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Antonio Aliotta
1881 (Palermo) — 1964 (Napoli)
Prominent Italian philosopher, historian of philosophy. A student of the Brentanians Felice Tocco and Francesco De Sarlo in Florence, he graduated in 1903 with a thesis in experimental psychology. With his "dynamic pantheism" - an anti-positivist, neo-hegelian epistemology exposed in his most famous work, "The Idealist Reaction Against Science" (1912) - he put provided an idealist alternative to the dominant positions of Croce and Gentile in Italy. Founder of the Italian version of "Logos". His later, post-war approach to epistemology, which he refers to as his "experimentalism", traces a path between pragmatism and spiritualism.
La razionalità come processo e la libertà del volere
1934
Der russische Gedanke Special issue Erg./3
Dell’ esperimento scientifico e di quello metafisico
1930
Der russische Gedanke Erg./1