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137Mapping the boundaries of conscious life in Margaret Cavendish’s philosophyRevue Philosophique De Louvain. forthcoming.In this paper I investigate where the boundaries of conscious mental life lie in Cavendish’s theory, and why. Cavendish argues for a wholly material yet wholly thinking universe. She claims that all matter is capable of “self-knowledge” and “perception” (OEP, p. 138), so that every part of nature “must have its own knowledge and perception, according to its own particular nature” (OEP, p. 141). It is unclear, however, whether the universal capacity of matter to know and perceive also implies the…Read more
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1551Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind: Consciousness, Memory, and ReasonDissertation, University of Groningen/UQTR. 2019.Spinoza attributes mentality to all things existing in nature. He claims that each thing has a mind that perceives everything that happens in the body. Against this panpsychist background, it is unclear how consciousness relates to the nature of the mind. This study focuses on Spinoza’s account of the conscious mind and its operations. It builds on the hypothesis that Spinoza’s panpsychism can be interpreted as a self-consistent philosophical position. It aims at providing answers to the followi…Read more
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155Principe de la philosophie chez Hobbes. L’expérience de soi et du monde (review)Philosophical Enquiries : Revue des Philosophies Anglophones 7 155-159. 2016.
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456Language and Curiosity in Hobbes’ Philosophical AnthropologyScience Et Esprit 68 (1): 71-81. 2016.This article shows how the specific interaction and mutual dependence between language and curiosity accounts for the more general dialectic between reason and passion in Hobbes’ philosophy, providing the distinguishing trait of human beings and their behaviour.
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37Spinoza, BaruchEncyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. 2019.Spinoza's philosophy radically changed the framework of Western thought in the seventeenth century and deeply influenced its further development. Drawing on different traditions of thought, he created a system of philosophy which challenged the views of his contemporary readers in almost every domain. From his metaphysics to his epistemology, from his account of morals to his political theory, from his method of interpreting Scripture to the method of exposition that he employed in his main work…Read more
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258Models of the History of Philosophy, Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age (review)The European Legacy 23 (1-2): 206-208. 2018.
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451Consciousness, ideas of ideas and animation in Spinoza’s EthicsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 506-525. 2017.In the following article, I aim to elucidate the meaning and scope of Spinoza’s vocabulary related to ‘consciousness’. I argue that Spinoza, at least in his Ethics, uses this notion consistently, although rarely. He introduces it to account for the knowledge we may have of the mind considered alone, as conceptually distinct from the body. This serves two purposes in Spinoza’s Ethics: to explain our illusion of a free will, on the one hand, and to refer to the knowledge we have of our mind as som…Read more
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480The dog that is a heavenly constellation and the dog that is a barking animal by Alexandre KoyréThe Leibniz Review 24 95-108. 2014.The article includes the French to English translation of a seminal article by Alexandre Koyré (“Le chien, constellation céleste, et le chien animal aboyant”, in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 55e Année, N° 1, Jan-Mar 1950, pp. 50-59), accompanied by an explanatory introduction. Koyré's French text provides an illuminating commentary of E1p17s, where Spinoza exposes at length his account of the relationship existing between God's intellect and the human intellect. The lack of an English tra…Read more
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544Spinoza on Fictitious Ideas and Possible EntitiesThe European Legacy 21 (4): 359-372. 2016.The aim of this article is twofold: to provide a valid account of Spinoza’s theory of fictitious ideas, and to demonstrate its coherency with the overall modal metaphysics underpinning his philosophical system. According to Leibniz, the existence of romances and novels would be sufficient to demonstrate, against Spinoza’s necessitarianism, that possible entities exist and are intelligible, and that many other worlds different from ours could have existed in its place. I argue that Spinoza does n…Read more
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University of VeniceDepartment of Philosophy and Cultural HeritageMarie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
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Venice, Veneto, Italy
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