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185‘Logic Is Transcendental’: Content, Isomorphism and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Logic of DepictionPhilosophical Investigations 1-16. 2026.Most readers of the Tractatus take Wittgenstein's logic to be contentless, since tautologies do not picture reality. However, this fails to explain its transcendental status, especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through the notion of content. In this essay, I propose a transcendental interpretation of Wittgenstein’s logic, as "logic of depiction” endowed with a transcendental content: the formal rules governing the subject’s speech about objects. Tautologies turn out to be …Read more
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444Dal Tractatus alle Ricerche: la transizione graduale nel pensiero di WittgensteinLaboratorio dell’ISPF 21 (13): 1-34. 2024.In questo saggio critico la rigida distinzione tra due diversi Wittgenstein, mostrando come il suo pensiero sia in continua transizione. In particolare mostro come, attraverso un costante ripensamento del concetto di forma, Wittgenstein giunga a identificare il significato delle parole con il loro uso nelle nostre pratiche linguistiche.
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546A Transcendental Approach to Dream SkepticismTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 43 (3): 15-37. 2024.How can we know we are not dreaming? In this essay, I tackle this and related questions from a transcendental standpoint, by building a philosophical narrative centred upon three “giants”: Descartes, Kant, and Putnam. From each, I take some ideas and discard others, to develop a historically informed, yet original, transcendental approach to dream skepticism.
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78Review of 'Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein' (Routledge, 2023) (review)Wittgenstein-Studien 15 (1): 241-249. 2024.In this review, I discuss the views of many philosophers on the 'limits of intelligibility'. Inspired by the views of these authors, as well as by the transcendental philosophies of both Kant and Wittgenstein, I identify several limits of intelligibility (discussing how they may not coincide), examine the contemporary distinction between 'limits' and 'limitations' and, finally, briefly consider the question of how best to understand our limited human condition.
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1438Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and WittgensteinDissertation, Trinity College, Dublin. 2024.In this thesis, I compare Kant's and Wittgenstein’s takes on Transcendental Idealism, as a doctrine meant to “prove” the possibility of Metaphysics. My Central Question is: Is the early Wittgenstein a transcendental idealist? In virtue of a distinction between Transcendentalism and Transcendental Idealism, I answer “No”, by arguing that the early Wittgenstein is a transcendental philosopher, but not a transcendental idealist of any kind. In particular, I distinguish two variants of Transcendenta…Read more
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2490The Paradox of Falsehood and Non-BeingSynthesis 1 (1): 7-46. 2021.How can we think or say what is not? If we equate what-is-not with nothing, then a thought of nothing is no thought at all; if we don’t, we are condemned to admit that what-is-not is, seemingly incurring self-refutation. In this paper, I address this paradox through the lenses of Parmenides, Plato, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein.
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1068Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Thought Experiment in EthicsPhenomenology and Mind 22 176-187. 2022.In this essay, I argue that Wittgenstein clarified ethics through a procedure that, by analogy with 'transcendental arguments', I call 'transcendental thought experiment'. Specifically, after offering a perspectival account of both transcendental arguments and transcendental thought experiments, I focus on a thought experiment proposed by Wittgenstein in his 1929 'Lecture on Ethics', arguing that it deserves the title of “transcendental”.
Simone Nota
Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
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Institute of Philosophy, ZagrebPost-doctoral Fellow
Trinity College, Dublin
PhD, 2024
Areas of Specialization
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| Metaphysics |
| Immanuel Kant |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Idealism |
| Transcendental Arguments |
| History of Western Philosophy |