THE PROTOSINGULARITY MODEL
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 …
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TABULA CORTONENSIS. Arbitration on a contested inheritance
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…
MEGALITHIC CIVILIZATION – A Toponomastic and Philological Study
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,…
Pragmatism and Contemporary Philosophy by Michele Marsonet
The book first provides an overview of the transition, in the second half of the last century, from analytic to post-analytic philosophy, explaining to the reader how and why this situation came about. It also thematizes the rediscovery, within Anglo-American philosophical circles, of pragmatism — a current that had been overshadowed for decades by the logical neopositivism of Viennese origin and by analytic philosophy itself. The book then examines the relationships among authors such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Ni…
The Phaistos Disc Mystery: Solved
The period was that of the Sumerian Hundred Years War (circa 2500–2350 BC). The epoch was one drenched in blood and hunger, for human civilization stood at the precipice of ruin or glory. A ruthless war was raging between the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma. The prize was power and the conquest of the fertile and rich lands of Gu-Edin. The story of some of those epic deeds and their heroes, like Kug-Bau, the mythical goddess-queen, travelled far and wide, across distance and the ages, until it reached the sunny shores of Crete, where…
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