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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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52Epistemic 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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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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Why zombies can’t write significant source code: The Knowledge Game and the Art of Computer ProgrammingJournal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 27 (1): 37-50. 2014.This paper analyses the knowledge needed to understand a computer program within the Philosophy of Information. L. Floridi’s method of Levels ofion is applied to the rela- tion between an ideal programmer and a modern computer seen together as an informational organism. The results obtained by the mental experiment known as the Knowledge Game are applied to this relation, so to explain what a programmer should know in order to program a modern computer. In particular, this analysis will clearly …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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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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”Lingvo Internacia’ aŭ ”internacia lingvo’? Kelkaj konsideroj pri la origina nomo de Esperanto en diakrona perspektivoIn Stanislav Košecký (ed.), Prilingve En Nitro: Politike, Historie, Teorie, Instrue, Universala Esperanto-asocio. pp. 149-158. 2016.
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Lettera a JavalIn Carlo Minnaja (ed.), Lazzaro Ludovico Zamenhof. Antologia, Federazione Esperantista Italiana. pp. 107-114. 2009.
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Requirements and Open Issues for ISs Supporting Dynamic Community Bonding in Emergency SituationsIn T. Torre, A. M. Braccini & R. Spinelli (eds.), Empowering Organizations: Enabling Platforms and Artefacts, Springer. pp. 257-272. 2015.
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An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and EfficiencyIn Bruce M. McLaren, Rob Reilly, Susan Zvacek & James Uhomoibhi (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Scitepress – Science and Technology Publications. pp. 292-302. 2018.Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborative learning through social interactions. However, it tends to ignore the human mental architecture, pillar of cognitivism. A characteristic of cognitivism is that instructional designs built upon it are generally explicit, contrarily to constructivism. This position paper proposes a novel learning task that is aimed at combining both the approaches through the use of trigger questions in a collaborati…Read more
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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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Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro TechniqueIn Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe & Pär J. Ågerfalk (eds.), Agility Across Time and Space, Springer Verlag. pp. 149-166. 2010.
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The Case of Correlatives: A Comparison between Natural and Planned LanguagesJournal of Universal Language 12 45-79. 2011.
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The lexicography of EsperantoIn P. Hanks & G.-M. de Schryver (eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography, Springer Verlag. pp. 10. 2017.
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Universitato de Torino : Retrospektive al kursoj pri interlingvistiko en la lastaj jarojInformilo Por Interlingvistoj 3 7-9. 2013.
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Review of: Ulrich Ammon and Grant McConnell. English as an Academic Language in Europe. A Survey of its Use in Teaching (review)Language Problems and Language Planning 31 62-64. 2007.
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Utopio iĝis realo: resumo de la prelego pri la Esperanto-Urboj en Pescara, ItalioInformilo Por Interlingvistoj 1 3-4. 2006.
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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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Umberto Broccatelli. Dizionario Esperanto-Italiano. Zanichelli. 2004Language Problems and Language Planning 30 208-211. 2006.
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Transnational communication in a ”glocalized’ world: in search of balanced multilingualismJezyk, Komunikacja, Informacja 10 121-131. 2015.
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