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Strawson rightly maintained that formal logic is not satisfactory when applied to natural language because natural language contains terms with implicit logic that cannot be entirely encompassed by formal rules of inference.

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Secondo fascicolo del 2023

Transitioning from a thematic webinar to a publication containing its contributions requires not only a different explanatory approach, but also an accurate comprehensive documentation of sources and methodological and instrumental resources. This article arses precisely from this, and is both a presentation of an ongoing work and a proposition for a demanding turning point toward an interdisciplinary encounter between the philosophy of language and the history of philosophy...

The problem how to define the nature of the atomistic substance is one of the most exciting questions arising in the interpretation of Presocratic philosophy. Given the fact that Democritus explained all phenomena in nature including the processes of life and consciousness only by means of an – as is generally believed – exclusively materialistic doctrine, there emerges the problem how to bridge the gap between the inanimate physics and the animate processes...

In this article we offer a critique of the thesis that considers Aristotle’s theology incompatible with religious piety (eusebeia). This interpretation was imposed in the 19th century by the influence of rationalism and continues to be hegemonic today...

This paper analyzes the notion of nature according to the analysis developed by Damascius in De Primis Principiis. The study highlights the eclectic character of Damascius’ naturalistic doctrine in which Aristotelian immanentism and Platonic/Neoplatonic transcendentism interact in an original and dialectical manner. The main focus of the study is the dual declination of φύσις in the forms of ἐνέργεια φυσική and φυτικὴ δύναμις. The latter aspect of nature is outlined as the vital and highest manifestation of φύσις itself...

The paper studies the receptions of Proslogion’s unum argumentum in the first anselmian tradition between the 11th and the 12th centuries, by authors and texts who have variously acquired, interpreted and reformulated it.