Philosophy
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Ivan Cavicchi – Gian Mauro Numico
The attending complexity
A new approach to oncology
This book is a very original close examination of the world of oncology, mixing medicine and philosophy and introducing the idea of a concrete change in the approach to illnesses and patients.
9788822063267year: 2015pages: 304Luigi BorzacchiniKant's computer
The structure of modern mathematics and logic
From Leibniz to Turing, this is the third book ina fascinating trilogy telling the history of the formal mathematics.
9788822002631year: 2015pages: 592Leonardo MessineseNeither layman or Catholic
Severino, the Church, the Philosophy
Using unpublished documents, this book speaks about Severino, him with the most important personalities of the twentieth century. The author offers a high-level disclosure of the contemporary philosophical story about the relationship between «the philosopher and the divine».
9788822053893year: 2013pages: 160Caterina ReaBorderless bodies
Sex like a politic problem
Are we all unaware victims of a plot of prejudices? Can we really distinguish what is “natural” and what is a social construction, rooted in the layers of human history? This is a travel to reveal the complex web in which we are soaked.
9788822053879year: 2012month: marchformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 176Pietro BarcellonaIn praise of useless talk
The word gratuitous
Change our view of the world, experiencing the full presence of the meeting, rediscovering the complexity of the unified relationship between humans and the Universe.
9788822053848year: 2010month: mayformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 160Luigi BorzacchiniThe computer of Ockham
Genesis and Structure of Scientific Revolutions
After Il computer di Platone, continues the story of the syntactic paradigm, the human ability that allows us to “think without understanding”, manipulating signs and where the computer is the epiphany. The focus is now on the Middle Ages and the Scientific Revolution when modern science emerges and our civilization takes its essential characteristics.
9788822002471year: 2010month: februaryformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 656Fabio MerliniThe unimportant efficiency
Essay about disorientation
In the age of efficiency, we are all asked to excel and keep abreast of the times. To stop oneself is a sign of inadequacy, a guilt; it is almost like an admission of defeat. Is there a way out?
9788822053770year: 2009month: marchformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 160Chiara PlataniaMazes of taste
From the gods' kitchen to McDonald's hamburger
In the age of genetic manipulation and global standardization of taste, food loses every kind of connection with tradition and memories of taste and smell. We have to trace the thousand-year-old story of nutrition to understand what is going on.
9788822053763year: 2008month: octoberformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 200Pietro Barcellona, Tommaso GarufiSoul theft
The post-human story
In a world «cloned» in the robot image, the «first-person narrator» is the last resource that stands out against the destruction of the mental space where the hope of the future could still flourish.
9788822053756year: 2008month: septemberformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 224Daniele Gouthier, Elena IoliEinstein's words
Communicating science between rigour and poetry
A journey at the border between science and language, in order to discover how born words and scientific metaphors which are at the basis of science and its communications.
9788822002297year: 2006month: februaryformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 224
