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This contribution aims to highlight how a reductionist approach in the field of philosophy of mind fails to grasp many central connotations that adapt to the dimensions of human conscious experience. In this framework, the hypothesis discussed is that phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty offers, unlike other philosophical traditions, conceptual coordinates capable of interpreting and broadening the horizons of empirical research in the direction of an approach integrated that restores priority to the qualitative dimension of conscious experience and language...

The concept of expression is closely related to the key-problem of mimesis and its dialectic between production and re-production. The Jeu de Peindre by Arno Stern offers a privileged vantage point in this regard by releasing painting from any communicative purpose and discovering in it a channel for the emergence of organic memory...

This paper contributes to the debate on the origins of the doctrine of the analogy of being. The author argues that it was Alexander of Aphrodisias who started the process that was ultimately to lead, with Thomas Aquinas, to the complete formulation of the doctrine of the analogy of being. Alexander’s decisive contribution appears to lie not in the overlap between the unity by analogy in Metaph. Δ 6 and the πρὸς ἕν of Metaph. Γ 2, as recently claimed by K.L. Flannery, but in the commentator’s having placed being as an intermediate between homonymous and synonymous...

This paper aims to provide an analysis of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s position in the context of the early 16th century debate on the immortality of the human soul. Questioning Charles B. Schmitt’s hypothesis regarding the period in which Pico’s Digressio de animae immortalitate would have been written, it will be shown that this work contains some remarks which can be traced back to an opposition of their author against Pietro Pomponazzi’s conclusion that, from a philosophical standpoint, the assertion of the mortality of the human soul is more plausible that its opposite...

This contribution aims to retrace the intellectual context in which the idea of «neoliberalism» during the so-called Walter Lippmann Colloque of 1938 was born, paying attention to some of its philosophical and ethical assumptions. The guiding thread of the analysis will be delimited by the conceptions of Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966), one of the protagonists and witnesses of the birth of the concept of «neoliberalism», supporter of the renewal of an authentic liberal tradition....

In The Christian Religion, As Profess’d by a Daughter of the Church of England (London 1705) by Mary Astell, the author challenges many aspects of John Locke’s philosophy concerning theology, politics, ethics and religion. This manuscript focuses on one of her main criticisms against Locke, that is, her rejection of his view on thinking matter...

This paper deals with Plato’s treatment of the metaphysical and epistemological status of mimesis in Republic 10. A new interpretation of the distinction between form, instrument and imitation is provided. A key role is played by the concept of use...

Bolzano can be called a true «anti-Kant»: his Theory of Science is a systematic counterpoint to the Critique of Pure Reason, and his logical objectivism is the antithesis of the transcendental subjectivity of Critical Philosophy. The autonomy of the Austrian tradition within German-speaking philosophy originates here...