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La dicotomia di Zenone ovvero l'anacronismo anglosassone
No full textQuesto saggio considera i presupposti, i criteri e il valore del cosiddetto 'metodo analitico' di scuola anglo-sassone, che Jonathan Barnes utilizza nel suo studio sui paradossi di Zenon
Parmenide: Suoni, immagini, esperienza
No full textIs Parmenides really the speculative philosopher he has come to be presented as in western philosophical tradition? If we leave aside the ‘philosophical’ assumptions that underlie modern interpretations and read his poem as what the author himself tells us it is — a divine revelation, together with all that this implies — and if we place it in its historical and cultural context of Velia and Magna Grecia, the answer is no. Parmenides describes very vividly the experience of a profoundly real and transformative catabasis guided by the goddess. Through her performative language, consisting of sounds and images and ‘verbal chains’, the goddess carries the poet beyond every human distinction and separation into a different state of consciousness, into absolute stillness, to the experience of existence itself. This is Parmenides’ ‘philosophy’.
Against this background of lived wisdom, Zeno’s paradoxes also appear in a very different light. Far from being the intellectual games they are usually presented as, they reveal themselves to be an intrinsic part of the cathartic and transformative practice which aims at overcoming unconscious concepts or collective forms of thought and preparing the individual for the experience of real being as described in Parmenides’ poem.
The lively debate that follows over the text of Laura Gemelli’s Eleatic lectures not only bears witness to the vitality of Parmenides’ and Zeno’s teaching. It also opens the way into new interpretative vistas
Senofane e il “non sapere di sapere”
Full text linkAn examination of Xenophanes’ fragment DK 21 B 34 shows how it to some extent anticipates what is known in contemporary epistemological debate as the “Gettier problem.” According to the argument underlying this problem, it is not enough to have a “justified true belief” in order to be able to say that one has “knowledge.” As Xenophanes’ text has it, even if one were able to say something true, one would not know it yet. This is because, according to Xenophanes, no one is capable of grasping the evident truth of things, since only conjectures about everything are available. But while conjectures cannot rise above the level of pure opinion, they are not all equal: as DK 21 B 18 recognizes, they are perfectible. But what is the basis of this position, which oscillates between scepticism and fallibilism? Since perfectibility never reaches the end (namely the truth), this progress is infinite: the basis of Xenophanes’ epistemology may therefore be his physics of the infinite, which, however, is itself only a conjecture. This entails the risk of self-refutation. To avoid this peril, the doctrine of Parmenides will have to batten down the hatches
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
Temps / durée. Teoria del divenire e concezione del tempo unico nel pensiero di Henri Bergson
No full textVariations 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
Dopo anziché prima: replica a Nicola Galgano
Full text linkPrima di cominciare questo mio dialogo con Nicola Galgano, voglio ringraziarlo sinceramente per l\u27attenzione che ha concesso al mio libro del 2005 (e al saggio del 2011 in cui tornavo sul tema) nel suo articolo “Depois ou antes: Parmênides e o tempo em DK 8. 9-10”. Sento di farlo non solo per il favore che egli esibisce verso il mio approccio interpretativo, ma anche per le ficcanti obiezioni che mi muove. L\u27articolo, infatti, mi offre l\u27occasione di ritornare su un passo, che giudico tra i più significativi che ci sono stati trasmessi del grande Eleate.Réplica ao artigo de Nicola Galgano “Depois ou antes: Parmênides e o tempo em DK 8. 9-10”. Antes de começar este meu diálogo com Galgano, quero agradecê-lo sinceramente pela atenção ao meu livro de 2005 (Parmenide e la negazione del tempo), e ao artigo de 2011 em que retomo o tema; não apenas pelo apreço que demonstra à minha abordagem interpretativa, mas também às perspicazes objeções que me dirige. O artigo, de fato, dá-me a oportunidade de retornar a um passo, que considero entre os mais significativos entre os transmitidos pelo grande Eleata
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
Temps / durée. Teoria del divenire e concezione del tempo unico nel pensiero di Henri Bergson
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