Search results for "rationality"

An Ecological Theory of Rational Interpretation

2005

Symmetric locally free resolutions and rationality problems

2022

We show that the birationality class of a quadric surface bundle over $\mathbb{P}^2$ is determined by its associated cokernel sheaves. As an application, we discuss stable-rationality of very general quadric bundles over $\mathbb{P}^2$ with discriminant curves of fixed degree. In particular, we construct explicit models of these bundles for some discriminant data. Among others, we obtain various birational models of a nodal Gushel-Mukai fourfold, as well as of a cubic fourfold containing a plane. Finally, we prove stable irrationality of several types of quadric surface bundles.

12. (Pathologies of) Recognition in Schelling´s Thought on Evil

2015

This paper departs from the observation that there is on several levels a growing antagonism in our society between two opposite mentalities: a liberal, universalistic mentality that trusts in rationality (termed ‘McWorld’ by political theorist Benjamin Barber in Barber, 1992), and a conservative mentality that relies on the weight of tradition (Barber’s term for this is ‘Jihad’). The argument in this paper is that these mentalities are not absolutely incompatible, but that the hostility between them results largely from fundamental internal inconsistencies that are suppressed and projected onto the other. In explicating this argument, the paper uses F.W.J. Schelling’s (1992 [1809]) metaphy…

Performance of Understanding: Pragmatics and Fast and Frugal Heuristics

2019

What determines the meaning of an utterance is a logical matter and as such must be treated independently of the bio-cognitive constraints that operate in our bodies. This thesis, whose great supporter was Frege, implies a clear notion of rationality that seems not to bear comparison with what we know on the limits of our rationality. Various theories (Kahneman and Tversky 1983; Gigerenzer et al., 1999), thematizing the need to consider our rationality beginning from the bio- cognitive constraints that our body imposes on a mass of information, can be of great utility for facing the problem of what type of rationality operates in phenomena of linguistic understanding (Ferreira and Patson 20…

ESPERIRE MIMETICO E RAZIONALITÀ NEL MODELLO ADORNIANO DI RAPPORTO MENTE-MONDO.

2014

Il saggio ricostruisce il ruolo cognitivo e razionale della mimesi nel modello adorniano di conoscenza come “differenziazione”. Vi è proposta un’interpretazione della capacità del “pensare per costellazioni” e del linguaggio di “cogliere la cosa”, che ne evidenzia la lontananza dal “vecchio realismo della rappresentazione oggettiva (der alte Abbildrealismus)”. Esso mira anche a rendere esplicito come il modello adorniano di conoscenza sia in grado di dar conto di alcune recenti acquisizioni neurofisiologiche su un livello mimetico di rapporto mente-mondo, e come esso contribuisca ad una convincente interpretazione, razionalista ed antiintellettualista ad un tempo, di alcune loro implicazion…

Science as a quest : Don Quixote, neuroscience and the interrogation of truth

2015

Neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has wondered whether «scientists, embarked upon their personal quests – their quixotic endeavours – spend their time just thinking». This adjectival invocation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote pitches science as an epic quest that equates scientific rationality with the Don’s delusions. Does science quest after truth in a quixotic, literary way that philosopher Nicholas Maxwell terms «rationalistically neurotic»?

Derecho, narración y racionalidad jurídica. El caso de la fazaña bajomedieval

2011

Resumen Durante buena parte del siglo XX, se consideró a la fazaña castellana un reflejo fiel de usos y costumbres con capacidad para sentar un precedente jurídico. Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta la compleja situación sociopolítica de Castilla hacia mediados del siglo XIV y examinando en detalle su estructura narrativa, llaman la atención otros aspectos frecuentemente desatendidos, en especial, la construcción interna de estos relatos con un fuerte grado de presuposición y arbitrariedad argumentativa. Se destacan estas formas particulares de concebir el relato jurídico especialmente en la colección de veinticinco fazañas que cierran el manuscrito 431 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (13…

Economicism and Nihilism in the Eclipse of Humanism

2014

This article is based on the conviction that the major problems nowadays are not technical, but ethical, and are incumbent on homo qua homo. The origin of these problems is the advancement of economicism as a supreme interpretation of human and social reality, which means the primacy of the “market” and considering human beings in terms of what they have rather than what they are. Economicism emerges in “modernity” and assumes that everything that does not have market value is either devaluated or rejected. In consequence, the human being has been devaluated and has turned into a simple object of the market. “Postmodernity” mixes economicism and techno-scientificism (chrematistics and instr…

SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

2015

Socio-cultural factors – shared values, norms and attitudes are significant, but less acknowledged sources of international competitiveness. Previous studies have found socio-cultural factors positively affecting various aspects of international competitiveness – entrepreneurship, innovation, productivity and international cooperation. These factors are more sustainable and less affected by external environment changes in comparison with the traditional factors. Socio-cultural factors provide an opportunity to develop competitiveness strategies based on unique advantages. This research aims to explore the impact of socio-cultural factors on international competiveness in small, open economi…

The concept of genre within the critical approach to information systems development

2001

Abstract Jurgen Habermas' Critical Social Theory is regarded as a potential approach to information systems development (hereinafter referred to as the critical approach). However, the theoretical promise of this approach has not yet been operationalized in practice. This paper discusses the potential of the genre theory of organizational communication as a conceptual basis for doing so, using two studies that applied genre concepts to analyses and debates on document management. In particular, the paper illustrates the capability of genre concepts in responding to pleas for three types of rationality — communicative, emancipatory, and formal — considered fundamental to any method of inform…