Nicola Russo

On Science and Philosophy Connection Science and philosophy sometimes fail to dialogue. This essay sheds some light on this controversial issue by considering some historical instances of their complicated relationship, since the mid-nineteenth century. We will examine intellectual trends, training processes, and most of all, the increasing knowledge we are nowadays witnessing. As the last years suggest, these difficulties are not insurmountable, if only the connection between science and philosophy is taken into consideration. This connection deals not only with their common origin, but also with the process, they are always implicated in, of continuous reborn and reciprocal regeneration. This perspective suggests us to individuate new professional figures standing on the frontier between science and philosophy. These figures appear to be indispensable to construe a new koiné and thereby preserve a community which is devoted to knowledge and pure science.

The opposition between tecnomania and technophobia has an ideological and fideistic character. This essay proposes a philosophical critique of that opposition, carried out through genealogy and anthropology of technology. On the guidelines of ontology, biology and paleoanthropology of machines, it is detected the fundamental difference between “apotelestic” and “sympleromatic” machines, two dimensions that converged in ancient techne. On this basis it becomes evident that the era of technological civilization, in which only the apotelestic size prevails, it is a time of impoverishment and anthropological erosion, insofar as humanity continues to make and to recognize itself in the mirror of its own machinations

In Survival and Freedom: the impossible dilemma, the violence issue in late Anders’ philosophy is examined starting from his philosophy of technology, rather than a moral perspective which would deeply characterize and compromise it. It has come to light both his thesis’s extreme nature and theirratio essendi, furthermore some primary clues about: 1) the matter concerning the philosopher’s role within his age and time, 2) the nexus between the problem regarding the conditions of possibility of a human existence, and the problem of freedom