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26Zeller in Italy. Rodolfo Mondolfo’s revision of Zeller’s History of Greek PhilosophyIn Gerald Hartung (ed.), Eduard Zeller: Philosophie- Und Wissenschaftsgeschichte Im 19. Jahrhundert, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 309-342. 2010.
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M. Kessler, "Aristoteles' Lehre von der Einheit der Definition" (review)Filosofia Oggi 1 (4): 429. 1978.
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La fisica di AristoteleNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 9 (3/4): 48-62. 1991.A general survey of Aristotle's contributions to physics (in the Ancient sense of the word), including his "De anima" but leaving out his zoological works, with some attention for the differences between his science and modern science.
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78Il "de Ideis" di Aristotele e la Teoria Platonica delle IdeeOlschki. 1975.The book is a reconstruction and detailed presentation (close to a commentary) of Aristotle's lost work On Ideas, based, in the main, on the testimony of Alexander of Aphrodisias in his commentary to the Metaphysics; Alexander's text is included in the critical edition by D. Harlfinger.
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Un libro recente sulla teoria dei trascendentali in AristoteleRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 84. 1973.
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Aristotle's Conception of Ontology, Coll. « Studia Aristotelica », 7Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 84 (2): 270-271. 1979.
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Principi, cause e spiegazione teologica in AristoteleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 37 (2): 123. 1982.The paper offers a rather long discussion of E. Berti's book entitled Aristotele: dalla dialettica alla filosofia prima, questioning some important aspects of the approach he adopts. (He replied to my criticism in a successive issue of the same review.)
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Le relazioni presentate al VI "Symposium Aristotelicum"Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 28 (2): 161. 1973.
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Anders Wedberg, "A History of Philosophy" (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 40 (4): 815. 1985.
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Sulle motivazioni ideologiche nella biologia anticaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 35 (4): 381. 1980.
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O. HOEFFE, "Praktische Philosophie. Das Modell des Aristoteles" (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 180. 1973.
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1La materia in AristoteleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 28 (3): 243. 1973.The paper offers a critical discussion of H. Happ's wide-ranging book entitled "Hyle. Studien zum aristotelischen Materiebegriff", Berlin 1971. While recognizing the importance of this contribution to Aristotelian scholarship I express some revervations to the approach adopted, which tends to make of Aristotle a continuator of the so-called unwritten doctrines by Plato.
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10I PresocraticiIl Mulino. 1982.The book includes a collection, in Italian translation, of essays on Presocratic philosophy by Cherniss, Cornford, Vlastos, Kahn, Verdenius, Owen and others, with a long introduction of mine which, in addition to presenting the papers, tries to give an idea of the main problems of interpretation raised by the fragments and testimonies we have about the Presocratics.
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Una storia della filosofia greca per dilettoRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 39 (4): 721-724. 1984.A review of L. De Crescenzo's book entitled I presocratici, first volume of a history of Greek philosophy which is meant to be popular and amusing but betrays much superficiality in the approach.
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206Aristotle's logical works and his conception of logicTopoi 23 (1): 71-100. 2004.I provide a survey of the contents of the works belonging to Aristotle's Organon in order to define their nature, in the light of his declared intentions and of other indications (mainly internal ones) about his purposes. No unifying conception of logic can be found in them, such as the traditional one, suggested by the very title Organon, of logic as a methodology of demonstration. Logic for him can also be formal logic (represented in the main by the De Interpretatione), axiomatized syllogisti…Read more
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Philip Merlan e la metafisica aristotelicaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 25 (1): 3. 1970.The paper offers a discussion of Philip Merlan's contributions (in "From Platonism to Neoplatonism, The Hague 1960, e in some papers of his, now included in his "Kleine Philosophische Schriften", Hildesheim 1976) to the understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, with particular reference to the science of being qua being.
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La scienza greca di Von FritzRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 44 (1): 69-86. 1989.The paper was originally intended to serve as an introduction to the Italian translation of Kurt von Fritz's "Grundprobleme der antiken Wissenschaft, Berlin, 1971, pointing out the merits but also certain limitations of the book. (Because it appeared too critical it was not accepted by the italian publisher Il Mulino.)
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L'aristotele di DüringRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 39 (1): 3. 1984.The paper is a long, detailed, critical presentation of Ingemar Duering's Aristoteles. Darstellung und Interpretation seines Denkens, Heidelberg 1966, on the occasion of the publication of the Italian translation (by P.L. Donini, Milano 1976) of the same.
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From Hegel to ZellerIn Oliver Primavesi & Katharina Luchner (eds.), The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels: Akten Der 9. Tagung Der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung Vom 5.-7. Oktober 2006 in München, Steiner Verlag. pp. 309-333. 2011.The treatment of Presocratic philosophy from Hegel to Zeller.
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Unity and diversity of the sciences: the methodology of the mathematical and of the physical sciences and the role of nominal definitionRevue Internationale de Philosophie 133 (3): 384-421. 1980.The paper is concentrated on Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" and attempts to show that his account of the sciences is less uniform than it is usually taken to be but shows some awareness of important differences between the mathematical and the physical sciences.
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Oltre i fenomeni: generalizzazioni giustificate e ingiustificate nella cosmologia presocraticaNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 9 (3/4): 12-24. 1991.In this paper I discuss the issue how far Presocratic cosmology can be regarded as scientific, giving attention to some examples of their explanations of physical phaenomena.
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |