In the last fifty years, increasing general and scholarly attention has been paid to Francis Hutcheson, usually referred to as “the father of Scottish Enlightenment.” In the English-speaking world, scholars have profited from a number of facsimile reprints of Hutcheson’s works, as well as from P. Kivy’s modern edition of the Inquiry on Beauty. In the last fifteen years the Inquiry on Virtue has been translated into German, both the Inquiries into French, the Inquiries as well the Essay on Passions, (...) Illustrations and the Letters between G. Burnet and Hutcheson into Italian. All these translations supply the variants found in different editions and provide readers with a number of aids. Their editors seem to share, to a greater or lesser extent, the idea that a text of the past is, first of all, an historical document to be respected in its integrity and to be understood in its historical context. This idea is also gaining credit in the English-speaking world, as is shown by the recent proliferation of critical editions of Hume’s, Smith’s and Reid’s works. Of course, there are opponents to this idea: it seems that historical integrity and readability of a text of the past are often considered to be in opposition. (shrink)

In the last fifty years, increasing general and scholarly attention has been paid to Francis Hutcheson, usually referred to as “the father of Scottish Enlightenment.” In the English-speaking world, scholars have profited from a number of facsimile reprints of Hutcheson’s works, as well as from P. Kivy’s modern edition of the Inquiry on Beauty. In the last fifteen years the Inquiry on Virtue has been translated into German, both the Inquiries into French, the Inquiries as well the Essay on Passions, (...) Illustrations and the Letters between G. Burnet and Hutcheson into Italian. All these translations supply the variants found in different editions and provide readers with a number of aids. Their editors seem to share, to a greater or lesser extent, the idea that a text of the past is, first of all, an historical document to be respected in its integrity and to be understood in its historical context. This idea is also gaining credit in the English-speaking world, as is shown by the recent proliferation of critical editions of Hume’s, Smith’s and Reid’s works. Of course, there are opponents to this idea: it seems that historical integrity and readability of a text of the past are often considered to be in opposition. (shrink)

A recently published volume – edited by Walter Tega and Luigi Turco – celebrates the Italian historian of philosophy Antonio Santucci. One of the founders of the neoilluminismo (new-Enlightenment), Santucci blended strong civil commitment with rigorous textual analysis and contributed to the popularisation of British and American philosophy in Italy. The book describes Santucci's contribution to the historical research on empiricism and stimulates a reappraisal of the heated cultural debate which flourished in Italy after the Second World War.

This article discusses the logic of the Epimenides Paradox using a graphical representation of the logical operators involved. The graphical representation of the Logical Operators is the one used in digital electronics. This method of investigation is very effective in revealing the hidden error in the reasoning that leads to the contradiction. The article explains the vicious circle that the mind goes through when trying to analyze the Paradox. Finally, the article proposes a solution of the Paradox with final conclusions (...) that are not paradoxical but simply counterintuitive. The endless deduction is generated by subsequent evaluations that take place on different levels. In its evaluation the Mind alternates a level of logical evaluation with a level of semantic evaluation. (shrink)

"Results presented in two international seminars held in Palermo and Milan in 2012"--Page 1.

Metafisica dell'arte.--La ricerca della verità.--L'ora della problematica assoluta.--Imagine cosmica e imagine psichica nel pensiero moderno.