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4Zeller 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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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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46Knowledge 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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Aristotle's Conception of Ontology, Coll. « Studia Aristotelica », 7Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 84 (2): 270-271. 1979.
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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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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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La 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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I 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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121Aristotle'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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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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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.
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |