Search results for " epistemology"
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The uncertainty of medicine: Galen on the notion of techne stochastike
2016
In this article we try to show the Galen’s perspective on the epistemological status of medicine, in particular starting from the conceptual category of τέχνη στοχαστική. Even though the qualification of τέχνη στοχαστική attributed to medicine does not have an explicitly negative connotation in Galen’s Corpus, it does occupy a subordinate position compared with the solidity furnished by the more geometrico method, and is almost a necessary evil that Galen introduces to justify that fallibility of medicine, which at the same time he himself tries in every way to minimize.
GEOGRAFIA – Campo. Epistemologia. Immaginazione. Migrazioni. Paesaggio. Antropocene. Politica. Bibliografia
2020
Voce "Geografia" per l'Enciclopedia Treccani "Geography" entry for the Treccani Encyclopedia
Neogeografia. Per un nuovo immaginario terrestre
2019
Che senso ha fare geografia oggi, in un’epoca in cui il globo è stato esplorato palmo a palmo e le mappe sono disegnate da satelliti e software? Che importanza ha inventarsi un’immagine della Terra in mezzo ai guasti del clima e alla dissoluzione ambientale? Che cosa possono insegnare alla geografia contemporanea un racconto di mare in latino del X secolo, le canzoni di gesta antico francesi, i diari di bordo del capitano Cartier, la Liguria di Montale, l’India di Moravia e Pasolini, la costa bretone di Kenneth White? Neogeografia è un’esplorazione estrema che mira a un duplice cambio di paradigma: ripensare l’epistemologia della geografia e analizzare i testi come altrettanti laboratori di…
Participation, geography and social media. Discussing method
2022
The chapter, from a cultural geographical perspective, offers a reflection on the research methodology used to study some social media. More particularly, starting from the case of the Facebook group “Palermo di una volta” (“Palermo of the past”), subject of a previous study, the results achieved through the analysis of the research process are retraced. The group, in fact, for the many members (hundreds of thousands) who are part of it, is an opportunity to reconstruct the geography of places in the city, both in their contemporaneity and in their historical context, in an intertwining of individual and collective narratives. Regardless of the formal correctness of the information the grou…
Graphical perception: a case study at the university level
2012
Frictions, cracks and micro-resistances: physical activity and sport as strategies to dignify imprisoned women
2018
Discipline and control are key concepts within industrial and capitalist societies. In this context, prisons are a warning tool about the consequences of non-conformity [Foucault, M., 1995. Discipline and Punish: The birth of Prison. NY: Vintage Books]. As a result, punitive power is used as a corrective technique to transform prisoners into docile and useful citizen. However, power in prison is no static and inmates can create various strategies of resistance. The aim of this research is to understand how physical activity and sport are used by incarcerated women to confront social control and negotiate power relations. Underpinned within a critical feminist epistemology, we interviewed 16…
« Discourse analysis in French communication research »
2014
International audience; According to the conference call, discourse analysis is considered as a qualitative approach, but is it unquestionable? Discourse analysis is born at the same time as computers, is contemporary with the expansion of mathematical and quantitative methods in all sorts of scientific fields, even human sciences. Our main preoccupation will then be : how do practices and theorizations in discourse analysis open ways to reflect the difference between qualitative and quantitative approaches? We propose firstly a presentation of the emerging notion of discourse analysis in France in the 70s, crossing different schools in linguistics, sociology and philosophy of language. We …
What Pragmatist Genealogy for Quine?
2005
Tre recenti biografie di Ranke
2018
Three newly issued biographies deal with the life of Leopold von Ranke in very different ways. The essay underlines the strengths and the weaknesses of each one of them and raises some questions about the meaning of this scholarly interest in Ranke. Finally, it provides some considerations on the difficulty of defining, even now, the figure of the German historian.
Hjelmslev et la "fonction sémiotique", du modèle structural au modèle cognitif
2008
The article discusses the concept of semiotics function in Hjelmslev, finding sources of the theory of language’s stratification. The semiotic function, which is in Hjelmslev the principle underlying the dynamic layering, is identified here as both an attraction of two heterogeneous spaces and as a set of operations of sense’s establishment. At historiographic level, this article presents a new hypothesis of interpretation, that the hjelmslevian structuralism has not built a static theory of language, disinterested to the cognitive dimension, but a careful theory to operational aspects of semiosis.