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572Reading 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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126Towards 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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72Rocco Lozano, Valerio:" La vieja Roma en el joven Hegel"Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 29 (2): 731-737. 2012.
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51Aristotele e il problema della soggettivitàTrans/Form/Ação 34 (3): 105-115. 2011.Gli storici della filosofia solitamente attribuiscono ai pensatori moderni l'invenzioni di concetto "soggetto", "oggetto" e "soggettività" e li concepiscono in direttamente in contrasto con la filosofia scolastica e aristotelica. Questo articolo suggerisce la presenza di una proto-teoria della soggettività in Aristotele. La teoria aristotelica della soggettività è fondata principalmente su quattro dottrine. In primo luogo, si può riscontrare nell'epistemologia aristotelica la presenza di una "pr…Read more
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34Metaphysics in Königsberg prior to KantTrans/Form/Ação 33 (1): 31-64. 2010.The present contribute aims to reconstruct, using the methodology of intellectual history, the broad spectrum of metaphysical doctrines that Kant could know during the years of the formation of his philosophy. The first part deals with the teaching of metaphysics in Königsberg from 1703 to 1770. The second part examines the main characteristics of the metaphysics in the various handbooks, which were taught at the Albertina, in order to have an exhaustive overview of all metaphysical positions.O …Read more
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33La fuente de Hume de la distinción “impresión-idea”Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 29 (2): 561-576. 2012.In this paper I aim to investigate Hume’s well-known distinction between impressions and ideas, following the methodology of the history of ideas, and showing its specificity and suggesting a possible source, which has not been given much attention by the scholarship, namely the logical doctrines of the physician and anatomist William Harvey, which provide the key concepts to understand Hume’s logic of ideas. After some introductory remarks, the second part deals with the many issues involved in…Read more
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33Doyle, John P. Collected Studies on Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617) (review)Review of Metaphysics 65 (4): 866-868. 2012.
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27Cosa significa scrivere una storia della tradizione? Il caso dello scetticismoQuaestio 7 (1): 576-578. 2007.
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24Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Within the Tradition of Modern LogicIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 497-508. 2013.
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22Translatio studiorum: ancient, medieval and modern bearers of intellectual history (edited book)Brill. 2012.This volume collects 17 case studies that characterize the various kinds of translations of the European culture of the last two and a half millennia from ancient Greece to Rome, from the medieval world to the Renaissance up to the ...
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20Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2012.In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. The purpose of the volume is to fill a substantial gap in Kant research and to offer a complete survey of the topic in different areas of research, such as history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and anthropology. "
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20Kant 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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19Offers 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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19Kant e i figli di Diotima. Nota a margine di un recente lavoro sull'estetica razionalista tedescaIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (1): 171-182. 2011.
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18Il cielo stellato sopra di me e la legge morale in me obsservazioni sul sublime e sulla logica dell'irrazionale in KantPhilosophica -- Revista Do Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa 39 45-54. 2012.
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18Aristotle on SubjectivityTrans/Form/Ação 34 (3): 105-115. 2011.Philosophers usually attribute to modernity the invention of concepts like 'subject', 'object' and 'subjectivity' and they understand them in contrast to Scholastic and Aristotelian philosophies. The present paper suggests the presence of a proto-theory of subjectivity in Aristotle. The Aristotelian theory of subjectivity is grounded principally on four doctrines. First, we can recognize the presence of a 'perspective' and of a 'point of view' in the Aristotelian epistemology. The second relevan…Read more
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18The aftermath of syllogism: Aristotelian logical argument from Avicenna to Hegel (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2018.Syllogism is a form of logical argument allowing one to deduce a consistent conclusion based on a pair of premises having a common term. Although Aristotle was the first to conceive and develop this way of reasoning, he left open a lot of conceptual space for further modifications, improvements and systematizations with regards to his original syllogistic theory. From its creation until modern times, syllogism has remained a powerful and compelling device of deduction and argument, used by a var…Read more
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17A metafísica em königsberg antes de kant (1703-1770)Trans/Form/Ação 33 (1). 2010.The present contribute aims to reconstruct, using the methodology of intellectual history, the broad spectrum of metaphysical doctrines that Kant could know during the years of the formation of his philosophy. The first part deals with the teaching of metaphysics in Königsberg from 1703 to 1770. The second part examines the main characteristics of the metaphysics in the various handbooks, which were taught at the Albertina, in order to have an exhaustive overview of all metaphysical positions
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17Congresso Internazionale di Studi su Pietro PomponazziRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 135-138. 2010.
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15Kant, Rabe e la logica aristotelicaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia (2): 289-313. 2009.Kant, Rabe e la logica aristotelica - This article shows the influence of the Aristotelian Paul Rabe on Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. In the first part, I reconstruct the status quaestions regarding Rabe in Aristotelian studies and in Kantforschung. The second part looks at Rabe’s life and works. It is demonstrated in the third part that Kant’s definition of dialectic as Logik des Scheins comes from Rabe’s definition of dialectic as logica ex apparentibus. The fourth part shows the Aristotelian or…Read more
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12Ludovico Dolce e la nascita della critica d’arteRivista di Estetica 59 163-182. 2015.L’articolo mostra come la riscoperta della Poetica di Aristotele nel XVI secolo abbia portato all’emergere della critica d’arte, di contro all’idea tradizionale secondo la quale essa sarebbe nata durante l’Illuminismo. L’articolo si concentra sulla poliedrica figura di Ludovico Dolce il quale, nel suo Dialogo sulla Pittura (1557), utilizza i precetti della poetica aristotelica per stabilire rigidi criteri di giudizio delle opere d’arte. A differenza di molti altri autori suoi contemporanei che s…Read more
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12What 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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