Galuppi, Or Galluppi, Pasquale, an Italian philosopher, born at Tropea, Calabria, April 2, 1770, died in Naples, Dec. 13, 1846. He studied at the university of Naples, and was professor of philosophy there for many years. He was a spiritualist in psychology, and was the first among the modern philosophers of Italy to coincide with Kant in considering the promptings of the moral law as paramount in ethical psychology. He rejected the doctrine of Helvetius, which bases morality on the desire for pleasure, and the theories of Wolf and Romagnosi, who find the essence of it in the yearning after perfection. His principal works are: Saggio filosqfico sulla critica della cono-scenza (Naples, 1819-32); Lettere filosofiche sulle ticende della filosqfia intorno principii della conoscenza umavta da Cartesio fina a Kant (1827; 2d ed., 1838) Elementi di filosofa (4th ed., 5 vols., 1835-'42); Lezioni di logica e di metafisica (5 vols.,1832-'6; new ed., 1842); Considerazioni sull- idealismo trascendentale e sul razionalismo assoluto (1841); and Elementi di teologia natura\e (4th ed., 1844).