•  194
    Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge
    with Paolo Piccari
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2015.
    Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. However, ordinary knowledge is not only the result of sensory-perceptual processes, but also of non-perceptual contents that are present in any mind. From an epistemological point of view, ordinary knowledge is a form of knowledge that not only allows epistemic access to the world, but also enables the formulation of models of it with dif…Read more
  •  9
    Ethics and Virtue
    Global Bioethics 7 (1): 19-27. 1994.
  •  6
    Etica e Bioetica: valori umani e valori naturali
    Global Bioethics 1 (1): 43-49. 1988.
  •  5
    Biosfera e trasformazioni genetiche
    Global Bioethics 2 (5): 29-41. 1989.
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  •  3
  •  3
    Realismo e antirealismo (edited book)
    Aracne editrice S.r.l.. 2011.
  •  1
    Riflessioni sul senso della vita (edited book)
    with Alessandro Catelani and Simone Zacchini
    Aracne. 2010.
  • Conceptual Framework: A Frequency Model
    with Paolo Piccari
    Anthropology and Philosophy 10 9-29. 2010/2011.
  • Non-Perceptive Mental Image Generation: a Non-Linear Dynamic Framework
    with L. Foglia
    Anthropology and Philosophy 7 (1-2): 28-63. 2006.
    Mental imagery is an important topic in classical and modern philosophy, as it is central to the study of knowledge; since subjects can recall features of perceptual experiences in different ways and times, even modifying their structure, in this brief essay we will focus on non-perceptive mental images and to this purpose we will analyse, on the one hand, the nature of perceptive mental images ; on the other hand, NPMI generation according to different strategic conditions and retrieval modalit…Read more
  • Foreword
    with Lucia Foglia
    Anthropology and Philosophy 7 (1-2): 7-9. 2006.
  • Teorie e sistemi scientifici
    Nuova Spada. 1981.
  • Foreword
    with Paolo Piccari
    Anthropology and Philosophy 8 (1-2): 7-8. 2007.
  • The combination of current cosmology, physical theories, ancient cosmogonies, theologies, and metaphysics poses three main questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does being take many forms? What is the origin of everything? Many different answers have been given in various different fields to these questions. In theological, creationist metaphysics, the only answer is the existence of a creator who has given rise not only to everything, but also to the laws that govern existe…Read more
  • Inherent Logic: Isotopic and Inherent Bonds in Argumentation
    with Paolo Piccari
    Anthropology and Philosophy 8 (1-2): 9-32. 2007.
    In this paper we focus on argumentation as sequence of idemes that, from a neurophisiological point of view, are neuromental configurations correlated by inherent bonds. Such sequence of idemes, in turn, is encoded in a sequence of arguments on the basis of bonds among sememes: so the linguistic-propositional structure reflects the semiotic structure, and the latter reflects the idetic structure of argumentation. We propose to analyse the argumentative structure from different perspectives: the …Read more