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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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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.
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20I primi atomisti: raccolta di testi che riguardano Leucippo e Democrito (edited book)Leo S. Olschki. 2009.This is the fullest existing collection of the texts, for the moment only in Italian translation, with an introduction, notes, general presentation of the texts, various indexes (part of this material is to be found in an attached CD).
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Walter G. Englert, "Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action" (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 46 (2): 376. 1991.
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Metodi di analisi nella filosofia di AristoteleRivista di Filosofia 62 (4): 325-353. 1971.A paper on some logical procedures used by Aristotle, with comparisons with the procedures used in recent analytic philosophy.
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Il « De Ideis » di Aristotele e la teoria Platonica delle ideeRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 84 (2): 261-262. 1979.
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78Plato and the Forms of Knowledge (review)Philosophy and History 18 (1): 39-40. 1985.A short review of Wolfgang Wieland's "Platon und die Formen des Wissens", Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982.
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80Knowledge of the Universal and Knowledge of the Particular in AristotleReview of Metaphysics 26 (2). 1972.ACCORDING TO MANY of the most authoritative interpreters and commentators of Aristotle, there is in his thought "a discrepancy between the real and the intelligible," that is to say, a failure to reconcile the requirements of his ontology with those of his logic and epistemology. From the point of view of his ontology, the individual, in effect the substance provided with matter, is basic, while the universal is derivative. From the point of view of his logic and epistemology, only the "ideal," …Read more
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1Aristotele: un filosofo analista?Giornale di Metafisica 24 (n/a): 279-311. 1969.The paper offers a survey of contributions to the interpretation of Aristotle's thought by scholars belonging to the analytic tradition (G.E.M. Anscombe, J.L. Ackrill, J. hintikka, G.E.L. Owen, W.F.R. Hardie), with some general considerations on their approach.
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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.
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |