Alessandro Giordani

The present article aims to study the opposition between realism and idealism concerning the problem of the immanence of being to thought. Specifically, it assesses Bontadini’s refutation of the immanence thesis in relation to some significant developments in epistemic logic and contemporary epistemology...

The aim of this paper is to investigate some proposals about the possibility of metaphysics. In particular, we want to focus on the relationships between the justification procedures used in empirical sciences and in metaphysics...

This paper aims at analyzing from a philosophical point of view the concept of logical consequence, in order to highlight the connection between different kinds of consequence relations and between such relations and the intuitions in virtue of which they are introduced. The topics and theorems that are discussed are well-known. Still, their philosophical significance for the epistemological debate is not fully acknowledged. In what follows, the basic idea is developed according to which the kind of intuition that allow us to justify the introduction of the second order consequence relation is essentially different from, and emergent with respect to, the kind of intuition that allow us to justify the introduction of the first order consequence relation. In particular, this difference is based on the evidence of the existence of sets that are not definable by presenting a property shared by all their elements.

The paper presents a philosophical analysis of the concept of control based on a specific characterization of the structure of control systems. The paper is subdivided into four sections: in the first and the second sections the control dynamics is described and interpreted, while the last two sections briefly cope with the relationships between control, teleonomy, teleology and freedom.