Institut International de Philosophie

Marco BUZZONI

Professeur

Université de Macerata, Philosophie des sciences de la nature, Philosophie et méthodologie des sciences humaines, Philosophie de la personne

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Curriculum vitae

Marco Buzzoni

e-mail: marco.buzzoni@unimc.it

Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane, I-62100 Macerata

Curriculum vitae

1979 Degree in Philosophy with full marks and honors ‘Laurea in Filosofia’, 110/110 cum laude] with the dissertation Conoscenza e realtà in K.R. Popper (A1 in the List of Pubblications) Knowledge and Reality in K.R. Popper].

from 1981 Member of editorial staff of the Journal Epistemologia. An International Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Genoa; Editor: Prof. E. Agazzi)

1982 ‘Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom’ (highest degree conferred by the German ‘Goethe Institut’, München).

1.5.1983-31.8.1983 Research fellowship for a four-month research at the university of Würzburg (Germany) granted by the Istituto Italo-Tedesco of Merano.

1984 Postgraduate diploma in Philosophy, highest university degree in Philosophy to be granted in 1984, comparable only to today’s doctorate [‘Diploma di Perfezionamento in Filosofia’ (110/110 cum laude)] with the dissertation on Semantica, ontologia ed ermeneutica della conoscenza scientifica. Saggio su T.S. Kuhn (A3 in the List of Pubblications) [Theory of Meaning, Ontology and Hermeneutics of Scientific Knowledge. Essay on T.S. Kuhn].

from 1984 to 1992 Assistant professor [‘Ricercatore Universitario’] at the University of Chieti.

1991-1992 Temporary professor of ‘History of Ethics’ at the University of Chieti.

1.7.1988-30.6.1989 Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the of University of Würzburg (‘Institut für Philosophie’, Prof. Franz Wiedmann). [Wissenschaft und Person]

1992-1999 Member of the Board of the Consulting Editors of the journal Ricerca Psicoanalitica (Rom).

1.11.1992-31.10.1996 Associate professor of Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Palermo.

1.11.1993-31.7.1994 Research fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the University of Marburg (Institut für Philosophie, Prof. Peter Janich).

1.11.1995-31.09.1996 Temporary professor of ‘Logic’ at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Palermo.

1.11.1996-30.11.2001 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, University of Macerata.

from 1.10.2001 Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, University of Macerata.

dal 2002 Member of the Board of the Consulting Editors of the journal Anthropos & Iatria (Genova).

1.10.2002-31.10.2002 Visiting Professor at the University of Würzburg (Institut für Philosophie I): “Der wissenschaftstheoretische und methodologische Status der Humanwissenschaften” [The Epistemological and Methodological Status of Human Sciences].

From 1.10. 2003 to 2006 Temporary professor of “Philosophy of Science” at the University of Genova.

from 2004 Member of the “International Reviewers Panel” of the journal Medical Science Monitor.

18.6.2004-18.9.2004 Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the University of Marburg (‘Institut für Philosophie’, Prof. Peter Janich). [Experiment und Thought Experiment]

from 17.9.2005 «Membre correspondant» of the “Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences”.

from 2005 Member of the Board of the Consulting Editors of the journal Cosmopolis (Perugia).

20.6.2006/20.7.2006 Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the of University of Würzburg (‘Institut für Philosophie’, Prof. W. Baumgartner): “Gedankenexperiment und Intentionalität” [Thought Experiment and Intentionality].

1.7.2007-21.7.2007 Visiting Professor at the Institut für Philosophie of the University of Würzburg.

from 6.10.2007 «Membre ordinaire» dell’«Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences».

from 2007 Membro del Comitato Scientifico della rivista Nuova Secondaria (Brescia).

30.6.2008-20.7.2008 Visiting Professor at the Institut für Philosophie of the University of Würzburg.

from 2009 Member of the Board of the Consulting Editors of the Series "Epistemologia" (Angeli publisher)

27.6.2009-19.7.2009 Visiting Professor at the “Institut für Philosophie” of the university of Würzburg (Socrates Program).

1.7.2010-22.7.2010 Visiting Professor at the “Institut für Philosophie” of the university of Würzburg (Socrates Program).

2.1.2010-16.1.2010 Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the of University of Duisburg-Essen (‘Institut für Philosophie’, Prof. Dirk Hartmann): “Teleologie und Kausalität in der Biologie”.

1.7.2010-20.7.2010 Visiting Professor at the “Institut für Philosophie” of the University of Würzburg (Socrates Program).

1.7.2011-15.7.2011: Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the of University of Duisburg-Essen (‘Institut für Philosophie’, Prof. D. Hartmann): „Die Grenzen der Evolutionären Wissenschaftstheorie und das Problem des wissenschaftlichen und methodologischen Status der Biologie“ [The Limits der evolutionary epistemology and the Problem of the epistemological and methodological Status of Biology]

From 1.1.2012 Associated Editor of the ISI journal „Epistemologia. An Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science”.

From 1.12.2012 Member of the Board of the Consulting Editors of the journal Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica (Milan).

2013-2015 Head (“Responsabile”) of the “Section of Philosophy and Human Sciences” (Sezione di Filosofia e Scienze Umane) of the “Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici” of the University of Macerata.

2012-2014 President of the National Selection Committee for the “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per il settore concorsuale C-11/2 Storia, Logica e Filosofia della Scienza”.

2014 Evaluation procedure of the Public call for research programmes of the National Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).

2015 Evaluation procedure for the “Bando VINCI 2015” of the Université Franco- Italienne, University of Turin.

From 2015 Fellow (‘Membre Titulaire’) of the Institut International de la Philosophie (Paris)

From 2016 Lead Co-Editor (with Evandro Agazzi) of the Annual Issue «Epistemologia» of the Springer journal «Axiomathes

From 15. August 2018 expert belonging to the “review database” of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

From September 2018 Member of the “Academic Council” of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences

From October 2018 President of the Co-optation Committee of the Institut International de Philosophie (IIP) of Paris.

15.1.2019-15.2.2019 Research Fellowship by “Archives Poincaré” of the university of Nancy-Lorraine (Mathematical Thought Experiments).

2019 Evaluation procedure of the Public call for research programmes of the National Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).

1.4.2019-30.6.2019 Research Fellowship by the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’ at the University of Berlin (Technische Hochschule, Prof. Günter Abel): “Gedankenexperimente in den Naturwissenschaften, in der Mathematik und in der Philosophie”.

From 1. January 2021: Member of the „International Advisory Board“ of „Brentano Studies and the Aristotelian Tradition“

From 12. January 2021: Member of the international scientific committee for the publication of Evandro Agazzi's works (President: Prof. Fabio Minazzi)

From 2020. Member of the teaching board of the PhD programme "HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES" at the University of Macerata.

From 2020 Member of the Scientific Committee for the Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology Springer Series (https://www.springer.com/series/16128).

2021 Evaluation procedure of the Public call for research programmes of the National Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).

Genova, 23.11.2021

Bibliography

Selected publications

Marco Buzzoni

(updated to November 2021)

A) BOOKS

1. Science between Truth and Ethical Responsibility. Edited by M. Alai, M. Buzzoni, G. Tarozzi. Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-16368-0

2. Thought Experiment in the Natural Sciences. An Operational and Reflective-Transcendental Conception, Königshausen+Neumann, Würzburg 2008.

3. Filosofia della scienza, La Scuola, Brescia 2008

4. Esperimento ed esperimento mentale, Angeli, Milano, 2004.

5. Esperimento e realismo scientifico. Saggio su D. Gooding, Loffredo, Napoli, 2001.

6. Scienza e tecnica. Teoria ed esperienza nelle scienze della natura, Studium, Roma, 1995.

7. Operazionismo ed ermeneutica. Saggio sullo statuto epistemologico della psicoanalisi, Angeli, Milano, 1989.

8. Ricoeur. Persona e ontologia, Studium, Roma, 1988, pp. 128.

9. (in collaborazione con E. Agazzi e G. Servalli) Linguaggio comune e linguaggio scientifico, Angeli, Milano, 1987, pp. 27-45, 66-77, 85-97.

10. Semantica, ontologia ed ermeneutica della conoscenza scientifica. Saggio su T.S. Kuhn, Angeli, Milano, 1986.

11. Popper. La persona fra natura e cultura, Studium, Roma, 1984.

12. Conoscenza e realtà in K.R. Popper, Angeli, Milano, 1982.

B) ARTICLES AND PUBLISHED PAPERS TO CONGRESSES

The Janus-Faced Nature of Philosophy of Science: Eleven Theses. Axiomathes 31, 743–762 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-021-09587-y
Holism and Reductionism in the illness/disease debate (with L. Tesio: Orcid: 0000-0003-0980-1587). In: Shyam Wuppuluri (ed), From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Saga of Content and Context, Springer, Berlin, 2021, in press
A Neglected Chapter in the History of Philosophy of Mathematical Thought Experiments: Insights from Jean Piaget's Reception of Edmond Goblot, in HOPOS, 2021, Vol. 11, N. 1, pp. 282-304. https://doi.org/10.1086/712938. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712938
The illness-disease dichotomy and the biological-clinical splitting of medicine (with L. Tesio). Medical Humanities Published Online First: 29 September 2020. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-011873.
L’uso intelligente dello strumento fra embodied cognition e teoria polanyiana della conoscenza tacita [The intelligent use of tools between embodied cognition and Polanyian theory of tacit knowledge] (with Valentina Savojardo), in A. Allegra, F.C. Calemi e M. Moschini (a cura di), Alla fontana di Silöe. Scritti in onore di Carlo Vinti, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli-Salerno, 2019, pp. 151-165. ISBN 978-88-9314-205-2
Duhem on Thought Experiments. Or: Did Duhem Really Reject Mach’s Thought Experiments? Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 2019, pp 651-662
Multilevel Reality, Mechanistic Explanation, and Intertheoretical Reductions. In: Brigitte Falkenburg and Gregor Schiemann (eds), Mechanistic Explanation, Computability and Complex Systems. Dordrecht: Springer, 2019, pp. 111-141. 2-s2.0-85101572257
(with Valentina Savojardo) On Thought Experiments in science, revealed theology, and literary narratives. In: Y. Fehige and M. Stuart (eds), Thought Experiments between Theology, Empirical Science, and Fictional Narrative. Religions 2019, 10, 393, pp. 1-16
Robustness, Mechanism, and the Counterfactual Attribution of Goals in Biology. In M. Bertolaso et al (eds), Biological Robustness: Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences, Springer, Cham 2018, pp. 55-74.

Pierre Duhem and Ernst Mach on Thought Experiments, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 8, 2018, pp. 1-27.

Gödel, Searle, and the Computational Theory of the (Other) Mind. In: Ciro De Florio and Alessandro Giordani (eds). From Arithmetic to Metaphysics, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2017

Transcendental Philosophy of Thought Experiments (Kant). In J.R. Brown, Y. Fehige, M. Stuart (eds.). A Routledge Companion to Thought Experiment, Routledge, London/Boston 2017/2018.
Scienza e arte [Science and Art]. In: Sergio Rondinara (ed.), Le scienze tra arte, comunicazione e progresso. Città Nuova, Roma 2017, pp. 102-128.

Robustness, Intersubjective Reproducibility, and Scientific Realism. In: E. Agazzi (ed.), Varieties of Scientific Realism. Springer, Heidelberg/New York 2017, pp. 133-150.
(with M. Bertolaso) Causality and Levels of Explanation in Biology. In: Paolini Paoletti M, Orilia F (eds) Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation. Routledge, London/New York 2017, pp. 164-179.
Thought Experiments in Philosophy: A Neo-Kantian and Experimentalist Point of View, Topoi, 2016, doi:10.1007/s11245-016-9436-6. Print ISSN 0167-7411 - Online ISSN 1572-8749 - Springer
Mechanisms, Experiments, and Theory-Ladenness: A Realist–Perspectivalist View. Axiomathes, 2016, Volume 26, Issue 4, pp 411–427.
Thought Experiments and Computer Simulations, in Magnani, Lorenzo, Casadio, Claudia (Eds.) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues. Springer, Heidelberg-New York, 2016, pp. 57-78.
The Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science: The Discovery/Justification Distinction, and the Social Dimension of Scientific Objectivity. In E. Agazzi and G. Heinzmann (eds.), The practical Turn in philosophy of Science, Angeli, Milano 2015, pp. 81-111.
Teleology and Mechanism in Biology, In M. Bertolaso (ed.), The Future of Scientific Practice: Bio-Techno-Logos, Pickering and Chatto, London, 2015, pp. 147-159 and 214-219 (footnotes).
Causality, Teleology, and Thought Experiments in Biology, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2015, 46: 279-299.8. Science and Operationality. In M. Alai, M. Buzzoni, G. Tarozzi (eds.), Science between Truth and Ethical Responsability, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin 2015, pp. 27-44. ISBN 978-3-319-16368-0. Cod. SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84944033320
Preface (with M. Alai and G. Tarozzi ) to M. Alai, M. Buzzoni, G. Tarozzi (eds.), Science between Truth and Ethical Responsability, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin 2015, pp. V-XIII.
(with V. Savojardo) The New Mechanistic Philosophy and Michael Polanyi: A Comparison of two paradigms. Epistemologia. An Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 38(2015), pp. 113˗132
Operazionismo, scienza e tecnica in Evandro Agazzi [Operationalism, science and technology in Evandro Agazzi]. In F. Minazzi (ed.), Sulla filosofia della scienza di Evandro Agazzi. Dalla probabilità e la logica matematica all'epistemologia realista. Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2015, pp. 103-115.
Ludovico Geymonat e il razionalismo critico italiano. In: Generali Dario 2015 (ed.). Le radici della razionalità critica: saperi, pratiche, teleologie. Vol. I, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, pp. 449-460. (ISBN 978-88-5753-348-3)
The Agency Theory of Causality, Anthropomorphism, and Simultaneity. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2014, 28(4), pp. 375-395, DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2014.979668.
Science, Philosophy, and Interfaith Understanding. In E. Agazzi (ed.), Science, metaphysics, religion, Angeli, Milano 2014, pp. 53-67.
Realismo e operazionismo in Evandro Agazzi [Realism and operationalism in Evandro Agazzi]. Nuova Secondaria, 32(2014, n. 2), pp. 35-37.
Natura e artificio in etica e nelle scienze sperimentali [Nature and artifice in ethics and the experimental sciences], in C. Danani, B. Giovanola, M.L. Perri, D. Verducci (a cura di), Natura e artificio in etica e nelle scienze sperimentali, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2014, pp. 283-290.
Thought Experiments from a Kantian Point of View (key speaker to the International Workshop Science Without Data? The Role of Thought Experiments in Empirical Investigations. A Workshop, Halifax, 18-19 June 2010), in James R. Brown, Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell (eds.), Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts, Routledge, London/New York, 2013, pp. 90-106
On Thought Experiments and the Kantian A Priori in the Natural Sciences: A Reply to Yiftach J.H. Fehige. Epistemologia, 36(2013), pp. 277-293.
New Experimentalism and ontological Status of Theoretical Terms. In: G. Licata and L. Sesta (eds.), Philosophical Essays on Language, Ontology and Science, Angeli, Milan 2013, pp. 41˗55.
Is Frankenstein’s Creature a Machine or Artificially Created Human Life? Intentionality Between Searle and Turing. Epistemologia, 36(2013), pp. 37-54.
Causality, Experiment, and Anthropomorphism. In: Agazzi E. (ed.), Representation and Explanation in the Sciences, Angeli, Milano 2013, pp. 143-153.
Kuhn: l’esperimento mentale fra scienza normale e scienza rivoluzionaria [Kuhn: the thought experiment between normal and revolutionary science], in Isonomia – Epistemologica, Volume 3 (2013), Oltre la fisica normale. Interpretazioni alternative e teorie non standard nella fisica moderna. Per il 75-esimo compleanno di Franco Selleri, ed. by Isabella Tassani, pp. 53-67
Kant und das Gedankenexperiment. Über eine Kantische Theorie der Gedankenexperimente in den Naturwissenschaften und in der Philosophie, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 59(2011), No. 1, pp. 93-107.
On Mathematical Thought Experiments, in Epistemologia. An Italian Journal for Philosophy of Science, XXXIV (2011), pp. 5-32.
Le classificazioni storico-letterarie come problema epistemologico delle scienze umane [Literary-historical classifications as an epistemological and methodological problem in the humanities]. L’immagine riflessa, 20(2011), N. 1-2, pp. 85-104.
The Unconscious as the Objet of the Human Sciences, as key speaker to the symposium «Relations entre les Sciences Naturelles et les Sciences Humaines» (Rovereto, 15-19 settembre 2008), in E. Agazzi and G. Di Bernardo (eds.), Relations between Natural Sciences and Human Sciences, Special Issue of Epistemologia. An Italian Journalfor the Philosophy of Sciences, 2010, pp. 227-246.
Rethinking Popper and His Legacy. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 24 (2010), No. 3, pp. 309-321.
Empirical Thought Experiments: A Transcendental and Operational View. Epistemologia. An Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33(2010), pp. 5-26.
Paradigmi e giochi linguistici: l’a priori fra Kuhn e Wittgenstein [Paradigms and language games: the a priori between Kuhn and Wittgenstein]. Giornale di Metafisica, 32( 2010), pp. 371-388 (ISSN: 0017-0372).
Il problema del rapporto corpo-mente e la chiusura causale del mondo fisico [The problem of the body-mind relationship and the causal closure of the physical world]. Studium, 105(2009), pp. 505-516.
Causalità e temporalità [Causality and temporality]. In: A. Zuczkowski and I. Bianchi (eds.), L’analisi quantitativa dell’esperienza diretta. Festschrift in onore di Giuseppe Galli, Aracne, Roma 2009, pp. 417-424.
Metodo e creatività nella ricerca scientifica [Method and creativity in scientific research]. In R. Mancini e M. Migliori (eds.), La filosofia come servizio. Studi in onore di Giovanni Ferretti, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2009, pp. 627-637.
Prospettive della filosofia analitica: le scienze umane [Perspectives of analytical philosophy: the human sciences]. In: A. Allegra (ed.), Confronti con la filosofia analitica, Cleup, Padova 2010, pp. 15-37. (ISBN: 9788861295728).
Scienza, tecnica, società [Science, technology, society], in Nuova Secondaria, 26(2008), n. 4, pp. 47-51.
Didattica della scienza e scienza montessoriana [Montessori’s Didactics and Science], in Vita dell’infanzia (rivista della fondazione Montessori), 57(2008) n. 5-8, pp. 44-53.
Causalité et temporalité du point de vue opérationnel [Causality and temporality from an operational perspective] («Colloque de Cerisy: La notion de temps dans sous tous ses aspects»). Epistemologia. An Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2008, Special Issue 14: Time in the Different Approaches/Le temps appréhendé à travers différentes disciplines), Actes des Entretiens de lAcadémie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (Cerisy-la-Salle, 4-9 Octobre 2007), pp. 45-58.
Das Verhältnis zwischen Experiment und Gedankenexperiment in den Naturwissenschaften [The relationship between experiment and thought experiment in the natural sciences]. Journal for General Philosophy of Science/ Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 38(2007), pp. 219-237.
Experiment and Theoretical Terms from an Operational Point of view, in F. Minazzi (ed.), Filosofia, Scienza e Bioetica nel dibattito contemporaneo. Studi internazionali in onore di Evandro Agazzi, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 2007, pp. 439-451.
Kuhn und Wittgenstein: Paradigmen, Sprachspiele und Wissenschaftsgeschichte [Kuhn and Wittgenstein: Paradigms, Language Games and the History of Science]. In: F. Stadler and M. Stöltzner (hrsg.), Zeit und Geschichte/Time and History, Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, Kirchberg a.W. 2005, pp. 38-40
Relativismo epistemologico e persona umana [Epistemological relativism and the human person]. Studium, 101(2005), pp. 487-502.
Poppers methodologischer Individualismus und die Sozialwissenschaften [Poppers Methodological Individualism and the Social Sciences]. Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie/Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 35(2004), pp. 157-173.
Raison technique et sciences humaines [Technical reason and human sciences] (XXIX congrès de Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française. Nizza, 27 agosto-1 settembre 2002), Vrin, Paris, 2004, pp. 466-470.
La psicologia fra scienza, tecnica ed ermeneutica [Psychology Between Science, Technology, and Hermeneutics]. Rivista di filosofia neo-scolastica, 94(2002), 471-490.
Natura e artificio nelle scienze sperimentali [Nature and artifice in the experimental sciences]. In: Atti del XXV Convegno Internazionale di Studi Italo-Tedeschi, Natur und Künstlichkeit in einer europäischen Perspektive (Merano 15-17 October 2001), Hauger, Merano 2002, pp. 270-292.
The Operationalistic and Hermeneutic Status of Psychoanalysis. The Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 32(2001), 131-165.
Scienza, tecnica e conoscenza comune in Bachelard [Science, technique and common knowledge in Bachelard]. Epistemologia, 21(1998), pp. 293-304.
Scienza, arte, musica e religione in Kurt Hübner [Science, art and music in Kurt Hübner], in Studium, 96(2000), 1013-1031.
Statuto epistemologico delle scienze umane e spazio interiore [The Epistemological and Methodological Status of the Human Sciences and the Inner Space]. In: A. Rigobello (ed.), La persona e le sue immagini, Urbaniana University Press, Rom, 1999, pp. 125-157.
Popper, Brentano und der wissenschaftstheoretische Status der Humanwissenschaften [Popper, Brentano and the Epistemological and Methodological Status of the Human Sciences]. Brentano-Studien, 10(2002/2003), pp. 237-261.
On Medicine as a Human Science. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 24(2003), 79-94.
Medicine as a human science between the singularity of the patient and technical and scientific reproducibility, in Poiesis and Praxis, 1(2003), 171-184.
Individualismo metodologico e mondo delle istituzioni in Popper [Methodological Individualism and the World of Institutions in Popper]. Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, 20, 2003, n. 3/4, pp. 79-88.
Natur und Kultur in Wissenschaft, Technik und Alltagswissen. Festschrift für Peter Janich [Nature and Culture in Science, Technology and Ordinary Knowledge. Festschrift for Peter Janich], in M. Gutmann, D. Hartmann, M. Weingartner und W. Zitterbarth (Hrgs.), Kultur, Handlung, Wissenschaft, Velbruck Wissenschaft, Weilerswist, 2002, pp. 241-259.
On Allan Franklins Conjectural Realism, in Epistemologia, 23(2000), pp. 77-98.
Ludwik Fleck e lo statuto epistemologico della medicina come scienza umana [Ludwik Fleck and the Epistemological and Methodological Status of Medicine as a Human Science], in G. Galli (ed.), Interpretazione e diagnosi. Scienze umane e medicina, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Pisa/Roma, 2000, pp. 19-77.
Incommensurabilità, traducibilità e statuto del discorso epistemologico in Thomas Kuhn [Incommensurability, translatability and the status of epistemological discourse in Thomas Kuhn]. Epistemologia, 23(2000), 305-322.
Sullo statuto epistemologico della grafologia come scienza umana [On the Epistemological and Methodological Status of Graphology as a Human Science], in G. Ceccarelli (ed.), Psicologia e grafologia: quale rapporto?, Angeli, Milano, 1998.
La dedizione nella scienza contemporanea [Dedication in Contemporary Science: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections], in G. Galli (a cura di), Interpretazione e dedizione, Atti del XVIII Colloquio sulla interpretazione, Macerata, Università degli Studi di Macerata, 1998, pp. 93-104.
Scienza, tecnica e persona umana [Science, Technology, and Human Person]. Giornale di Metafisica, 20(1998), 31-60.
Person, Sprachgemeinschaft und Übersetzung [Person, Language Community, and Translation]. In: Aa.Vv., Individuo e rapporto comunitario nell’Europa alle soglie del terzo millennio Meran, Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi, 1997, pp. 473-483.
Erkenntnistheoretische und ontologische Probleme der theoretischen Begriffe [Epistemological and Ontological Problems of Theoretical Concepts], Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 28(1997), 19-53.
Assolutezza e storicità della persona [Absoluteness and Historicity of the Human Person], Idee, 12(1997), n. 34-35, pp. 151-164.
Operazionismo, realismo e tecnica. Tre forme di operazionismo (Ian Hacking, Peter Janich ed Evandro Agazzi) [Operationalism, Realism, and Technology. Three Varieties of Operationalism (Ian Hacking, Peter Janich ed Evandro Agazzi], in L. Montecucco (ed.), Contesti filosofici della scienza, La Scuola, Brescia, 1997, pp. 179-195.
Persona e trascendenza [Person and Transcendence], in A. Pieretti (ed.), Estraneità interiore e testimonianza. Studi in onore di Armando Rigobello, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Perugia, 1995, pp. 439-452.
Sprachphilosophische und methodologische Probleme der Übersetzung [Problems of Translation from the Point of View of Philosophy of Language and Methodology] (as key speaker: opening paper in the plenary session of the International Congress Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch, organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sonthofen, 7-11 October 1991), in A.P. Frank, K.-J. Maaß, F. Paul and H. Turk (eds.), Übersetzen, verstehen, Brücken bauen. Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch, Berlin, Schmidt, 1993, pp. 22-57.
La sintassi logica del mondo, da un caffé viennese fine anni venti. La ricerca filosofica e il Circolo di Vienna [The Logical Syntax of the World, from a Viennese Café in the Late 1920s. Philosophical research and the Vienna Circle], in A. Rigobello (ed.), Interiorità e comunità. Esperienze di ricerca in filosofia, Studium, Roma, 1993, pp. 249-278.
Truth and Technology. Validity and limits of instrumentalism [Truth and Technic. Validity and Limits of Instrumentalism] (Colloque Aspects et problèmes du conventionnalisme (Fribourg, 27-28.1.1989). In : G. Sommaruga-Rosolemos (ed.), Aspects et problèmes du conventionnalisme, Presses Universitaires Fribourg, Fribourg, 1992, pp. 43-56.
Psicoanalisi, metodo scientifico e realtà individuale [Psychoanalysis, Scientific Method, and Individual Reality], Ricerca psicoanalitica, 3(1992), 95-118.
Technical Realism, Indirect Realism and the Nature of Scientific Progress. In: Nuovi problemi della logica e della filosofia della scienza Vol. I, Clueb, Bologna, 1991, pp. 149-156.
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