. Gadamer’s hermeneutical approach is evaluated. While apparently opposite, they share a common assumption, namely that the body is basically to be conceived of as not really different from the Cartesian Res extensa. Some problems thus arise: in part…Read more
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27Nature, Negativity, Event: The Question of the Emergence of the Centre in the Ontology of the FleshChiasmi International 11 171-182. 2009.
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17Il principio barbaro. Merleau-Ponty lettore di SchellingGiornale di Metafisica 25 (1): 95-108. 2003.
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28The Flesh BetweenChiasmi International 18 49-61. 2016.In this paper I aim to discuss an essay written by the French psychoanalyst André Green on occasion of the publication in 1964 of The Visible and the Invisible, in order to frame it within the context of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for the sake of letting emerge both the critical importance and some structural issues implied in Green’s reading.Green’s study clearly points out that the question concerning Merleau-Ponty’s notion of “flesh” represents a fundamental theme for psychoanalysis, in conne…Read more
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25Raw Being and the Darkness of Nature. On Merleau-Ponty’s Appropriation of SchellingChiasmi International 16 239-252. 2014.In this article, we will reflect on the theoretical strategy implemented by Merleau-Ponty in his reading of Schelling. The purpose is not to verify the philological accuracy of his reading, but rather to examine two different yet interconnected questions: on the one hand, to study the sense Schelling’s concept of Nature takes in Merleau-Ponty’s ontological project; on the other, to discuss the role that Schelling’s philosophy effectively plays in the way that Merleau-Ponty approaches the problem…Read more
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18Naturalizing Phenomenology, and the Nature of PhenomenaChiasmi International 14 131-142. 2012.La naturalisation de la phénoménologie et la nature des phénomènesLe projet de naturalisation de la phénoménologie est né comme une tentative d’intégrer réciproquement les neurosciences et la philosophie phénoménologique. Les principaux représentants de ce projet, Jean Petitot et Francisco Varela, ont étés inspirés par Merleau-Ponty en tant que référence philosophique permettant de développer de façon féconde ce point de vue. Cependant, les deux auteurs ne semblent pas assumer jusqu’au bout les …Read more
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41Presenting the Unpresentable: The Metaphor in Merleau‐Ponty's Last WritingsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 43 (3): 463-474. 2010.