XXXIV, 1, 2024: “Possibility is the Heaviest of All Categories”. On Kierkegaard’s Reading of Modal Categories. Edited by Ingrid Basso Buy the electronic version The categories of modality, in a thinker like Kierkegaard who always prioritized the subjective dimension of the how (hvorledes) over the objective what (hvad), assume decisive importance. Possibility, actuality, necessity and contingency are crucial categories recurring ... Read More »

XXXIII, 2, 2023: Beyond Consciousness. Paths of Phenomenological Research. Edited by Andrea Altobrando and Alice Pugliese Buy the electronic version How can a field of research that takes sticking only to what is intuitively given to consciousness to be its fundamental principle, propose to investigate phenomena that – by definition – would place themselves beyond consciousness? And how can such ... Read More »

XXXIII, 1, 2023: Jakob von Uexküll. Biological Theory, Subjectivity and Environment. Edited by Vallori Rasini Buy the electronic version The “theoretical” biologist Jakob von Uexküll represents the case of a scientist who “re-emerged” in the history of western thought. He obtained the title of “forerunner” of contemporary ecologism and zoosemiotic research as far as “inventor” of the modern concept of ... Read More »

XXXII, 2, 2022: The Forms of Pseudos. Edited by Venanzio Raspa Buy the electronic version 1. How many forms are there of pseudos? In Truth and Falsehood in a Nonmoral Sense, Nietzsche lists several of them: «deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing ... Read More »

XXXII, 1, 2022: The Experience of Pain. Epistemological, Hermeneutical and Ontological Aspects. Edited by Luca Vanzago Buy the electronic version Pain is a complex phenomenon. The study of the experience of pain represents in this respect an exemplary case as regards the question of whether epistemic uncertainty is a lack or should be understood differently. In fact, the description and ... Read More »

XXXI, 2, 2021: Intuition and its Forms. The Prospects and Problems of Intuitionism. Edited by Stefano Besoli and Luca Guidetti Buy the electronic version Since ancient times, the concept of intuition (epibolé, intuitus) has denoted a direct and immediate relation with any object whatsoever, a relation involving the object’s actual presence. This definition, which applies to intuition in all its ... Read More »

XXXI, 1, 2021: Exemplarity: A Pattern of Thought for Aesthetic Cognition. Edited by Michela Summa and Karl Mertens Buy the electronic version Aesthetic experience is evaluative and emotional experience of artistic or natural singularities. Consistently, the systematic reflection on aesthetic experience accomplished in philosophical aesthetics and art theory also reflects this orientation towards singularities. However, the way in which we ... Read More »

XXX, 2, 2020: The Renewal of Hermeneutics: with Paul Ricœur and Beyond. Edited by Johann Michel and Carla Canullo Buy the electronic version The title of a book that Jean Greisch published in 1985, L’âge herméneutique de la raison, aptly defines the cultural milieu in which Ricoeur’s work developed. At a time when hermeneutics mostly displayed the ontological traits given ... Read More »

XXX, 1, 2020: Realismo, pragmatismo, naturalismo. Le trasformazioni della fenomenologia in Nord America. Edited by Danilo Manca and Antonio M. Nunziante Buy the electronic version Between 1902 and 1903 two former students of Josiah Royce, Winthrop Bell and William Ernest Hocking, moved to Göttingen to study with Husserl. Between 1922 and 1925 a second generation of North American scholars (Marvin ... Read More »

XXIX, 2, 2019: Il problema dell’istituzione. Prospettive ontologiche, antropologiche e giuridico-politiche. Edited by Enrica Lisciani-Petrini and Massimo Adinolfi Buy the electronic version When, more than three years ago, together with the editor in chief and the editorial board of this journal, we planned an issue of Discipline Filosofiche on the theme of institution, we would never have imagined that the ... Read More »