🎉 After more than two years of research (couple more if one counts ideation and writing of the proposal) the main publication of my project is finally published.
Featuring essays by Beiser, Edgar, Hartung, Krijnen, and many others.
You can download it for free from here 👇
Me with the mantle and gloves used by the founder of my university, Frederick II, for his coronation as Emperor in 1220.
Theoretical biologist Meyer-Abich argued that biological laws are more fundamental than physical laws
His example: we can't deduce how a cat falls from how a stone falls. But we can say that a stone falls like a dead cat
Given a biological law, by abstracting from life, we obtain the physical law
Autumn trip to the Amalfi coast
I kid you not, I tried a couple of super dumb passwords and the correct one was "password"
Today there's a political demonstration near the university. When I search for wifi, one new option appears:
"DIGOS (Italy'secret police) wiretapping van"
The Laboratory for the Study of Neo-Kantianism I coordinate at Naples University has the acronym SToNE, and now our email has been bombarded by messages from firms that ask if we're interested in their supply of marble and stone for sinks and other appliances.
Today I stumbled on a new example of "cursed covers of philosophical books"
Spengler "The decline of the West" as a saga about cowboys.
I've watched the last movie by Guadagnino, in which Julia Roberts plays a philosophy professor at Yale.
My main takeaway is that I was glad to learn that even at Yale students are recruited as attendees at academic events in exchange for credits.
Since I've seen this book was published, I've wanted to read it. Finally I got a copy via mail, thanks to HOPOS journal, for which I will write a review.
After three years, the dream of having professor Beiser in Naples for the final Conference of the project on "The neo-Kantian reception of Schiller", inspired by his work, has finally come true.
I'd love to go to HOPOS 2026. The last edition in Vienna was great, I had an idea for submission, and I have research founds that can cover the expenses.
But no way I'm setting foot in the USA.
Sorry for all the folks who work and collaborate with @hoposjournal.bsky.social, but it's a pass for me.
The Conference for the project I've been working on for the last few years is happening soon.
You can access it on streaming: t.co/GjFS3safuQ
Full program: acesse.one/OZJAw
(I can't wait for it to happen, so I can stop having nightmares about something going wrong)
You know you're in Naples when in the morning you stumble on the delivery of firewood for the pizza ovens.
When you reach the peak of the mountain after a difficult hike and you can finally enjoy the beautiful view from the top.
Unexpected encounter in an Austrian grocery store.
It's probably impossible to establish who is the greatest mind in the history of philosophy.
But I'm pretty sure Leibniz is the greatest out-of-the-box-thinker.
The anthropomorphic concept of God lowers this highest universal concept to a vertebrae in the gaseous state.
(Ernst Haeckel 1892)
When I go to a concert I always try to get the setlist as a souvenir. I've had some strange ones over the years (the Dum Dum Girls one written on the back of a communist protest flyer), but King Hannah's setlist written on a paper plate takes the prize.
Kant taking a stroll everyday at the same time has strong NPC from Strardew Valley energy.
I cannot handle that the Italian ministry for university and research looks like a character from Mars Attack 😭
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The spread of AI art makes me think of Schiller The Artists
Oh, may a degenerate yearn never
Humble you to be her abject slave!
In industry the bee the palm may bear
In skill the worm a lesson may impart
With blessed spirits your knowledge you do share
But Art, O Man, you have alone!
Le segnalo questa notizia, a corollario del suo pezzo sulla repressione del dissenso, cominciando con i palestinesi per proseguire prevedibilmente:
newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Ad ogni modo, a 17 anni assistenti al borseggio di un turista su un bus. Dopo un eloquente scambio di sguardi tra me e il ladro rimasi in silenzio per la paura. Quel giorno capii che, purtroppo, gli ideali stanno a zero finché non vengono messi alla prova.
Perdoni la difesa d'ufficio, c'è da dire che gli accademici italiani difendono l'orto perché abituati a un costante regime di sottofinanziamento, paradossalmente peggiorato dagli occasionali e brevi periodi di vacche grasse (vedi pnrr).
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O, detto altrimenti, la regolamentazione del mercato è davvero separabile dalla democrazia?
Leggo e condivido sempre i suoi pezzi su fb, ma dato che là non posso commentare chiedo qua: non c'è il rischio che la deregulation europea apra le porte alla creazione di oligarchi europei sul modello di quelli usa, che hanno una parte nello stato di cose attuale?
Musk must have put his fat finger on the scale of Grok AI and now he is a great thinker on par with Aristotle.
