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Technical Change and Social Revolution

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…
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Rorty on Language and Social Practices

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…
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Pragmatic Objectivity

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of objectivity …
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Lawyer of defendant and his role in the criminal process from the viewpoint of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Albanian criminal procedural legislation

Klodjan Skenderaj, Sokol Mëngjesi · Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania
A guarantee for real ensuring of defendant’s rights is the qualified legal assistance by the side of the lawyer, chosen or assigned by the proceeding body. Providing legal protection to defendants was an important achievement in the long and difficult efforts to democratize the criminal proceedings.…
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Pragmatism and Science

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Logical empiricism gave rise to a powerful paradigm and it took some decades to overthrow it, even though it should be judged respectfully since, after all, philosophy of science and logic as we know them stemmed from that ground. The basic assumptions on which the paradigm of the “received view” re…
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Economic growth in Kosovo and in other countries in terms of globalization of world economy

Lumnije Gërgjaliu · University of Prishtina, Kosovo
The global financial crisis causes, as among the greatest crises and consequences, reflected the world in continuously increase of unemployment, poverty and inequality. This crisis was reflected in both developed and developing countries including countries in transition. The fact cannot be denied t…
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Albania: a nation of unique inter-religious tolerance and steadfast aspirations for EU integration

Thomas Melady · President Emeritus, Sacred Heart Uni, Connecticut. The …
Religious freedom has been always considered as a strong indicator democracy and institutional set up in a country. Ex- communist countries in their efforts to set up a state of law and foster democracy, particularly, are more sensible toward indicators such as religious freedom, tolerance and diver…
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A Limited View of Realism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In the paper we argue that no neat border line between ontology and epistemology can be drawn. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is rather fuzzy, and the world is characterized by a sort of ontological opacity which makes the construction of any absolute onto…