Francesco Orsi
Biographic Data
| ID | 460705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Orsi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Orsi |
| SIGNATURE | ORSI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4984-1033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A GIS Milp framework for electric vehicle charging station placement and optimization
Electric vehicle charging station planning requires decisions that account not only for spatial accessibility, but also for investment costs, charging demand, renewable energy availability, grid energy use, and storage requirements. Existing EV charging station location studies often address these components separately, limiting their ability to evaluate trade-offs between spatial suitability and system-level operation. This study develops an int…
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe
Geographical probability of innovation development for Europe’s forests has been produced. • Results are generated by combining survey and machine learning. • Place-based factors of forests are highly explanatory of innovation development. • Wood-focused innovation tend to develop in economically viable forests. • Innovations focused on regulating ecosystems tend to develop in forests that are not economically viable. Vast majority of forestry re…
The Guise of the Good
Reply to Commentators
Bernard Williams on the guise of the good
The guise of the good is the thesis that an agent can only want, or intentionally do or pursue something, if and because this seems good to the agent in some respect or other. Bernard Williams criticizes the guise of the good in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy . In this paper I reconstruct and assess his hitherto unnoticed critical remarks. Williams's opposition is based on the idea that it takes an “extra step” to go from desiring or pursuin…
From territorial capital to regional design
Territorial capital is a policy concept that emphasizes the endogenous development and regional competitiveness of particular territories, calling for place-based territorial approaches and greater convergence between spatial planning and regional development policies. However, spatial thinking and imaging are still missing when this concept is applied. This paper introduces a multidimensional assessment model that foregrounds the spatial dimensi…
The Guise of the Good
This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated, the arguments for and against it, and the broader role it played in the thought of different philosophers. In recent years there has been a rich debate about whether value judgment or value perception must form an essential part of mental states such as e…
Effects of protected areas on the expansion of impervious surfaces in their vicinity
Protected areas can fully deliver their nature conservation function if human-induced disturbances are minimized not just inside their boundaries, but also in their immediate surroundings. This is particularly true for urbanization, which is highly disruptive and generally permanent. This paper aims to investigate how urban growth rates vary as a function of distance from Dutch Natura 2000 areas. More specifically, it looks at whether these areas…
Fertile ground, complex matter
The adoption of sustainable soil management practices such as the use of green waste from road-side management and nature reserves is thwarted in practice by hesitance on the side of farmers. To foster the use of these practices, it is crucial to understand farmers' decision perspectives and attitudes towards them. Using Q-methodology, the perspectives of 12 dairy and arable farmers in The Netherlands were analysed. It was studied which barriers …
The modern guise of the good
The guise of the good is the claim that whatever I desire or intentionally do is seen by me as good in some respect
Mill’s proof and the guise of the good
The guise of the good doctrine is the view that whatever we desire, we desire it under the guise of the good, i.e. it appears good to us in some way. In this paper I first clarify the role that the doctrine of the guise of the good plays in the first step of J. S. Mill’s proof of the principle of utility (in which he shows that one’s happiness is desirable as an end). Then I provide textual evidence in favour of ascribing the doctrine to Mill, ar…
Perverse Reasons
For an agent to be motivated by a normatively perverse reason is to be motivated by a normative or evaluative thought as such which, if true, would count as such against the action that it motivates the agent to perform, or against the attitude that it motivates the agent to take. For example, that an action is morally wrong or prudentially bad counts, as such, against performing the action. When the thought that an action is morally wrong or pru…
The explanatory objection to the fitting attitude analysis of value
On the sustainability of electric vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) are widely regarded as the key to finally making private mobility clean, yet virtually no research is being conducted on their potential contribution to the expansion of impervious surfaces. This study aims to start a discussion on the topic by exploring three relevant issues: the impact of EVs’ operating costs on urban size, the space requirements of charging facilities, the land demand of energy production through renewa…
Meta-Ethical Disagreements
In â Objectivity and truth: youâ d better believe itâ (1996) Ronald Dworkin attacked what he calls Archimedean scepticism about morality. His central argument, however, brings into question both such scepticism and the views which oppose it, concluding that many meta-ethical disagreements are purely verbal or, really, first-order moral ones. In this article I illustrate the scope of Dworkinâ s argument, examine (and reject) some responses to Dwor…
Hume and the Guise of the Bad
In Treatise 2.3.4.5 Hume provides an explanation of why ‘we naturally desire what is forbid, and take a pleasure in performing actions, merely because they are unlawful’. Hume's explanation of this phenomenon has barely received any attention so far. But a detailed analysis bears fruit for both Humean scholarship and contemporary moral psychology. After putting the passage in its context, I explain why desiring and taking pleasure in performing c…
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union
Forests cover about 40 % of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum of invaluable ecosystem services to more than half a billion people. In order to protect and harness this crucial asset, EU policies are advancing multifunctional management. This study lays a basis for such an effort by mapping the supply of key forest ecosystem services (FES) across the entire EU: wood, water supply, erosion control, pollination, habitat protection, …
The Normative and the Evaluative. The Buck-Passing Account of Value
Despite the significant amount of recent work on the question of whether value and other properties should or not be understood in terms of normative reasons, A. C. Ewing's 67 pages in The Definition of Good (1948) had remained, until Rowland's book, the lengthiest single treatment of these questions. The Normative and the Evaluative provides the first book-length defence of (a version of) what is perhaps the current majority view in this debate:…
How densely populated and green are the places we live in? A study of the ten largest US cities
Value Theory
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and incision. Orsi provides a systematic survey of both …
Assessing the effects of access policies on travel mode choices in an Alpine tourist destination
How to Be a Friend of Absolute Goodness
Cutting the carbon emission of international conferences
Routeing of power lines through least-cost path analysis and multicriteria evaluation to minimise environmental impacts
Obligations of Nearness
Routeing of power lines through least-cost path analysis and multicriteria evaluation to minimise environmental impacts
Cutting the carbon emission of international conferences
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union
Forests cover about 40 % of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum of invaluable ecosystem services to more than half a billion people. In order to protect and harness this crucial asset, EU policies are advancing multifunctional management. This study lays a basis for such an effort by mapping the supply of key forest ecosystem services (FES) across the entire EU: wood, water supply, erosion control, pollination, habitat protection, …
Fertile ground, complex matter
The adoption of sustainable soil management practices such as the use of green waste from road-side management and nature reserves is thwarted in practice by hesitance on the side of farmers. To foster the use of these practices, it is crucial to understand farmers' decision perspectives and attitudes towards them. Using Q-methodology, the perspectives of 12 dairy and arable farmers in The Netherlands were analysed. It was studied which barriers …
Assessing the effects of access policies on travel mode choices in an Alpine tourist destination
The Normative and the Evaluative. The Buck-Passing Account of Value
Despite the significant amount of recent work on the question of whether value and other properties should or not be understood in terms of normative reasons, A. C. Ewing's 67 pages in The Definition of Good (1948) had remained, until Rowland's book, the lengthiest single treatment of these questions. The Normative and the Evaluative provides the first book-length defence of (a version of) what is perhaps the current majority view in this debate:…
Obligations of Nearness
Routeing of power lines through least-cost path analysis and multicriteria evaluation to minimise environmental impacts
Cutting the carbon emission of international conferences
How to Be a Friend of Absolute Goodness
Assessing the effects of access policies on travel mode choices in an Alpine tourist destination
Value Theory
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and incision. Orsi provides a systematic survey of both …
How densely populated and green are the places we live in? A study of the ten largest US cities
Meta-Ethical Disagreements
In â Objectivity and truth: youâ d better believe itâ (1996) Ronald Dworkin attacked what he calls Archimedean scepticism about morality. His central argument, however, brings into question both such scepticism and the views which oppose it, concluding that many meta-ethical disagreements are purely verbal or, really, first-order moral ones. In this article I illustrate the scope of Dworkinâ s argument, examine (and reject) some responses to Dwor…
Hume and the Guise of the Bad
In Treatise 2.3.4.5 Hume provides an explanation of why ‘we naturally desire what is forbid, and take a pleasure in performing actions, merely because they are unlawful’. Hume's explanation of this phenomenon has barely received any attention so far. But a detailed analysis bears fruit for both Humean scholarship and contemporary moral psychology. After putting the passage in its context, I explain why desiring and taking pleasure in performing c…
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union
Forests cover about 40 % of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum of invaluable ecosystem services to more than half a billion people. In order to protect and harness this crucial asset, EU policies are advancing multifunctional management. This study lays a basis for such an effort by mapping the supply of key forest ecosystem services (FES) across the entire EU: wood, water supply, erosion control, pollination, habitat protection, …
The Normative and the Evaluative. The Buck-Passing Account of Value
Despite the significant amount of recent work on the question of whether value and other properties should or not be understood in terms of normative reasons, A. C. Ewing's 67 pages in The Definition of Good (1948) had remained, until Rowland's book, the lengthiest single treatment of these questions. The Normative and the Evaluative provides the first book-length defence of (a version of) what is perhaps the current majority view in this debate:…
The modern guise of the good
The guise of the good is the claim that whatever I desire or intentionally do is seen by me as good in some respect
Mill’s proof and the guise of the good
The guise of the good doctrine is the view that whatever we desire, we desire it under the guise of the good, i.e. it appears good to us in some way. In this paper I first clarify the role that the doctrine of the guise of the good plays in the first step of J. S. Mill’s proof of the principle of utility (in which he shows that one’s happiness is desirable as an end). Then I provide textual evidence in favour of ascribing the doctrine to Mill, ar…
Perverse Reasons
For an agent to be motivated by a normatively perverse reason is to be motivated by a normative or evaluative thought as such which, if true, would count as such against the action that it motivates the agent to perform, or against the attitude that it motivates the agent to take. For example, that an action is morally wrong or prudentially bad counts, as such, against performing the action. When the thought that an action is morally wrong or pru…
The explanatory objection to the fitting attitude analysis of value
On the sustainability of electric vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) are widely regarded as the key to finally making private mobility clean, yet virtually no research is being conducted on their potential contribution to the expansion of impervious surfaces. This study aims to start a discussion on the topic by exploring three relevant issues: the impact of EVs’ operating costs on urban size, the space requirements of charging facilities, the land demand of energy production through renewa…
Fertile ground, complex matter
The adoption of sustainable soil management practices such as the use of green waste from road-side management and nature reserves is thwarted in practice by hesitance on the side of farmers. To foster the use of these practices, it is crucial to understand farmers' decision perspectives and attitudes towards them. Using Q-methodology, the perspectives of 12 dairy and arable farmers in The Netherlands were analysed. It was studied which barriers …
The Guise of the Good
This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated, the arguments for and against it, and the broader role it played in the thought of different philosophers. In recent years there has been a rich debate about whether value judgment or value perception must form an essential part of mental states such as e…
Effects of protected areas on the expansion of impervious surfaces in their vicinity
Protected areas can fully deliver their nature conservation function if human-induced disturbances are minimized not just inside their boundaries, but also in their immediate surroundings. This is particularly true for urbanization, which is highly disruptive and generally permanent. This paper aims to investigate how urban growth rates vary as a function of distance from Dutch Natura 2000 areas. More specifically, it looks at whether these areas…
Bernard Williams on the guise of the good
The guise of the good is the thesis that an agent can only want, or intentionally do or pursue something, if and because this seems good to the agent in some respect or other. Bernard Williams criticizes the guise of the good in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy . In this paper I reconstruct and assess his hitherto unnoticed critical remarks. Williams's opposition is based on the idea that it takes an “extra step” to go from desiring or pursuin…
From territorial capital to regional design
Territorial capital is a policy concept that emphasizes the endogenous development and regional competitiveness of particular territories, calling for place-based territorial approaches and greater convergence between spatial planning and regional development policies. However, spatial thinking and imaging are still missing when this concept is applied. This paper introduces a multidimensional assessment model that foregrounds the spatial dimensi…
The Guise of the Good
Reply to Commentators
A GIS Milp framework for electric vehicle charging station placement and optimization
Electric vehicle charging station planning requires decisions that account not only for spatial accessibility, but also for investment costs, charging demand, renewable energy availability, grid energy use, and storage requirements. Existing EV charging station location studies often address these components separately, limiting their ability to evaluate trade-offs between spatial suitability and system-level operation. This study develops an int…
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe
Geographical probability of innovation development for Europe’s forests has been produced. • Results are generated by combining survey and machine learning. • Place-based factors of forests are highly explanatory of innovation development. • Wood-focused innovation tend to develop in economically viable forests. • Innovations focused on regulating ecosystems tend to develop in forests that are not economically viable. Vast majority of forestry re…
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