"Philosophical News" is a semi-annual journal of philosophy born from the collaboration of a number of international scholars as well as an intense editorial effort. The aim of our journal is to promote research and reflection with special regard to the contemporary debate in all its different cultural manifestations. Our editorial office therefore especially welcomes contributions pertaining to current debates, both of theorical and historical nature. In addition to including articles and reviews, the issues also feature interviews and reports on works in progress: this choice is aimed at further reinforcing the attention on current developments, which is the distinctive feature of this editorial project. Another choice that was made was that of privileging major themes, developing each issue in a monographic form: only from the unity that belongs to thought in its origin, thought that is rooted in the grounds of experience and aware of its provenance, is it possible to move forward, to progress, to bear fruit with that calm that is then absolved and transformed by the ‘new’. Likewise, the harmony that occasionally transpires from the pages of classics appears as a potential cornerstone for a new, enriched study: "As a farmer ploughs the earth for the harvest that ad-est, the philosopher ploughs the visible for the invisible that shines through it. He cuts through the visible, digging furrows that are not ordered according to the principles of geometry but according to the invisible Unum that integrates his thoughts and his actions, which are both philo-sophical"(Stanislaw Grygiel).
Editorial board
Francesca Bonicalzi - Francesco Botturi - Rémi Brague
Rémi Brague
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), France, Ludwig-Universität München, Germany
Angelo Campodonico - Timothy Chappell - Vincenzo Costa - Gianfranco Dalmasso - Mario De Caro
John Haldane is Professsor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Center for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at St Andrews University, Scotland, and J. Newton Rayzor Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, Texas.
Margarita Mauri Álvarez is professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona. PhD, University of Barcelona in 1986. She directs the International Group Stageira. Aristotelian Studies of Practical Philosophy. She also conducts two permanent research seminars: Aristotle Seminar and Iris Murdoch Seminar. She is the author of Conocimiento moral; Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Brentano, Scheler, Santo Tomas. She is currently working on a book on Aristotle’s Ethics.
Damiano Bondi is professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Florence, and member of the Council Board of Italian Association of Philosophy of Religion – AIFR (www.aifr.it), which is associated with the European Society for Philosophy of Religion; he is also member of the Editorial Board of the European Society for Moral Philosophy (www.moralphilosophy.eu). He studied the French personalism of the XXth Century, in particular the thought of Denis de Rougemont, on which he has published the first monograph in Italian (La Persona e l’Occidente, Milan, 2014). In the last two years, he switched his interest to the links between philosophy, ecology and religion: on this topic he recently published a book entitled Fine del mondo o fine dell’uomo? Saggio su ecologia e religione (Verona, 2015). In the theological context, he is concerned himself with the concept of “person” in Christology and Trinitarian theology. He translated two books by Slavoj Žižek in italian, The Monstrosity of Christ and Paul’s New Moment (La mostruosit. di Cristo and San Paolo Reloaded. Sul futuro del cristianesimo, Massa, 2010 and 2012).
Marco Damonte has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Theology at the Facoltà di Teologia dell’Italia Settentrionale (2002) and a PhD in Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova (2008). Currently, he does research work in History of Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova where he teach Tendencies of Contemporary Thought. He has authored three essays and about fifty papers published in journals or in collections of essays that concern contemporary thinking. He especially researches in epistemology, particularly addressing the problem of intentionality (Wittgenstein, Tommaso e la cura dell’intenzionalità, MEF, Firenze 2009; From Justification to Warrant, towards Virtue Epistemology, «Epistemologia», 34 (2011), pp. 5-28) as well as analytic philosophy of religion, conducting inquiries into its epistemological aspects (Una nuova teologia naturale. La proposta degli epistemologi riformati e dei tomisti wittgensteiniani, Carocci, Roma 2011). He has investigated the public role of religion (M. Damonte, Confrontation Between Civilization, Religions and Professions of Faith, «Études Maritainiennes / Maritain Studies», 25 (2009), pp. 46-57) and the philosophy of prayer (Homo organs. Antropologia della preghiera, Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini, Verona 2014). The results of his research have been discussed at various international conventions, above all Europe-wide, thanks to The European Society for Philosophy of Religion’s biennial conventions. He has recently proposed a new approach to natural theology (Towards a New Natural Theology: Between Reformed Epistemology and Wittgensteinian Thomism, in S.T. Kołodziejczyk, J. Salamon (eds.), Knowledge, Action, Pluralism, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 113-134); for this reason, he was also called upon to study the Mediaeval sources of analytic philosophy of religion.
Anna Piazza - Stefano Santasilia - Stefania Zanardi -
