Abstract Il libro “Crash Point” di Emiliano Ippoliti propone un approccio filosofico alle crisi finanziarie, interpretandole come fenomeni complessi in cui teoria e pratica risultano strettamente interconnesse. Il volume si articola attorno a quattro dimensioni: ontologia, epistemologia, metodologia e modalità…
Abstract In “Ontology and Oppression”, Katharine Jenkins elabora i concetti di ingiustizia ontologica e oppressione ontologica, proponendo una teoria pluralista e realista dei social kinds che mostra come categorie quali genere e razza possano avere effetti sia oppressivi sia emancipatori.…
Abstract The book edited by Katrina Hutchison e Fiona Jenkins, Women in Philosophy. What Needs to Change? (2013), aims at examining the following questions: why there are few women philosophers and what are the causes of this gender disparity in…
Abstract Elizabeth Brake’s book, Minimizing Marriage. Marriage, Morality, and the Law” (2012), aims at examining the following questions: why is marriage so socially important? why do we attribute a special value to it? what exactly does imply the moral value…
Abstract Why is the “linguistic turn” a prerogative of the analytical philosophy and what does exactly define it? From the thesis which made this turn, it is possible to distinguish the following three: (1) the philosophy of language has priority…
Abstract Which are the features of the meaning of a singular term or a sentence? In what does consist properly the understanding of the sense or reference of a linguistic expression? In Sense and Meaning, Frege shows that the knowledge…