Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2009) XI /2


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CONTENTS

Monographica I: The Neuroethics Revolution

Roberto Mordacci
Guest Editor’s Preface

Neil Levy
Neuromarketing: Ethical and Political Challenges

David V. Yokum & Filippo Rossi
A Critical Perspective on Moral Neuroscience

Roberto Mordacci
Neuroscience and Metaethics: A Kantian Hypothesis

Sergio Filippo Magni
Brain Determinism and Free Will

Andrea Polonioli
Recent Trends in Neuroethics: A Selected bibliography

Monographica II: Is It Natural to be Naturalist?

Carola Barbero, Mario De Caro, Alberto Voltolini
Guest Editors’ Preface

Francesco Ferretti
Coevoluzionismo senza se e senza ma

Maurizio Ferraris
Scrittura, archiscrittura, pensiero

Paolo Tripodi
Wittgenstein e il naturalismo

Alfredo Paternoster
Naturalismo e soggettività

Nicla Vassallo
Su naturalismi e filosofie femministe in relazione a cognizione e conoscenza

Mario De Caro & Alberto Voltolini
Il migliore dei naturalismi possibili

Varia

Elvio Baccarini
On Cowley’s Medical Ethics

Rossella Bonito Oliva
Fondazione dell’etica: un ossimoro? Per un’etica dell’opacità

Raffaela Giovagnoli
Autonomy of Reason?

Volfango Lusetti
Cannibalismo, predazione, socialità: un’ipotesi sulla nascita della violenza

Pierpaolo Marrone
Politica, immaginazione, verità nell’ultimo Rorty

Ferdinando G. Menga
Filosofia del soggetto e mediazione interpretativa: sulla fenomenologia ermeneutica di Paul Ricoeur

Gaetano Rametta
Sartre e l’interpretazione dialettica della rivoluzione

Vallori Rasini
Un’etica dell’aggressività: considerazioni sul pensiero di Arnold Gehlen

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