La natura nel pensiero di Maria Montessori: Educare alla scienza per stimolare l’immaginazione

Equality and Vulnerability in the Context of Italian Political Philosophy. Italian Efficacy

One of the main goals of this book is to determine if, in the works of some of the key authors in the history of Italian political philosophy, a notion of “efficacy” can be found. In legal philosophy, “efficacy” is the capacity a norm has to effectively influence citizens’ behavior. The “principle of efficacy” is that according to which an order or rule exists as such when it is followed effectively in practice. Here by “efficacy” I mean the idea that normative phenomena are self-justifying, ...

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Wittgenstein rehinged: The relevance of on certainty for contemporary epistemology

Hinge epistemology is a rising trend in epistemology. Drawing on some of Wittgenstein's ideas in On Certainty, it claims that knowledge always takes place within a system of assumptions, or "hinges", that are taken for granted and are not subject to verification and control. This volume brings together thirteen papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva, the coiner of the term and one of the leading figures in this trend, and published after her influential monographs Moore and W...