March 2013-September 2015.

.Doc 2.0: Re-Shaping the Social Ontology

Principal Investigator: prof. Maurizio Ferraris Category: EU Accelerating Grants, supported by The Compagnia di San Paolo Staff: Dr. Tiziana Andina, Dr. Leonardo Caffo, Dr. Elena Casetta, Dr. Davide Dal Sasso, Prof. Pietro Kobau, Dr. Vincenzo Santarcangelo, Dr. Giuliano Torrengo, Dr. … More »

2008-2012

.DOC. Documentality and Organization of Social Complexity

In the last thirty years, the digital revolution has led to technological transformations that are before everyone’s eyes, but also to less evident consequences, which are even more relevant for social complexity. In particular, there has been an explosion of … More »

2006-2008

Documentality. Ontologies and Technologies for Citizenship and Democracy

The fact that being “sans papier” amounts to being devoid of citizenship (and of the associated rights) is extremely revealing as to the significance of documents, namely of those things that we shall regard as objects that record social events. … More »

2004-2006

Ontological Canon. An Integrative Approach to Knowledge Organization

In the last twenty years new and unexpected connections have been identified between philosophical ontology and application fields, ranging from information technology to social sciences. The Ontological Canon is intended to provide: (a) an historical and theoretical overview of the … More »

2002-2004

Intellectual Property: Property of Objects, Property of Ideas

The issue of intellectual ownership (also analyzed from the peculiar point of view of a theoretical categorization of the objects belonging to this domain) is raised from the exceptional technological development and the transformations of the global market, occurred in … More »