Individuals, Essence and Identity
Themes of Analytic Metaphysics
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Ermanno Bencivenga
Philosophy
Logic
Modern Philosophy
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A Strange (?) Quantum World
My aim here is to develop a coherent philosophical stance on what is known as “the measurement problem” in quantum mechanics. My stance will not please everyone, but I suggest that this emotional reaction may ...
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What is Logic About?
I am going to tell you a story here. But a few things must be clear from the beginning. First, this is an imaginary story. It doesn’t even try to describe things that happened; if read that way, it would be gross...
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Discriminating from Within
A relatively recent but already solid tradition in social psychology emphasizes the crucial relevance of cognitive factors for social behavior. Such factors are especially relevant (and disturbing) in situatio...
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Kant’s Sadism
In The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Lacan says: “So as to produce the kind of shock or eye-opening effect that seems to me necessary if we are to make progress, I simply want to draw your attention to t...
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The End of Analysis
So I was sitting across the table from this famous Lacanian psychoanalyst, eating Indian food. He had been going on for hours, telling us that Lacan was more of a feminist than feminists, more of an intellectu...
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Taking Care of Ethical relativism
The existence of conflicting behavioral codes creates a serious prima facie difficulty for the legitimacy of moral judgments. Suppose that I claim, “x is right,” for some behavior x sanctioned by my code, and ...
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An Oblique View
There is a philosopher who is very popular in my department. Everyone has a high opinion of him and, as a rare sign of harmony in an otherwise dysfunctional “community,” we unanimously voted to hire him a few ...
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An Answer to the Question “Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future?”
The future is uncertain; no one can tell for sure that the sun will rise tomorrow. Elaborate predictions are made on the basis of sophisticated “scientific” theories, and much assurance is derived from them, a...
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“I”: J.D
Who, me? I will always have missed the subject of “my” actions: always evaded it, omitted it. I will always have returned to the locus of that subjectivity, to the performance of that signature, the responsibi...
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The Degradation of Talent
Let me get something straight. I am glad Schindler’s Listwas made;I am glad it exists. Except for the last ten minutes or so, when Spielberg faces the same problem as Bertolucci in 1900 (how do I bring this sort ...
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Knowledge Versus Belief
Vronsky has just fallen during a steeplechase, and Anna is in shock. Karenin offers her his arm and she, after finding out that Vronsky is not hurt, docilely accepts it. In their carriage Karenin points out th...
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Promissory Names
Any theory that intends (at least1) to use descriptions in order to fix the reference of proper names would seem to be committed to the following claim:
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Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel
The framework in which this chapter must be situated and understood is my general interpretation of Hegelian, dialectical logic and of its relation with its Aristotelian, analytic counterpart. So I will first ...
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The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation
Simple, radical ways of expressing the main thesis of this paper are given by the following (equivalent) statements: there is no such thing as philosophical secondary literature, the relevant concept has no ap...
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Respect for Structure
Imagine the following. There is a planet out there in the universe that, you know with absolute certainty, no humans or other intelligent forms of life will ever come into any significant contact with. By that...
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Being-Idle
The fundamental ontological significance of the phenomenon of “idle talk” (“Gerede”) has, for the most part, already emerged. It has already come forth that, as Dasein is constantly delivered over to an averag...
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Montaigne’s Pre-And Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity
Nothing typifies modern subjectivity better than Descartes’s argument in the Sixth Meditation that he is not (identical with) his body. I can think of myself as disembodied, Descartes says in essence, so it is...
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Beyond Tolerance?
The most important thing political philosophers — and politicians, too — ought to learn from Hegel is that, because concepts are live structures, they don’t stay put: they move constantly, and even have a disc...
