Religion in a post-secular age. The echoes of feuerbachian’s anthropotheism on Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty’s thought This paper questions the role and future of religion in a post-secular age by considering the philosophical perspective of Ludwig Feuerbach, one of the main opposer of Christian religion. The core idea is that a close relationship exists between Holy and...
Jean Starobinski on the Reason of Body In posthumous homage to Jean Starobinski (1920-2019) on the centennial of his birth, this article sketches his thought on the «reasons of the body», linking it to certain contemporary fields of research. Prolonging the «somatic turn» of the 1980s, more recent «emotional» and «interoceptive turns» claim to reintegrate the body into history...
Wild Philosophy. Revisiting wilderness Thought The notion of nature has been changing during the last two centuries: from an antagonist that must be conquered, to the environment of which the Homo sapiens is part of. Perhaps this second notion of nature is subjective too. Thoreau considered nature a free creative force and a resource that can decrease but never grows. It is...
How long can a culture persist without the new? TINA and the research of a “cosmology” worthy of the Anthropocene The essay intends to analyze the possibility of building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This will be the path: first, deconstructing the mainstream and fashionable narrative of the Anthropocene, highlighting all the ideological aspects...
Areal. Geosophy of Looking The reality is much more uncertain than it appears. The ways in which human beings perceive the reality, on the basis of their own culture and experience, are countless. Whether as adjective or as substantive, the term “Areal” refers to the nature or the identity of an area; for the author, it becomes an approach that suggest a “suspended reality” – i.e...
Antimechanism and Neovitalism. A report on the international conference Antimechanism and Neovitalism, Modena, October 9-10, 2019 This paper presents the conference Antimechanism and Neovitalism that took place in Modena on the 9th and 10th of October 2019, organized by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The conference aims to provide a wide perspective on the...
[Book reviews - Michael Chabon, Wonder boys, tr. it. a cura di L. Crepax e M. Crepax, Rizzoli, Milano 2002 Edgar Allan Poe, La filosofia della composizione, a cura di L. Lunari, testo inglese a fronte, La Vita Felice, Milano 2012]
Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some aspects of an intriguing discipline known as social Robotics. In particular, we try to get familiar with concepts and philosophical frameworks which deal with this new human enterprise. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano will help us to get in contact with a scenario in which emotions...
Environmentalisms This contribution is a report of the Summer School of Philosophy in Montecompatri (Rome) - September 6-7, 2019, where philosophers and scholars of different fields raised questions and proposed analysis and possible answers about environment, in the light of philosophical tradition and new technologies.
Who or what is the historical subject? – Andersian outlooks between psychopolitics and datism In this paper I will question the equivalence between mankind and historical subjectivity. Following the philosopher Günther Anders’ thoughts about industrial revolutions and technological development, I will outline the changes technology is forcing over mankind, to the point of a...
Thinking more and otherwise about Plato and Aristotle. A comparison between classical and contemporary epistemology The paper contains a particular historical and philosophical interpretation, the hermeneutic possibility of revising the traditional distinction between the founders of Western thought, Plato and Aristotle, which fits within a general thematic horizon, that of the...
Along the edge of a straight razor. Apocalypse Now between cinema and philosophy: a Frazerian interpretation This short paper aims to propose a philosophical reading of the Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece Apocalypse Now. Not settling with the traditional interpretation of the movie as a cinematographic free transposition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the paper try to put in...
THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK AND ETHICAL MODELS The fourth Industrial Revolution heralds a series of cultural, political, social and economic upheavals that will unfold over the 21st century. Our current dossier intends, therefore, to deepen the ethical and philosophical-anthropological aspects connected to the fourth industrial revolution, not...
The Commemoration of Leonardo da Vinci To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci occurring in 2019, I propose the following manuscript, in the form of a virtual interview to prof. Giuseppe Maria Pugno (GMP), who commemorated the 500th anniversary of his birth in 1952. The interview, although of a virtual nature, due to the two generations that...
In Vitro meat, a flywheel to build a new relationship between Sapiens and non-human animals Meat consumption is a considerable Harm for human Health, Environment, and animal Welfare. In this essay I assume that in vitro meat could be a suitable solution for each of these problems. In the first part of my inquire I focus on animal Ethics. In particular I analyze the issue of moral...
Industry 4.0 The present work enables us to take the first steps in the world of the 4th Industrial Revolution, a world where robots, artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing technologies will change forever the way we design, produce and buy products and services. The first characteristics of this revolution is globalization: for the first time in history, an industrial...
Job as a speech act and the end of conventional work Ethics According to the author, the work that takes place in the Cyber Physical System (Smart Factory) has the nature of the «performative speech act». This change determines the end of the conventional ethics of work as duty, task, destiny, etc. which the author analyzes in Christianity as the most important conventional...
Ethics and robotics in the fourth industrial revolution The current industrial revolution, characterised by a pervasive spread of technologies and robotic systems, also brings with it an economic, social, cultural and anthropological revolution. Work spaces will be reshaped over time, giving rise to new challenges for human‒machine interaction. Robotics is hereby inserted in a...
Where Opposites Meet: Mathematics Between Science And Humanities The connection between science and mathematics is often considered necessary and insoluble. Therefore, a relationship between mathematics and humanities or arts is deemed exceptional or sometimes unnatural. Nevertheless, on the basis of historical, ontological and epistemological researches it can be noted that it’s...
Infosphere: a new way to look at fundamental questions about humanity New developments in the field of communication and information technology (ICT) will profoundly reshape the answers to questions of deep interest for humanity and philosophy. Who are we and what kind of relationship we establish among us? The boundaries between real life and virtual life tend to evanish. We are...
Considerations on the concept of world and of relationship to the world in the age of Anthropocene: essay on XXI century philosophy The essay intends to analyze the notion of “world” and “relationship to the world” as a crucial problem connected to the symbolic, economic and ecological crisis. The reflection starts from the analysis of the complex notion of “Anthropocene” (and...
Synthetic Biology and Renewal of the Ethics of the Research. From the Genome Editing to Organoids of the Brains In this paper I will address the philosophical and scientific impact brought up by “synthetic biology” from the beginning of embryogeny to the fabrication of organoids, to analyze how this paradigm shift impacts on our definition of what a good life is, or should be, in...
Bergson and the Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. A Comparison to the Enactivism In the last two decades, the research approach in Philosophy of Mind has changed considerably. The studies about mental phenomenon inspired by the so called “Internalist” model were focused on the relationship between mental state and neural movements and assumed that the mind has mental...
Living the threshold: Simondon and the living individuation Describing the evolution of the individual from the physical to the vital individuation, from the psychic to the collective individuation, the article aims at reconstructing Simondon’s theory of the individual with which the philosopher shows how the subject is a never-ending process of individuation that emerges from a...
From the Anthropocene to the Technocene: Ethical-anthropological Perspectives from the “terra incognita” By assuming a transcendental approach, my paper aims to suggest that “the essence of the Anthropocene is by no means anything anthropocenic”. That is to say, the Anthropocene represents a philosophical rather than a scientific question, because it essentially equates to a...