Paolo Pecere
Biographic Data
| ID | 461333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Pecere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pecere |
| SIGNATURE | PECERE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2887-4775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plant cognition after Darwin
Plant “intelligence” and “sensation” are controversial notions in contemporary botany. While some scientists argue that sensory awareness, learning, memory, communication, and possibly a kind of consciousness should be ascribed to plants, a substantial part of the scientific community dismisses such claims because of insufficient evidence and the lack of neural systems in plants. In this paper, I will examine this issue from a historical and epis…
Monads, Solidity and the Metaphysics of Bodies
In this paper I argue that Kant’s investigation of the nature of bodies, although it was largely based on Newtonian science, was more dependent on notions and debates in German logic and metaphysics. In section 1, I introduce the role of material substance in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science , arguing that the systematic framework of Kant’s “metaphysics of corporeal nature” cannot be described as a “foundation of Newtonian philosop…
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science
Kant's legacy in the history of life sciences has notoriously included a critique of the use of soul and ‘vital force’ ( Lebenskraft ). In this paper I focus on a less-known side of this legacy, i.e. Kant's late critique of vital materialism and its impact on nineteenth-century German science and philosophy. I show that Kant considered materialism as a kind of metaphysical hypothesis since the 1760s and pointed out that it was empirically impossi…
Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy
History of physics and the Platonic legacy
In this article, I argue that the interpretation of Kant's a priori in Marburg neo-Kantianism involved a historiographical problem concerning the Platonic interpretation of the history of exact sciences. According to Hermann Cohen, the history of modern science supports the philosophical view initiated by Plato and revived by Kant that ‘the diversity of things has to be dissolved in differences of ideas’ and thus points to the “victory of idealis…
Physiological Kantianism” and the “organization of the mind”
In this paper, I reconsider the notion of “physiological Kantianism”, applied to Hermann von Helmholtz, Friedrich Lange and other philosophers and scientists of the late nineteenth century. From Hermann Cohen to contemporary scholarship, this designation has been usually referred to a mistaken “naturalization” of Kant’s original theory of knowledge in terms of organic structures and dispositions. I argue that, on the contrary, although Helmholtz …
Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science
Reconsidering theignorabimus
ArgumentIn this paper I present an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond's thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I reconsider du Bois-Reymond's speech "On the limits of natural science" (1872) in the context of nineteenth-century German philosophy and neurophysiology, pointing out connections and analogies with contemporary arguments on the "hard problem of consciousness." Du Bois-Reym…
La filosofia della natura in Kant
Reconsidering theignorabimus
ArgumentIn this paper I present an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond's thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I reconsider du Bois-Reymond's speech "On the limits of natural science" (1872) in the context of nineteenth-century German philosophy and neurophysiology, pointing out connections and analogies with contemporary arguments on the "hard problem of consciousness." Du Bois-Reym…
La filosofia della natura in Kant
Physiological Kantianism” and the “organization of the mind”
In this paper, I reconsider the notion of “physiological Kantianism”, applied to Hermann von Helmholtz, Friedrich Lange and other philosophers and scientists of the late nineteenth century. From Hermann Cohen to contemporary scholarship, this designation has been usually referred to a mistaken “naturalization” of Kant’s original theory of knowledge in terms of organic structures and dispositions. I argue that, on the contrary, although Helmholtz …
Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science
Reconsidering theignorabimus
ArgumentIn this paper I present an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond's thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I reconsider du Bois-Reymond's speech "On the limits of natural science" (1872) in the context of nineteenth-century German philosophy and neurophysiology, pointing out connections and analogies with contemporary arguments on the "hard problem of consciousness." Du Bois-Reym…
History of physics and the Platonic legacy
In this article, I argue that the interpretation of Kant's a priori in Marburg neo-Kantianism involved a historiographical problem concerning the Platonic interpretation of the history of exact sciences. According to Hermann Cohen, the history of modern science supports the philosophical view initiated by Plato and revived by Kant that ‘the diversity of things has to be dissolved in differences of ideas’ and thus points to the “victory of idealis…
Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science
Kant's legacy in the history of life sciences has notoriously included a critique of the use of soul and ‘vital force’ ( Lebenskraft ). In this paper I focus on a less-known side of this legacy, i.e. Kant's late critique of vital materialism and its impact on nineteenth-century German science and philosophy. I show that Kant considered materialism as a kind of metaphysical hypothesis since the 1760s and pointed out that it was empirically impossi…
Monads, Solidity and the Metaphysics of Bodies
In this paper I argue that Kant’s investigation of the nature of bodies, although it was largely based on Newtonian science, was more dependent on notions and debates in German logic and metaphysics. In section 1, I introduce the role of material substance in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science , arguing that the systematic framework of Kant’s “metaphysics of corporeal nature” cannot be described as a “foundation of Newtonian philosop…
Plant cognition after Darwin
Plant “intelligence” and “sensation” are controversial notions in contemporary botany. While some scientists argue that sensory awareness, learning, memory, communication, and possibly a kind of consciousness should be ascribed to plants, a substantial part of the scientific community dismisses such claims because of insufficient evidence and the lack of neural systems in plants. In this paper, I will examine this issue from a historical and epis…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Empiricism (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works)