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891Mettere a Fuoco Il Mondo. Conversazioni sulla Filosofia di Achille Varzi (Special Issue of Isonomia – Epistemologica) (edited book)ISONOMIA – Epistemologica. University of Urbino. 2014.Achille Varzi è uno dei maggiori metafisici viventi. Nel corso degli anni ha scritto testi fondamentali di logica, metafisica, mereologia, filosofia del linguaggio. Ha sconfinato nella topologia, nella geografia, nella matematica, ha ragionato di mostri e confini, percezione e buchi, viaggi nel tempo, nicchie, eventi e ciambelle; e non ha disdegnato di dialogare con gli abitanti di Flatlandia, con Neo e con Terminator. Tra le sue opere principali: Holes and Other Superficialities e Parts and Pl…Read more
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265Gli aggregati e il loro confini. Due problemi e una considerazione metodologicaIn Elena Casetta & Valeria Giardino (eds.), Mettere a Fuoco il mondo, © Isonomia – Epistemologica, University of Urbino. pp. 48-56. 2014.
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42Rescuing the "Loss-Of-Agency" Account of Thought InsertionPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (3): 221-233. 2015.According to the principle known as “the principle of present-tense ascription immunity”, “It is impossible for anyone to have or entertain thoughts without being aware—immediately and self-evidently—that he is thinking that thought”. In other words, my thoughts are fundamentally experienced as mine, and I typically have this experience of mineness immediately, that is, without any inference based on evidence about who is the thinker of the thought. Thought insertion reveals instead that, under …Read more
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37Unconceptualized Internal Promptings: Methodological Pluralism and the New Cartography of the MindPhilosophia 47 (2): 303-312. 2019.
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31The Freedom of JudgingIris 3 (6): 37-53. 2011.John McDowell and Christine Korsgaard have defended the claim that when human beings judge or believe that p, they are exercising a fundamental kind of freedom, the “freedom of judging.” David Owens has challenged the view: he argues that they offer us at best no more than a modest notion of freedom, which does not vindicate the claim that we are free in many relevant instances of judgment, in particular in perceptual judgment. I argue that Owens is right if we view the freedom of judgment along…Read more
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25On the Pre-Reflective Perplexity of a Schizophrenic ThinkerPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (3): 243-245. 2015.I thank Dr. Matthew Parrott and Dr. V.Y. Allison-Bolger very much for their valuable comments on my paper. They have given me the chance to reflect further on the account of thought insertion I propose, and I respond to them with enthusiasm. I also thank the Editor of this journal for arranging this discussion and for giving me the opportunity to reply. Both Dr. Parrott and Dr. Allison-Bolger are concerned about whether my account is fundamentally tenable. They suggest that I make two incompatib…Read more
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22Liberalizing self-deception: Replacing paradigmatic-state accounts of self-deception with a dynamic view of the self-deceptive processLes Ateliers de l'Éthique / the Ethics Forum 13 (2): 11-24. 2018.Patrizia Pedrini | : In this paper, I argue that paradigmatic-state accounts of self-deception suffer from a problem of restrictedness that does not do justice to the complexities of the phenomenon. In particular, I argue that the very search for a paradigmatic state of self-deception greatly overlooks the dynamic dimension of the self-deceptive process, which allows the inclusion of more mental states than paradigmatic-state accounts consider. I will discuss the inadequacy of any such accounts,…Read more
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20What Does the Self-Deceiver Want?Humana Mente 5 (20). 2012.According to a recent theory of the motivational content of self-deception, the self-deceiver wants to be in a state of mind of belief that p, upon which her want that p be true would be merely contingent. While I agree with Funkhouser that the self-deceiver is considerably moved by an interest in believing that p, which makes it possible for her to relate to reality in a highly prejudiced way, I will argue that it is unlikely that the self-deceiver’s primary want to believe, or interest in beli…Read more
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16Teatro cartesiano o spettatore cartesiano? Autocoscienza e razionalità in DavidsonIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 17 (2): 325-336. 2004.
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9Self-Deception: What is it to Blame After All?Annali Del Dipartimento di Filosofia 11 147-179. 2005.Does self-deception constitute a threat to the distinguishing kind of rationality human beings enjoy? I propose a compromise between the deflationary solutions to the alleged puzzles selfdeception has long been taken to give rise to and some virtues of the competing account -namely, the intentionalist view. In order to fulfil the task, I argue as to precisely what is left to blame in self-deception once we have made sense of why intentionalism fails to capture the nature of the phenomenon
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6Philosophy of Self DeceptionHumana Mente 5 (20). 2012.According to a recent theory of the motivational content of self-deception, the self-deceiver wants to be in a state of mind of belief that p, upon which her want that p be true would be merely contingent. While I agree with Funkhouser that the self-deceiver is considerably moved by an interest in believing that p, which makes it possible for her to relate to reality in a highly prejudiced way, I will argue that it is unlikely that the self-deceiver’s primary want to believe, or interest in beli…Read more
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5Lo spazio logico delle istituzioni: ordine normativo, raison d’être ed etica d’ufficioRivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica 4 19-36. 2023.In this contribution I offer an analysis of some specific theses defended by Ceva and Ferretti (2021). First, I raise a question related to the theoretical work done by the sabotage of an institution’s raison d’être when both describing and morally evaluating political corruption. In particular, I will ask whether the ultimate moral reason why corruption is a moral wrong rests on the sabotage of the raison d’être that it entails and to which it could be con-substantially tied. Relatedly, I will …Read more
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5Symposium on Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation by Alan Millar (edited book)SWIF. 2007.
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The ‘Crux’ of Internal PromptingsIn Julie Kirsch Patrizia Pedrini (ed.), Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative, Springer Verlag. 2018.