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The Epistemological Side of Ontology

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Is it possible to draw a border line between ontology and epistemology? A positive answer to this question looks attractive, mainly because it reflects convictions deeply entrenched in our common sense view of the world. However, anyone wishing to clarify the distinction between the ontological and …
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From the concept of Environmental Reason To a Global Ethics project

António Dos Santos · University of Lisbon, Portugal
The contribution of the environmental philosophy to the XX and XXI centuries philosophy renovation and their capacity to be applied to all aspects of social life is the core of this essay.The history of philosophy on the West is focused on the human condition, the environmental philosophy …
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Science and Different Images of the World

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
It has often been claimed in contemporary philosophy that the scientific world-view will necessarily replace the view of the world provided by common sense. It may be argued, however, that common sense holds a sort of methodological primacy over the aforementioned scientific world-view. For example,…
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Rorty on Language and Social Practices

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…
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A Limited View of Realism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In the paper we argue that no neat border line between ontology and epistemology can be drawn. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is rather fuzzy, and the world is characterized by a sort of ontological opacity which makes the construction of any absolute onto…