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57The Minimal Levels of Abstraction in the History of Modern ComputingPhilosophy and Technology 27 (3): 327-343. 2014.From the advent of general purpose, Turing-complete machines, the relation between operators, programmers and users with computers can be observed as interconnected informational organisms (inforgs), henceforth analysed with the method of levels of abstraction (LoAs), risen within the philosophy of information (PI). In this paper, the epistemological levellism proposed by L. Floridi in the PI to deal with LoAs will be formalised in constructive terms using category theory, so that information it…Read more
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53Epistemic Diversity and the Question of Lingua Franca in Science and PhilosophyFoundations of Science 25 (1): 185-207. 2020.Epistemic diversity is the ability or possibility of producing diverse and rich epistemic apparati to make sense of the world around us. In this paper we discuss whether, and to what extent, different conceptions of knowledge—notably as ‘justified true belief’ and as ‘distributed and embodied cognition’—hinder or foster epistemic diversity. We then link this discussion to the widespread move in science and philosophy towards monolingual disciplinary environments. We argue that English, despite a…Read more
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29What Can We Know of Computational Information? Measuring, Quantity, and Quality at Work in Programmable ArtifactsTopoi 35 (1): 203-212. 2016.This paper explores the problem of knowledge in computational informational organisms, i.e. organisms that include a computing machinery at the artifact side. Although information can be understood in many ways, from the second half of the past century information is getting more and more digitised, von Neumann machines becoming dominant. Computational information is a challenge for the act of measuring, as neither purely quantitative nor totally qualitative approaches satisfy the need to explai…Read more
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9L’invenzione linguistica alla scuola primaria: la didattica dell’italiano nell’esperienza montessoriana / Language invention in primary school: teaching of Italian in a Montessori experienceGiornale Italiano Della Ricerca Educativa 10 75-88. 2017.In this paper we will present certain aspects of teaching Italian in the experimental language laboratory of the Montessori School of Milan. The laboratory consists of a series of meetings between teachers and researchers, featuring lessons conducted in class by researchers with the aim of creating a secret language together, and eventually its imaginary world. Furthermore, the teaching methodology will be set out in a consistent methodological and psychopedagogical framework as a support for le…Read more
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4Alan Turing creator of Artificial LanguagesInkoj 3 181-194. 2012.In this paper an evaluation of the contribution to philosophical investigation by Alan Turing is provided in terms of creation of Artificial Languages. After a discussion of the term AL in the literature, and in particular within the theoretical model offered by Lyons, the legacy of Turing is presented with a special attention to what remains after a century by his birth and what is still to be investigated in this area.
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4The assessment of sociolinguistic justice: parameters and models of analysisIn Michele Gazzola, Torsten Templin & Bengt-Arne Wickström (eds.), Language Policy and Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches, Springer Verlag. pp. 363-391. 2018.This paper argues that the assessment of sociolinguistic justice should pass through the promotion of linguistic ease, analysed through a number of sociolinguistic parameters already used for the repertoires of multilingual communities. Their consideration permits to tackle the complexity of globalising and localising forces, beyond the Westphalian model of nation-state. In particular, three axes of analysis should be taken into account: the formality of situations, the sense of belonging, and s…Read more
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1Dependency and Valency: From Structural Syntax to Constructive Adpositional GrammarsIn Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová & Leo Wanner (eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Computational Dependency Theory, Ios Press. pp. 113-135. 2013.
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1The Assessment of Sociolinguistic Justice: Parameters and Models of AnalysisIn G. Iannaccaro, F. Gobbo & V. Dell’Aquila (eds.), The Assessment of Sociolinguistic Justice: Parameters and Models of Analysis, Springer Verlag. pp. 363-391. 2018.This paper argues that the assessment of sociolinguistic justice should pass through the promotion of linguistic ease, analysed through a number of sociolinguistic parameters already used for the repertoires of multilingual communities. Their consideration permits to tackle the complexity of globalising and localising forces, beyond the Westphalian model of nation-state. In particular, three axes of analysis should be taken into account: the formality of situations, the sense of belonging, and s…Read more
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Review of: Elly van Gelderen, eds . Cyclical Change. John Benjamins (review)Australian Journal of Linguistics 32 291-292. 2012.
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Claudio Marazzini & Alessio Petralli. La lingua italiana e le lingue romanze di fronte agli anglicismi. Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, goWare. 140 pp., 3963 pos (review)Language Problems and Language Planning 41 210-213. 2017.
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Beyond the Nation-State? The Ideology of the Esperanto Movement between Neutralism and MultilingualismSocial Inclusion 5 38-47. 2017.Since its launch, Esperanto has attracted people involved in language politics. For them Esperanto provides an equitable solution when international problems are discussed, overcoming the barrier posed by the use of national languages and identities. However, its relation with the nation-state is far from being straightforward. Although a significant majority of the Movement claims Esperanto to be a neŭtrala lingvo, a neutral language, this has been fiercely contested by Esperanto activists comm…Read more
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Open Standards for Higher Education in Robotics by Immersive TelelaboratoriesLearning Technology 7 30-32. 2005.
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Review of: Nicoletta Calzolari, Bernardo Magnini, Claudia Soria and Manuela Speranza. The Italian Language in the Digital Age / La lingua italiana nell’era digitale (review)Language Problems and Language Planning 37 199-201. 2013.
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Language Games Children Play: Language Invention in a Montessori Primary SchoolIn Stanley D. Brunn & Roland Kehrein (eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map, Springer. 2018.
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The European Union’s Need for an International Auxiliary LanguageJournal of Universal Language 6 1-28. 2005.
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Christo Moskovsky and Alan Libert. Essays on Natural and Artificial LanguagesLanguage Problems and Language Planning 34 285-286. 2010.
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L’esperanto e la traduzione automatica: Storia, risultati e prospettive esperantologiche dell’approccio statisticoIn Pier Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi & Mauro Tosco (eds.), Loquentes Linguis. Studi Linguistici E Orientali in Onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, Harrassowitz. pp. 319-327. 2006.
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Recensione di Emanuele Mambretti e Remo Bracchi. Dizionario etimologico-etnografico dei dialetti di Livigno e Trepalle DELTLanguage Problems and Language Planning 36 183-186. 2012.
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Über Interlinguistik und die Geschichte der Informatik in BudapestInterlinguistische Informationen 92 3-3. 2014.
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How to measure linguistic justice? Theoretical considerations and the South Tyrol case study of the Calvet Language BarometerIn Peter A. Kraus & François Grin (eds.), The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, Globalisation and Linguistic Governance, John Benjamins. 2018.
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