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Children in The New York Times’ Israeli-Palestinian War Coverage: A Corpus-Based Critical Analysis
Full text linkAbstractThis study investigates the discursive use of children in The New York Times’ coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from October 2023 to July 2024. Combining quantitative corpus-based methods with qualitative critical discourse analysis, the research identifies key lexical features and examines the framing techniques used by the newspaper to narrate the war. Findings indicate that the image of children is a powerful discursive tool to influence both emotional and cognitive responses. It serves various discursive purposes, such as humanising discourse, evoking emotions from pity to horror, framing the conflict in moral terms, legitimising political actions, and maintaining narrative cohesion. Particularly, the strategic use of children’s images not only vilifies the opposing side by highlighting a stark moral contrast but also justifies military action, reinforcing the perceived righteousness of one’s own cause. Furthermore, a significant disparity is noted in the individualisation of children: Israeli children are often depicted with detailed personal stories, enhancing their humanisation, while Palestinian children are more frequently represented through aggregated numbers, highlighting the scale of the tragedy but possibly diluting personal aspects of their suffering
Militarized Rhetoric in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election Debate: Threats to Democratic Deliberation
Full text linkAbstractThis study employs Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework to examine how the three main candidates in the 2024 Indonesian presidential election – Anies Baswedan, Prabowo Subianto, and Ganjar Pranowo – strategically militarized language to construct politics as a battlefield. Through an analysis of the third presidential debate, this study reveals the pervasive use of war-related vocabulary, active verbs, confrontational metaphors, and other discursive strategies that positioned the candidates as commanders leading the charge against the nation’s enemies. Situating this martial language within Indonesia’s broader socio-political context, this study argues that such militarized campaign rhetoric both emerged from and reinforced a political culture still grappling with the legacy of authoritarianism. Tapping into deep-seated anxieties about instability and foreign threats, this discursive militarization has reduced complex policy issues to simplistic ‘us vs. them’ dichotomies and narrowed the space for deliberation and dissent. The normalization of war-like discourse poses a serious threat to Indonesia’s democratic development. To build a more resilient democracy, Indonesia’s leaders must reject martial posturing and cultivate a new language of politics centered on dialogue, pluralism, and peaceful change
L’esperienza e il metodo dell’intelligenza nel pensiero di John Dewey
No full textEXPERIENCE AND THE METHOD OF THE INTELLIGENCE IN JOHN DEWEY’S THOUGHTAbstractIn this essay I will try to analyze the John Dewey’s concept of experience, examining, in particular, the first chapter of «Experience and nature»’s second edition. The concept of experience links to the relation with nature and only science with the method of intelligence can organically relate experience, nature and the construction of democracy. Due to this education it is fundamental to guide the individual to build democracy through science
Tempo e antihistoire
Full text linkABSTRACTTime and antihistoireThis article analyses the succession of historians in the five sections of the Excerpta Constntiniana that have come down to us, not connecting it to categories or historiographical genres, but to the organisation of the work of this συλλογή
Intersezione tra intelligenza artificiale generativa e educazione: un’ipotesi
Full text linkINTERSECTION BETWEEN GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION: A HYPHOTHESISAbstractThis study explores the impact of integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into adaptive and personalized learning environments, focusing on its diverse applications in the field of education. It begins with an examination of the evolution of GenAI models and frameworks, establishing selection criteria to curate case studies that showcase the applications of GenAI in education. The analysis of these case studies highlights the tangible benefits of integrating GenAI, such as increased student engagement, improved test scores, and accelerated skill development. Ethical, technical, and pedagogical challenges are also identified, emphasizing the need for careful collaboration between educators and computer science experts. The findings underscore the potential of GenAI to revolutionize the field of education. By addressing technological challenges and ethical concerns, and embracing human-centered approaches, educators and computer science experts can leverage GenAI to create innovative and inclusive learning environments. Finally, the study also highlights the importance of socio-emotional learning and personalization in the evolutionary process that will revolutionize the future of education.
Across and beyond the Coloniality of Nature: A Teaching Proposal
Full text linkThe paper presents the theoretical background and structure, as well as pedagogical activities, of an Environmental Philosophy course – a large, general intro for third-year undergraduate students – dedicated to a critical analysis of the idea of nature and its meaning(s) for environmentalism. It centers around the consideration that the idea of nature seems at the same time unavoidable in environmental policy and untenable due to its colonial heritage and dualistic ontology. It is designed as an interdisciplinary, hands-on, critical analysis of the role of “nature” in environmental praxis, its coloniality, and alternative understandings of and relationships to “nature”. Conceptually, “nature” is framed as the “transcendental” of Western modernity: both a necessary condition of possibility for its self-understanding and an a priori unification of the manifold that seems so “obviously” subsumed under it. By drawing on interdisciplinary literature including eco-phenomenology, environmental hermeneutics, political ecology, anthropology, and decolonial thought, students are confronted with different approaches to the question of “nature” and invited to critically analyze assumptions, implications, and uses of the term. They are guided by the hermeneutical consideration that the question “what is nature?” reveals just asmuch about who asks the question as about what is asked
The Edge of the Moral Circle
Full text linkThis essay explores the relationship between two recent books on the scope of moral consideration: “The Edge of Sentience” (Birch 2024a) and “The Moral Circle” (Sebo 2025). Both books address the ethical and scientific challenge of determining how to interact with beings of uncertain sentience and moral status. They also argue for similar conclusions: they develop precautionary frameworks for guiding these decisions, and they argue that many invertebrates, future AI systems, and other beings merit moral consideration or, at least, further investigation. However, the books differ in focus and scope: “The Moral Circle” focuses more on ethical theory and long-term progress, while “The Edge of Sentience” focuses more on public policy and short-term progress. This essay highlights the complementary nature of these works and identifies key areas for further research, including how to navigate moral uncertainty and how to reconcile ethical principles with practical and political realities
The Italic Race and Latin Eugenics: Scientific Terms for Persecutions and War in the Medical Literature of Fascist Italy
Full text linkAbstractThis article explores how medical language in Fascist Italy contributed to creating a climate of hatred and violence. Through the analysis of medical and scientific journals, the study examines how the Fascist regime influenced the medical profession and how science was used to justify persecution, racism, and war. The article highlights how terminology, such as that relating to ‘race’, ‘purity’, and ‘duty’, was employed to connect biological concepts to Fascist ideology, normalizing discriminatory attitudes. The research reveals how medical science was manipulated to support nationalist and racist ideologies, with doctors playing a key role in legitimizing racial discrimination and eugenics. In summary, the article analyzes how medical discourse contributed to shaping public perception and legitimizing the ideological positions of the regime
La ricostruzione della rubrica edittale Quibus ex causis in possessionem eatur
Full text linkAbstractThe Quibus ex causis in possessionem eatur section of the perpetual edict outlines various grounds for immission (missio in possessionem). Contemporary scholarship has, with near unanimity, accepted Lenel’s reconstruction of this rubric. However, a thorough and methodical analysis of each case of entry into possession reveals sig-nificant flaws in Lenel’s proposal, paving the way for a new model
Per un ‘Atlante’ tematico del Codice di Giustiniano, Milano, 9 dicembre 2024
Full text linkAbstractThe conference took place in Milan on the 9th of December 2024 and was attended by scholars belonging to the five unities of the project ‘For an Atlas of Justinian Code’ to adjourn themselves on the progresses made after one year and to organize the future work on Justinian’s Codex repetitae praelectionis