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Morale Onlife: problemi di soglia tra soggettività postumana e neo-alterità robotica
Get PDFLo sforzo del presente lavoro di ricerca è quello di evidenziare il gap che si sta consumando tra le crescenti possibilità biotecnologiche a disposizione dell’uomo e modelli morali e di governance anacronistici, inadeguati. La parabola descritta all’interno del testo prende le mosse da un rapido affresco dello sviluppo della bioetica e di uno dei suoi capisaldi, ossia il principio di autonomia dell’individuo, che trova espressione nella pratica del consenso informato. I problemi globali con cui siamo costretti a misurarci, da un lato, e le possibilità offerte dalle neuroscienze (e non solo), dall’altro, hanno alimentato l’ipotesi di investire su un potenziamento di tipo morale dell’essere umano (Moral Biomedical Enhancement). La discussione sull’opportunità di ricorrere a un potenziamento sintetico delle qualità morali dell’essere umano si è, poi, spostata su un piano più ampio. Il piano in questione è quello virtualmente illimitato reso possibile dall’infiltrazione delle Information and Communications Technology e popolato da nuovi agenti artificiali (neo-alterità robotiche). La rapida penetrazione di questi agenti in tutti gli spazi sociali, dall’ambito professionale fino agli impieghi “civili”, ha suscitato numerose perplessità, per lo più legate al possibile impoverimento dell’affettività umana − ridotta a un rapporto unilaterale e mendace con una macchina − e alla difficoltà di attribuire una qualche forma di responsabilità agli agenti artificiali, in caso di nocumento provocato a danno degli esseri umani. Sono state, così, vagliate alcune delle proposte morali più recenti, nel tentativo di alimentare ulteriormente il dibattito in questa direzione, perché sia possibile offrire modelli di convivenza in grado di interpretare la Quarta rivoluzione e, dunque, di far coesistere, pacificamente, non più “soltanto” gli uomini, bensì uomini, robot e macchine in grado di apprendere
Il potere della storiografia nei Gestorum per Alfonsum libri quinque di Tommaso Chaula
Get PDFThe sicilian author, Tommaso Chaula, wrote his Gestorum per Alfonsum Aragonum et Sicilie regem libri quinque at the beginning of the fifteenth century during that humanistic season that outlined a new way of understanding history: in the humanists’ works in fact began to appear the constant presence of a desire to celebrate the facts, which, thanks to a continuous application of rhetorical artifices, would have offered an ethical vision of history without neglecting the real reconstruction of the facts. The Gestorum libri are also part of the historiographical production dedicated to Alfonso V of Aragon, king of Naples from 1442 to 1458, who was remembered for his great magnanimity. With the textual analysis of some narrative passages of the work, it will be intended to show above all the power of historiographical discourse and therefore the power of the historiographer who through an artificial arrangement of words constantly pursues the attempt to prove the virtuous nature of Alfonso
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
L’incoronazione nella rappresentazione letteraria di Pietro da Eboli: legittimazione e delegittimazione del sovrano
Get PDFCoronations, as a liturgical ritual cooperating in consent organization around sovereigns and imperators, are able to justify power assumption. This event, expression of divine favor and predestination, ratified the right to rule, and ceremony description, done by poets and historiographers, was a powerful expedient of legitimation, but also a sharp instrument of delegitimation. This function is evident also in the manuscript containing Petrus de Ebulo’s Carmen de motibus Siculis, which provide to us an elaborated description about Henry VI’s ceremony of imperial consacration and Tancredi’s from Lecce coronation as king of the Regnum. In the work, we can attend the evident inversion of colors that poet uses to dye two differents perspectives: on the on hand the usurper Tancredi, who is mocked and sneered by Peter, on the other Henry VI, celebrated and lauded as a divin expression of God
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
I luoghi e le forme del potere dall’antichità all’età contemporanea
Get PDFITALIANO: Il termine potere, lungi dal possedere una designazione rigida, gode di svariate accezioni e di molteplici forme. Proprio in virtù della sua pervasività nonché della sua incoercibile multiformità, è possibile leggere la storia dell’uomo come una storia di potere o di poteri. Diverse sono le declinazioni del termine: da quella che permette di interpretarlo come possibilità di azione da parte di ciascun soggetto, a quella che lo intende quale monopolio della forza o ancora legittima forma di amministrazione politica. Tanto come sostantivo quanto come verbo, il potere racconta una storia necessaria: la storia di un consorzio umano che non può prescindere dal subire o dall’esercitare potere e di un uomo che per essere deve potere.
La necessità e la trasversalità della articolata tematica sono al centro di questo volume, che scaturisce da uno sforzo di riflessione nato nell’ambito del Dottorato di ricerca in “Storia, Culture e Saperi dell’Europa mediterranea dall’antichità all’età contemporanea” del Dipartimento di Scienze Umane dell’Università degli Studi della Basilicata. La formazione ampia ed eterogenea degli autori, spaziando dalla storia alla filosofia, dalla filologia alla letteratura, dalla storia della lingua alla storia dell’arte, ha consentito di affrontare l’argomento a partire da punti di vista e da discipline differenti, nel tentativo di mostrare e di problematizzare la sua complessità, i suoi molteplici e cangianti volti, i suoi luoghi e i suoi sviluppi. / ENGLISH: Far from being a rigid designator, the term power takes on several meanings and forms, so much so that the history of mankind can be read as the history of power. The associations it triggers are actually multifaceted as they range from power as the monopoly of force and violence or as a legitimate form of political behaviour, to power as potentiality. What these meanings point to is that the notion of power is an inescapable feature of the history of human social life. Inevitably, human beings are subjected to power and exercise power; ultimately, their very existence has to be related to power conceived as potentiality.
The transversal nature of this complex topic is at the core of this volume that stems from the insights developed within the PhD program “History, Cultures and Knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age” held at the University of Basilicata. The different disciplinary backgrounds of the contributors (history, philosophy, philology, language history, literature and art history) have informed the different approaches adopted, all of them unveiling the multiple and changing faces of power, its places and developments
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