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3Zeller 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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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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6I 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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39Plato 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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45Knowledge 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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Aristotele: 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.
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39Il "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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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |