Papers by Chiara Robbiano
Culture and dialogue, Jun 20, 2023
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Oxford University Press eBooks, May 7, 2024
Culture and Dialogue, 11, 5-40. , 2023
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2023
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2023
Journal of World Philosophy
Journal of Buddhist Philosophy
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought, 2016
There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere. .. The whole functi... more There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere. .. The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one. William James, 'What Pragmatism Means' 1
Nobody could know what ἐόν meant before listening to the Poem: even native speakers of Ancient Gr... more Nobody could know what ἐόν meant before listening to the Poem: even native speakers of Ancient Greek needed to acquire new mental categories and form this new concept, ἐόν, which is usually translated as “Being.” Throughout his Poem, Parmenides teaches his audience to form this concept. One of the means he uses are the signs (σήματα) given by the goddess to the traveler in fr. B8. I focus here on the fourth σῆμα, where Parmenides gives hints about the special relation between Being and those who understand Being. I will show that Being is the fundamental unity of what-is (what is stable, without differences, development, needs) and what-understands. This perfect unity is what the audience is encouraged to understand. This unity is also the condition of the possibility of human understanding. Human beings can, in fact, understand this unity, directly, with an act of νοεῖν, since νοεῖν and Being are not separate but are one.
Due modi di vedere la realtà in precario equilibrio, 2013
Robbiano, C. (2013). Due modi di vedere la realtà in precario equilibrio. About: Iain McGilchrist... more Robbiano, C. (2013). Due modi di vedere la realtà in precario equilibrio. About: Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, New Haven-London 2012 (prima stampa 2009). PEITHO / Examina Antiqua, 1(4), 297-306
Teaching Philosophy
We believe that intellectual humility is an essential intellectual virtue for university students... more We believe that intellectual humility is an essential intellectual virtue for university students to foster. It enables them to excel as students of philosophy and other disciplines, to navigate the fast-changing world inside and outside academia, and to flourish in interaction with others. In this paper, we analyze this virtue by singling out two distinct but related aspects: the openness-aspect and the care-aspect. The former makes one value a dialogue with those who have different views from one’s own. The latter aspect involves searching for implicit assumptions one brings to encounters with one’s object of inquiry and trying to study this object as unique and irreducible. We discuss four learning activities we developed for the philosophy bachelor course “Who are we? Philosophical views on humans and the gods” at University College Utrecht (the Netherlands). Throughout this paper, we show extracts from the students’ assignments, reflections, and evaluations. These extracts indi...
Peitho. Examina Antiqua
Due modi di vedere la realtà in precario equilibrio Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary... more Due modi di vedere la realtà in precario equilibrio Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, New Haven-London 2012 (prima stampa 2009).
Philosophy East and West, 2016
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