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43From the Atom to Living Systems: A Chemical and Philosophical Journey Into Modern and Contemporary ScienceOxford University Press. 2023.The philosophical vision of the world and the consequent methodology behind the book are clarified. The perspective used is the systemic one, but since today this term has assumed a wide and diversified meaning in the literature, this introduction will clarify the specific meaning of our approach, starting from the meaning of the term "system". Our idea of system is based on three key assertions that may seem contradictory, but are necessary and complementary to its definition. In particular, we…Read more
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346'Orfeo nero' e lo storicismo estetico: Il pensiero vichiano ed il concetto di negritudineBolletino Del Centro di Studi Vichiani. forthcoming.
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18Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical propertiesFoundations of Chemistry 24 (3): 423-431. 2022.This paper establishes that Robert Boyle’s complex chemical ontology implies a non-reductionistic conception of chemical qualities and, more specifically, a conception of chemical qualities as being dispositional and relational. Though Peter Anstey has already shown that that Boyle considered sensible qualities to be dispositional and relational, this moves beyond Anstey’s work by extending his arguments to chemical properties. These arguments are, however, merely a first step in establishing a …Read more
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17The Limits of Classical Extensional Mereology for the Formalization of Whole–Parts Relations in Quantum Chemical SystemsPhilosophies 5 (3): 16. 2020.This paper examines whether classical extensional mereology is adequate for formalizing the whole–parts relation in quantum chemical systems. Although other philosophers have argued that classical extensional and summative mereology does not adequately formalize whole–parts relation within organic wholes and social wholes, such critiques often assume that summative mereology is appropriate for formalizing the whole–parts relation in inorganic wholes such as atoms and molecules. However, my discu…Read more
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21Shifting the geography of reason: gender, science and religion (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.MARINA PAOLA BANCHETTI-ROBINO is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Florida Atlantic University. Her areas of research include phenomenology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and zoosemiotics. Her publications have appeared in such journals as Synthese, Husserl Studies, Idealistic Studies, Philosophy East and West, and The Review of Metaphysics. She has also contributed essays to The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy (1997)…Read more
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304The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and EmergenceOxford University Press. 2020.This book examines the way in which Robert Boyle seeks to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of a mechanistic theory of matter. More specifically, the book proposes that Boyle regards chemical qualities as properties that emerged from the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Within Boyle’s chemical ontology, chymical atoms are structured concretions of particles that Boyle regards as chemically elementary entities, that is, as chemical wholes that resist exper…Read more
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214Sull’inadeguatezza della mereologia formale husserliana per l’ontologia regionale degli insiemi chimiciPhilosophy Kitchen: Rivista di Filosofia Contemporanea 7 (11): 95-112. 2019.In his book, History as a Science and the System of the Sciences, Thomas Seebohm articulates the view that history can serve to mediate between the sciences of explanation and the sciences of interpretation, that is, between the natural sciences and the human sciences. Among other things, Seebohm analyzes history from a phenomenological perspective to reveal the material foundations of the historical human sciences in the lifeworld. As a preliminary to his analyses, Seebohm examines the formal a…Read more
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35Mechanism and Chemistry in Early Modern Natural PhilosophyEncyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. 2019.
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1Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 879-880. 2003.The field of contemporary ethics has been dominated by two opposite but equally extreme positions regarding the function of rules in moral reasoning. According to the first of these positions, known as rule-based ethics, morality consists of obeying a set of rules. On the other hand, according to the opposite view, known as particularism, moral reasoning cannot be reduced to the application of rules to particular situations. The particularist argues that rules and rule-following cannot genuinely…Read more
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31Dialogue on Consciousness: Minds, Brains, and Zombies, by John PerryTeaching Philosophy 42 (2): 155-157. 2019.
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31The function of microstructure in Boyle’s chemical philosophy: ‘chymical atoms' and structural explanationFoundations of Chemistry 21 (1): 51-59. 2019.One of several important issues that inform contemporary philosophy of chemistry is the issue of structural explanation, precisely because modern chemistry is primarily concerned with microstructure. This paper argues that concern over microstructure, albeit understood differently than it is today, also informs the chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle. According to Boyle, the specific microstructure of ‘chymical atoms’, understood in geometric terms, accounts for the unique essential properties o…Read more
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In his book, 'History as a Science and the System of the Sciences', Thomas Seebohm articulates the view that history can serve to mediate between the sciences of explanation and the sciences of interpretation, that is, between the natural sciences and the human sciences. Among other things, Seebohm analyzes history from a phenomenological perspective to reveal the material foundations of the historical human sciences in the lifeworld. As a preliminary to his analyses, Seebohm examines the formal…Read more
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1Phenomenological Epistemology and Nanotechnology: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy as Hermeneutic TechnicsIn Jean-Pierre Llored (ed.), Ethics and Chemistry: A Multidisciplinary Investigation, . forthcoming.
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932Il minimo, l’unità, e l’universo infinito nella cosmologia vitalistica di Giordano BrunoIn Andrea Muni (ed.), Platone nel pensiero moderno e contemporaneo - Volume XV, Limina Mentis. pp. 1-20. 2018.
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32The Function of Microstructure in Boyle's Chemical Philosophy: 'Chymical Atoms' and Structural ExplanationFoundations of Chemistry 21 (1): 51-59. 2019.One of several important issues that inform contemporary philosophy of chemistry is the issue of structural explanation, precisely because modern chemistry is primarily concerned with microstructure. This paper argues that concern over microstructure, albeit understood differently than it is today, also informs the chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627–1691). According to Boyle, the specific microstructure of ‘chymical atoms’, understood in geometric terms, accounts for the unique essential …Read more
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206Frantz Fanon: Política y poética del sujeto poscolonial de Alejandro de Oto: Un ComentarioCaribbean Studies/Estudios Del Caribe/Études de la Caraïbe 33 (2): 227-232. 2005.
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711Il neoplatonismo nell'ontologia chimica di Jan Baptista van HelmontIn Marina P. Banchetti (ed.), Il minimo, l’unità, e l’universo infinito nella cosmologia vitalistica di Giordano Bruno, Limina Mentis. 2018.
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13Guest editorial Introduction: Foundations of Chemistry (Special Issue)Foundations of Chemistry 19 (3): 183-184. 2017.
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Hermeneutic Technics: The Case of Nuclear ReactorsIn Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, D. E. Marietta & L. Embree (eds.), Philosophies of the Environment and Technology (Research in Philosophy and Technology), Jai Press. 1999.
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