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Antenarratives in Ongoing Strategic Change : Using the Story Index to Capture Daunting and Optimistic Futures
2018
Strategic organizational change is a complex, future-oriented phenomenon that is critical for any organization. Traditional means of inquiry have struggled with the difficulty of capturing the future; thus, the methods for managing things to come remain scarce. In this chapter, we contribute to managing strategic change, and thereby the future of the organization, by developing the Story Index (SIX) method. The method facilitates a better understanding of how organizational change takes shape in the discursive reality before materializing in concrete terms. SIX is an analytical process combining antenarratives and narrative rationality to reveal the emerging meanings and rationales of chang…
Logic and the Myth of the Perfect Language
2010
We argue that the dream of a ‘perfect language’ – namely, a universal, unambiguous and semantically transparent medium of expression –, whose intriguing story has been told by Umberto Eco (1993), is deeply intertwined with the myth of instant rationality: the idea that a perfect language is one in which all logical relations becomeimmediatly visible, so that the language itself “does the thinkingfor us” (Frege 1884). In the first part of this paper we trace this versionof the dream in the works of Leibniz, Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. In the second part we re-examine it in the light of more recent negative results in logic and theoretical computer science.
Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, and Mindreading
2013
Standard accounts of social reality take collective intentionality as the starting point of the creation and maintenance of social facts. But collective intentionality is enabled, as Searle suggests, by a more basic capacity to understand another person as an agent like oneself and as ready to engage in cooperative activities. We can coordinate our collective actions only insofar we are able to explain and predict the behavior of other persons, we can understand behavior only insofar we can mindread them, and we can mindread them only if we assume the constitutive role of rationality in action. Therefore …
Disumano, troppo umano. La maschera del tiranno e l’antropologia dei filosofi (da Sofocle a Seneca)
2019
Tyranny is often regarded as "a perennial problem" (Boesche 1996) on the basis of its ubiquitous presence in literature. Even more enduring is the problem of how to define human nature, its place in the environment, and its relationship to the divine – a core issue of philosophical anthropology (Pansera 2001, Honenberger 2015). In the present paper, I shall approach the literary construction of the tyrant figure in Greek and Roman tragedy from the holistic perspective of philosophical anthropology. I will focus on three well-known dramas (Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone and Seneca’s Thyestes) which put great emphasis on the moral and cognitive status of tyrants as “exceptional” hum…
Marx y el ejemplo (sobre los límites de la racionalidad científica capitalista)
2011
The following article aims at explaining 1) which exactly is the model of scientific rationality involved in the capitalist comprehension of economy; 2) why is this model deficient in managing the economic reality Marx discovered —a discovery (Marx’s) that necessarily contributed new factors to the western model of scientific rationality; finally, 3) why may Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis hold, vis-à-vis capitalist scientific rationality, a similar place to the one enjoyed by Marx’s theory.<br><br>Este artículo pretende explicar: 1) qué modelo de racionalidad científica (con qué exigencias y qué postulados) subyace a la comprensión capitalista de la economía; 2) por qué ese mode…
Saber y racionalidad en el pensamiento de María Zambrano
2011
El artículo estudia la articulación de la racionalidad y sus límites con la idea moderna de método, y con la expresión poética de las dimensiones no conceptualizables de la experiencia en la obra de M. Zambrano. Como consecuencia, se opone a aquellas interpretaciones de la “razón poética” que acentúan su lado oscuro en detrimento de su utilización de procedimientos racionales.
THE ROLE OF RATIONALITY IN JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION
2006
I would like to try to answer in this paper a question: Should, and in which sense, judicial argumentation, particularly the external justification of the major premise of legal syllogism, be ‘rationally justified’, i.e. objectively founded? In order to determine if the (external) justification of the major premise of legal syllogism should be rationally justified, it is necessary to answer three questions: that is, (a) What is meant by external justification of the major premise of legal syllogism? (b) How and why can we reconstruct the judicial argumentation as a practical syllogism, that is, a form of practical reasoning and not of theoretical reasoning? and (c) How and why should normat…
Organizational Change - A Remedly Prescribed in Over-dose?
2006
People in general want improvements, but rarely radical changes. To overcome this conservatism among employees, managers are often overselling change. During a long time there has been a frenetic enthusiasm for managers to become leaders with ‘transformational’ and charismatic capabilities. To do things right has been less important than doing the right thing. This article questions this prophetic capability of managers and also the value of change. As a phenomenon in modern society, and in modern companies change is often overestimated and overvalued. What happened to the new economy? Maybe time has come to question the leader and appreciate the manager?
Inconscio collettivo, norma fondamentale e confine sociologico
2019
Il saggio affronta il tema dell’inconscio collettivo, ciò che spiega la premessa sull’ irrazionalità dell’azione. Tale tema ci consente anche di indagare la questione del registro di oggettività della scienza sociologica e della sua autonomia dalla psicologia accostando casi diversi al tema, già consolidato, e forse persino obsoleto. The essay deals with the theme of the collective unconscious, which explains the premise on the irrationality of action. This theme also allows us to investigate the question of the objectivity register of sociological science and its autonomy from psychology by approaching different cases to the already consolidated and perhaps even obsolete theme.
Computational Rationality as a Theory of Interaction
2022
Funding Information: This work was funded by the Finnish Center for AI and Academy of Finland (“BAD” and “Human Automata”). We thank our reviewers, Xiuli Chen, Joerg Mueller, Christian Guckelsberger, Sebastiaan de Peuter, Samuel Kaski, Pierre-Alexandre Murena, Antti Keuru-lainen, Suyog Chandramouli, and Roderick Murray-Smith for their comments. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 ACM. How do people interact with computers? This fundamental question was asked by Card, Moran, and Newell in 1983 with a proposition to frame it as a question about human cognition - in other words, as a matter of how information is processed in the mind. Recently, the question has been reframed as one of adaptation: how …