Per un paradigma di continuità tra scienza e filosofia: Hegel e la metafilosofia contemporanea

In this contribution I suggest some elements for a paradigm of “scientificity” for philosophy broader than that which is modelled on the procedures of the natural sciences, and consistent with a metaphilosophical conception of continuity between philosophy and the sciences. To this end, I discuss specific views taken from the contemporary metaphilosophical debate and make them interact with some Hegelian thesis about philosophy’s scientificity. I argue that Hegel can help elaborate a wider conception of scientificity on the basis of a paradigm of rationality that builds upon the idea of thought’s productive self-relation. Such a paradigm 1) involves reference to a theoretical structure of freedom; 2) entails the questioning of presuppositions as an essential activity; 3) leads to reformulating the notion of “necessity”; 4) articulates the continuity of philosophy and the sciences in their complex relation of both identity and difference; 5) integrates the ethical dimensions of decision and commitment to thinking.