N. 12, I/2023 – La natura e i suoi confini. I naturalismi contemporanei e le loro fonti Download PDF OVERVIEW Rethinking the “natural”: Which relationship between phisics and philosophy? Fiorenza Manzo CONTRIBUTI Panpsychism: Only a “revised materialism”? Galen Strawson Subjectivity and Consciousness. The non-reductionist naturalism of Henri Bergson Alfonso Lanzieri The absence of the sophists […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493927 Review of Ferraris M. (2022), Agostino. Fare la verità, il Mulino, Bologna, 192 pp. by A. Salucci Book Review of Ferraris M. (2022), Agostino. Fare la verità. Bologna: il Mulino, 192 pp. Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493903 Genesis and Representation of Political Concepts in Carl Schmitt. For a Theological-Political Interpretation of the Sociological Method by Roberta De Rosa In Carl Schmitt’s well-known essay Political Theology, we find the basis of the Schmittian sociological method – the sociology of legal concepts – which can be summarised in the famous statement: “All […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493615 Rethinking the Boundaries of the ‘Natural’: Between Physics and Philosophy by Fiorenza Manzo Editorial by Fiorenza Manzo to vol. 12 (I/2023). Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493863 Næss, Goethe, Calvino. Perspectives for a Non-Reductionist Aesthetics of Nature by Valeria Maggiore The “Ecological Self” concept proposed by Arne Næss can be important to underline a discontinuity with the Galilean scientific tradition, promoting a more respectful attitude to the environment. It is an enlarged and relational identity which, metaphysically interpreting the principle […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493801 Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Future Knowledge by Fabio Sterpetti This article analyses some of the problems that arise when one attempts to relate philosophical naturalism to scientific realism. In particular, it will be highlighted that scientific realism implies a non-revolutionary view of the future of science and that it is not easy to […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493759 The Absence of the Sophists and the Presence of Parmenides. An Excetical Strategy of Plotinus? by Claudia Lo Casto Surprisingly, in the Enneads there are no references to sophists, neither in the form of criticism, nor as a partial recovery of philosophical doctrines potentially compatible (at least in part) with Plotinian metaphysics. Nevertheless, […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493705 Subjectivity and Consciousness. The Non-Reductionist Naturalism of Henri Bergson by Alfonso Lanzieri One of the most prevalent metaphysical assumptions in the field of consciousness studies (neuroscience and philosophy of mind) is physicalism, that is, the idea that fundamental reality is entirely physical and that every part of it, even the phenomenal experiences of […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14493833 Panpsychism: Only a “revised materialism” by Galen Strawson Italian translation by Enrico Volpe of a revised version of Strawson, G. (2017), Physicalist Panpsychism. In S. Schneider, M. Velmans (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, 2nd ed., New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 374-390. Panpsychism is a plausible theory of the fundamental nature of reality. It’s […]
Call for Papers Nature and Its Boundaries. Contemporary Naturalisms and Their Modern Sources P.O.I. – Points of Interest, No. 12 (June 2023) Abstract deadline: 28th February 2023 redazione@poireview.com The bi-annual journal P.O.I. – Points of Interest invites submissions for its forthcoming issue. Submissions should address the issue’s theme, on the basis of one or […]