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Questo lavoro documenta una significativa convergenza tra la dottrina fenomenologica dell’empatia sviluppata da Edmund Husserl e la teoria della simulazione incarnata, suggerita dal funzionamento dei neuroni specchio nei primati (si farà riferimento ai lavori più recenti di Vittorio gallese). Posticipiamo, riservandola ad altra sede, la discussione fondazionale che risulterebbe indispensabile per giustificare un’analisi comparativa di questo tipo, limitandoci a constatare per il momento l’efficacia dell’impostazione neurofenomenologica applicata a un problema attuale delle neuroscienze cognitive: quello della comprensione delle intenzioni dell’altro. Senza annullare la cruciale differenza che sussiste tra un approccio naturalistico e uno trascendentale ai problemi della mente cosciente, ci si prefigge qui di far fruttare il senso del loro parallelismo, nella direzione di una scelta interpretativa che possa indicare delle strategie argomentative reciprocamente solidali e un’aspirazione teoretica comune per la fenomenologia e per le scienze della mente. Si vedrà che ciascuna delle due dottrine viene arricchita e corroborata dall’altra, a patto però di accogliere le sollecitazioni che questa offre. Per cominciare, si prenderà in considerazione le caratteristiche intersoggettive delle funzioni specchio e la sistemazione che a esse è stata conferita nel paradigma teorico della simulazione incarnata.

I gather and constructively criticize Nietzsche's writings on identity. Nietzsche treats identity as a logical fiction. He denies that there are any enduring things (no substances); he denies that there are any indiscernible things in any respect (no universals, no bare particulars). For Nietzsche, the world consists of durationless events bearing non-universal properties and standing to one another in non-universal relations. Events are bundles of tropes. Nietzsche even denies self-identity. His events are selfdiffering trope-bundles. I link Nietzsche's denial of self-identity with modern treatments

In How to Speak of the Colors, Mark Johnston's claims that eliminativism would require us to jettison colour discourse. In this paper, I challenge Johnston's claim. I argue that a particular version of eliminativism, i.e., prescriptive colour fictionalism, allows us to continue employing colour discourse as we have thus far in the absence of colours. In doing so, it employs statistical models in its base discourse to derive high-level statistical constructs that can be linked to the fiction via bridge principles.

Architecture defines and consumes people. It exposes them to a multitude of varieties of different aesthetic engagements. Architecture becomes a lived experience. However, this lived experience is always caught in the inner workings of the social and more specifically within cultural ideology. In modern capitalism, culture pervades every aspect of our lives. It shows its presence everywhere from our own homes to the public streets. Culture is everywhere, and architecture is a tool used for both the benefit and detriment of the “culture  industry”. Kant speaks of the sublime as a profound moment of reason realizing its ability to overcome its own limits. In this experience is it possible to be completely ravaged and descend into hades and melancholy? Is there a beauty in this descent? More specifically, can architecture become banal or pedestrian, uplifting or depressing?  According to Theodor Adorno, our subjectivity is defined by the constant dialecti-cal struggle between freedom and unfreedom (among other things). It is realizing our freedom in the face of our unfreedom that makes us truly able to attain some form of resistance. The sublime experience can be transformed into a spirit of revelation and beautifully allow us to in a way resist the one-dimensional tendencies of modern capitalism. Architecture, which is immersed in our societal being and contributes to many of our own subjective unfreedoms, comes to define our lives as inhabited space. When does architecture produce a sublime experience? Can architecture’s authentic “aura” stand out amongst the reproduced city and produce a sublime feeling that can be a form of resistance against the culture industry? Does Grand Central Terminal provide the key to an architecturally sublime experience? Using dialectical experience and examining the sublime feeling (in a critique of the Kantian sublime) as the key to breaking through the culture industry’s banal architectural hold on our subjectivity, this essay will examine the experience of the sublime as a key to unfolding resistance in the face of the banality of modern architecture in the city and opening our minds to the Great Refusal through the exploration of Grand Central Terminal.

1 It is not unusual to come across works written by philosophers that are half way between the essay and the novel. Some even talk of a kind of dilution of philosophy into literature, from a clearly metaphysical perspective, therefore a philosophical one. After the seminal case of Friedrich Nietzsche, the relationship between philosophy and literature in the 20th century has intensified. Evidence for this state of affairs are the many excellent philosophers who are also novelists – some of th...

The aim of the paper is to discuss the basic concepts developed in Ferraris’ book Documentalita, in particular the first two items of the conceptual triad trace-registration-inscription. The alleged priority of icnology on semiotics can hardly be justified; due to the overlooking of the notions of rule and code, the law of the production of traces remains obscure. On the other hand, the notion of registration as presence of traces in the mind conflicts whit some of our knowledge about the brain and cannot avoid a logical circularity, since the trace is defined as something which can exist only if a mind is recognizing it as such.

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In this article I provide some reasons to justify why the preferable ontological conception about colors will be that which respects the highest number of beliefs contained in the default position, keeping in mind the relative weight of each one of them. The full system of associated beliefs about colors contained in the default position is also offered.

The topic of analogical relationship between hearing and meaning has strong repercussions in the history of musical understanding. The high-low couple, the ground of spatial dimension in music, turns in a lot of metaphorical meanings which show the way that draws from perceptual data to imaginative values. In this paper, I reconstruct a shirt history of the relationship between hearing and imagination starting from the metaphorical conception of musical hearing from Aristotelian environment to phenomenological perspective.

Scese da un taxi con la solita fretta controllata. Era abituato ad arrivare di corsa alle conferenze, si presentava pochi minuti prima di parlare, gettando gli organizzatori nel malcelato affanno di chi teme di trovarsi a gestire quei quaranta minuti che la pazienza ...