News of April 2023
News about philosophy and its history in April 2023
Opportunities in April 2023
Career and research opportunities in April 2023
Recently published books and volumes
Our selection of books for April 2023
Transcribing the Portuguese Inquisitorial Proceedings: TraPrInq
This month, the Journal of the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentation Professionals (BAD) announced a new automatic transcription project to be released in June 2023, coordinated by Hervé Baudry: TraPrInq. Automatic transcription has been the most powerful AI tool for researchers working with large collections. With increasing accuracy as more information is added to transcription models, it is still a time-consuming task to encode texts, and calligraphical documents are still the hardest to sample, as shape variation is at its highest, especially in historical records, where the legibility and readability of the texts was not a main concern.
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Paolo Gigli
For Spring break, I am happy to present the work of Paolo Gigli. Paolo is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and is currently a recognised student in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford (UK). He is writing a dissertation titled ‘Plato on Change’ under the supervision of Paolo Crivelli whose object is the metaphysics of change in Plato’s dialogues, especially the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Parmenides. In his work, he ponders questions such as: does everything change according to Plato? Does Plato’s Forms change too? And if so, how? Which kinds of change does Plato admit in the dialogues? And ultimately: What is change for Plato?
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Reseña de “Variaciones de un tema invisible”, muestra pictórica de Jorge Pirozzi en UCA (Bs. As.)
Nuestros lectores de IPM Monthly estarán ya familiarizados con proposiciones que sostienen que el conocimiento comienza con los sentidos y que nada hay en el intelecto que no haya pasado antes por la facultad imaginativa. Aquellas parecen invitarnos a utilizar la captación estética (en el sentido griego de sensación, aísthesis) como un peldaño o un trampolín que nos acerca más y más a las verdades más profundas y a acercarnos a lo más cognoscible en sí. Esos últimos serían los objetos de estudio más alejados de nuestra sensibilidad y su acceso se daría paso a paso sin descartar ni saltar lo más cognoscible inmediatamente para nosotros, i.e. aquello que nos es inmediato a los sentidos. De algún modo, hay una sugerencia a explorar la sensibilidad y a adentrarnos en el arte, las ciencias y la naturaleza primero por los sentidos. No obstante, como siempre en filosofía, hay adversarios de la sensibilidad que sugieren tener cuidado al tratar con esta facultad que nos fomenta el ocio, el crimen y el pecado, nos aleja de lo más alto y abstracto.
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