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LEIBNIZ 2016. Iniziative e studi a suggello di una vitalità speculativa inesaurita nel trecentesimo della morte
Full text linkThis note focuses on some interesting contributes in the Leibnizian studiespublished in the occasion of 300 years since the death of the German philosopher. Itdiscusses in particular some new interpretative lines and new research paths still inspiredby Leibniz’s thought and work
PIERRE BAYLE HISTORIEN DE LA PHILOSOPHIE: UN SONDAGE
Full text linkThe critical tradition reduces Bayle’s philosophy to Pyrrhonism and avoids the analysis of his arguments by jumping to the conclusion that he aims to establish the uncertainty of all philosophical reasoning. This article aims to demonstrate that this interpretation of Bayle’s intention is erroneous: he is not Pyrrhonian in historiography and he is a staunch rationalist in the fields of ethics. In the Dictionary, he seems to trace a history of philosophy, but a close reading of his articles shows that he does not attempt to a establish a coherent and systematic history of philosophy. He does indeed demonstrate that philosophical systems fail when faced with certain problems (definition of space and time, for instance), but above all he pinpoints those problems over which reason is incompatible with the Christian doctrine. In other words, he does not aim to enumerate Pyrrhonian uncertainties but to attack rationalist theology from a variety angles: he thus seeks to demonstrate that Christian faith is irremediably irrationa
CLAVIUS@SCHOOL IL PROGETTO CLAVIUS ON THE WEB ENTRA NELLE SCUOLE
Full text linkClavius on the web is a Digital Humanities project dedicated to the manuscripts of Christophorus Clavius – an important jesuit mathematician and one of most influential scholars of his time – preserved by the Historical Archive of the Pontifical Gregorian University. This paper describes Clavius@School, an initiative within the same project in which students from three high schools partecipate. Clavius@School aims not only to spread knowledge about Clavius’ works, but also to alert to a conscientious and aware use of digital technology, according to the perspective proposed by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegle
LES DUALITÉS DE LA DYNAMIQUE LEIBNIZIENNE
Full text linkWe associate here, under the naming of ‘dualities’ of the Leibnizian dynamics, distinctions of several orders: chronological, in that the invention in 1690 of the very word ‘dynamics’ separates two periods in the establishment of the doctrine of movement and corporeal nature – conceptual, in that the ‘New science’ defines itself by the association of the acquired concept of power or force with the new one of action – methodical, because the introduction of the concept of action allows the establishment of an a priori demonstration whereas until then only an a posteriori argument had been used – structural, with the conjunction of dynamics ‘abstracted from things’ and ‘concrete’ dynamics ‘concerning what happens in the system of things’. All these dualities form a coherent network, which characterizes the singularity of the Leibnizian dynamics in the margins of history of classic scienc
DIGITAL HUMANITIES E BENI CULTURALI: QUALE RELAZIONE?
Full text linkThis note provides an overview of the fourth AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) Congress, which took place at the University of Turin, from the 17th to the 19th of December 2015. The theme of the meeting was the relation between Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, with particular emphasis on their reciprocal exchanges both at theoretical and technological leve
MODELS FOR OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING DARIAH THEME EVENT
Full text linkThe following note presents the four-day summer school on Models for Open Access Publishing hosted in Villa Vigoni from 8 to 11 June 2015. Joining together the needs of researchers and publishers, the convention turned out to be a fruitful meeting of people and ideas on Digital Humanities. Furthermore, the fact that many of the participants are active in the DARIAH project was a stimulus for the discussion, since one of the key concepts of DARIAH, as well as of Digital Humanities in general, is cross-disciplinarit
LA DEFINIZIONE ARISTOTELICA DI MOVIMENTO E LA CRITICA AI PREDECESSORI. ARISTOT. PHYS. III 2, 201B16-202A3
Full text linkIn Physics, III 2, 201b16-202a3, Aristotle offers a negative argument in favour of his definition of change. Having previously stated what change is, he seeks confirmation for his theory in the dialectical examination of his predecessors’ conception of movement. Most commentators have neglected the passage, in part, because it is obscure and, in part, because, being postponed after the substantive discussion, it seems to be irrelevant to reconstruct Aristotle’s positive treatment of kinesis. But, criticizing his predecessors, evidently Aristotle is also providing some helpful criteria to correctly interpret his rather unclear and much discussed definition of motion. Therefore, the scope of this article is twofold. On a one hand, it attempts to use the negative argument in support of the relational interpretation of Aristotle’s definition of movement given by Monica Ugaglia. On the other hand, in the light of the relational interpretation of Aristotle’s definition of change, it seeks to solve some textual and exegetical problem of the negative argument itself and to identify its main targe
