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Bollettino Filosofico
La mente tra natura e tecnica2023 •
The Mind between Technology and Nature - In the first section, the article attempts to reconfigure the relationship between mind and technology beyond the classical schema according to which technology is a product of mind. Relying on Richard Gregory's idea of Potential Intelligence and its developments in the theory of the extended mind, it is argued that the relationship between mind and technology is constitutive and original, so that in some sense mind is a technical product. The second section outlines-with reference to Mark Rowlands-a reading of the extended mind that does not identify it with the mere "extension" of its cognitive states to specific elements of the external world, but with the constitutive character of processes of instrumental relation to the world that could be linked to those theorised by Heidegger: disclosing and revealing activities that constitute at the same time the origin of significance. The third section emphasises the weight of technology in 'shaping' the mind and redefining our purposes, considering the idea of several authors (from Cassirer to Gehlen, from Ellul to Mumford) of a sort of "autonomy" of technology.
Today we tend to read ancient texts having to do with science and technology on the assumption that they are informed by our modern categories. However, although the terms “science” and “technology” have their etymological origins in Greek and Latin, in fact they have no exact correspondents in the linguistic and conceptual systems of classical antiquity. This discussion presents for the benefit of students a panoramic view of relevant ancient concepts, placing emphasis on their differences from those of modernity and using the mythic figures of Prometheus and Daedalus as starting points. Especially important is the extent to which ancient cultural discourses on these questions are intertwined with ethical issues; it is thus impossible to approach ancient science and technology without considering the philosophical and moral background of the Greeks and Romans. Finally, I briefly discuss the historiographical issue of the so-called “scientific stagnation” in ancient culture.
2021 •
There is a growing awareness that humanity and the Planet Earth are near to a tipping point, since we are experiencing a critical transition phase, resulting from a hyper-connected world, where global interactive structures and cumulative feedback evolve. It follows an increasing systemic complexity at all levels, hence uncertainty and instability all decision makers have to deal with. New strategic and operational frameworks are therefore needed. The book aims to provide a theoretical-strategic frame and to suggest he book aims to provide a strategic-operational frame and to suggest both an operational architecture and mechanisms suitable for assessing the effectiveness of strategic choices.
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Byoblu - Informazioni classificate
L'ecologismo, la tecnica e la perdita di sacralità della natura2023 •
Poetiche joyciane tra scienza e tecnologia, in «Antologia Vieusseux», XVII, n. 51, settembre-dicembre 2011
Poetiche joyciane tra scienza e tecnologiaEtica e natura, proceedings of the 2020 congress of the Italian Society of Ethics, Napoli-Salerno: Orthotes.
Etica e natura2021 •
Il Nuovo Principio Persona
L'impossibilità di cambiare la natura (essenza) umana con la tecnica2013 •
il Pensare - Rivista di Filosofia
La Natura come relazione. Riflessioni fenomenologiche sull'alleanza tra uomo, natura e tecnica2024 •