158 research outputs found
CSA Annual Lecture - Caruana, Wally
No full text5 September 1997. -- Wally Caruana, a graduate of the Canberra School of Art, is Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia. He has been involved in several exhibitions of Indigenous art including The Continuing Tradition, Flash Pictures, Roads Cross: The Paintings of Rover Thomas and The Eye of the Storm. Wally Caruana is co-curator of the exhibition The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937-1997 (with Albert Djiwada, Nigel Lendon and Djon Mundine) at the National Gallery of Australia 13 September - 16 November. He is also the author of Aboriginal Art in the Thames and Hudson World of Art series
“Imparare a vedere”: la funzione del sistema dei neuroni specchio, tra neuroscienze della percezione e analisi del linguaggio ordinario
No full textDai batteri a Bach di Daniel C. Dennett
No full textFausto Caruana, Carmela Morabito and Simone Pollo discuss Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back. The authors critically survey the book and discuss some of its key topics from different theoretical viewpoints. Caruana analyzes Dennett’s reconstruction of the evolution of mind moving some critical suggestions derived from the pragmatist tradition in philosophy of mind. Morabito discusses some couples of opposing concepts used by Dennett and discusses his conclusion about the alternative between bottom-up and top-down processes in the evolution of mind. Pollo equally tackles Dennett’s opposition between bottom-up and top-down processes as it is presented in Dennett’s account of the evolution human culture and the presumed withdrawal of human civilization from Darwinian processes
Il cervello in azione. Introduzione alle nuove scienze della mente
No full textIl cervello in azione Le nuove scienze cognitive hanno ormai abbandonato la «metafora del computer», secondo la quale la mente umana è paragonabile a un software la cui comprensione non richiede informazioni sull'hardware, il corpo. Viceversa, ci troviamo di fronte a un mosaico di proposte teoriche adottate in molteplici settori di ricerca - dalla psicologia sperimentale alla filosofia della mente - e accomunate dall'idea che la maggior parte dei processi cognitivi superiori avvenga mediante i sistemi di controllo del corpo agente. Una mappa chiara per orientarsi nel mondo della «embodied cognition»
Per un’etologia semiotica del riso di superiorità. Un’ipotesi pragmatista ed evoluzionista
No full textThe oldest, and still the most popular philosophical theory of laughter, is the Superiority theory, arguing that laughter is a uniquely-human behavior triggered by a feeling of superiority. Similar to other influential theories of laughter, however, the superiority theory should be better defined as a theory of humor, hence unable to account for the several non-humoristic, social contexts where typically laughter is tipically produced. In this paper we present an alternative approach to laughter, grounded on semiotics and ethology. We argue that laughter is, first and foremost, a means for social bonding and communication that evolved for boosting basic forms of affiliation. We provide psychological, neuroscientific and ethological evidence supporting such Social-bonding theory of laughter. Finally, we show how the cases prototypically discussed by supporters of the Superiority theory can be interpreted as a peculiar type of exaptation of laughter, as defined by the Social-bonding theory
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