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Extending existential feeling through sensory substitution
2023
AbstractIn current philosophy of mind, there is lively debate over whether emotions, moods, and other affects can extend to comprise elements beyond one’s organismic boundaries. At the same time, there has been growing interest in the nature and significance of so-called existential feelings, which, as the term suggests, are feelings of one’s overall being in the world. In this article, I bring these two strands of investigation together to ask: can the material underpinnings of existential feelings extend beyond one’s skull and skin? To begin, I introduce and adopt a componential-systemic view of extended affectivity. In doing so, I specify the vehicle externalist criteria for extension em…
A new index to measure association between categorical and ordinal variables
2005
In this paper a new index to analyse the dependence between categorical variables is presented and is compared to other measures of association, mainly based on the X2 Pearson’s statistic. The new index is compared to well-known measures of cograduation, as well. To restrict our comparisons, the domain we consider includes all the square contingency tables belonging to the same Fréchet class, that is all the contingency tables in which the marginal frequencies are given as fixed in both characters. Anyway, the new index is good even if there are no constrain on the marginal distributions, but only a constrain on n, the total of the observations.
La sorte dei contratti dei calciatori professionisti nell’emergenza Covid-19
2020
The essay focuses on the impact generated by the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and by the subsequent numerous regulatory actions. It takles the world of sports and the football players’ contracts in relation to the global pandemic. It analyses all the different Italian Governament decrees enacted in order to regulate sports matters, stressing their effects. The author exam- ines the civil aspects concerning the modi cation or the interruption of ser- vices due under the contract by the player and by the sports society.