On human deep thinking (read an extract) Following the radical renewal brought to modern physics by Albert Einstein's equations, which redefined the fundamental categories of spacetime and gravitation; following the Quantum Revolution of 1927, which embraced indeterminism and confronted human reason with a nature that proved irreducible to the categories of absolute causality and unconditional objectivity, the contemporary scientific age is inexorably steering humanity toward technical frontiers that stand entirely beyond the reach of …
by Prof. Michele Marsonet Pragmatists always had clear ideas about the relations between the natural and the social worlds. Most of them tell us, first of all, that human beings have evolved within nature as creatures that solve their survival problems through intelligence. The emergence of intelligence, on the other hand, must not be seen as a purpose of nature itself, but rather as our functional version of survival mechanisms such as physical force or numerousness. The systematic use of this intelligence in a context which is eminently so…
Written in Italian, this essay is nonetheless easily comprehensible to scholars of Etruscan language and culture. Find out more ........................................................................ Massimo Pittau – (Nuoro, 6 February 1921 – Sassari, 20 November 2019) was an Italian linguist and glottologist, a scholar of the Etruscan language, the Sardinian language, and proto-Sardinian. He published numerous studies on Nuragic civilisation and historical Sardinia. His positions regarding the Nuorese dialect (the most conservative within…
An extraordinary journey to the origins of human civilization. Based on a ground breaking methodology of linguistic investigation, supported by toponymic, architectural, stylistic evidence and field data collected within a vast territory, this research reconstructs the timeline of the megalithic age and of its different phases all the while following its epic peoples on their way to conquer the planet. A critical and analytical study that casts new light on the original meaning of thousands of toponyms including place names such as Sardinia,…
by Professor Michele Marsonet. The existence of the so-called “conceptual schemes” is one of the most controversial issues in today philosophy. Its importance lies in the fact that, depending upon what strategy one chooses to foster, this theme has a very important bearing on many related questions, among which the problem of scientific realism, the relations between ontology and epistemology, and the role that our conceptualization of the world plays in a realist vs. idealist outlook on reality. It would be wrong, however, to assume that th…