Andrea Sangiacomo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Sangiacomo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Sangiacomo |
| SIGNATURE | SANGIACOMO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7529-9826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conditionality (idappaccayatā) in the Pāli Discourses of the Buddha
In the Pāli discourses of the Buddha, ‘conditioned co-origination’ (paṭicca-samuppāda) is the key insight that underpins the Buddha’s own awakening and his teaching. This paper aims to shed light on three connected aspects of conditioned co-origination: the synchronic and non-linear nature of the conditional relations it establishes, the non-causal nature of this relation, and how the whole teaching can be seen as a deepening and expansion of the…
Do you need to know in order to act? The case for a Suárezian legacy in early modern occasionalism
The goal of this article is to suggest that in early modern discussions of agency and causal efficacy it is possible to detect an attempt at pushing to its extreme consequences a specific account of agency and causality that was developed in late scholastic thought. More specifically, the article examines Francisco Suárez's (1548–1617) account of freedom and how this relates to his views on efficient causality. Despite Suárez's careful way of dif…
Computational rifts: Parsing the context of Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Argument Ongoing debates among historians of early modern philosophy are concerned with how to best understand the context of historical works and authors. Current methods usually rely on qualitative assessments made by the historians themselves and do not define constraints that can be used to profile a given context in more quantitative terms. In this paper, we present a computational method that can be used to parse a large corpus of works bas…
The meaning of existence ( bhava ) in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha
This paper seeks to reconstruct the meaning of existence in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha by considering how the notion is used in the most systematic contexts in which it appears, and how it could be best interpreted. The discourses are concerned with how existence is used to support and consolidate a certain attitude of ownership, appropriation, and entitlement over contents of experience, in virtue of which one can claim that this or that …
Expanding the Corpus of Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Initial Results and a Review of Available Sources
The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: Occasional Causality and Coarse-Grained Reality
This article investigates whether it possible to derive a new narrative about the transformation of early modern natural philosophy from the way in which natural philosophy was systematized in academic writings. It introduces the notion of ‘normalisation’—the mutual adaptation of certain ideas and existing traditions—as a way of studying and explaining conceptual changes during relatively long periods of time. The article provides the methodologi…
History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2
This book on the history of universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philosophy. The chapters included in this volume aim to pursue two main axes of research: the reconstruction and exploration of the dialectics between tradition and innovation in the reshaping of natural philosophy; the attempt to constitute and consolidate ne…
Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being With Others
Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good
This book offers a new narrative about Spinoza’s moral philosophy and his account of reason, passions, and social cooperation. Spinoza’s views evolved significantly over time. In his early writings, his account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions might support the individual’s pursuit of th…
Modelling the history of early modern natural philosophy: The fate of the art-nature distinction in the Dutch universities
The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpora. This paper implements the ‘model approach’ to investigate the erosion of the traditional art-nature distinction in early modern natural philosophy. I argue that a condition for this transformation has to be located in the late scholastic conception of final causation. I design a conceptual model to capture the art-nature distinction and formulat…
Samuel Clarke on Agent Causation, Voluntarism, and Occasionalism
ArgumentThis paper argues that Samuel Clarke's account of agent causation (i) provides a philosophical basis for moderate voluntarism, and (ii) both leads to and benefits from the acceptance of partial occasionalism as a model of causation for material beings. Clarke's account of agent causation entails that for an agent to be properly called an agent (i.e. causally efficacious), it is essential that the agent is free to choose whether to act or …
Spinoza et les problemes du corps dans l’histoire de la critique: Essai bibliographique (1924-2015)
This bibliographical essay reconstructs the scholarly debate concerning Spinoza’s account of the body over the last ninety years. The paper focuses on the notion of body considered only from a physical point of view (without relationship to the mind). Questions concerning the ontological status of bodies (both simplest bodies and complex individuals), the nature of their essence, their power of operating, or the sources of Spinoza’s views have or…
Locke and Spinoza on the epistemic and motivational weaknesses of reason: The Reasonableness of Christianity and the Theological-Political Treatise
I cannot but approve your purpose in signifying your willingness to elucidate and moderate those passages in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus which have proved a stumbling block to readers. (Olde
From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis's rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation
Marco Sgarbi, The Italian Mind. Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551)
The Ontology of Determination: From Descartes to Spinoza
Argument This paper argues that Spinoza's notions of “conatus” and “power of acting” are derived by means of generalization from the notions of “force of motion” and “force of determination” that Spinoza discussed in his Principles of Cartesian Philosophy to account for interactions among bodies (impacts) on the basis of their degrees of contrariety. I argue that in the Ethics , Spinoza's ontology entails that interactions must always be accounte…
What are Human Beings? Essences and Aptitudes in Spinoza's Anthropology
Principe de la philosophie chez Hobbes. L’expérience de soi et du monde by Arnaud Milanese
Samuel Clarke on Agent Causation, Voluntarism, and Occasionalism
ArgumentThis paper argues that Samuel Clarke's account of agent causation (i) provides a philosophical basis for moderate voluntarism, and (ii) both leads to and benefits from the acceptance of partial occasionalism as a model of causation for material beings. Clarke's account of agent causation entails that for an agent to be properly called an agent (i.e. causally efficacious), it is essential that the agent is free to choose whether to act or …
Modelling the history of early modern natural philosophy: The fate of the art-nature distinction in the Dutch universities
The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpora. This paper implements the ‘model approach’ to investigate the erosion of the traditional art-nature distinction in early modern natural philosophy. I argue that a condition for this transformation has to be located in the late scholastic conception of final causation. I design a conceptual model to capture the art-nature distinction and formulat…
From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis's rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation
Principe de la philosophie chez Hobbes. L’expérience de soi et du monde by Arnaud Milanese
What are Human Beings? Essences and Aptitudes in Spinoza's Anthropology
Marco Sgarbi, The Italian Mind. Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551)
The Ontology of Determination: From Descartes to Spinoza
Argument This paper argues that Spinoza's notions of “conatus” and “power of acting” are derived by means of generalization from the notions of “force of motion” and “force of determination” that Spinoza discussed in his Principles of Cartesian Philosophy to account for interactions among bodies (impacts) on the basis of their degrees of contrariety. I argue that in the Ethics , Spinoza's ontology entails that interactions must always be accounte…
Spinoza et les problemes du corps dans l’histoire de la critique: Essai bibliographique (1924-2015)
This bibliographical essay reconstructs the scholarly debate concerning Spinoza’s account of the body over the last ninety years. The paper focuses on the notion of body considered only from a physical point of view (without relationship to the mind). Questions concerning the ontological status of bodies (both simplest bodies and complex individuals), the nature of their essence, their power of operating, or the sources of Spinoza’s views have or…
Locke and Spinoza on the epistemic and motivational weaknesses of reason: The Reasonableness of Christianity and the Theological-Political Treatise
I cannot but approve your purpose in signifying your willingness to elucidate and moderate those passages in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus which have proved a stumbling block to readers. (Olde
From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis's rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation
Modelling the history of early modern natural philosophy: The fate of the art-nature distinction in the Dutch universities
The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpora. This paper implements the ‘model approach’ to investigate the erosion of the traditional art-nature distinction in early modern natural philosophy. I argue that a condition for this transformation has to be located in the late scholastic conception of final causation. I design a conceptual model to capture the art-nature distinction and formulat…
Samuel Clarke on Agent Causation, Voluntarism, and Occasionalism
ArgumentThis paper argues that Samuel Clarke's account of agent causation (i) provides a philosophical basis for moderate voluntarism, and (ii) both leads to and benefits from the acceptance of partial occasionalism as a model of causation for material beings. Clarke's account of agent causation entails that for an agent to be properly called an agent (i.e. causally efficacious), it is essential that the agent is free to choose whether to act or …
Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being With Others
Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good
This book offers a new narrative about Spinoza’s moral philosophy and his account of reason, passions, and social cooperation. Spinoza’s views evolved significantly over time. In his early writings, his account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions might support the individual’s pursuit of th…
The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: Occasional Causality and Coarse-Grained Reality
This article investigates whether it possible to derive a new narrative about the transformation of early modern natural philosophy from the way in which natural philosophy was systematized in academic writings. It introduces the notion of ‘normalisation’—the mutual adaptation of certain ideas and existing traditions—as a way of studying and explaining conceptual changes during relatively long periods of time. The article provides the methodologi…
History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2
This book on the history of universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philosophy. The chapters included in this volume aim to pursue two main axes of research: the reconstruction and exploration of the dialectics between tradition and innovation in the reshaping of natural philosophy; the attempt to constitute and consolidate ne…
Expanding the Corpus of Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Initial Results and a Review of Available Sources
The meaning of existence ( bhava ) in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha
This paper seeks to reconstruct the meaning of existence in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha by considering how the notion is used in the most systematic contexts in which it appears, and how it could be best interpreted. The discourses are concerned with how existence is used to support and consolidate a certain attitude of ownership, appropriation, and entitlement over contents of experience, in virtue of which one can claim that this or that …
Do you need to know in order to act? The case for a Suárezian legacy in early modern occasionalism
The goal of this article is to suggest that in early modern discussions of agency and causal efficacy it is possible to detect an attempt at pushing to its extreme consequences a specific account of agency and causality that was developed in late scholastic thought. More specifically, the article examines Francisco Suárez's (1548–1617) account of freedom and how this relates to his views on efficient causality. Despite Suárez's careful way of dif…
Computational rifts: Parsing the context of Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Argument Ongoing debates among historians of early modern philosophy are concerned with how to best understand the context of historical works and authors. Current methods usually rely on qualitative assessments made by the historians themselves and do not define constraints that can be used to profile a given context in more quantitative terms. In this paper, we present a computational method that can be used to parse a large corpus of works bas…
Conditionality (idappaccayatā) in the Pāli Discourses of the Buddha
In the Pāli discourses of the Buddha, ‘conditioned co-origination’ (paṭicca-samuppāda) is the key insight that underpins the Buddha’s own awakening and his teaching. This paper aims to shed light on three connected aspects of conditioned co-origination: the synchronic and non-linear nature of the conditional relations it establishes, the non-causal nature of this relation, and how the whole teaching can be seen as a deepening and expansion of the…
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · History (8 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (7 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Natural Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works)