Ontology of Art

L’imbecillità è una cosa seria

«Ogni epoca ha i suoi tromboni, così come ha i suoi bugiardi, i suoi furfanti, e ovviamente i suoi imbecilli» L’umano ‒ io e voi ‒ è essenzialmente (e non...

Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust

In this collection of essays, Maurizio Ferraris explores the world portrayed in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. He ponders how memory is tied to self-identification and knowledge; how the...

The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi

Abstract Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism....

Naturalism and Constructivism in Metaethics

In this collection of essays, several authors, belonging to different generations and philosophical traditions, discuss ample ethical and metaethical issues together with their relations to questions of applied ethics. The...

Tiziana Andina

Storia dell’ontologia

Con il nuovo secolo, la vecchia scienza dell’essere, l’ontologia, è ritornata in auge nell’informatica e nelle scienze cognitive, nella giurisprudenza e nelle scienze biomediche, ovunque si senta la necessità di...

Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World

“Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World” May 26-28. 2016 Fourth annual conference organized by CAS-SEE. In cooperation with the LabOnt – Department...

International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law

Legal normativity is nowadays characterized by many forms. Multi‐level governance amplifies this attitude: there are different judges, different courts, and many codes (aesthetic, digital, etc) can now be recalled as...

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