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On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism: A note

2020

This article is an attempt to offer an assessment of the main coordinates of Simon Nelson Patten’s views on democracy and biological determinism. This will allow us to better delineate the differences—as well as the affinities—between Patten and the core of progressives discussed by Thomas C. Leonard in a series of path-breaking contributions, culminating in his Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. It is our contention that even within the persisting intricacies, ambiguities, and contradictions of Patten’s expository style, it is possible to trace a shift in some aspects of his ideas—a gradual evolution that makes his peculiar brand of progress…

Interdisciplinarity in The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

2015

This chapter analyzes Simone de Beauvoir’s way of combining different theoretical frameworks, in particular, those of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. To elucidate the nature of Beauvoirian interdisciplinarity, I will examine Beauvoir’s discussion of penis envy and her application of Helene Deutsch’s views. I will argue that the combination of psychoanalysis and phenomenology in The Second Sex brings about an inner tension, of which those interested in applying Beauvoir’s interdisciplinary approach should be aware. nonPeerReviewed

Quantum versus classical query complexity of relation

2011

This paper investigates the computability of mathematical relations in a quantum query model. The important task in complexity theory is to find examples with a large gap between classical and quantum algorithm complexity of the same computational problem. We present new results in quantum query algorithm design that allow achieving a large separation between classical and quantum query complexity of a specific relation. We demonstrate an example where quantum query algorithm for a finite relation needs more than two times fewer queries than the best possible classical analogue. We also show that relation can be extended to infinite family of relations with an input of general size N.

La ragione “contraddittoria” in Simone Weil

1999

Nel saggio seguono sono collezionate alcune idee di Simone Weil intorno al tema della ragione elaborate soprattutto durante gli ultimi anni della sua vita (1941-1943). La ragione naturale viene contrapposta alla ragione soprannaturale contrario della trionfale sintesi hegeliana. Questa si costituisce come arresa vincente: dopo essersi dichiarati sconfitti, manifestata la propria impotenza di soluzione dell’ossimoro e divenuti ormai completamente coscienti del limite, si viene trasportati nell’immenso universo che contiene tutti gli opposti.

BythinellaMoquin-Tandon, 1856 (Gastropoda: Rissooidea: Bythinellidae) in Romania: species richness in a glacial refugium

2009

Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) and ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS-1) sequences were analysed in 12 Romanian Bythinella populations. Phylogenetic relationships were inferred using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian techniques. For COI, the Kimura two-parameter (K2P) distances and haplotype networks were computed. Two sympatric and four allopatric groups were distinguished. The K2P distances are similar to those for congeneric rissooids, so each of the six groups represents a species. Two are identified as Bythinella molcsanyi H. Wagner, 1941, and Bythinella dacica Grossu, 1946. The other four groups cannot be ascribed to any known Bythinella. The occur…

Les soubassements religieux de la vulgarisation scientifique dans la France du XIXè siècle

2014

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Analyse des significations des styles typographiques dans "la Parole du Père" [de B.P. Enfantin]

2008

A molecular phylogeny of ‘true’ salamanders (family Salamandridae) and the evolution of terrestriality of reproductive modes

2009

Key innovations enable species to conquer new habitats. Within the family Salamandridae, particular adaptations to terrestrial life, such as the anatomy and physiology of the feeding apparatus, courtship behaviour and in some cases viviparity, allowed the ‘true’salamanders (genera Chioglossa, Mertensiella, Salamandra) to shift from a semi-aquatic to a more terrestrial life cycle. We sequenced 423 base pairs of the 16S RNA gene of the mitochondrial DNA for all species of the ‘true’salamanders. Based on the resulting phylogeny we discuss the evolution of terrestrial reproductive modes within this species group. We especially tested two hypotheses of monophyletic origin of specific adaptations…

Visioni digitali

2016

Recensione del volume di Simone Arcagni pubblicato nel 2016 da Einaudi

Il palazzo arcivescovile di Palermo, da Simone Beccadelli a Giovanni Paternò. Storia e ricostruzione della configurazione quattrocentesca

2021

In the fifties of the fifteenth century, the archbishop of Palermo Simone Beccadelli started the construction of a new archbishop’s palace in an area between the upper stretch of the ancient Cassaro road and the churchyard created along the southern side of the cathedral, whose arrangement had engaged his predecessors since the thirties of the same century. The architectural undertaking, driven by the primary need to create a residence suitable for the rank of the Palermo archibishop’s chair, therefore also assumes a strong urban significance, helping to define the same space of the churchyard and the monumental cathedral complex as a whole. If a first campaign of works would seem to be con…