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185Naturalism in question (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2004.This volume presents a group of leading thinkers who criticize scientific naturalism not in the name of some form of supernaturalism, but in order to defend a ...
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147Not so fast. On some bold neuroscientific claims concerning human agencyNeuroethics 3 (1): 23-41. 2009.According to a widespread view, a complete explanatory reduction of all aspects of the human mind to the electro-chemical functioning of the brain is at hand and will certainly produce vast and positive cultural, political and social consequences. However, notwithstanding the astonishing advances generated by the neurosciences in recent years for our understanding of the mechanisms and functions of the brain, the application of these findings to the specific but crucial issue of human agency can…Read more
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139Naturalism and Normativity (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? For scientific naturalists, the moral is that the normative must be reduced to the nonnormative, while for nonnaturalists, the moral is that there must be a transc…Read more
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132Introduction - the nature of naturalismIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press. pp. 1-20. 2004.The critical concern of the present volume is contemporary naturalism, both in its scientific version and as represented by newly emerging hopes for another, philosophically more liberal, naturalism.1 The papers collected here are state-of-the-art discussions that question the appeal, rational motivations, and presuppositions of scientific naturalism across a broad range of philosophical topics. As an alternative to scientific naturalism, we offer the outlines of a new non- reductive form of nat…Read more
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76Emotional skillfulness and virtue acquisitionIn Daniel Dukes, Andrea Samson & Eric Walle (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development, Oxford University Press. pp. 503-512. 2022.In this chapter, we will offer a sketch of the state of the art as concerns existing accounts of virtue acquisition in relation to automaticity. In particular, we will focus on the so-called “skill model,” which we aim to improve by questioning its rather common underlying dualistic picture of the mind. Then we will propose an account of skillful emotions by identifying the features that make them both automatic and embedded in an intelligent practice. Finally, we will show how this view can hel…Read more
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74Is freedom really a mystery?In The Claims of Naturalism, . 2004.In this paper the problem of free will is examined
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65Mysterianism and SkepticismIris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2): 449-458. 2009.The article discusses the proposals for replying to the skeptical challenge developed by the so-called Neo-mysterians, and more particularly by the most eloquent of them, Colin McGinn. McGinn’s version of mysterianism, which he labels “Transcendental Naturalism,” is a very candid and rigorous form of scientific naturalism since (contrary to the standard naturalistic views) it is prepared to concede both that the attempts to reduce philosophically controversial phenomena – such as knowledge, free…Read more
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64Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999.In Interpretations and Causes, some of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers discuss Davidson's new ideas in a lively, relevant, useful, and not always ...
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63Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective (review)Philosophical Review 124 (1): 156-158. 2015.
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58Understanding NaturalismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (4). 2011.International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 624-628, October 2011
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45The Two Faces of RealismQuaestio 12 503-513. 2012.According to some philosophers, philosophical realism is an obsolete, specious and irrelevant conceptio. In this essay I argue that this thesis is deeply flawed because the issue of realism is philosophically inescapable. Then I discuss two versions of philosophical realism that are particularly widespread today: common sense realism and scientific realism. These conceptions tend to be hegemonic, and consequently often in conflict with each other. The biggest challenge for philosophical realism …Read more
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43IntroduzioneRivista di Estetica 44 3-5. 2010.“Naturalismo” è una parola che si dice in molti modi, almeno tanti quanti nella storia della filosofia e nel sentire comune sono i modi in cui si è parlato di “natura” e di espressioni simili. Oggi, il tema del naturalismo in filosofia e della cosiddetta naturalizzazione che una filosofia dovrebbe eventualmente attrezzare determinate nozioni e teorie è tornato prepotentemente alla ribalta della riflessione filosofica, sulla scia dei successi provenienti dalle scienze cognitive (linguistica, n...
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38Il migliore dei naturalismi possibiliRivista di Estetica 44 157-169. 2010.In this paper, we first set out three requirements that each e-theory – a theory whose task is to explain data – must fulfill in order to be one such good theory: i) an ontological requirement, i.e. adequate simplicity, ii) a methodological requirement, i.e. plurality of research procedures, iii) an epistemological requirement, i.e. compatibility with the best available epistemical procedures. Moreover, we will claim that from the metaphilosophical point of view, unlike scientific naturalism on …Read more
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35The view from outside: On a distinctively cinematic achievementPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (2): 154-170. 2016.What aesthetic interest do we have in watching films? In a much debated paper, Roger Scruton argued that this interest typically comes down to the interest in the dramatic representations recorded by such films. Berys Gaut and Catharine Abell criticized Scruton’s argument by claiming that films can elicit an aesthetic interest also by virtue of their pictorial representation. In this article, we develop a different criticism of Scruton’s argument. In our view, a film can elicit an aesthetic inte…Read more
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28Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (edited book)Springer. 2007.The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive ...
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23Cosa dobbiamo intendere come persona. Ragioni del corpo, ragioni della menteIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (3): 549-564. 2000.
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21IntroduzioneRivista di Estetica 44 3-5. 2010.“Naturalismo” è una parola che si dice in molti modi, almeno tanti quanti nella storia della filosofia e nel sentire comune sono i modi in cui si è parlato di “natura” e di espressioni simili. Oggi, il tema del naturalismo in filosofia e della cosiddetta naturalizzazione che una filosofia dovrebbe eventualmente attrezzare determinate nozioni e teorie è tornato prepotentemente alla ribalta della riflessione filosofica, sulla scia dei successi provenienti dalle scienze cognitive (linguistica, n...
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19«Sic et non». Compatibilismo contra incompatibilismo, Robert Audi vs Robert KaneRivista di Filosofia 103 (2): 327-340. 2012.
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19Mind and Causality a cura di Alberto PeruzziIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (3): 623-638. 2005.
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14Tolerance: Too Little Or Too Much? On Robert Audi's Democratic Authority And The Separation Of Church And StatePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (2). 2013.download
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14Un catalogo del mondoRivista di Estetica 50 255-258. 2012.The paper discusses Maurizio Ferraris’ Documentalità by raising two objections. The first objection concerns Ferraris’ view that, in the case of all natural entities, there cannot be differences in the way a normal adult, a little child and an animal perceive them. It is claimed that this is not true for objects such as the sun that we (differently from little children and animals) cannot help perceiving as a gigantic hot celestial body. The second objection concerns the thesis that all social o…Read more
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11Putnam on the mind-body problemBelgrade Philosophical Annual 1 (31): 155-163. 2018.This article discusses Hilary Putnam's views on the mind-body problem, by locating them in the general context of a satisfying pluralistic naturalism that he tried to articulate throughout his entire philosophical career. The first attempt in this direction was computational functionalism, his version of psychological functionalism centered on the analogy between mind/body and software/hardware, which (differently from David Lewis and others) he came to think of as an empirical hypothesis. That …Read more
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1110 Is Emergentism Refuted by the Neurosciences?In Antonella Corradini & Timothy O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in science and philosophy, Routledge. pp. 190. 2010.
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10The architecture of knowledge: epistemology, agency and science (edited book)Roma Tre Università degli studi. 2010.
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Università degli Studi Roma TreDipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e SpettacoloRegular Faculty
Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |