Abstract Vincenzo Fano, in this very brief, brilliant (and short ) twenty-two-chapters book, tries to introduce readers to the apparently “odd” world of philosophical questions. The author starts from some very important pre-philosophical and pre-theoretical premises, which could enable us…
Abstract With an ironical, exuberant and almost goliardic “divertissement” the authors of «Le Tribolazioni del Filosofare» announces to have «discovered, compiled, edited and commented» from an original text by an anonymous medieval poet (dressing their inventio retorica up with a…
Abstract The purpose of this article is an analysis of Maurizio Ferraris’ theories presented in the volume “New Realism’ Manifesto”, under the etiquette of “New Realism”. We’ve chosen, for reader’s commodity and to distinguish Ferraris definition from other, previous uses…
Abstract Andrea Borghini’ “Che cos’è la possibilità, (Carocci, Roma)” is a serious attempt to show how and why the same concept of possibility is a crucial entry of every philosophical lexicon regardless its “school” or its “history” (analytical, continental, phenomenological,…
Abstract According W. V. O Quine, there are two famous aphorisms or capital maxims – maybe it could be more correct to define them, with hegelian style, “panlogisms” – derivable from an attentive analysis of his famous problem “On what…
Abstract «Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009)» en. tr. in «Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces», Oxford USA, Oxford University Press, 2012 by Maurizio Ferraris represents the landing place of a long and more than decennial research…
Abstract Simone Pollo’s book “La morale della natura, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008”, represents an absolute newsness in the italian philosophy landscape, and, even if it belongs to a small-size editorial publishing series, it performs a micro-monographic work about this specific topic:…