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A Quantitative Portrait of Analytic Philosophy
This book offers an unprecedented quantitative portrait of analytic philosophy focusing on two seemingly marginal features of philosophical texts: citations and acknowledgements in academic publications. Originating from a little network of philosophers based in Oxford, Cambridge, and Vienna, analytic philosophy has become during the Twentieth century a thriving philosophical community with thousands of members worldwide. Leveraging the most advanced techniques from bibliometrics, citations and acknowledgments are used in this book to shed light on both the epistemology and the sociology of this philosophical field, illuminating the intellectual trajectory of analytic philosophy as well as t...
Teaching, Research and Academic Careers
This open access book evaluates research quality, quality of teaching and the relationship between the two through sound statistical methods, and in a comparative perspective with other European countries. In so doing, it covers an increasingly important topic for universities that affects university funding. It discusses whether university evaluation should be limited to a single factor or consider multiple dimensions of research, since academic careers, teaching and awarding degrees are intertwined. The chapters included in the book evaluate teaching and research, also taking the gender dimension into account, in order to understand where and when gender discrimination occurs in assessment...
New Perspectives on Political Economy and Its History
This Festschrift is published in honour of Annalisa Rosselli, a political economist and historian of economic thought, whose academic activity has promoted unconventional ways of thinking throughout her career. A renowned list of scholars articulate and respond to this vision through a series of essays, leading to an advocacy of pluralism and critical thinking in political economy. The book is split into five parts, opening with a section on new topics for the history of economic thought including new perspectives in gender studies and an illustration of the fecundity of the link with economic history. This is followed by sections that address relevant perspectives on the Classical approach to distribution and accumulation, Ricardo, interpretation of Sraffa and the legacy of Keynes. This book will appeal to students interested in reforming economics, as well as academics and economists interested in political economy and the history of economic thought.
The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress
This book investigates the link between human capabilities and the preconditions for social progress through an engagement with the theological anthropology of Swiss theologian Emil Brunner (1889–1966). It places Brunner’s thought in dialogue with selected contributors from the contemporary social sciences, examining approaches from economics, sociology and philosophy as put forward by Gary S. Becker, Christian Smith and Martha Nussbaum. This dialogic format helps to crystallise both agreements and differences and thus facilitate greater understanding between theology and other disciplines. Questions explored in the discussion relate to the emergence of human nature (the person) and the ...
Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition
This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein – the later Wittgenstein – the most influential contemporary thinker within that philosophical tradition. Wittgenstein's methods and ideas were widely accepted, with everything seeming to point to the Wittgensteinian paradigm having a similar impact on the philosophical scenes of all English speaking countries. However, this was not to be the case. By the 1980s, albeit still important, Wittgenstein was considered as a somewhat marginal thinker. What occurred within the history of analytic philosophy to produce such a decline? This book expertly traces the early reception of Wittgenstein in the United States, the shift in the humanities to a tradition rooted in the natural sciences, and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, to reveal the factors that contributed to the eventual hostility towards the later Wittgensteinian tradition.
The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet, since its gradual formation as a research field, the question of how to suitably integrate both perspectives remains open. This volume presents cutting edge research from junior iHPS scholars, and in doing so provides a snapshot of current developments within the field, explores the connection between iHPS and other academic disciplines, and demonstrates some of the topics that are attracting the attention of scholars who will help define the future of iHPS.
La mente nel cervello
Quante volte ci siamo imbattuti in dichiarazioni quali "l'emisfero cerebrale sinistro è quello logico, quello destro è quello creativo", o in sensazionalistici titoli di giornali sulla scoperta dell'area cerebrale dell'amore, del linguaggio, o di chissà quale altra funzione mentale? Oggigiorno, la maggior parte dei neuroscienziati prenderebbe le distanze da affermazioni così semplicistiche, affrettandosi a precisare che il cervello è più complesso di così. E tuttavia, la pratica di 'mappare' certe categorie psicologiche entro determinate aree neurali ha svolto, e forse svolge tuttora, un'importante funzione nell'organizzare e riorganizzare le nostre conoscenze sulla mente e sulla sua ...
Complottisti vulnerabili
Le teorie cospirazioniste non sono solo un elenco di credenze bizzarre, ma ci rivelano molto sul "nostro Io più segreto". Poche cose sono più seducenti di un'opinione pronta e rassicurante, poco importa se assurda. Come ingegnose stampelle, le credenze complottistiche hanno la funzione di sorreggere il traballante incedere lungo un cammino in cui si incontrano pandemie, guerre, cambiamenti climatici. Complottisti vulnerabili intreccia i temi di bias di ragionamento, autoinganno, processi emotivi di base attingendo ai dati della psicologia cognitiva, clinica e sociale e dell'infant research. L'obiettivo è quello di illustrare la "ricetta perfetta" che alimenta la mentalità cospirazionista...
Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy
Read through the lens of a single key concept in twentieth-century French philosophy, that of the "problem", this book relates the concept to specific thinkers and situates it in relation both to the wider history of philosophy and contemporary concerns. How exactly should the notion of problems be understood? What must a problem be in order to play an inaugurating role in thought? Does the word "problem" have a univocal sense? What is at stake – theoretically, ethically, politically, and institutionally – when philosophers use the word? This book addresses these and other questions, and is devoted to making historical and philosophical sense of the various uses and conceptualisations of...
