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Rewinding Frankenstein and the body-machine: organ transplantation in the dystopian young adult fiction seriesUnwind
2016
While the separation of body and mind (and the entailing metaphor of the body as a machine) has been a cornerstone of Western medicine for a long time, reactions to organ transplantation among others challenge this clear-cut dichotomy. The limits of the machine-body have been negotiated in science fiction, most canonically in Mary Shelley9s Frankenstein (1818). Since then, Frankenstein9s monster itself has become a motif that permeates both medical and fictional discourses. Neal Shusterman9s contemporary dystology for young adults, Unwind , draws on traditional concepts of the machine-body and the Frankenstein myth. This article follows one of the young protagonists in the series, who is en…
Mind-body medicine: stress and its impact on overall health and longevity.
2005
During evolution, DNA viruses have captured a broad array of cellular genes involved in immune recognition and growth control that are nonessential for viral replication. The encoded virokines and viroceptors may act as mimetics or antagonists of their cellular homologues, altering signal transduction and cell communication towards survival of virus-infected cells. Human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV8) is the most recently identified human oncogenic herpesvirus. It is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphoproliferative diseases, such as pleural effusion lymphomas and multicentric Castleman's disease. HHV8 has captured a unique number of cellular regulatory genes, which redirect gene expressi…
Etica come filosofia prima
2018
The author discusses the reading of Sophocles Antigone by Giuseppe Nicolaci and this becomes the opportunity to address the issue of the birth of ethics. Antigone is thus summoned as a partner of a question that Nicolaci considers starting from Kant and Lacan.
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness.
2010
We argue that Kant’s views about consciousness, the mind—body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind—body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but of substances; and his views about the possibility of psychology as a science did not employ the requirement of a mechanistic explanation, but of a quantification of phenomena. This shows strikingly how deeply philosophical problems and conceptions c…
Brancati su Pirandello e il pirandellismo
2019
Nel romanzo breve "Sogno di un valzer" uscito a puntate su “Quadrivio”, dal 5 giugno al 14 agosto 1938, Vitaliano Brancati mette in scena, tra osservazione dei luoghi e rilevamento di costume, un’umanità fuori misura, continuamente in bilico tra realtà e sogno. A Caltanissetta (Nissa) la città nel cui Istituto magistrale lo scrittore, voltate le spalle alla Roma fascista, è venuto a insegnare, personaggi non appariscenti, insignificanti, che tuttavia covano desideri, si arrovellano in domande metafisiche. Prende così forma il leitmotiv delle critica al pirandellismo che più volte con ironia sottile affiora negli scritti brancatiani. Il saggio mostra come esso si intrecci con la comicità sul…
L'inclusione dell'altro. Profilo di Giuseppe Nicolaci
2018
The author retraces the teaching of Giuseppe Nicolaci and identifies in the inclusion of alterity his distinctive profile ad a man ans a teacher.
La questione del soprasensibile nella Preisschrift sui progressi della metafisica di Immanuel Kant
2011
Questo saggio intende mettere in evidenza, a partire da una lettura della Preisschrift über die Fortschritte der Metaphysik, il senso architettonico che la metafisica assume in Kant: la metafisica non lega la sua prestazione più eminente al possesso dogmatico di un dominio, sia esso quello teoretico degli oggetti della natura o anche quello pratico degli oggetti della morale, ma alla possibilità di illuminare la strada per il passaggio dall'uno all'altro ambito del conoscere, in una prospettiva critica che, se da un lato mette in rilievo i pericoli insiti negli eccessi dogmatici della ragione, dall'altro ricusa tuttavia l'idea di una metafisica del soprasensibile concepita sotto il segno di…
The Notion of Matter and the Reformation of Metaphysics
2015
An introduction to the proceedings of 2014 first CRF international conference in which the basis of the question of matter in contemporary age are discussed by taking reference to history of ancient and modern philosophy
Premessa
2019
The paper is a presentation of the topic "meta-metaphysics" referring to the content of the issue 1/2019 of Giornale di Metafisica on this topic.
Meta-metafisica?
2019
Collection of essays on "meta-metaphysics".