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    Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities.Gabriele De Anna - 2020 - Routledge.
    This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with. In Part I, the author justifies the need for the notion of substance in metaphysics in general and in the metaphysics of politics in particular. He spells out a moderately realist theory of substances and of their principles of unity, which supports substantial (...)
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    Potentiality, Natural Normativity and Practical Reason.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (3):307-326.
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    Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology.Giovanni Boniolo & Gabriele De Anna (eds.) - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other (...)
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    The four faces of omission: Ontology, terminology, epistemology, and ethics.Giovanni Boniolo & Gabriele De Anna - 2006 - Philosophical Explorations 9 (3):277 – 293.
    In this paper, the ontological, terminological, epistemological, and ethical aspects of omission are considered in a coherent and balanced framework, based on the idea that there are omissions which are actions and omissions which are non-actions. In particular, we suggest that the approach to causation which best deals with omission is Mackie's INUS conditional proposal. We argue that omissions are determined partly by the ontological conditional structure of reality, and partly by the interests, beliefs, and values of observers. The final (...)
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    Theism and the Ontological Ground of Moral Realism.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - In Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Theistic Beliefs: Meta-Ontological Perspectives. De Gruyter. pp. 19-38.
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  6. Teleology and theology. On the specificity of teleological explanations.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (3):27-50.
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  7. Value, Transcendence and Analogy.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):105-129.
    Current naturalistic accounts of value face the problem of explaining the normative constraints that value impose on agents. Attempts to solve this problem have progressively relaxed the strictness of naturalistic requirements, up to the point of seeking theistic solutions. However, appeals to God are also problematic, since it is questionable that a relevant notion of God is conceivable at all: if God is wholly other He cannot matter for our choices and if He is a being among natural beings He (...)
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  8. Mind-world identity theory and semantic realism: Haldane and Boulter on Aquinas.Gabriele De Anna - 2000 - Philosophical Quarterly 50 (198):82-87.
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    Aquinas on Sensible Forms and Semimaterialism.Gabriele De Anna - 2000 - Review of Metaphysics 54 (1):43 - 63.
    IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF HIS BOOK Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Robert Pasnau takes a position in a longstanding debate concerning the metaphysical status and the epistemological role of sensible forms in Aquinas’s theory of cognition. His main claim is that Aquinas was a materialist about sensation and developed “a theory of the sort that a modern materialist could love.”.
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  10. Ana borovečki, Henk ten have, Stjepan orešković, ethics committees in croatia in the healthcare institutions: The first study about their structure and functions, and some reflections on the major issues and problems 49-60.Gabriele de Anna, Begetting Cloning, Ruiping Fan, Confucian Filial Piety & Long Term - 2006 - HEC Forum 18 (4):374-376.
     
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  11. Aquinas on the Priority of Substances.Gabriele de Anna - 2003 - Medioevo 28:139-162.
     
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    Cloning, begetting, and making children.Gabriele De Anna - 2006 - HEC Forum 18 (2):172-188.
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    Can There Be Supernaturalism without Theism?Gabriele De Anna - 2011 - In Dariusz Łukasiewicz & Roger Pouivet (eds.), The Right to Believe: Perspectives in Religious Epistemology. De Gruyter. pp. 179-212.
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    Formal causation and mental representation : a thomistic proposal.Gabriele De Anna - unknown
    In the past years, the relevance of Thomas Aquinas's theory of cognition for contemporary debates on epistemology has been widely discussed. That theory claims that mind and world are formally identical and that this relationship overcomes various problems associated with scepticism concerning mental representation. The proposal, however, is grounded on the idea that the world can act on the mind through a relation of formal causation. This thesis attempts to develop a Thomistic theory of formal causation which may be suitable (...)
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  15. gine tra Tommaso d'Aquino e Hilary Putnam, Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2001.Gabriele de Anna - 2004 - Dialectica 58 (2):233-237.
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    Hylomorphism and substantial gradualism.Gabriele De Anna - 2015 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 71 (4):855-872.
    Resumo Recentemente o Hilemorfismo – a visão tradicional, segundo a qual, as substâncias são constituídas pela combinação de forma e matéria – tem sido alvo de renovado interesse. Este artigo centra-se na substância material e sugere que, neste caso, a constituição hilemórfica exige uma noção de forma que deve ser alargada ao conceito de energia, ou ao exercício de uma força. Neste artigo também se defende o gradualismo substancial: se a forma for assim entendida, a substancialidade possui graus, ou seja, (...)
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  17. Henrik Lagerlund, Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy Reviewed by.Gabriele De Anna - 2008 - Philosophy in Review 28 (4):277-280.
  18. Il giudizio dell'autorità e il senso comune.Gabriele De Anna - 2011 - Philosophical News 3.
    “How should authority relate to common sense, in making the judgements that its functioning requires?” This essay tries to address this question. Firstly, it attempts at clarifying three key concepts which are deployed in the question: the concepts of authority, common sense, and judgement. Subsequently, it claims that the elucidation of those concepts suggests that we need to settle two preliminary issues, to begin with: a. given what authority is, what roles should formal logic and other sciences have in the (...)
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    Introduction: Natural Normativity and the Normativity of Human Action.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (3):239-242.
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  20. L'intelligenza della realtà e i doveri dello Stato nel pensiero politico di Giancarlo Giurovich.Gabriele De Anna - 2004 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 2 (2):345-364.
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    L'origine e la meta: studi in memoria di Emanuele Samek Lodovici con un suo inedito.Gabriele De Anna & Emanuele Samek Lodovici (eds.) - 2015 - Milano: Edizioni Ares.
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    Moral Realism and Political Decisions. Practical Rationality in Contemporary Public Contexts.Gabriele De Anna & Riccardo Martinelli (eds.) - 2015 - Bamberg: Bamberg University Press.
    Realism has been a central object of attention among analytical philosophers for some decades. Starting from analytical philosophy, the return of realism has spread into other contemporary philosophical traditions and given birth to new trends in current discussions, as for example in the debates about “new realism.” Discussions about realism focused on linguistic meaning, epistemology, metaphysics, theory of action and ethics. The implications for politics of discussion about realism in action theory and in ethics, however, are not much discussed. This (...)
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    Normativity, volitional capacities, and rationality as a form of life.Gabriele De Anna - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (2):152-161.
    Contemporary neo-Aristotelianism attempts to ground normative constraints on action on the notion of human nature and this opens it to two main objections: Firstly, human nature seems to be too indeterminate to set constraints on action; secondly, it is unclear why knowledge of human nature should motivate agents. This essay considers the contribution that Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life can give in answering these challenges. It suggests that forms of life are not objects of analysis, but rather a new (...)
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    Percezione e realismo diretto in Tommaso d'Aquino.Gabriele De Anna - 2004 - Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 17 (3):631-642.
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    Political identity and the metaphysics of polities.Gabriele De Anna & Manuele Dozzi (eds.) - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    The essays in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical debates on populism, on the crisis of sovereignty, on the feasibility of a world government, and on ethical, religious, and cultural pluralism. What is a political community? Any answer to this question lies at the intersection between three fields: metaphysics, philosophy of (...)
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  26. Realism, human action and politics. On the political dimension of individual choices.Gabriele De Anna - 2015 - In Gabriele De Anna & Riccardo Martinelli (eds.), Moral Realism and Political Decisions. Practical Rationality in Contemporary Public Contexts. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press.
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  27. Riflessioni su Wittgenstein e le sensazioni private di altre menti.Gabriele De Anna - 1999 - Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 17 (4):92-97.
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  28. Stato, bene comune e autoritá della Chiesa in Carlo Francesco D'Agostino.Gabriele De Anna - 2006 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 3:515-526.
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    Substance, Form, and Modality.Gabriele De Anna - 2018 - Discipline Filosofiche 28 (1):137-158.
    This essay deals with Simon Evnine’s amorphic hylomorphism, and the bearings that considerations about modality might have on it. It is suggested that the assumption of amorphic hylomorphism makes an account of modality extensionally incorrect in the domain of natural, non-organic objects. It is further argued that, in the case of NNOs, the existence of real forms should be accepted and this conclusion is claimed to be consistent with scientific knowledge, on the basis of substance gradualism.
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    Willing the good: empirical challenges to the explanation of human behavior.Gabriele De Anna (ed.) - 2012 - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Science increasingly deals with human behavior: biology, neuroscience, genetics, psychology, evolutionary theory, and ethology all bring new insights into our actions and uncover new facts about our agency. However, what is the philosophical significance of their findings? The answer to this question varies according to one's background philosophical views. On the one hand, the dominant empiricist view contends that the sciences can in principle tell us everything there is to know about human agency. On the other hand, there are other (...)
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    Nature, value, and normativity: An introduction.Mario De Caro & Gabriele De Anna - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (2):113-114.
    This brief introduction expounds the reasons behind the collection of essays entitled ‘Nature, Value and Normativity’. Political and social philosophers have usually a hard time finding a role for considerations about nature (and human nature in particular) in their accounts of normativity, due to the risk of committing the naturalistic fallacy and/or running against people’s autonomy. Scepticism about appeals to nature in normative accounts of politics and society, however, seems bound to clash with the fact that nature constrains human action. (...)
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    Libertarian paternalism and health care policy: a deliberative proposal. [REVIEW]Giuseppe Schiavone, Gabriele De Anna, Matteo Mameli, Vincenzo Rebba & Giovanni Boniolo - 2014 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (1):103-113.
    Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler have been arguing for what they named libertarian paternalism (henceforth LP). Their proposal generated extensive debate as to how and whether LP might lead down a full-blown paternalistic slippery slope. LP has the indubitable merit of having hardwired the best of the empirical psychological and sociological evidence into public and private policy making. It is unclear, though, to what extent the implementation of policies so constructed could enhance the capability for the exercise of an autonomous (...)
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  33. By Knowledge & By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. [REVIEW]Gabriele De Anna - 2006 - The Medieval Review 2.
     
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  34. Il sistema di Jacobi. Ragione, esistenza, persona. [REVIEW]Gabriele De Anna - 2012 - Philosophical News 4.
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  35. La Contraddizione Vera: Giovanni Duns Scotus tra le necessita della metafisica e il discorso della filosofio pratica. [REVIEW]Gabriele De Anna - 2007 - The Medieval Review 7.