Art and Emotion It is widely thought that the capacity of artworks to arouse emotions in audiences is a perfectly natural and unproblemmatic fact. It just seems obvious that we can feel sadness or pity for fictional characters, fear at the view of threatening monsters on the movie screen, and joy upon listening to upbeat, happy songs. This may be why so many of us

Carlo Darwin (1809–1882) Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed. A number of prior authors had proposed that species were not static

Significato e comunicazione La comunicazione è fondamentale per noi come esseri umani. Molto di ciò che sappiamo o crediamo lo impariamo ascoltando o vedendo ciò che gli altri dicono o esprimono, e parte di ciò che ci rende umani è il nostro desiderio di comunicare i nostri pensieri e sentimenti agli altri. Una parte fondamentale della nostra attività comunicativa riguarda la comunicazione linguistica, dove usiamo le parole e le frasi di

Constructive Mathematics Constructive mathematics is positively characterized by the requirement that proof be algorithmic. In parole povere, this means that when a (mathematical) object is asserted to exist, an explicit example is given: a constructive existence proof demonstrates the existence of a mathematical object by outlining a method of finding (“constructing”) such an object. The emphasis in constructive theory is placed on hands-on provability, invece di

Bertrand Russell: Ethics This article confines itself to Bertrand Russell’s conversion from ethical cognitivism (similar to G. E. Moore) to ethical non-cognitivism (similar to Ayer). Russell’s conversion is not only historically important, as it contributes to the rise of metaethics, but it also clarifies the central issues between cognitivism and non-cognitivism. Tradizionalmente, ethics has been understood as a branch of philosophy that focuses on normative