Michela Bordignon

My research interests are focused on logic and metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. More specifically, I am interested in the debate on Hegel's dialectic and on his non-standard conception of logic and contradiction. I have been investigating the relationship between formal and speculative logic, especially between Hegel's dialectic and Priest's dialetheism. I have been investigating different attempts to formalize Hegel's dialectic, the problem of paradoxes and self-reference in Hegel's thought and in analytic philosophy. I have developed my interpretation of the notion of contradiction in Hegel's logic by using the conceptual tools of analytic philosophy. More generally, I have been working on the development of the notion of logic in pre-Kantian philosophy, Kant's transcendental logic, Hegel's speculative logic and the contempurary on formal logic, with a special focus on paraconsistent logics. I have been working on the Anglo-American reading of Hegel's philosophy, especially on Brandom's inferential reading of the dialectic. I also am interested on the notion of life and organism in Classical German Philosophy. More specifically, I am interested on the debate on internal teleology and the backward causation in Kant's and Hegel's conception of living organisms. My current research project focus on the relation between Hegel's conception of objective thought and McDowell's theory of the unboundedness of the conceptul. More specifically, the aim of the project is to analyse the epistemic relation between subjectivity and objectivity in Hegel's and McDowell's philosophy, in order to investigate whether they manage to solve the problems raised by a dualistic account of this relation, which is the one characterizing modern philosophy. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)