Law and Chance

Emanuele Severino (1929 –2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian thinkers of the 20th century. Damiano Sacco is a philosopher and translator and fellow of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany.

• Foreword: Emanuele Severino: Beyond the Alienated Soul of Tradition and Contemporary Philosophical Thought, Ines Testoni & Giulio GoggiThe Translation of Destiny, and The Destiny of Translation, Damiano SaccoLaw and Chance1. The Immutables, Nothingness, Chance2. From Epistemic to Scientific Domination 3. The Greek Meaning of Nothingness in Modern Science 4. The Will to Power as InterpretationNotes On The Problem Of Intersubjectivity In R. Carnap’s “The Logical Structure Of The World” 1. The Unity of Knowledge 2. Experience and the Intersubjectivity of Knowledge 3. The Protocol-Statement Debate 4. The Presupposition of Intersubjectivity in The Logical Structure of the World5. Intersubjective Knowledge qua Structural Knowledge 6. Intersubjectivity and Objectivity 7. The Concept of Construction 8. Realist Language Formulation of the Concept of Construction9. The Realist and Constructional Meaning of Intersubjectivity in the Structure 10. The Constructional Order according to Cognitive Primacy 11. Elementary Lived Experiences and the Reason for their Unanalysability12. The Method of Quasi-Analysis. Goodman’s Critical Observations 13. Scientific-Ordinary Knowledge and Constructional Systems

Emanuele Severino always knew how to ask the most compelling, even frightening questions. If you fear the unlimited power of science, then ask yourself, why shouldn’t power be limitless? What could put a limit to it? Perhaps only a philosophy that challenges the very notions of being and becoming.