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Modeling Metaphysics: The Rise of Simulation and the Reversal of Platonism
2019
Philosophical reflection on and around Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is often focused on the ethical and epistemological implications of empirical findings or innovative methods within the field. In this paper I highlight some of the metaphysical implications of developments within M&S. I argue that the rise of simulation within and across scientific disciplines is accelerating the reversal of Platonism, whose emphasis on transcendence and reliance on hierarchical, static categories has dominated western philosophy for over two millennia. The success of M&S methodologies opens up new conceptual space for articulating a metaphysics of immanence that may provide a more adequate basis for unde…
La utopía correctora: A propòsit del mite d'El polític de Plató
2014
[spa] Cal entendre la narració del mite de l'Edat de Cronos en El polític de Plató en el marc on esta situada. Sera aleshores que es podra comprendre com Plató va compasar els diferents materials que hi inteiVenen per aconseguir neutralitzar la creen~a que aquella edat d'or era una situació óptima.
La Repubblica di Platone fra totalitarismo, dissimulazione e utopia
2014
Platone e gli Eleati (I)
2017
Si argomenta (alla luce del "Sofista") come nel "Parmenide" Platone cerchi di mostrare a quali contraddizioni e assurdità porti la dialettica sull´essere di Parmenide. Se da un lato Platone rileva in maniera impietosa i limiti della dialettica eleatica, dall´altro sembra riconoscere a Parmenide alcuni meriti.
Laura Candiotto, Le vie della Confutazione, Mimesis, Milano 2012, (Book Review)
2012
Proclus, Erototokos and "the Great Confusion" : Neoplatonist defense of polytheistic piety in early byzantine Athens
2012
Una nuova testimonianza sul mito di Fineo e di Paraibios
2012
Le motif du médecin tyran de Platon à Galien
2014
At various points in Method of medicine and in a passage in the Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics Galen takes up the image of the tyrant doctor employed by Plato in the famous passage in the Laws in which, to illustrate the role of the proem to the law, he introduces the contrast between doctors of freemen and doctors of slaves (Leg. IV 719e 8-720e 5) : this is an unexplored chapter of Galen’s Platonism.
Aristotle’s Concept of Friendship and Plato’s Structure of Human Soul
2018
Prote Hyle. Notions of Matter in the Platonic and Aristotelian Traditions
2017
How do we experience matter? Does it present itself to the senses? Or is it only an empty substratum that cannot be grasped if deprived of all sensible qualities? Is it perceived as a continuum, or rather intellectually reconstructed through mental and logical forms? Or is it that the very idea of a continuum is itself the outcome of mental abstraction? The nature of matter has been a central issue for philosophy since its inception. The constant oscillation of ancient thought between ma er as indeterminateness that does not have a concept and does not even properly exist - and matter as a principle that allows one to think plurality and otherness, that reaches even into the realm of the in…