What is cognition? What is its place in nature? For about 60 years philosophers and scientists have been engaged in giving a naturalistic dress to the cognitive sciences arguing over the status of mental representations and computational processes.
Cinéma&Cie: Neurofilmology. Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience
Download the introduction of the book Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and […]
The snowy snap. The Story of Chaturman Rai, Himalayan folk-photographer and film-maker
In a remote village of eastern Nepal, lacking electricity and any other facilities, Chaturman, a farmer belonging to the Kulung Rai ethnic group, has for […]
Italian America. Epos and Storytelling in Helen Barolini
This book offers to the reader a tool to address the still largely uncharted territory of contemporary literature of migration. In addition to presenting and […]
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Merleau-Ponty ENTRE HIER ET DEMAIN BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW TRA IERI E DOMANI **** dossiers – special sections – dossiers Merleau -Ponty demain Merleau -Ponty […]
Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory
Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory is a collaborative collection of writings in black metal theory (BMT), an amorphous ‘metallecutal’ movement initiated in 2009 with the symposium Hideous Gnosis.
The gift in the heart of language. The maternal source of meaning
Genevieve Vaughan offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on mother- child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology.
Playing with silence. Introduction to a philosophy of silence
Playing with silence is a book that Mirio Cosottini dedicates to those who love silence and all its aspects. In this volume he proposes a series of questions and exercises in order to initiate an investigative process that sheds light on its many facets as well as on its invariances; that which remains constant under transformation.
On nudity an introduction to nonsense
What remains of philosophy, once that theories and opinions have been deleted? Perhaps there is only nudity, which is to be fathomed by the adequate […]