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Per una (ri)lettura pedagogica del messaggio politico di Alexander Langer
No full textLe riflessioni sui temi delle emergenze ambientali e della transizione ecologica che si tenterà di offrire in questo articolo nascono da una possibile rilettura in chiave pedagogica del messaggio ambientalista e pacifista di Alexander Langer. La forte propensione al dialogo e alla mediazione che caratterizzavano la sua postura, così
come il suo approccio cooperativo alle tematiche ambientali, derivavano, per sua stessa ammissione, dal radicamento nella cultura e nelle tradizioni del suo territorio di origine. Le prospettive ecologista e pacifista, invece, nascevano dalla familiarità con il concetto di confine (geografico, linguistico) e dall’esperienza costante del limite e dell’attraversamento. Langer aveva capito che l’identità di confine e i limiti geografici rappresentano sempre delle opportunità: fra tutte, quella di costruire ponti, di cooperare, di unire; e non di erigere muri, fisici o simbolici, per separare e isolare le comunità e le società (Panikkar, 2002)
Reading Arabic Poetry Ecocritically: Methodological Reflections with a Case Study on Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb
No full textThis article examines how ecocritical approaches can shed light on modern Arabic poetry, while remaining attentive to historical specificity and local epistemologies. After outlining key ecological motifs in the classical tradition, from desert ruins and pastoral longing to Andalusi gardens, the study adopts Kate Rigby’s ecopoetic framework to map contemplative, prophetic, and decolonial modes within Arabic literary modernity. A case study on Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb demonstrates how nature in his work functions as an active site of political and affective meaning. Through the symbolism of rain, drought, and cyclical renewal in Unshūdat al-Maṭar and Madīna bilā Maṭar, al-Sayyāb articulates a poetics where environmental and national wounds are intertwined. The article argues that his verse anticipates a distinctly Arabic ecopoetic sensibility rooted in memory, dispossession, and the hope for renewal
Stare al confine: la periferia come laboratorio
No full textIl saggio invita - in modo paradossale ma fecondo per il pensiero - a riflettere sulla centralità della periferia, per valorizzare le potenzialità semantiche e performative di un tipo di localizzazione penalizzato dall'essere per lo più considerato come "l'altro dal centro"
Transitioning from conventional to digital methods for estimating time since death: a multi-parameter forensic software
No full textIntroduction
In forensic pathology, estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) is crucial for legal investigations, particularly in homicide cases. Traditional methods for determining the time since death offer only estimations, and formulas related to solute concentrations in vitreous humor vary, complicating the process.
To present a novel software solution that integrates body temperature data and solute concentrations in the vitreous humor (potassium, albumin, hypoxanthine, and urea).
Methods
The software combines the Henssge method with current knowledge of solute concentration evolution in the vitreous humor post-death. Formulas derived from the scientific literature were implemented in a Java-based program. The program features a intuitive interface and is compatible with Windows and MacOS. Functional and non-functional requirements were addressed, ensuring quick data input, low resource consumption, and easy interpretation of results.
Results
The software provides more precise PMI estimations by unifying the Henssge method with regression equations from existing literature. This integration enhances usability for practical applications and academic research.
Conclusion
This study introduces a cohesive software solution that integrates traditional and modern methodologies for PMI estimation. The program's comprehensive approach and intuitive design promise to improve accuracy and facilitate broader application in forensic investigations
The Material-Historical A priori in the Italian Critical Rationalism and Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis
No full textAccording to the Italian critical rationalism and many contemporary au-
thors, a material and historical conception of the a priori is not only properly to be described as “Kantian”, but is also capable of solving the problem of incommensurability between successive theories posed by the relativistic turn in the philosophy of science. But the differences between such a notion of the a priori and Kant’s a priori are deeper than their similarities. To say that such a priori may be called “Kantian” because it has the function of making experience possible include too many positions, and many well-established historical-hermeneutical distinctions would be lost in such identity claims. Under such a definition of the a priori, philosophers as different as Poincaré, Reichenbach, Lorenz, Wittgenstein, Popper and Kuhn, are to be called Kantian. Many authors would even turn out to be Kantian ante litteram, leading to a possible but coarse-grained a history of philosophy, in which too many important epistemological distinctions would be obscured.
Moreover, this widely accepted conception of the a material and historical priori, in paradoxical opposition to the very fundamental intent for which it was developed, not only does not solve the problem of relativism,
but constitutes one of its main roots, as can be seen through a reference
to Kuhn’s paradigm: a material and historical a priori renews, at least in a
theoretically fundamental sense, the same theoretical move that led from
Kuhn’s concept of “paradigm” to the relativist conclusions of his incommensurability thesis
