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  • Publication
    Aggregazione di giudizi
    (2020)
    Pigozzi, Gabriella
    L’aggregazione di opinioni individuali per formare una decisione collettiva è l’oggetto di studio di Judgment Aggregation, una disciplina che coinvolge logica, economia, filosofia politica ed informatica. Il problema della presa di decisione collettiva a partire da posizioni individuali è comune nella vita di tutti i giorni e, sebbene la procedura da seguire sembri evidente, i risultati possono nascondere paradossi sorprendenti. La formalizzazione del problema dell’aggregazione di giudizi individuali ha permesso di portare un buon numero di risposte, di evidenziare legami con la teoria della scelta sociale e l’aggregazione di credenze, e di aprire la strada a nuove ricerche che permettono di applicare buona parte dei risultati ad altri paradigmi della decisione collettiva. Obiettivo di questo lavoro è di introdurre il problema dell’aggregazione di giudizi, motivare l’interesse per tali questioni, presentando i risultati principali ottenuti e indicando alcune delle piste di ricerca attuali.
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    Pierluigi Barrotta, "Scienza e democrazia. Verità, fatti e valori in una prospettiva pragmatista", Carocci editore, Roma, 2016, pp. 269
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020)
    Davini, Claudio
    Science and democracy are unanimously considered the cornerstone of Western civilization. For this reason, one may assert that science and democracy are perfectly compatible. However, antiscientific movements are common both in the academic world and in public opinion; the most radical constructivists maintain that the alleged scientific truths are nothing but the outcome of social negotiations and power relations, while many people accuse scientific communities of being at the service of big corporations and established powers. The relationship between science and democracy has consequently become a much-debated issue. In recent years, we have even seen an exponential growth in literature on the subject. Pierluigi Barrotta’s book – Scienza e democrazia. Verità, fatti e valori in una prospettiva pragmatista – takes part in the actual debate, arguing that in a liberal democracy scientists and laypeople should be considered as members of a single community of inquirers whose objective is the truth.
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  • Publication
    Bernard Williams
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020)
    Testini, Francesca
    In this essay, I propose a profile of Bernard Williams focusing on themes related to his moral philosophy. More specifically, the profile I shall propose aims at reconstructing Williams's fragmented discussions about the idea of moral objectivity. After examining his criticisms against the very idea of moral theory, I offer a metaethical framing of his position and then conclude by showing some of his relevant affinities with the ethical thought of the Greeks and, in particular, of Aristotle.
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    Jean Elizabeth Hampton
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020)
    Marras, Martina
    Jean Hampton (1954-1996) was an influential voice in the landscape of US Philosophy of the second half of the 20th century. The majority of her writings falls within the sphere of Political Philosophy, although her interests ranged from Ethics to the Philosophy of Law, from the Rational Choice Theory to the History of Modern Philosophy and Feminism. In this context, I will analyse Hampton's contractarianism and her view of Liberal Feminism.
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  • Publication
    Resistenza immaginativa
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020)
    Paganini, Elisa
    Imaginative resistance occurs when a subject is struggling to imagine the content of a fiction (even part of it) (§1). First the different ways to characterize the philosophical puzzle connected to this phenomenon will be presented (§2). The two different strategies delineated in the literature to characterize the phenomenon and to explain it, will be then analyzed: the conceptual solution (§3) and the evaluative solution (§4). For each of the two strategies, the reasons for adopting it and the different ways in which it has been developed will be outlined. By the end, a brief conclusive evaluation will be produced and a possible line of research for the future suggested (§5).
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