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Obligations and Conditionals
2015
The paper considers two kinds of medieval obligational disputations (positio, rei veritas) and the medieval genre of sophismata in relation to the kinds of inferences accepted in them. The main texts discussed are the anonymous Obligationes parisienses from the early 13th century and Richard Kilvington’s Sophismata from the early 14th century. Four different kinds of warranted transition from an antecedent to a consequent become apparent in the medieval discussions: (1) the strong logical validity of basic propositional logic, (2) analytic validity based on conceptual containment, (3) merely semantic impossibility of the antecedent being true without the consequent, and (4) intuitively true…
Guises and their Existence
1996
According to H-N. Castafieda, a guise the very thin individual which lies at the bottom of the ontological furniture of the world is indifferent to existence in a Meinongian way, in the sense that it remains the same whether it exists or not. Moreover, its existence does not alter its intentional character, as it is the very same individual which is thought of regardless of its being real or not. ~ In what follows, I will attempt to show that with regards to guises both theses are illegitimate, unless one introduces the notion of an existentiallyconditioned property as a counterfactual property which a guise has prior to its actual existence. To do so means to work out an amendment to Casta…
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose-response approach
2021
This paper evaluates the effectiveness at a territorial level of a place-based policy for southern Italy, that is, territorial integrated projects (TIPs). We combine classical counterfactual designs and the construction of a dose–response function to assess the impact of the infrastructural interventions on the municipalities involved in a target region (Sicily). The results are robust enough to show policy effectiveness on both the number of workers and the number of plants. In the latter case, we also identify a significant and increasing dose–response function highlighting the positive relationship between funding intensity and the growth of plants.
Evaluation of creative thinking in children with epilepsy.
2011
Creativity development trajectories in Elementary Education: Differences in divergent and evaluative skills
2015
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse the developmental trajectory during childhood of the divergent and evaluative skills implicit in the creative process. A total of 1491 children, aged between 6 and 12 years old, from seven Spanish schools participated in the study by answering the Test de Creatividad Infantil (Child Creativity Test). The aforementioned instrument is based on the theoretical framework of “problem finding” and covers both the creative process and the product. It requires designing a model with stickers -formulation of the problem and then later on producing a drawing based on the model -solving the problem. The results show three types of developmental trajectories…
Kriminālās domāšanas profila aptaujas sākotnējā adaptācija Latvijā
2019
Pētījuma mērķis bija veikt pirmo adaptācijas posmu Latvijā Kriminālās domāšanas profila aptauju (Criminal Thninking Profile (CTP), Mitchell & Tafrate, 2011) un veikt tās ticamības un validitātes pārbaudi. Kriminālā domāšana ir izziņas process, kas balstās uz kriminālu dzīvesveidu (Walters & White, 1989, kā minēts Tafrate & Mitchell, 2014). Kriminālā domāšana ir atslēga kriminogēnajās vajadzībās, kas balstās uz psihiskajiem traucējumiem, kuri kalpo priekš racionalizācijas ,un iezīmējot aprises noziedzīgai uzvedībai un, kas var paredzēt atkārtotu likumpārkāpumu (Tangney, Mashek, & Stuewig, 2007; Walters, 2012, kā minēts Tangney, Dobbins, Stuewig & Schrader, 2017). Pētījumā tika izvirzīts jaut…
Violence Through Words: Cultural Aspects and Performative Agency
2020
This chapter aims at describing the ways and ploys used by words (in the various public and private contexts where they define relations) conveying a form of symbolic violence aimed at classifying genders as they play out their respective identity roles. To this end, the author refers to “euphemized discourse” (Bourdieu, 1993) and the concept of “agency” (Duranti, Etnopragmatica. La forza nel parlare. Carocci Editore, Rome, Italy, 2007) in order to describe the process of naturalization of discursive practices geared towards affirmation of the androcentric system of language. Here, a variant of Mediterranean culture which remains patriarchal and sexist is examined by means of discourse anal…
2020
Critical evaluation skills when using online information are considered important in many research and education frameworks; critical thinking and information literacy are cited as key twenty-first century skills for students. Higher education may play a special role in promoting students' skills in critically evaluating (online) sources. Today, higher education students are more likely to use the Internet instead of offline sources such as textbooks when studying for exams. However, far from being a value-neutral, curated learning environment, the Internet poses various challenges, including a large amount of incomplete, contradictory, erroneous, and biased information. With low barriers t…
EXCERCISING CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH READING: AN EDUCATIONAL USE OF DIGITAL TEXTS
2016
Questo lavoro si propone di accertare la validità di un percorso formativo incentrato sull’uso della lettura del testo digitale in rapporto allo sviluppo del pensiero critico. Un obiettivo fondamentale da tenere presente nella scuola, a vari livelli, riguarda l’esercizio della capacità critica. La diffusione delle tecnologie tra i nostri giovani provoca una cospicua quantità di stimoli conoscitivi che necessitano di decodifica, attribuzione di senso ed elaborazione costruttiva delle informazioni; i ragazzi devono potenziare abilità che non riguardano soltanto l'uso degli strumenti digitali, ma devono imparare a selezionare ed interpretare i dati, a gestire e valutare le informazioni trovate…