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  1. Etymologies and Puns in Maximus’ Περὶ Καταρχῶν.Nicola Zito - unknown
    The aim of this contribution is to offer an essay that investigates the different ways in which Maximus plays in his astrological poem with the origin of the words used by him or with their meaning. We will first see how our astrologer is able to put etymology at the service of the composition of his predictions; then how he exploits the semantic ambiguity of certain terms, not only to show off his erudition, but also to make his poem more (...)
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  2. Outside of Being: Agamben’s Potential Beyond Anthropocentrism.Carlo Salzani - 2020 - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 22 (3):71-86.
    Potential or potentiality is the central idea of Agamben’s philosophy and informed from the very beginning his work, though implicitly at first. If the term entered Agamben’s vocabulary only in the mid 1980s, it constitutes nevertheless already the logical structure of the experience of in-fancy, which is in fact not the actuality but the potentiality of speech. And it already marked, in Heideggerian fashion, human exceptionality: if only human beings have infancy, it is because only humans have the potentiality not (...)
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  3. Responses to Critics of Taking Turns with the Earth.Matthias Fritsch - 2020 - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 22 (2).
    This paper responds to five critics and their commentaries on my Taking Turns with the Earth. Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice. In relation to the book’s argument, my response seeks to clarify and elaborate the role of indigenous philosophies; the meaning and value of the concept of earth; the ontology-ethics interface and the emergence of normativity with birth and death; the practical feasibility and motivational force of the book’s proposals for conceptualizing justice for future generations, namely asymmetrical reciprocity and taking (...)
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  4. Taking Turns with Fritsch: On Intergenerational Time and Space.Jason M. Wirth - forthcoming - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics.
    This is an appreciative examination of Matthias Fritsch’s significant new book, Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice. After analyzing the temporal axis of Fritsch’s intervention into the question of intergenerational justice in the context of the ecological crisis, I extend it to a complementary spatial analysis by following some of the book’s important cues. I develop this in terms of some recent North American Indigenous philosophy, including Winona LaDuke, Glen Sean Coulthard, and Leanne Simpson.
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  5. The dark side of Hegel’s theory of modernity: race and the other.Jong Seok Na - unknown
    This paper purports to identify the nature of Hegel’s theory of race. Especially, the author will examine whether Hegel’s theory of race in particular, his philosophy of spirit in general, provides the justification of a colonial racism or a cultural racism. While Hegel’s theory undoubtedly contained racist elements, still unanswered is whether racism is inherently at odds with the basic principles of his philosophy of spirit. To be examined critically is the suggestion that racism is fundamentally incompatible with the basic (...)
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  6. Philosophy and Politics in Gadamer’s Interpretation of Plato’s Republic.Antoine Pageau St-Hilare - 2019 - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 21 (3):169-200.
    This paper aims at showing how Gadamer understood the impossibility of any properly unpolitical stance for philosophy by examining the relation of philosophy and politics in his interpretation of Plato’s Republic. I argue that Gadamer’s rejection of the possibility of the ἄπολις was prompted by the thoughts of his friend and interlocutor Leo Strauss on the question of the relation of the theoretical life and political life in Platonic-Aristotelian philosophy. I then turn to Gadamer’s reading of the Republic and focus (...)
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  7. The Allegory of the Cave and the Problem of Platonism in Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss.Nathan Pinkoski - 2019 - Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 21 (3):201-228.
    This essay compares how Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss interpret the allegory of the cave in Plato's Republic. Such a comparison helps resolve two ambiguities in the scholarship on Arendt and Strauss. First, Arendt is ambiguous about the origins of the tradition of political philosophy that, she argues, distorts the authentic experience of philosophy and politics. I contend that a theme typically associated with Strauss, esotericism, appears in Arendt and helps resolve this ambiguity. In an esoteric reading of Plato's allegory (...)
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  8. Guest Editor’s Preface: On the premises of the mind-body problem: an unexpected German path?Stefano Semplici - 2011 - Etica E Politica 13:7-11.
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  9. Guest Editors' Preface: Individual and Universal in Latin Medieval Moral Theories.Guido Alliney & Luciano Cova - 2002 - Etica E Politica 4.
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  10. Editor’s Preface.Fabio Polidori - 2009 - Etica E Politica 11:7-8.
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  11. Enlightenment before the Enlightenment: Clandestine Philosophy.Gianni Paganini - 2018 - Etica E Politica 20 (3):183-200.
    In the 17th century not all manuscripts were clandestine because there also existed manuscripts written for public circulation, but it is undeniable that most of the resolutely “heterodox” authors found it useful to entrust their ideas to manuscripts both to protect themselves against the retaliation of the authorities and to circumvent the censorship to which printed books were subject. These philosophical manuscripts were messengers of “full heterodoxy” which we could call “global” and not “local”. The exclusion did not regard one (...)
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  12. The modern alchemy and societal trends. Giving up ideologies and embracing digitalisation as a global philosophy.Salantiu Tudor - 2017 - Futuribili.Rivista di Studi Sul Futuro E di Previsione Sociale 22 (2):233-246.
    In this paper the author discusses the impact of information access, in combination with network structures and communications technologies, in the formation of social perceptions. This phenomenon is known as social computing. However, global access to emerging technology and easy user access to information sources are leading to new philosophical tendencies. Group behaviour and individual perceptions suggest that virtual influences and individual cognitive processes such as creativity and event perception are potentially determinants of new adoptions, as constructor elements of a (...)
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  13. Cause: a category of the human mind? Some social consequences of Chewong ontological understanding.Howell Signe Lise - 2017 - In Micheli Ilaria (ed.), Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016. EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste. pp. 2-11.
    In the absence of concepts that correspond to those of chance, luck, or fortune, how do people account for why seemingly random desirable or undesirable events occur? Based on long-term fieldwork with the Chewong, a small hunting-gathering and shifting-cultivating group of people who live in the Malaysian rain-forest, I study their theory of causality. It is argued that cause is a universal category of the human mind, but that an understanding of cause cannot be separated from an examination of the (...)
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  14. The Aim of Philosophy: Satisfying Curiosity or Attaining Salvation?David McPherson - 2016 - Etica and Politica: Rivista di Filosofia 19 (2):291-310.
    In this essay I begin with remarks made by Bernard Williams that there are two main motives for philosophy, curiosity and salvation, and that he is not ‘into salvation’. I seek to make the case for the claim that philosophy, at its best, should aim at a kind of ‘salvation’. In the first section, I discuss the problematic character of the world that philosophy should aim to address as a matter of seeking a kind of salvation. I identify this as (...)
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  15. Space as Live Experience in Postcolonial Literature. Retellings of the Caribbean.Theo D'haen - 2012 - Esercizi Filosofici 7 (1):5-19.
    The starting point of this lecture is Hegel’s analysis of the human being as embodied spirit, located in a here that is now, which points to a philosophy of the human environmental spaces that provides the geographical basis of his Philosophy of world history. The paper retraces how the position that natural location occupies in the imaginary of a particular period in European history figures in some fictions relating to the Caribbean and the related literary studies or re-writings. In particular, (...)
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  16. From Disparagement to Appreciation: Shifting Paradigms and interdisciplinary Openings in interpreting Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature.Cinzia Ferrini - 2014 - Esercizi Filosofici 9 (1):1-13.
    This paper recounts a dramatic paradigm shift in the debate on the value and significance of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, from the harsh criticism it faced over the past two centuries to its reappraisal, in the last three decades, through both the vindication of Hegel’s competence in the empirical sciences and the appreciation of his assessment of organic life and habitat, at the intersection with anthropology. The paper concludes with the most recent trends in scholarship, which focus on the problem (...)
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  17. Approaching Contemporary Philosophical Problems Historically: on Idealisms, Realisms, and Pragmatisms.Cinzia Ferrini - unknown - Esercizi Filosofici 10 (1).
    As guest editor of this special issue of Esercizi Filosofici, the author introduces Kenneth R. Westphal’s and Paolo Parrini’s position papers on pragmatism, idealism and realism by elucidating the background and rationale of the workshop she organized on 29 April, 2015 at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste, within the framework of her undergraduate course in «History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy». The Appendix lists questions posed by students and by the audience, to which the invited speakers (...)
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  18. Some Replies to Questions Posed by Students.Paolo Parrini - 2015 - Esercizi Filosofici 10 (1).
    Answering to the questions posed by students, I clarify my position on four main topics: the pragmatic maxim; the relation between my conception of truth on one hand, and epistemic conceptions of truth and the idea of the convergence of our cognitive efforts on the other; the skeptical challenge; the relationship between science and philosophy.
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  19. Equivocations of Nature: Naess, Latour, Nāgārjuna.Elisa Cavazza - unknown
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  20. Naturalismo e neuroscienze. Sulla genesi storica di un legame teorico.Antonio-Maria Nunziante - unknown
    The first part of the paper offers an historical reconstruction of the relationship between philosophy and neuroscience. The goal of this part is to show that such relationship has been generated on the basis of a theoretical common ground; that this common story was essentially tied to the American philosophical naturalism; that naturalism entails a metaphilosophical constraint, such that between philosophy and the natural sciences subsists a strong cognitive asymmetry. In the second part of the paper, it has been taken (...)
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  21. Simulation Models of the Evolution of Cooperation as Proofs of Logical Possibilities. How Useful Are They?Arnold Eckhart - unknown
    This paper discusses critically what simulation models of the evolution of cooperation can possibly prove by examining Axelrod’s “Evolution of Cooperation” and the modeling tradition it has inspired. Hardly any of the many simulation models of the evolution of cooperation in this tradition have been applicable empirically. Axelrod’s role model suggested a research design that seemingly allowed to draw general conclusions from simulation models even if the mechanisms that drive the simulation could not be identified empirically. But this research design (...)
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  22. Cooperation, Competition, and the Contractarian View of Scientific Research.Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla - unknown
    Using the approach known as ‘Economics of Scientific Knowledge’, this paper defends the view of scientific norms as the result of a ‘social contract’, i.e., as an equilibrium in the game of selecting the norms under which to proceed to play the game of scientific research and publication. A categorisation of the relevant types of scientific norms is offered, as well as a discussion about the incentives of the researchers in choosing some or other alternative rules.
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