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Rinascimento e Genesi della Modernità. Pensare il passato, trasformare l'attuale
No full textSe è vero che nella parola greca epoché è implicita la nozione di una cesura, di una frattura nel tempo, allora forse per nessuna altra “epoca” questo nome appare decisivo come per il Rinascimento. Oggetto di innumerevoli e contrastanti ermeneutiche, di mitizzazioni e di ridimensionamenti, questo luogo fondamentale della storia della nostra cultura non cessa di interpellarci forse proprio perché in esso si decide del senso stesso delle molteplici traiettorie seguite dalla modernità occidentale. I saggi raccolti in questo volume, curato da Margherita Lecis e Otello Palmini, intendono mettere a fuoco tale capacità genetica dell’esperienza rinascimentale e contribuire a tracciare la mappa delle relazioni che si estendono tra modernità e Rinascimento, individuando alcune direzioni che appaiono significative in diversi ambiti disciplinari. Tale ricostruzione di possibili e reali rapporti all’origine del moderno illumina il senso stesso di quell’atto di pensare e di pensarsi storicamente che caratterizza la cultura occidentale
Un dialogo per la modernità. Prospettive di una relazione tra filosofia e scienza nell’attualismo a partire da Leonardo da Vinci
No full textL'obbiettivo di questo articolo è quello di approfondire i rapporti tra filosofia e scienza nel pensiero di Giovanni Gentile. Questa operazione sarà condotta a partire da un analisi dell'interpretazione attualista del periodo umanistico-rinascimentale e segnatamente della figura di Leonardo Da Vinci. Questa indagine è volta a restituire l'articolazione dei rapporto tra scienza e filosofia in un momento della storia del pensiero che Gentile ritiene fondamentale per la formazione della modernità occidentale. Attraverso questa interpretazione si confuterà l'idea che l'attualismo sia una filosofia antiscientifica ricostruendo invece il ruolo decisivo che il pensiero scientifico ha nell'attualismo gentiliano
Architetture della modernità Leon Battista Alberti nel contesto della lettura attualistica del periodo umanistico-rinascimentale
No full textThis article aims to situate the thought of Leon Battista Al-
berti in the context of Giovanni Gentile’s historical perspec-
tive on modernity. More specifically, Alberti’s reflections on architectural theory will be interpreted as a specific mode of understanding the relationship between human action, nature and history. Given that the definition of the nature of this relationship plays a key role in Gentile’s own account of the relation between renaissance and modernity, a comparison between these two perspectives can potentially shed new light on the genesis of Gentile’s interpretation of modernity by taking into account his reception of Alberti’s thought. This philosophical analysis will provide two main contributions to the debate on the relation between renaissance and
modernity: 1) a critique of Gentile’s conception of modernityand its most dangerous implications; 2) A picture of the conceptual richness offered by renaissance philosophy
Oltre il paradigma. Smart City Ontologia ed epistemologia dell'intelligenza urbana
No full textThis article examines the concept of smart city in order to understand its philosophical implications. These implications, which concern urban ontology and urban epistemology, will be investigated by retracing the set of metaphors that innervate this model and understanding how these have changed in the contemporary technological context. Moreover, two conceptual sources of smartness will be analysed: the modernist architectural-urban space and the theory of cybernetic action which were respectively criticized by Henri Lefebvre and Hans Jonas. The article aims to contribute to the construction of a different relationship between technology and politics in smart urbanism and to promote a plural and articulated idea of urban intelligence
Past and future of the connection between project, technology and neocybernetics
No full textThe paper compares design sciences and the philosophy of technology to contribute to the understanding of the concept of innovation in the digital era. Firstly, this work retraces an encounter between these two dimensions that took place in Italy in the late 1960s in order to compare it with some contemporary research perspectives. This operation investigates the evolution of the connection between humans and machines in design, particularly focusing on the systemic approach. Cybernetic thinking and its developments are the links between the two moments (investigated in the text both from a theoretical point of view and through examples). Secondly, it will be shown that a different interpretation of cybernetics can open up the possibility of a new understanding of the relationship between technology and design. A perspective capable of merging a holistic approach and attention to differences and aimed at providing a contribution to the reflection on theoretical paradigms through which technological innovation can be deployed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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