Papers by Antonella Corradini
Quantum Physics and the Fundamentality of the Mental
De Gruyter eBooks, Aug 15, 2014
Quantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas phys... more Quantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas physicalism implies a reductive position in the philosophy of mind, quantum physics is compatible with non-reductionism, and actually seems to support it. The essays in this book explore, from various points of view, the possibilities of basing a non-reductive philosophy of mind on quantum physics
La frammentazione della psicologia: alcune riflessioni epistemologiche
Giornale italiano di psicologia, 2017
Psychology is mostly applied psychology, where the standard application is in the clinical field.... more Psychology is mostly applied psychology, where the standard application is in the clinical field. Therefore, the problem of the relationship between theory and practice arises with regard to it. In this context, too the distinction between first-person and third-person proves to be central. The attempt to eliminate the first-person perspective at the theoretical level cannot meet any success at the clinical level, where the psychotherapist cultivates relationships of care with subjects. But this means that not even the theoretical level can be understood in a mere naturalist fashion, on pain of psychology fragmentation. Once unity in the diversity between the two levels pf psychological inquiry has been reconstituted, further methodological questions arise; first of all those regarding construction of bridge-theories that set the basis for the realisation of practice. Observational data deriving from application of these steps, if correct, have a justificatory role both for the theory of practice and for the \u201cpure\u201d theory, from which the whole theoretical construct originates
Emergent Dualism: Why and How?
The main aim of this essay is to try to clarify a central question concerning the coherence of em... more The main aim of this essay is to try to clarify a central question concerning the coherence of emergent dualism. The question is approximately this: How should we articulate and defend emergent dualism, if emergence is mostly interpreted as a kind of supervenience, and supervenience is rejected by the supporters of dualism together with the dependence of the mental on the physical? What should an adequate conception of emergence look like? This essay will be part of an attempt to provide an answer to this question
Metodi formali nelle indagini filosofiche
Die Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg hat in Kooperation mit der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychi... more Die Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg hat in Kooperation mit der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universität Regensburg am Bezirksklinikum die unabhängige, werbefreie Open-Access-Online-Fachzeitschrift Psychiatrische ...
Essentialism and Nonnaturalist Normative Supervenience
Topoi-an International Review of Philosophy, Apr 8, 2017
In this essay I defend a kind of nonnaturalist normative supervenience, grounded in the essences ... more In this essay I defend a kind of nonnaturalist normative supervenience, grounded in the essences of things. Essentialist theories, in fact, give us the tools to treat the nexus of normative supervenience as a nexus of metaphysical necessity, holding between the normative and the natural. In this context, essentialist grounding provides an explanation of normative supervenience that allows us to keep together both supervenience and nonnaturalism. Moreover, to achieve this significant result, I do not make use of hybrid properties, which are both normative and natural. Rather, I endeavour to show that the notion of hybrid property is based on an erroneous notion of grounding.
5. Experimental Ethics – A Critical Analysis
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 12, 2014
Der naturalistische Fehlschluß in der naturalistischen Ethik
History of philosophy and logical analysis, Apr 5, 2003
Präferenzutilitarismus und Goldene Regel: Einige methodologische Schwierigkeiten
De Gruyter eBooks, Apr 30, 2013
Intrinsic Desirabilities: A Reply to Lumer
De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 24, 2012
Non-reductive naturalism versus non-naturalism in ethics: How wide is the gap?
Routledge eBooks, Jul 29, 2006
Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind
Springer eBooks, Dec 22, 2009
Humana.Mente, 2015
Interactive dualism is notorious for supporting genuine and autonomous mental causation that is a... more Interactive dualism is notorious for supporting genuine and autonomous mental causation that is allegedly impossible for its confliction with basic principles of physics. The purpose of this essay is to show the invalidity of this commonplace view, by arguing to the contrary in three different steps. First, I will deal with the objection about the non-scientific character of interactive dualism, as it is conceived of in present-day philosophy of mind. Second, I will illustrate and critically examine three contemporary models of dualistically understood mental causation. Finally, I will summarise the chief assumptions made in these models and try to lay down my own proposal.
Bemerkungen zu den Grundlagen der Ethik
Logic and Logical Philosophy, Dec 16, 2021
This article aims to examine Koellner's reconstruction of Penrose's second argument a reconstru... more This article aims to examine Koellner's reconstruction of Penrose's second argument a reconstruction that uses the DTK system to deal with Gödel's disjunction issues. Koellner states that Penrose's argument is unsound, because it contains two illegitimate steps. He contends that the formulas to which the T-intro and K-intro rules apply are both indeterminate. However, we intend to show that we can correctly interpret the formulas on the set of arithmetic formulas, and that, as a consequence, the two steps become legitimate. Nevertheless, the argument remains partially inconclusive. More precisely, the argument does not reach a result that shows there is no formalism capable of deriving all the true arithmetic propositions known to man. Instead, it shows that, if such formalism exists, there is at least one true non-arithmetic proposition known to the human mind that we cannot derive from the formalism in question. Finally, we reflect on the idealised character of the DTK system. These reflections highlight the limits of human knowledge, and, at the same time, its irreducibility to computation.
Modelli epistemologici in psicologia. Dalla psicoanalisi al costruzionismo
Mental Causation and Nonreductive Physicalism, an Unhappy Marriage?
De Gruyter eBooks, Jan 9, 2018
Peter Menzies is among those contemporary philosophers of mind who have tried most deliberately t... more Peter Menzies is among those contemporary philosophers of mind who have tried most deliberately to make mental causation compatible with nonreductive physicalism, thus proving the invalidity of Kim's causal exclusion argument (Kim 2005, p. 17). The compatibility between mental causation and nonreductive physicalism will be the focus of this essay. In the first part, I shall expound the tenets of Menzies' theory of mental causation. In the second, I shall emphasise the difficulties his theory encounters, that jeopardise his attempt to reconcile mental causation with physicalism, even though the sort of physicalism he champions takes a quite liberal shape
Goldene Regel, Abtreibung und Pflichten gegenüber möglichen Individuen
Zeitschrift Fur Philosophische Forschung, 1994
In einem Aufsatz von 19751 hat RM Hare einen Gedankengang ent wickelt, der seiner Meinung nach zu... more In einem Aufsatz von 19751 hat RM Hare einen Gedankengang ent wickelt, der seiner Meinung nach zu einem erfolgreichen Umgang mit der Abtreibungsfrage fiihren kann: Er schligt namlich vor, die soge nannte Goldene Regel (im folgenden GR) auf das Abtreibungsproblem ...
“Das Leibniz’sche Argument der Einheit des Bewusstseins in der gegewärtigen Philosophie des Geistes”, “Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer”, Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, heraugegeben von Wenchao Li et al. , 6 Bände, Band II, pp. 215-222, Georg Olms Verlag
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