Traditionally, questions about the role of the arts in moral thought have focused on the arts’ role in the acquisition of new moral knowledge, the refinement of moral concepts, and the capacity to apply our moral view to particular situations. Here I suggest that there is an importantly different and largely overlooked role for the arts in moral thought: an ability to reconfigure the structure ...

Since hundred millions of years, the natural evolution on Earth has developed nervous systems with increasing complexity. They work according to algorithms of neurochemistry and equip organisms with self-adapting, self-controlling, and self-conscious features. But the laws of evolution could also admit completely different forms of life on different material basis – and perhaps they have emerge...

A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable ha...

0 In this paper I take the risk of predicting how the conflict between anti-symbolic Vs symbolic, emergentist Vs explicit approaches to cognition and action will be solved in the next decades. I do not believe in a ‘paradigmatic revolution’ and I argue in favour of a ‘synthesis’. I will illustrate how a synthetic paradigm can be built through the notion of different levels of reality descriptio...

 The present study is a theoretical attempt to illustrate how Fillmore's Scenes and Frames Semantics (SFS) could be employed as a framework to portray the process of understanding and translating hybrid texts. It first reviews the origin of SFS; then it maps SFS onto Nida’s linguistic model of translation process and the Interpretive Theory of Translation; it examines in the next section, withi...

George Siemens and Stephen Downes developed a theory for the digital age, called connectivism, denouncing boundaries of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Their proposed learning theory has issued a debate over whether it is a learning theory or instructional theory or merely a pedagogical view. While the theory presented is important and valid, is it a tool to be used in the learnin...

Instead of designing by following prescriptive models, students may benefit by approaching design as a process of free inquiry. This paper considers the impact of this inquiry-based approach on students’ thinking by considering the ways that students represented the design process at the end of an inquirybased design course. Introduction When design is taught using prescriptive models (e.g., in...

For the last few years, economic literature has shown a new stream of analysis, at the crossroads of the heterodox tradition and cognitive sciences. A new approach is born, called Cognitive Economics, since attention is focused on the study of individual and organizational learning, seen as a key factor in shaping social phenomena (Rizzello, 2000). This new stream of analysis aims at refounding...

This paper presents a short overview of blended learning, showing arguments for and against these concepts. Potential blended learning scenarios are described that vary depending on the degree of instructor involvement, learner self-organisation and on-line moderation or coaching. The paper ends with an example of successful application of a blended learning concept in industry. Definition of B...

Since simulating human communication is dependant on betterment of the end product, either in discussing general the evolution of this very activity, all efforts in the field approaches or by delving into the technical details of of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) are intuitively particular devices. Desktop computers come first to mind, bound to be too late. Little sign of this fact is reflect...