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Guttuso Berger e il realismo in Inghilterra
No full textA partire dal saggio di John Berger su Guttuso del 1957, si ricostruisce la storia della fortuna critica del pittore nell'Inghilterra della seconda metà del 20. secol
Hai mai cercato di descrivere l’aroma del vino senza riuscirci? Percezione, linguaggio e storia culturale
No full textThe way we describe wine aromas and our tasting experiences has changed enormously throughout the last century. This change has resulted in the need for an extremely rich and sophisticated lexicon, much of which has been borrowed from that of fruit. In this transition this lexicon has essentially become a systematic lexicon (cf. Wine aroma wheel).
This operation cannot be understood and described without identifying the transformations that have accompanied our use of wine and the words that accompany it. Indeed, wine has gone from being an energizing substance capable of helping us maintain our psychophysical balance, according to the dictates of galenic medicine, to a substance capable of galvanizing our hedonism
Comprensione come performance. Modelli pragmatici tra euristiche «fast and frugal»e vincoli biocogntivi
No full textThe meaning of an utterance is a logical issue which has to be considered as such regardless of the biocognitive constraints operating in our bodies. This (traditional) thesis assumes a definite notion of rationality that doen’t seem to withstand what we know about the limits of our rationality (Kahneman, Tversky 1979) and what emerges from the empirical evidences of cognitive sciences. These evidences pro- vide a more plausible image of linguistic comprehension, beyond there use in the context of Relevance Theory and in the psycholinguistic perspectives of the Good Enough Approach. Starting from this framework an approach to linguistic compre- hension is outlined where the performative aspect of understanding and the con- straints by which it is bound (Christiansen, Chater 2016) are fundamental elements
Abductive Inferences in pragmatic processes
No full textAbstract In pragmatic theories, the notion of inference plays a central role, together with the communicative act in which it is activated. Although some scholars, such as Levinson, Sperber and Wilson, propose detailed and accurate analyses of this notion, we will maintain that these analyses can be better systematized if seen through Peirce’s notion of abduction. We will try to maintain that the variety of inferential processes in play in a linguistic act is mostly of an abductive nature. Moreover, we will maintain that the typological tripartition of abductions discussed by Eco (1981) allows to account for a signi cant part of the mechanisms involved in the comprehension of an utterance, ranging from quasi-immediate and spontaneous levels of understanding to processes that draw on creative resources. In our proposal the vast majority of our linguistic activities implies the automatic retrieval of a habit of action (automatic abduction). In the other cases we need more onerous processes. We might need to identify, among a range of possibilities, the appropriate rule (habit of action/linguistic routine) to be applied to the contextual situation (abduction by selection) or, depending on the context and on our background knowledge, we might be forced to create ex novo a new linguistic routine (creative abduction). In our view, this typology of abductive inferences (Eco, 1981; see also Bonfantini and Proni, 1980) provides us with all the necessary tools to account for the different inferential demands entailed by different levels of the process of lan-guage comprehension. On the basis of this typology we can, develop a finne-grained model of linguistic inferences and, thus, simplify the terms of some problematic nodes debated within contextualist approaches
“Facts Are Grasped by Us in Pictures (PT, 2.1). Remarks on Pictures and Facts in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
No full textThis paper proposes a (re)reading of the famous section in the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus,
2.1: “We picture facts to ourselves” and its relation to the similar section in the Prototractatus,
2.1: “Facts are grasped by us in images”. We reject the dominant solution that interprets
the relation between facts and images as an isomorphic relation and propose that instead
it is an internal relation: there are no facts that are not perceived through images. In other
words: For us, linguistic animals, there is no world independent of language
Parlare con rispetto, parlare di rispetto
No full textUna disamina della nozione di rispetto tra usi comuni e usi filosofic
La metafora della guerra e il coronavirus. Osservazioni sulla carriera della metafora.
No full textIl dibattito pubblico sul coronavirus è stato caratterizzato dall’uso pervasivo
della metafora della guerra. Fin dall’inizio la concettualizzazione della pandemia nei termini di guerra è stata tematizzata da giornalisti e linguisti che nehanno messo in luce i limiti. In questo articolo tematizzerò questo dibattito,discutendo l’appropriatezza della metafora bellica per concettualizzare lapandemia. Sosterrò, rifacendomi a Dedre Gentner che si tratta di una metafora che funziona finché restainconsapevole e, pertanto, la massiccia operazione di tematizzazione, porta inevitabilmente ad una perdita dei suoi egfetti perlocutivi
Il coraggio necessario alla filosofia
No full textIl termine coraggio copre moltissimi significati differenti. il saggio analizza alcune accezioni importi per la filosofia e si concentra sul coraggio necessario alla filosofia in Wittgenstei
Le slippers e il covid19
No full textuna riflessione a caldo sul epidemia, infodemia, confinamento sociale. in dialogo con il dipinto di van Hoogstraten le pantofol
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