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Quine on the Dogmas of Empiricism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In his works the American philosopher Willard van Quine constantly rejects the analytic/synthetic distinction claiming that it is not justified. This happens because, in his opinion, human statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but as a corporate body, w…
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Philosophy and Logical Positivism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Logical positivists claim that the whole of human knowledge can be reduced to analytic and synthetic sentences, and this means that the only possible knowledge is provided by science. Metaphysics is thus meaningless, because its sentences do not comply with the rules set forth by logical analysis of…
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Interpreting Global Land and Water Grabbing through Two Rival Economic Paradigms

Guglielmo Chiodi · Sapienza University of Rome. Nuova Accademia,Italy
The paper tries to address attention to the recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) made by foreign investors in low-income agriculture-based countries. Since 2008, the phenomenon of LSLAs has increased at a very high speed and at a growing scale, although it has assumed different…
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Post-Empiricism and Philosophy of Science

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
The aim of this paper is to provide some sketchy remarks on the post-empiricist phenomenon in philosophy of science, taking into account the themes of the relationships between language on the one side and reality on the other, and the parallel problem of the alleged elimination of metaphysics. Unli…
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Logic and its Pragmatic Aspects

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
A pragmatist conception of logic rejects any kind of logical constructionism, based on the appeal to privileged ontological and epistemological items and to a perfect language supposedly provided by mathematical logic. Even in logic, “pluralism” must be the key-word if one does not want to be locked…
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Three growing questions about Masonry

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
Through three capital questions, this short essay tries to offer a general panorama and a better understanding of the proteiform complex body or Masonry. Through by a multi-level hermeneutic, this study get the ambition to be comprehensible both to Readers who are not used to this kind of literature…
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Audience Perception of Hate Speech and Foul Language in the Social Media in Nigeria: Implications for Morality and Law

Terfa Alakali, Hemen Faga, Jinatu Mbursa · Department of Mass Communication, University of Mkar, B…
This paper examined the phenomenon of hate speech and foul language on social media platforms in Nigeria, and assessed their moral and legal consequences in the society and to journalism practice. It used both quantitative and qualitative methodology to investigate the phenomenon. In the first place…