02 APhEx num 2, anno 2010
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TEMI
Bischi Gian Italo
Caos deterministico, modelli matematici e previdibilità
Fano Vincenzo
LETTURE CRITICHE
Gola Elisabetta
Felline Laura
Orlando Teodosio
Vaselli Stefano
Andina Tiziana
Arthur C. Danto, Andy Warhol, Yale University Press, New Haven - London, 2009, pp. 162
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Pedeferri Andrea
Borghini Andrea
DISCUSSIONI
Andina Tiziana
Se il tempo fosse un gambero. Un viaggio (nel tempo) da New York ad Atene
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- PublicationRobert W. Batterman, The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction and Emergence, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pp. 160(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Felline, LauraThe Devil in the Details is one of the most relevant recent philosophical contributions to the study of applied mathematics. According to Robert Batterman, asymptotic reasoning is one of the most important tools of abstraction in science. For this role, the asynthood is essential in defining crucial concepts such as explanation and the intertheoretical relationship between theories. This essay critically illustrates and analyses the main theses of Batterman's book, in particular concerning the centrality of asynthotic reasoning.
116 90 - PublicationSe il tempo fosse un gambero. Un viaggio (nel tempo) da New York ad Atene(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Andina, Tiziana
77 205 - PublicationCaos deterministico, modelli matematici e previdibilità(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Bischi, Gian ItaloIn this article the concept of deterministic chaos is introduced by an heuristic method, from an historical and operational point of view, describing in the meantime some epistemological and philosophical implications. Through some examples, we provide a distinction between determinism and predictability, related to the feature of some nonlinear dynamical systems of amplifying small perturbations of the initial conditions, a property denoted as sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
140 191 - PublicationLuciano Floridi, Gian Paolo Terravecchia, Le parole della filosofia contemporanea, Carocci Editore, Collana Quality Paperbacks, Roma, 2009, pp. 230(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Orlando, TeodosioThe text offers a Critical Review of "Le parole della filosofia contemporanea" by Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo Terravecchia. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.
132 111 - PublicationStefano Vaselli, Maurizio Ferraris, Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009, pp. 429(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Vaselli, Stefano«Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009)» en. tr. in «Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces», Oxford USA, Oxford University Press, 2012 by Maurizio Ferraris represents the landing place of a long and more than decennial research path in the theoretical work of Ferraris, whom "Documentality Theory" is not only a social ontology thesis, but also a hypothesis about semiotical and anthropological relevance of "inscription" and of "registration". This latter, more in general, presents itself as a truly "mapmaking" of the more intimate connexions between social epistemology and social ontology, with respect of all their deep differences. From this source borns an analytical route about what really makes ontology the truly theoretical philosophy without which it's impossibile to recognize and to safeguard the conceptual priority of ontology upon epistemology, after almost two centuries of complete "shutdown" of ontology from the role of "first philosophy" (aristotelical "philosophia prima"). Together with this aim, Ferraris, very surprisingly, thinks it could be possibile reenforce some insights by one of most "continental" philosophers of all XX Century, Jacques Derrida, with an analysis having, on the other hand, some among most important intuitions of conceptual methodology of analytical philosophy. Furthermore, this work has got the worth to approach, in the third chapter of VI Part of the book, in a long and very heaped "Epilogue". This latter synthesizes the eleven thesis of the volume (i-xi), namely the claim in virtue of which: (i) Ontology catalogs the world of life (the husserlian "Lebenswelt"). (ii) There are three type of object: natural objects, ideal objects and social objects. (iii) Ontology is distinguished from Epistemology (iv) Social objects depends by subjects, but, as objects, they aren't subjective (v) Constitutive rule of social objects is "Object = registered act"(vi) Nothing socially exists "outside and beyond the Text" (vii) Society is not settled upon communication, but upon registration (viii). Mind is a "tabula rasa" which is picking up and gathering inscriptions and registrations (ix) "Documents", in the strong sense are registrations of acts (x) The "Letter" (the Literal sense of everything) is the fundament of Spirit (xi) Individuality shows itself in the "signature", namely in the individual style.
126 104 - PublicationGeorge Boole(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Pedeferri, AndreaGeorge Boole was an English mathematician who can be considered one of the founders of modern logic. Boole applied algebraic methods to logic, thereby creating a language that allows the construction of algorithms applicable to an infinite generality of arguments. This advance overcame the traditional Aristotelian approach and laid the grounds for the birth of modern logic and its subsequent developments. The particular type of algebra developed by Boole constituted the fundamental basis for the development of computer science and calculators.
115 232 - PublicationFrancesca Ervas, Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell'equivalenza nella traduzione, Quodlibet, Roma, 2008, pp. 203(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Gola, ElisabettaThe text offers a Critical Review of "Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell'equivalenza nella traduzione" by Francesca Ervas. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.
215 174 - PublicationDavid K. Lewis(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Borghini, AndreaDavid Kellog Lewis (1941-2001) was an American philosopher, one of the most influential of his generation and, in perspective, one of the most systematic. His philosophy rests on two main theoretical beliefs. According to one, truths about natural facts, truths about intentional facts and mental states, and truths about normative facts (social conventions and ethical norms) all supervene upon the distribution of local qualities. According to the other belief, supervenience rests solely on intrinsic properties: that is to say, local qualities are all intrinsic. This article offers a panoramic view of the philosophical production of David Lewis, which starts from the local qualities comprising the supervenience basis and moves upwards.
130 343 - PublicationArthur C. Danto, Andy Warhol, Yale University Press, New Haven - London, 2009, pp. 162(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Andina, TizianaThe text offers a Critical Review of "Andy Warhol" by Arthur C. Danto. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.
100 132 - PublicationIl paradosso di Zenone(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)Fano, VincenzoThis paper presents a critical discussion of one of Zeno's paradoxes commonly referred to as “Achilles and the Tortoise” with a special attention to its influence, particularly in the last century. I distinguish the purely mathematical aspect of the paradox concerning the problem of convergent infinite series, the ontological one concerning the problem of supertasks, and philosophical one involving density of space, time and motion. Regarding the first, I stress that it is possible to say that it is basically solved since Cauchy. As for the second, I show how, in order to overcome the problem, it is necessary to assume the continuity of the space. Finally, with respect to the third, I discuss the arguments in favor of the density of space, time and motion based on perception and on scientific realism.
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