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A blended-learning programme regarding professional ethics in physiotherapy students.
2018
Background: In the university context, assessing students’ attitude, knowledge and opinions when applying an innovative methodological approach to teach professional ethics becomes fundamental to know if the used approach is enough motivating for students. Research objective: To assess the effect of a blended-learning model, based on professional ethics and related to clinical practices, on physiotherapy students’ attitude, knowledge and opinions towards learning professional ethics. Research design and participants: A simple-blind clinical trial was performed (NLM identifier NCT03241693) (control group, n = 64; experimental group, n = 65). Both groups followed clinical practices for 8 mont…
Capitini. Educazione, religione, nonviolenza
2016
Aldo Capitini (1899-1968) è una figura rappresentativa e al tempo stesso originale della cultura italiana del Novecento. La sua pedagogia è una filosofia paideitica fondata sul principio della compresenza di tutti, che ha il compito di indicare ad ogni soggetto la propria responsabilità nei confronti dell’altro e del bene comune. La compresenza, l’apertura, l’aggiunta, la tramutazione, il valore, il maestro-profeta, la scuola aperta, la riforma dell’Università: sono questi alcuni dei temi capitiniani che richiamano l’attenzione del lettore sulla straordinaria attualità di una pedagogia che promuove l’incontro tra educazione e religione in vista della costruzione di un mondo nonviolento. Ald…
Introduzione. La pedagogia di Aldo Capitini. Un misticismo al servizio del bene comune
2016
Aldo Capitini (1899-1968) è una figura rappresentativa e al tempo stesso originale della cultura italiana del Novecento. La sua pedagogia è una filosofia paideitica fondata sul principio della compresenza di tutti, che ha il compito di indicare ad ogni soggetto la propria responsabilità nei confronti dell’altro e del bene comune. La compresenza, l’apertura, l’aggiunta, la tramutazione, il valore, il maestro-profeta, la scuola aperta, la riforma dell’Università: sono questi alcuni dei temi capitiniani che richiamano l’attenzione del lettore sulla straordinaria attualità di una pedagogia che promuove l’incontro tra educazione e religione in vista della costruzione di un mondo nonviolento. Ald…
La pedagogia di Aldo Capitini. Un misticismo al servizio del bene comune
2016
This contribution presents Aldo Capitini (1899-1968), a representative and original figure of the Italian culture of the twentieth century. In the anthology of his unpublished writings, his pedagogy appears as a paideitic philosophy founded on the principle of the coexistence of everyone, which has the task of indicating to each subject their responsibility towards the other and the common good. The coexistence, the openness, the addition, the transmutation, the value, the teacher-prophet, the open school, the reform of the University: these are some of the Capitinian themes that catch the reader's attention on the extraordinary relevance of a pedagogy that promotes the encounter between ed…
Electromagnetic Radiation, a Living Cell and the Soul: A Collated Hypothesis
2015
The soul is believed to be an immortal essence of living things in scores of philosophical and religious traditions but sparsely understood by science. The word ‘soul’ does not have a scientific definition but through this paper is hypothesized to be an indefinite, non-structured, massless energy made up of electromagnetic radiations that is confined in the cytoskeletal network of the biological cell. Electromagnetic radiations continually interact with the biological cell and propagate within the cell; by a pathway known as ‘Cell-Soul Pathway’. This pathway is a coherent, imperceptible, uncontainable and recyclable support pathway, which uses this energy to promulgate consciousness in a bi…
2018
This article explores promising points of contact between philosophy and the expanding field of virtual reality research. Aiming at an interdisciplinary audience, it proposes a series of new research targets by presenting a range of concrete examples characterized by high theoretical relevance and heuristic fecundity. Among these examples are conscious experience itself, “Bayesian” and social VR, amnestic re-embodiment, merging human-controlled avatars and virtual agents, virtual ego-dissolution, controlling the reality/virtuality continuum, the confluence of VR and artificial intelligence (AI) as well as of VR and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), VR-based social hallucinations…
On how to legitimately constrain a semantic theory
2021
Abstract Semanticists often restrict their theories by imposing constraints on the parameters that can be employed for interpreting the expressions of a language. Such constraints are based on non-logical features of actual contexts of utterance, but they often have important effects on issues that do pertain to logic, like analyticity or entailment. For example, Kaplan’s restriction to so-called “proper contexts” was required in order to count “I am here now” as valid. In this paper I argue that constraints of this kind are often posited in an arbitrary and non-consistent way, and that they yield the intended results only at the price of imposing ad hoc principles whose justification could…
What can the concept of affective scaffolding do for us?
2020
The concept of affective scaffolding designates the various ways in which we manipulate the environment to influence our affective lives. In this article, I present a constructive critique of recent discussion on affective scaffolding. In Part 1, I summarize how the theories of situated mind and niche construction contribute to a multidimensional notion of scaffolding. In Part 2, I focus specifically on affective scaffolding and argue that current ambiguity over its distinctive criteria causes uncertainty as to how the concept can and should be used. In Part 3, I identify and examine two possible responses to the suggested state of conceptual ambiguity. The first, restrictive option is to k…
Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…
2020
Religion and Civil Society: Theoretical Reflections
2013
Using World Values Survey data, this chapter begins with the global distinctiveness of European societies in terms of both religious vitality and support for the public role of religion. They exhibit a secularity that has been challenged in recent years by an unexpected return of religion as a contentious public issue. The chapter then asks, which theories in the social sciences can help to think constructively through the challenges of religion and civil society in such media-rich, religiously diverse, consumer-oriented secularised societies? It begins with sociology of religion, arguing that while secularisation and rational choice theories shed light on some developments, their conceptua…