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Andrea Cesalpino's epistemologyIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Edwin Martin (eds.), Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism, Bloomsbury. 2023.
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704Reading Descartes. Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning (edited book)Firenze University Press. 2023.This volume takes cue from the idea that the thought of no philosopher can be understood without considering it as the result of a constant, lively dialogue with other thinkers, both in its internal evolution as well as in its reception, re-use, and assumption as a starting point in addressing past and present philosophical problems. In doing so, it focuses on a feature that is crucially emerging in the historiography of early modern philosophy and science, namely the complexity in the productio…Read more
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12Interpreting Aristotle’s Meteorologica I 7.344a5-8 in Renaissance and Early Modern PhilosophyAristotelica. forthcoming.This paper focuses on Renaissance and early modern readings of Aristotle’s _Meteorologica_ I 7.344a5-8, showing how the various interpretations of this passage were foundational for the establishment of an epistemology based on hypotheses and conjectures, and how this passage informed major philosophical and scientific elaborations of the time, extending its influence beyond the original field of application. The paper considers authors such as Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philoponus, Nifo, Pompona…Read more
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Immanuel Kant, universal understanding, and the meaning of Averroism in the German EnlightenmentIn Anna Akasoy & Guido Giglioni (eds.), Renaissance Averroism and its aftermath: Arabic philosophy in early modern Europe, Springer. 2013.
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11Philosophical academic programs of the German Enlightement: a literary genre recontextualized (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 2012.
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12Before Kant: Universals in German EnlightenmentPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 49-69. 2022.The paper deals with the problems of universals in German Enlightenment before Kant. The first part reconstructs the sources of the problem of universals, focusing in particular on Leibniz and Locke. The second part examines the early eclectic positions of Brucker, Baumgarten, Hollmann and Crusius. In the fourth part the essay investigates the relation between universals and the various combinatorial projects like those of Ploucquet and Lambert.
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5Language, vernacular and philosophy -- Sperone Speroni between language and logic -- Benedetto Varchi and the idea of a vernacular logic (1540) -- Antonio Tridapale and the first vernacular logic (1547) -- Nicolo Massa's logic for natural philosophy (1549) -- Alessandro Piccolomini's instrument of philosophy (1551)
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5Profumo d'immortalità: controversie sull'anima nella filosofia volgare del RinascimentoCarocci editore. 2016.
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Renaissance facultative logic and the workings of the mind: the "cognitive turn"In Stephan Schmid (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Routledge. 2018.
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16Galileo and the Epistemology of AnatomyPerspectives on Science 30 (5): 903-923. 2022.Starting from the examination of a passage of the Dialogo sopra i massimi sistemi del mondo that has been largely ignored by the scholarship, in this paper I want to reveal the true nature of Galileo’s epistemology in terms of its epistemic ideal, that is that theory is capable of providing true and certain knowledge about natural phenomena coming from sensation. The investigation examines all the occurrences of the expression sensate esperienze in its singular and plural forms, both in the Lati…Read more
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3Prospettive per la storia dei concetti nel ventunesimo secolo (Verona, 30.9.–2.10.2005) Ein TagungsberichtArchiv für Begriffsgeschichte 48 226-230. 2006.
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7The Historical Genesis of the Kantian Concept of »Transcendental«Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 53 97-117. 2011.The concept of »transcendental« is undoubtedly one of the most important terms in Kantian philosophy. For over one hundred and fifty years major Kantian scholars have debated its origin and set out various interpretations. The Kant-Forschung has recently established four different possible sources: 1) Schulmetaphysik 2) Ch. Wolff; 3) A. G. Baumgarten; 4) J. H. Lambert. The aim of this essay is to suggest a different origin and genesis of the Kantian concept of »transcendental« by the methodologi…Read more
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22Kant and Aristotle: Epistemology, Logic, and MethodState University of New York Press. 2016.A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Kant and Aristotle reassesses the prevailing understanding of Kant as an anti-Aristotelian philosopher. Taking epistemology, logic, and methodology to be the key disciplines through which Kant’s transcendental philosophy stood as an independent form of philosophy, Marco Sgarbi shows that Kant drew important elements of his logic and metap…Read more
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31Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were strongly empiricist in nature, both in the theory of knowledge and in scientific method; this character marked and influenced further developments in British philosophy at the end of the century, and eventually gave rise to what …Read more
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8Il Cielo Stellato Sopra di Me e la Legge Morale in MePhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (39): 45-54. 2012.«Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily reflection is occupied with them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me». With these famous words written on paper and inscribed in stone, Immanuel Kant concludes the Critique of Practical Reason. In this paper, I intend to show how this sentence is closely linked with: 1) the kantian doctrine on the sublime and 2) to the foundation of the logic of the irrational in the Critiqu…Read more
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9Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in early modern EuropeRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 4 821-823. 2009.
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Umriß der Theorie der ProblemgeschichteIn , Meiner Verlag. 2010.Im Blick auf die Grenzen und die Möglichkeiten, die die Begriffsgeschichte bisher entwickelt hat, analysiert dieser Band ihre Geschichte, ihre Entwicklung und ihre zukünftigen Perspektiven. Der erste Teil behandelt die historische Entwicklung der Begriffsgeschichte, ihre bedeutendsten Leistungen und ihre Beziehung zur Problemgeschichte und zur Metapherngeschichte. Teil II erörtert die Beziehungen zwischen Begriffsgeschichte und politischer Philosophie und Teil III widmet sich einem Ausblick auf …Read more
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129Towards a Reassessment of British AristotelianismVivarium 50 (1): 85-109. 2012.Abstract The aim of the paper is to reassess the role of British Aristotelianism within the history of early modern logic between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a crucial moment of cultural transition from the model of humanistic rhetoric and dialectic to that of facultative logic, that is, a logic which concerns the study of the cognitive powers of the mind. The paper shows that there is a special connection between Paduan Aristotelianism and British empiricism, through the mediati…Read more
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Schede-Johannes Rohbeck, Wolfgang Rother, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts. 3. Italien (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (4): 811. 2011.
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Thomas White, an Aristotelian Response to ScepticismArchiwum Historii Filozofii I Myśli Społecznej 58. 2013.The paper aims to examine straightforwardly Thomas White’s Sciri, sive Scepticeset scepticorum jure disputationis exclusio and to contextualise it in the broadest intellectual framework of the seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. From the examination of the Exclusio we can see the novelty and freshness of White’s Aristotelian positions in attacking all kinds of scepticism. These originalities are the subject of the present article, rather than the well-known controversy with Joseph Glanvill.
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The genesis of the foundation of morality in Kant. Note in the Margin of a recent comment to the criticism of practical reasonRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 102 (1): 179-193. 2010.
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18What Does a Renaissance Aristotelian Look Like? From Petrarch to GalileiHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 7 (2): 226-245. 2017.A pervasive and much cherished paradigm among historians of science is to view the origin of “modern science” as a reaction against Aristotelians and Aristotle’s ruling authority. But what does a Renaissance Aristotelian really look like? This article seeks to answer this question by bringing to light direct accounts of what it meant to be an Aristotelian at that time and by showing a connection between the antiauthoritarian stance that is typical of early modern scientists and thinkers and that…Read more
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14Storia della filosofia come decolonizzazione. Il lavoro storico-filosofico di Gregorio PiaiaQuaestio 11 507-510. 2011.
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8What was meant by vulgarizing in the Italian Renaissance?Intellectual History Review 29 (3): 389-416. 2019.What did it mean to “vulgarize” in Renaissance Italy? Was it simply a matter of translating into the vernacular, or did it mean making a text more accessible to the people – to in some sense popularize it? The answer is far from simple and certainly never one-sided; therefore, each individual case needs to be independently assessed on its own merits. This article seeks to shed some light at least on the major treatments of the theory of vulgarization by the likes of Ludovico Castelvetro, Faustus…Read more
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