A PARTIAL VIEW OF REALISM
by Michele Marsonet (University of Genoa) To what extent are we entitled to draw a border line between ontology and epistemology? To many contemporary thinkers a positive answer to this question looks attractive, mainly because it reflects convictions deeply entrenched in our common sense view of the world. However - they argue - anyone wishing to clarify the distinction between the ontological and the epistemological dimensions, without having recourse to unwarranted dogmas, should recognize that such a positive answer poses more problems th…
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Nationalities and global culture
by Michele Marsonet. University of Genoa Abstract It is often said today that the agreement on the possibility of greater mutual understanding among human beings has failed. Would have led to the resurgence of long-suppressed hatreds, hatreds that have their source in the differences linked to national identities, ethnic and religious. We would be short before the end of universalistic concepts that have permeated the last centuries. In addition, the skepticism resulting from the growing success of postmodern ideas on the philosophical and p…
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Language and Empty Names
by Prof. Michele Marsonet. In a short but important article [1] , the Polish woman philosopher Izydora Dambska criticized the thesis - endorsed by Tadeusz Kotarbinski [2] - to the effect that there are “empty” terms which denote no objects at all, besides the usual general and singular terms. Dambska remarked that “we usually find cited as examples of empty names such self-contradictory names as <square circle> or <son of a childless mother>, or names of mythical deities - fictitious figures that exist only in legends, poems, no…
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