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30Leibniz’s Imaginary Bridge. The Analogy between Pure Possibles and Imaginary Numbers in the Paris WritingsOxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 10 133-167. 2021.This chapter discusses the analogy between bare possibles and imaginary numbers, developed by Leibniz during his Paris years. In this period, he came to realize that imaginary quantities are not impossible in themselves, but they cannot be geometrically represented, for they cannot be ordered within the number line. Similarly, he regarded actual things as belonging to a single ‘series of things’, where each member is connected to every other by relations of position and succession. Bare possible…Read more
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5Noumenorum non datur scientia. Kant e la nozione di mondo intelligibile: tra monadologia e platonismoCon-Textos Kantianos 7 427-457. 2018.In quest’articolo, articolo prenderò in esame i passi in cui Kant descrive la monadologia leibniziana come un “concetto platonico” del mondo, ossia come una descrizione del mondo intelligibile che non ha nulla a che vedere con la spiegazione del mondo fenomenico. In generale, vorrei mostrare che quest’interpretazione non va contrapposta a quella che lo stesso Kant aveva dato nella prima Critica, dove la monadologia era caratterizzata come un “sistema intellettuale del mondo”. Per fare ciò, rispo…Read more
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18Leibniz lettore di John Toland. Le Annotatiunculae subitaneae a Christianity Not MysteriousRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2 345-388. 2021.This paper proposes a critical edition of Leibniz's "Annotatiunculae subitaneae ad librum de Christianismo Mysteriis carente" (1701), together with an Italian translation, and an introductory essay where I discuss the genesis of the text on the background of Leibniz's criticism of Locke's "way of ideas", and focus on Leibniz's taxonomy of the different meanings of "natural" and "supernatural"
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21The Young Leibniz and the Ontological Argument: From Rejection to ReconsiderationJournal of Early Modern Studies 10 (1): 47-73. 2021.Leibniz considered the Cartesian version of the ontological argument not as an inconsistent proof but only as an incomplete one: it requires a preliminary proof of possibility to show that the concept of ‘the most perfect being’ involves no contradiction. Leibniz raised this objection to Descartes’s proof already in 1676, then repeated it throughout his entire life. Before 1676, however, he suggested a more substantial objection to the Cartesian argument. I take into account a text written aroun…Read more
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31Leibniz on Animal GenerationThe Leibniz Review 30 63-106. 2020.We edited and translated a so far unpublished manuscript ("Sur la generation des insectes et d'autres petits animaux") drafted by Leibniz in 1714. The text is written on the same paper of the first draft of the "Monadology" and, as we show, there is a connection between these two texts of the late Leibniz, as far as in the "Monadology" , the rejection of the traditional theory of the spontaneous generation of small animals (like insects) is considered by Leibniz as a posteriori confirmation of h…Read more
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15Metaphysical vs. Transcendental Moment: Note on the Deduction of CategoriesIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 707-718. 2013.
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14«Le corps entier des sciences peut estre consideré comme l'ocean..». Reflections on The Oxford Handbook of LeibnizRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 3 545-556. 2020.
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43From “Possible Worlds” to “Possible Experience”. Real Possibility in Leibniz and KantKant Yearbook 6 (1). 2014.
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Radboud UniversityResearcher
Scuola Normale Superiore
PhD, 2018
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
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History of Western Philosophy |
History of Science |
Immanuel Kant |
Kant: Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Kant: Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Kant's Works |