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Io danzo nel silenzio. Leonardo Caffo dialoga con Giulia Lazzarino
No full textLeonardo Caffo dialoga con Giulia Lazzarin
Fragile Umanità by Leonardo Caffo
No full textA new book by Leonardo Caffo, Fragile Umanità, is reviewed. Fragile Umanità serves as a primer intended to introduce both professionals and non-professionsals to the concepts of contemporary posthumanism and the failures of humanist philosophies. The book's core methodology is to outline the differences between humanist and posthumanist philosophies and show how the latter is less contentious and favourable. The book is stylistically engaging, lucid and academically current, providing both novice readers and seasoned scholars with an easy-to-read introduction to posthumanist theory for Italian scholars
A Review of Leonardo Caffo and Azzurra Muzzonigro’s “Costruire Futuri: Migrazioni, città, immaginazioni”
Get PDFModernism has provided a strong case for technoprogressivism, innovation and speculation on future possibilities. However, drastic and often devastating consequences have followed modernism such as global warming and mass biodiversity loss. In Leonardo Caffo and Azzurra Muzzonigro’s new book, a case for posthumanism as a means for envisioning and rethinking futures studies is argued and practical means by which those futures can be realized are outline
Reviews: Derek Bickerton, Bastard Tongues. A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages
No full textBASTARD TONGUES: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages. Author: Derek Bickerton (270 pp. Hill & Wang. New York - 2008. $ 26.) Review by Leonardo Caffo
Cognitive Neuroscience and Animal Consciousness
Get PDFThe problemof animal consciousness has profound implications on our conceptof nature andofour place in the natural world. In philosophyof mind and cognitive neuroscience the problem of animal consciousness raises two main questions (Velmans, 2007): the distribution question (are there conscious animals beside humans?) and thephenomenologicalquestion (what is it like tobe a non-human animal?). In order to answer these questions, many approaches take into accountsimilarities and dissimilarities in animal and human behaviour, e.g. the useof language or tools and self-recognition in a mirror (Allen and Bekoff, 2007);however, behavioural arguments do not seem to be conclusive(Baars, 2005). Cognitive neuroscience is providing comparative data onstructural andfunctional similarities, respectively called homologies andanalogies.Many experimental results suggest that the thalamocortical system is essential for consciousness (Edelman and Tononi, 2000; Tononi, 2008). The argument from homology states that the general structureof the thalamocortical system remained the same in the last 100-200 millionyears, because it is neuroanatomically similar in all the present and pastmammals, and it did not change muchduring phylogeny(Allen and Bekoff, 2007). The argument from analogy states that the key functional processes correlated with consciousness in humans are also present in all other mammals and many other animals (Baars, 2005).These processesare information integration through effective cortical connectivity(Massimini et al., 2005; Rosanova et al., 2012), and elaboration of information at a global level (Dehaene and Changeux, 2011). On this basis, the CambridgeDeclaration on Consciousness statedthat all mammals, birds, and many other animals (such asoctopuses) possess the neurological substrates of consciousness (Low et al., 2012). Conscious experience is private (Chalmers, 1995; Nagel, 1974), therefore the answer to the phenomenologicalquestion may be impossible. Nevertheless, cognitive neuroscience may provide ananswer to the distribution question, showing that conscious experience is not limited to humans since it is a major biological adaptationgoingback millions of years
Attivarsi aspettando che la tempesta passi
No full textLeonardo Caffo in conversazione con Rosi Braidott
Paesaggi incontaminati contro l'ottusa illusione antropocentrica Saggi. Torna in una nuova edizione «Il bosco interiore. Vita e filosofia a partire da Thoreau» di Leonardo Caffo, per le edizioni Sonda
No full textHa il merito di promuovere un interessante dialogo con sé stessi il libro Il bosco interiore. Vita e
filosofia a partire da Thoreau, scritto da Leonardo Caffo per le edizioni Sonda (pp.110, euro 12), ora
tornato in una nuova edizione. Il pensiero del filosofo statunitense, che ci invita da più di due secoli a
godere del midollo della vita, sono attraversate da Caffo in una passeggiata tra i grandi temi
dell’oggi, dagli ogm alla Tav, dal ruolo che dovrebbero avere le università al compito che dovrebbero
assumere gli intellettuali. Una camminata in cui il piede, che pure appoggia nelle crepe del reale,
cerca di trovare nelle suggestioni della filosofia trascendentale la forza di farsi andamento alato.
L’operazione riesce nell’intento di farci ripensare criticamente all’intero paesaggio che ci è dato
abitare ed è efficace nel desiderio di ricordare quanta responsabilità ognuno di noi ha nella
costruzione materialistica di questo paesaggio
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
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