Affectivity
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Il presente contributo, partendo dal concetto di zooantropologia, intesa come disciplina che si occupa di comprendere le specificità della rela-zione uomo-animale e la particolare tendenza di tale relazione a produrre nell'uomo effetti... more
Cognitive science, until recently, has neglected affectivity and subjectivity which is partly due to dualistic conceptions of the cognizing subject. The present work aims to further expand the scope of the mind sciences with a... more
In this paper, I join the so-called voluntarism debate on Descartes’s theory of will and judgment, arguing for an indirect doxastic voluntarism reading of Descartes, as opposed to a classic, or direct doxastic voluntarism. More... more
The vocative is a still rather underexplored linguistic element which has justifiably been described as ‘peripheral’ in traditional systemic linguistics. Yet, it is of central relevance in the concrete linguistic interaction, where its... more
In this paper I focus on a key site of experimentalism in Nietzsche’s philosophy. Nietzsche cites a number of bold experimental thoughts within his work, such as the causal hypothesis of the world envisioned as will to power, and the... more
Le statut de la théorisation en phénoménologie a fait l’objet de nombreuses dé nitions, de Husserl à Marc Richir, en passant par Fink, Heidegger ou Merleau-Ponty. Ré échir à ce statut implique une analyse critique du lieu depuis lequel... more
As we know, it was Nietzsche’s project to reconceptualize Kant’s “judgment.” His choice of force managed to elude the problem of units of quantity, opting instead for an early dynamics. Nietzsche’s dynamics introduced interpretation,... more
Many philosophers have understood the representational dimension of affective states along the model of sense-perceptual experiences, even claiming the relevant affective experiences are perceptual experiences. This paper argues affective... more
In a 1967 article, A. C. Graham made the claim that 情 qing should never be translated as "emotions" in rendering early Chinese texts into English. Over time, sophisticated translators and interpreters have taken this advice to heart,... more
Esta tesis tiene por objeto reconsiderar, desde una mirada socio-histórica, el lugar que ocupó la noción de representación dentro de la teoría psicogenética y epistemológica de Jean Piaget en lo que respecta a la conformación de los... more
To speak of "advancing age" instead of ageing is not, of course, a way of avoiding the negative effects of ageing . This term takes on its full meaning if we consider that ageing is not the only aspect to be taken into account in the way... more
In order to explore how emotions contribute positively or negatively to understanding the meaning of complex socio-culturally specific phenomena, I argue that we must take into account the habitual dimension of emotions-i.e., the emotion... more
The paper is a discussion of P. M. S. Hacker, The Passions: A Study of Human Nature (2018). After a general presentation of the book I mostly focus on its first part, which deals with categories and concepts essential to the philosophy of... more
Fink hat in seiner 1930 publizierte Dissertation Vergegenwärtigung und Bild den Gedanken ausgearbeitet, was es heißt, in eine Welt zu versinken, um auf diese Weisedie Besonderheiten des Unwirklichen herauszuarbeiten. Das Phänomen des... more
This paper deals with the presentation and evocation of emotion in performative face-to-face linguistic communication in Iran. Performance in linguistic communication is shown to involve the speaker's need to convey an impression of his... more
Bergson’s "Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion" grant great importance to the role of affectivity and sensitiveness, that is, emotion in moral life. In this essay, I show that what is at stake is not only the reciprocal... more
The "animal question" got into the agenda of contemporary philosophy during the emancipation era right after the 68 movements. As is known, the 68 movements were an appeal for freedom not only against the instruments of repression and... more
ll buon senso − oltre che la psicologia − suggerisce che in una relazione importante ognuno di noi investa il meglio di sé. Ne avremo un ritorno in termini di gratificazione, per cui – come effetto – nella relazione ci sentiremo... more
Bioethics has begun to see the revaluation of affects in medical practice, but not all of them, and not necessarily in the sense of affects as we know them. Empathy has been accepted as important for good medical practice, but only in a... more
The aim of my memoir is to analyze and determine affectivity in Husserl’s phenomenology. My working hypothesis is that Husserl seems to have identified affectivity with its main dynamics. Husserlian and phenomenological studies made few... more
Husserl and Henry both conceive affectivity as the way of access to the world. While Husserl poses an originary sensuousness (ursprüngliche Sensualität) as the origin of our intentionality towards the world, Henry proposes a... more
Affectivity is central to the work of Emmanuel Levinas for being the starting point for ethics,the genetic moment of moral phenomenon in general and subjective ethical experience. But it can also be read as a comprehensive moment that... more
That early Christians all but universally held the doctrine of divine impassibility is uncontroversial. But, as Susan Wessel has recently argued, early Christians were also concerned to cultivate compassionate feelings and compassionate... more
Presentation at the annual ICNAP conference in Ramapo, 27 th May 2017 The aim of this presentation is to show the connection between mindfulness, attention and affectivity. I will draw mainly from two sources: from a description of... more
The paper problematises two distinct approaches to contemporary hermeneutics which advocate its complete reconceptualisation. One, offered by Jacques Derrida, excoriates “hermeneutic somnambulism” that disregards the text’s sovereignty,... more
I advance a phenomenology of forgetting based on Husserl’s accounts of time-consciousness and passive synthesis. This theory of forgetting is crucial for understanding the transcendental constitution of the past. I argue that without... more