Ethical Responsibility vs. Ethical Responsiveness in Conscious and Unconscious Communication Agents
In this contribution, I start from Levy’s precious suggestion about the neuroethics of distinguishing between “the slow-conscious responsibility” of us as persons, versus “the fast-unconscious responsiveness” of sub-personal brain mechanisms studied in ...
Gianfranco Basti
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Appreciating the Beauty of Earth [PDF]
Categories used by contemporary environmental philosophers to explore esthetic appreciation for the beauty of the physical world have parallels in reflections by patristic and medieval theologians on the beauty of God\u27s creation, A sampling of the ...
Schaefer, Jame
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Reflections on Nikephoros Gregoras’ Historia Rhōmaikē: Innovation, variety, emotion [PDF]
The Historia Rhōmaikē was written and circulated in Constantinople in several installments since the 1340s. It recounts events in Byzantine history from the period from 1204 until ca. 1359.
Manolova Divna
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Suitable classification of mortars from ancient roman and renaissance frescoes using thermal analysis and chemometrics [PDF]
Background Literature on mortars has mainly focused on the identification and characterization of their components in order to assign them to a specific historical period, after accurate classification.
Campanella, Luigi +4 more
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Personal Autonomy in a Post-Secular Society
The contemporary philosophical debate on autonomy shows several interesting perspectives that emphasize the role of social contexts for developing this human capacity. There is a shift from the classical notion of “moral” autonomy to the wider notion of “
Raffaela Giovagnoli
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A QFT Approach to Data Streaming in Natural and Artificial Neural Networks
In the actual panorama of machine learning (ML) algorithms, the issue of the real-time information extraction/classification/manipulation/analysis of data streams (DS) is acquiring an ever-growing relevance. They arrive generally at high speed and always
Gianfranco Basti, Giuseppe Vitiello
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Habits, We-Intentionality and Rituals
The notion of “habit” is at the center of a lively philosophical debate that shows how some ideas from classical thought are still plausible and useful to understand human behavior in ordinary life.
Raffaela Giovagnoli
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The Vatican Apostolic Library and philanthropy
This article, accompanied by more than 30 images, presents certain philanthropic experiences that have been in place at the Vatican Library since the 1920s.
Luigina Orlandi, Mauro Mantovani
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Tensions in the practice of Marian Devotion between Clergy, Laity, and the Vatican: The maintenance of Catholic Social Structure in Gozo, Malta [PDF]
In Gozo, Malta, tensions exist within the ritual system of Catholic Marian Devotion, observed through a disconnect between how laity practice Marian Devotion rituals and how the Vatican defines the practice of Marian Devotion.
Masso-Rivetti, Cella
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From Habits to Rituals: Rituals as Social Habits
The present contribution aims at investigating the relationship between habits and rituals; they are based on the same processes even though they have different functions depending on the context (personal or social).
Giovagnoli Raffaela
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