•  247
    Subjectivity and essential individuality: A dialogue with Peter Van Inwagen and Lynne Baker (review)
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (2): 225-242. 2008.
    Each person is perceived by others and by herself as an individual in a very strong sense, namely as a unique individual. Moreover, this supposed uniqueness is commonly thought of as linked with another character that we tend to attribute to persons (as opposed to stones or chairs and even non-human animals): a kind of depth, hidden to sensory perception, yet in some measure accessible to other means of knowledge. I propose a theory of strong or essential individuality. This theory is introduced…Read more
  •  94
    Constitution and Unity
    The Monist 96 (1): 3-36. 2013.
    Lynne Baker’s Constitution Theory seems to be the farthest-reaching and yet the most subtly elaborated antireductive metaphysics available today. Its original theoretical contribution is a nonmereological theory of material constitution, which yet has a place for classical and Lewisian mereology (this formalized version of Materialism). Constitution Theory hence apparently (i) complies with modern natural science, and yet (ii) rescues the concrete everyday world, and ourselvesin it, from ontolog…Read more
  •  71
    On orientation
    Topoi 5 (2): 177-185. 1986.
  •  33
    On Ontology
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2): 171-186. 2003.
    This paper compares two basic approaches to “ontology”. One originated within the analytic tradition, and it encompasses two diverging streams, philosophy of language and (contemporary) philosophy of mind which lead to “reduced ontology” and “neo-Aristotelian ontology”, respectively. The other approach is “phenomenological ontology” (more precisely, the Husserlian, not the Heideggerian version).Ontology as a theory of reference (“reduced” ontology, or ontology dependent on semantics) is presente…Read more
  •  22
    Subjectivity and essential individuality: A dialogue with Peter Van Inwagen and Lynne Baker (review)
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (2): 225-242. 2008.
    Each person is perceived by others and by herself as an individual in a very strong sense, namely as a unique individual. Moreover, this supposed uniqueness is commonly thought of as linked with another character that we tend to attribute\nto persons (as opposed to stones or chairs and even non-human animals): a kind of depth, hidden to sensory perception, yet in some measure accessible to other means of knowledge. I propose a theory of strong or essential individuality. This theory is introduce…Read more
  •  19
    This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values. By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be integrated to practical reason. This project was prompted by the persuasion that the fragility of democracy, and the current public irrelevance of the ideal principles which support it, largely depend on the inability of modern philosophy to overcome the well-entrenched skepticis…Read more
  •  16
    La causalité de l'agent
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 95 (4): 673-688. 1997.
  •  15
    On Pluralism, Value Disagreement and Conflict: A Phenomenological Argument for Axiological Universalism
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (4): 342-355. 2018.
    ABSTRACTThe main question addressed in this paper is whether conflict is constitutive of the nature of value commitment, and hence necessarily implied by value pluralism. If this is the case, no resolution of value disagreements, whether on the global level or within modern multicultural societies, is possible via practical reasons, and the only solutions to inner or outer conflicts will be “political”, in the sense of a Realpolitik. Positive and negative answers to the main question are shown t…Read more
  •  11
    Discussione su "L'esistenza ferita" di Sergio Moravia
    with Fausto Petrella and Carlo Sini
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (1): 193-204. 2000.
  •  10
    Selon une de ses nombreuses acceptions, philosophie signifie traduction d'une experience de realite en une experience de sens. C'est la la demarche distinctive de la phenomenologie. Les dix chapitres qui composent ce livre la precisent d'abord a l'aide d'une mise en question de la philosophie contemporaine de l'esprit et de ses tentations naturalistes, pour ensuite les appliquer aux domaines de l'ethique, de l'esthetique, des fondements de la psychologie et de la psychopathologie. L'ascese de la…Read more
  •  9
    Se lleva a cabo un intento de fundación fenomenológica de una psicología de la persona tomando como base relevantes escritos de Husserl, Scheler, Stein y Von Hildebrand, entre otros. Se discute la contribución original hecha por estos fenomenólogos y se introduce así al lector en una rica fenomenología de la vida emocional, su estructura, el papel que juega en la constitución del ethos de la persona. La fenomenología en esta versión «realista» menos conocida ofrece un poder de análisis no soñado…Read more
  •  9
    Il volto e l'anima
    Società Degli Individui 57 103-111. 2017.
  •  4
    Lo spauracchio dei valori. Riflessioni su alcuni fraintendimenti
    Società Degli Individui 42 15-32. 2011.
    Il pensiero pratico dominante nel Novecento europeo fornisce risposte negative alla questione se sia possibile una fondazione razionale del pensiero pratico, configurando una posizione di scetticismo assiologico e morale ancora oggi maggioritaria. Ma il secolo xx, se da un lato ha rappresentato la bancarotta della ragione pratica, dall'altro ne ha prodotto una vera e propria incarnazione, nelle istituzioni e organizzazioni internazionali, nelle costituzioni rigide degli Stati europei del dopogue…Read more
  •  3
    Tenere desti i sensi e il cuore. Dialogo sulla fenomenologia come metodo di lavoro
    with Daniele Bruzzone
    Encyclopaideia 15 (31). 2011.
    Da un colloquio tra una fenomenologa di chiara fama e un pedagogista emergono iconnotati dell’atteggiamento fenomenologico, inteso come disposizione intellettuale e morale capace di fondare una “conoscenza personale” nel lavoro di cura. Questa attitudine della mente e del cuore può dar forma al “modo di essere” peculiare di chi, per professione e per vocazione, si prende quotidianamente cura delle persone e della loro esistenza.From this conversation between a well-known phenomenologist and a pe…Read more
  •  2
    La ménagère de la Rive Gauche. Théorie politique et idéologie d’après Jeanne Hersch
    Schweizerische Zeitschrift Für Philosophie. forthcoming.
  •  1
    La questione morale
    R. Cortina. 2010.
  •  1
    Existence as a Source of Normativity: An Alternative to Searle’s View
    In Paolo Di Lucia & Edoardo Fittipaldi (eds.), Revisiting Searle on Deriving “Ought” From “Is”, Springer Verlag. pp. 121-138. 2021.
    John Searle reflections on how to derive “Ought” from an “Is’” present a general theory of the sources of normativity within human civilizations. This chapter explores an alternative grounding of normativity on “laws of essence”, a grounding that proceeds by addressing the crucial problem of how to locate essences in a world of facts. To that end, classical phenomenology is shown to be an ontology of concreteness, but this, far from removing it from the dimension of ideals and norms—even practic…Read more
  •  1
    L’intero nelle parti, ovvero la lezione di un maestro
    Eikasia Revista de Filosofía 96 81-98. 2020.
    La obra de Giovanni Piana se ha interesado también de literatura. La razón se debe al hecho que entre los actos de experiencia la percepción estética posee una naturaleza específica que la filosofía fenomenológica quiere aclarar. Por otra parte, se sabe la pasión de este autor para la música, a la cual ha dedicado un libro de filosofía y numerosos otros textos. El objetivo de este ensayo es analizar el estudio de Piana sobre la obra del poeta italiano Giovanni Pascoli y en particular sobre la re…Read more
  •  1
    Salvare i fenomeni. Fenomenologia e salute della mente
    Discipline Filosofiche 15 (1). 2005.
  •  1
    El todo en sus partes, es decir la enseñanza de un Maestro
    with Arcangelo Tomasella
    Eikasia Revista de Filosofía 96 99-117. 2020.
    La obra de Giovanni Piana se ha interesado también de literatura. La razón se debe al hecho que entre los actos de experiencia la percepción estética posee una naturaleza específica que la filosofía fenomenológica quiere aclarar. Por otra parte, se sabe la pasión de este autor para la música, a la cual ha dedicado un libro de filosofía y numerosos otros textos. El objetivo de este ensayo es analizar el estudio de Piana sobre la obra del poeta italiano Giovanni Pascoli y en particular sobre la re…Read more