Although Jews always stressed the boundaries of man’s intellect when facing the scientific knowledge of a transcendental God’s creation, they always held the study of astronomy and astrology in high esteem. From the time of the Bible through the early modern era, the major limit to scientific discovery imposed on Jews by their monotheistic faith made it difficult for them to create an autonomous astrological science, in the Greek meaning. However, such an aim could...

It is known that was Hume who, through his epistemological investigation, awakened Kant from the “dogmatic slumber” and that led him to do the research culminated in the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant himself mentions it repeatedly. Hume’s socalled “naturalistic scepticism”, otherwise, affected not merely the epistemological sphere, but also two other sets of philosophical problems, those of moral and religion. The aim of this paper is to analyze the incidence and influence of Hume...

This article is a novel assessment of Hermann Cohen’s theoretical philosophy, starting out from his Kant interpretation. Hermann Cohen was the head and founder of the Marburg School of Neo- Kantianism. In the beginning, hence, I will commence with some initial reflections on the makeup and importance of this school, before I move on to Cohen’s revolutionary Kant interpretation and its ramification for the Marburg School in general.

Philosophical Readings I 1

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features articles, discussions, translations, reviews, and bibliographical information on all philosophical disciplines. Philosophical Readings is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features articles, discussions, translations, reviews, and bibliographical information on all philosophical disciplines. Philosophical Readings is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

In The Analysis of Mind (1921), Bertrand Russell stresses the importance of William James’ late neutral monist view of consciousness for the studies in psychology. In so doing, he focuses on a topic whose roots can be traced back to the nineteenth-century European debate on physiology and scientific psychology. In this introductory paper I shall briefly outline the path that, starting from the revival of Kant in the German scientific debate, leads to both Ernst...

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features ar- ticles, discussions, translations, reviews, and biblio- graphical information on all philosophical disci- plines. Philosophical Readings is devoted to the pro- motion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

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In diverse nazioni – in testa gli Stati Uniti – le rivelazioni di WikiLeaks hanno tolto il sonno ai responsabili dell’intelligence e generato un acceso dibattito sul conflitto tra libera informazione e ragione di Stato. L’Italia ha proseguito nella sua infelice eccezione: la ricezione dei cablogrammi sul nostro Paese ha scatenato la solita opposizione tra berlusconiani e antiberlusconiani, facendo sì che tutto, ancora una volta, ruotasse intorno al grande one man show. Eppure l’antologia di...

Interview with Lee Braver

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features articles, discussions, translations, reviews, and bibliographical information on all philosophical disciplines. Philosophical Readings is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

Matematica e filosofia trascendentale in Kant

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features articles, discussions, translations, reviews, and bibliographical information on all philosophical disciplines. Philosophical Readings is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

In this essay, I will use two of Roger Bacon’s distinctive phrases—astronomia iudiciaria et operativa and opera et verba sapientium—to build up a picture of his distinctive configuration of the 13thcentury map of knowledge, in which mathematics, perspectiva and astrology are all utterly central. I will then explore how astrology thus configured may be used to explore Bacon’s relation to what we call science, magic and religion, although he often understands them differently than we...

Review of Ornella Pompeo Faracovi, Lo specchio alto. Astrologia e filosofia fra Medioevo e prima età moderna (Fabrizio Serra Editore: Pisa, 2012).

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Review of E. Acosta, Schiller versus Fichte. Schillers Begriff der Person in der Zeit und Fichtes Kategorie des Wechselbestimmung im Widerstreit, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2011, 302 pp. by E. Magrì

Review of Timotin Andrei, La démonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimon de Platon aux derniers néoplatoniciens, (Brill: Leiden, 2012)

Philosophical Readings, ISSN 2036-4989, features articles, discussions, translations, reviews, and bibliographical information on all philosophical disciplines. Philosophical Readings is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any association or institution, it is interested in persistent and resolute inquiries into root questions, regardless of the writer’s affiliation. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various...

Review of Giovan Battista Della Porta, The Art of Remembering. L’Arte del Ricordare, a cura di Armando Maggi (Longo: Ravenna, 2012).

L'Epicuro di Kant

This paper examines the relation between ethics and world in Kant in connection to his abandoning of Wolff’s philosophy. In particular, it focuses on those elements of the Critique of the Power of Jugdment, especially the Erste Einleitung, which outline an idea of a system and mediation between nature and freedom, against the Wolffian perspective. From this standpoint, particular attention is paid to the transcendental definitions of Einheit and Grund, which deviate from the Wolffian...

Kant’s theory of the Highest Good has often been criticised as eudemonist or heteronomous. The paper first shows that Kant explicitly differentiated between Eudemonia and Heteronomy. It then analyses separately the two criticisms referred to. According to the analysis provided in the paper, the only criticism that must be accounted for, within the defined terminological framework, is that of heteronomy. The third part of the paper proposes an interpretation of Kant’s ethics which aims to...

Книга посвящена исследованию пограничного региона Древнерусского государства к востоку от р. Сулы, упоминаемого автором «Слова о полку Игореве» в числе «земель незнаемых». В научный оборот впервые в полном объеме вводятся материалы археологического комплекса роменско-древнерусских памятников на р. Псел в с. Каменное Сумской области, на примере которого раскрыты процессы освоения, социально-экономического и культурного развития региона от северянского этапа Х – начала XI вв. вплоть до Батыева нашествия. Книга иллюстрирована картами, чертежами, рисунками и фотографиями. Предназначена для...