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68Leibniz’s Theory of Conditions: A Framework for Ontological DependenceThe Leibniz Review 15 67-93. 2005.The aim of this paper is to trace in Leibniz’s drafts the sketched outline of a conceptual framework he organized around the key concept of ‘requisite’. We are faced with the project of a semi-formal theory of conditions, whose logical skeleton can have a lot of different interpretations. In particular, it is well suited to capture some crucial relations of ontological dependence. Firstly the area of ‘mediate requisites’ is explored - where causal and temporal relations are dealt with on the bas…Read more
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9Substanz und Zeit: Annäherungen an Leibniz’ Metaphysik der ZeitStudia Leibnitiana 48 (1): 6-14. 2016.
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5Angels, Matter, and Haecceity: Scholastic Topoi for Leibnizian IndividuationStudia Leibnitiana 46 (2): 127-151. 2014.
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10La res e i termini. Leibniz e la questione della cosa: tra semantica e ontologiaQuaestio 18 239-251. 2018.Leibniz's treatment of the concept of res should be considered in the context of his semantic-ontological reflections on the relationship of language, thought and reality, profoundly shaped by a no...
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21Thinking, Time and the Essence of Mind in the Descartes-Arnauld CorrespondenceJournal of Early Modern Studies 6 (2): 47-71. 2017.The 1648 exchange between Descartes and Arnauld focuses on several distinct but intertwined topics concerning Descartes’s philosophy of mind. Descartes’s acknowledgment of thinking as the essence of the mind implied a strong ‘actualist’ view of this essential activity. Arnauld’s objcetions reveal the problematic implications of this ontology of mind, from the role of memory and the temporal nature of our thought to the radical challenge of giving the status of an essence to such a temporal activ…Read more
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The Science of the Individual: Leibniz's Ontology of Individual SubstanceStudia Leibnitiana 38 (2): 236-239. 2006.
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" Scientia-generalis", the 4th volume of Leibniz's' Philosophische Schriften'in the Akademie-AusgabeGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 22 (3): 486-502. 2002.
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23Leibniz’s Theory of ConditionsThe Leibniz Review 15 67-93. 2005.The aim of this paper is to trace in Leibniz’s drafts the sketched outline of a conceptual framework he organized around the key concept of ‘requisite’. We are faced with the project of a semi-formal theory of conditions, whose logical skeleton can have a lot of different interpretations. In particular, it is well suited to capture some crucial relations of ontological dependence. Firstly the area of ‘mediate requisites’ is explored - where causal and temporal relations are dealt with on the bas…Read more
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Individual as Species Infima. Scholastic and Anti-Scholastic Sources for a Leibnizian 'Paradox'Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18 545-571. 2007.
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37The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This is a collection of essays from an international group of scholars that explore the ways in which the ancient problem of universals was transformed in modern philosophy. Essays consider the various forms of "Platonism," "conceptualism" and "nominalism" in the writings of a broad range of modern thinkers.
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46Leibniz on causation: efficiency, explanation and conceptual dependenceQuaestio 2 (1): 411-448. 2002.
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" Harmonia ex contraris". Leibniz reader of the'Heptaplomeres' by Jean Bodin, between Christianity, rationalism and IslamRinascimento 44 409-440. 2004.
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41Il fantasma dell’ecceità. Leibniz, Scoto e il principio d’individuazioneQuaestio 8 535-567. 2008.
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23Leibniz on Error: between Descartes and Spinoza. Will, Judgement and the Concept of RealityRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 71 (4): 713-725. 2016.
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40The Myth of the Complete Concept: Completeness and Individuation in Kant and LeibnizIn 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. 309-322. 2013.
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56Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz’s MetaphysicsThe Leibniz Review 18 139-149. 2008.
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12L'" Anti-Kant" di Franz Příhonsky´ e la critica bolzaniana alla teoria kantiana del giudizioRivista di Filosofia 97 (2): 233-250. 2006.
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6Change, Contradiction and Possibility. Outline for Leibniz’s Metaphysics of TimeHumana Mente 3 (8). 2009.
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”scientia Generalis”: Il IV volume delle “ Philosophische Schriften” di Leibniz nella Akademie-AusgabeGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 22 (3). 2002.
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La substance leibnizienne: histoire individuelle et identitéStudia Leibnitiana. Sonderheft 15 117-129. 1988.