Paolo Pecere

Paolo Pecere is a historian of philosophy and a writer of fiction and literary non-fiction.

He is associate professor at the University of Roma Tre.

His last scholarly book is Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science (Springer 2020).

His first novel La vita lontana was published in 2018 and he is the author of Risorgere (2019) and Il dio che danza (2021).

Recent books

2025
Synthesis and the Unity of Mind: From Idealistic Philosophy to Psychology (and Back)
in Lukas M. Verburgt (ed.), "The Early Years of Mind: Making Contemporary Philosophy and Psychology" (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 July 2025).
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2025
Monads, Solidity and the Metaphysics of Bodies: Kant’s Non-Newtonian theory of material substance and its sources
"Kant-Studien", vol. 116, no. 2, 2025, pp. 208-229.
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2024
L'animismo oggi. Un'ipotesi tra filosofia e antropologia
"Prospettive filosofiche", (2024)
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2024
Fine dei mondi, futuro sulla Terra
in AAVV, Sta arrivando la fine del mondo, UTET, Torino 2024, pp. 187-199.
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2024
Materialism between science and metaphysics. Controversies in Germany (1840s–1870s)
in C.T. Wolfe, J. Symons (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Materialism, Routledge, London 2024, pp. 263–277.
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