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Virtù e pratica del diritto
2022
Collected papers on recent researches on Virtue Jurisprudence, with focus on legal reasoning, legality, the role of emotions, the rule of law and the ethics of legal professions.
Riflessioni sul ragionamento giudiziale (a partire dalla teoria di Manuel Atienza)
2016
In questo lavoro prendo spunto da alcune tesi proposte da Manuel Atienza nell’ambito della sua articolata teoria del ragionamento giuridico e dell’argomentazione giuridica, per un verso per discuterle, e per altro verso per mostrare che alcune di esse possono essere utilmente sviluppate anche al di fuori dello specifico contesto giusteorico da cui provengono (la “teoria del diritto come argomentazione”). In particolare, dopo aver discusso alcune delle specifiche definizioni e distinzioni proposte da Atienza in tema di ragionamento giudiziale, mi soffermerò sulla critica che Atienza rivolge alla tradizionale distinzione tra contesto di giustificazione e contesto di scoperta delle decisioni g…
Neil MacCormick’s Second Thoughts on Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory. A Defence of the Original View
2011
This paper offers a diachronic reconstruction of MacCormick’s theory of law and of legal argumentation; in particular, two connected points will be highlighted in which the difference between the perspective upheld in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory and the later writings is particularly marked. The first point concerns MacCormick’s gradual break with legal positivism, and more specifically the thesis that the implicit pretension to justice of law proves legal positivism false in all its different versions. In brief, MacCormick uses the argument of the implicit pretension to justice of law against the thesis of the separability between law and morality and, accordingly, against legal posit…
Robotics and Virtual Worlds: An Experiential Learning Lab
2013
Aim of the study was to investigate the cognitive processes involved and stimulated by educational robotics (LEGO® robots and Kodu Game Lab) in lower secondary school students. Results showed that LEGO® and KGL artifacts involve specific cognitive and academic skills. In particular the use of LEGO® is related to deductive reasoning, speed of processing visual targets, reading comprehension and geometrical problem solving; the use of KGL is related to visual-spatial working memory, updating skills and reading comprehension. Both technologies, moreover, are effective in the improvement of visual-spatial working memory. Implications for Human-Robot Interaction and BICA challenge are discussed.
Analogy
2020
Analogy is a mode of reasoning that is employed in problem solving, logic, science and art. The scheme of analogical reasoning is centred on the detection of similarity or common features across domains. Copi and Cohen (2005), Keynes (1921), Carnap (1980) suggested what analogical reasoning consists of. De Finetti (1938) proposed an alternative treatment of analogy as inference on what is invariant across statistical distributions of distinct event kinds. In problem solving theory, cognitive models of the content and the structural mapping of analogy has been built. Science and art has provided important test beds for models.
Current and Potential Cognitive Development in Healthy Children: A New Approach to Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices
2022
In clinical practice and research, Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPMs) continue to be used according to a single procedure that aims to evaluate a single overall score of the current general intelligence level. This study aimed to examine potential cognitive development in a sample of 450 typically developing children, aged from 6 to 10 years, by administering RCPMs according to the standard procedure followed immediately by a standardized interview on incorrect items. In addition, the study aimed to analyze how performance differed across age groups. The results analysis was examined on the basis of three different factors in which the items were grouped in previous factorial stu…
The Problem of Monotonicity and the Skeleton
2022
The premise p of a reasoning is usually a complex statement reflecting the information of departure and consisting in the conjunction of other statements, p = p1 · (p2 · (…(pn). Such p can be written without parenthesis provided conjunction is associative, and then with the possibility of placing the sub-indexes in any ordering if it is commutative; on the contrary neither parenthesis, nor ordering can be avoided.
Common Reasoning in a Computational Context
2022
In the field of Computation Science, ‘Commonsense Reasoning’ usually expresses the formalization of Logic systems in order to efficiently automate replication of human performances. This is done by employing methodologies from Computational Learning, and deals with the construction of information of both deductive and inductive nature. The process often happens in an ecologic, natural context (i.e., in the real world, not in an artificial laboratory setting), and in presence of incomplete and imprecise information.
Quasi-transitivity
2022
Seeing ordinary reasoning in the setting of the Poincaré continua by means of T-Indistinguishability Operators, opens a window towards the possibility of considering alternative types of transitivity. Let us concentrate on the so called quasi-transitive law.
Introduction
2022
In the intention of the authors, this booklet does not want to be a textbook; instead, it contains some reflections that aim to guide ‘Computing with Words and Percep- tions’, Zadeh’s final view on his Fuzzy Logic, towards its future as a new science of both Language and Reasoning. Towards an experimental and theoretical science concerning the Natural Phenomena of Language, Thinking and Reasoning, in rela- tionship with Neurosciences, whose possibilities are foreseen by the authors.