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The article discusses some fundamental traits of contemporary dispositionalism, on an anthropological and ontological level. I start claiming that the current relevance of dispositionalism also depends on the fact that we are immersed in a sort of ‘dispositionalist atmosphere’, in a double sense: we are experiencing a power oriented towards ‘capacitation’ and not coercion; we are living the diffusion of the implicit ideal of hidden potential, connected to a vision of the human being as potential (§ 0). Then, I define such a potential nature as generic, and describe its three main characteristics, in order to point out their wider conceptual consequences. starting with the recognition that any power is both particular and plastic at the same time: openness; habituability; historicity (§ 1). This allows me to highlight the basic task that every dispositionalist perspective has to fulfil today: to move in a perspective which is at once neo-Aristotelian and post-Darwinian (§ 2). Afterward, I dwell on analytical dispositionalist ontologies, presenting three key aspects of the dispositions, and discussing their implications: a) potentiality; b) independence; c) directionality (§ 3). Finally, I examine the continental context, focusing on the position of G. Deleuze, in order to contribute to a ‘mutual enlightenment’ between dispositionalism and deleuzism, and to the construction of a genuine non-fixist and non-substantialist worldview: I not only explain that Deleuze would be a pandispositionalist tending towards structuralism in the contemporary spectrum, describing his position with respect to points a), b) and c), but I also show that his perspective allows to pinpoint at least two other relevant issues, such as d) duration and e) echology (§ 4).

“Ovunque, in natura, esistono schemi”. È questa l’ossessione di Maximillian Cohen, il matematico protagonista del film π - Il teorema del delirio (D. Aronofsky, USA 1998), che va alla ricerca di uno schema che gli permetta di predire le quotazioni di Wall Street. Cohen muove appunto dalla convinzione che ovunque in natura, se si considerano le cose a un certo livello, si può riscontrare l’andamento di un qualche schema: saremmo cioè letteralmente circondati da configurazioni, da ciò che dispone elementi diversi, regolandone i rapporti e consentendo l’emersione di un certo qualcosa..., Philosophy Kitchen - Rivista di filosofia contemporanea, V. 3 (2019): EXTRA#3 - Schema. Verso un dizionario filosofico-architettonico

This paper suggests that philosophy tells us something about and of the world, mostly of our contemporary world, if we see it as a metamorphic world. Thus, in order to understand our world, I claim that philosophy needs to pose as an explicit question the problem of transformations, or of processes: in this way, transformation can be properly conceived. Then, my contribution aims to present a first ���transformative��� definition of five concepts or actions, as of some of their main implications or elements: to have an idea (Objective Idea, Subjective Idea, Invention-Idea); to express (to effectuate, to translate); to make experience (to sense, to feel, to imagine); to endeavor (to reorient, to persist); to conceive (to envision, to share). As an appendix, I give also a graphic representation of these five concepts., Thaum��zein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 4 (2016): Vol. 5 (2017) - Volume doppio: Filosofia della nascita

The paper discusses the question of isomorphism from a point of view according to which first of all we need to understand the nature of the processes, and thus to consider the phaenomena of transformation as an irreducible philosophical problem. In doing this, I refer to the metaphysical philosophical system of Gilles Deleuze, using and folding some of its main concepts. My principal thesis is that in a transformational perspective talking of “isomorphism” means facing not the question of a correspondence by similarity (adequacy), but that of a correspondence by dissimilarity (adequateness). I discuss such a position in two steps. Firstly, I explain how stressing the creative nature of processes makes possible to comprehend two aspects: a process responds but does not correspond to something; processes are similar only to the extent that they do the same thing differently. Secondly, I suggest that focusing on the specificity of transformation opens also the possibility to rethink the problem of categories in terms not of identity and stability, but of relationality and dynamism: if we look not for commonness, affiliation, and collocation, but for divergence, traversing, and tension, categories may become a matter of penetrating into tendencies, more than a matter of defining states., Philosophy Kitchen - Rivista di filosofia contemporanea, N. 6 (2017): Isomorfismi. Forme del pensiero, forme della realtà