Saints and Lovers

Moral Monsters and Saints

This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

Exploring the Betrothed Lovers

We present the ongoing activities and the first results achieved in a research project concerning the understanding of narrative in the high school. Students and teachers experimented with new ways to learn linguistic and digital skills, by using a collaborative learning environment built around the novel I Promessi Sposi. We analyzed the literary text, extracting social networks of characters ...

Home for Future Earth Lovers

The saints of epilepsy.

E PILEPSY, at least in its grand mal variety, presents so dramatic and, to the lay observer, so terrifying a spectacle that it is not strange that its victims readily resorted to supernatural aid for alleviation. Unlike so many other diseases it offers no external signs of its presence and the horrifying suddenness with which apparently healthy and normal people could be transformed into writhi...

Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers

319 Does this sound like a song title to you? For some reason, Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves pops into my head. But no, it is the title of an upcoming article in our journal by Andy Revelle, Kevin Messner, Aaron Shrimplin, and Susan Hurst – all from Miami University in Ohio. It is an interesting study about how different types of academic library patrons (“opinion types”) approach the acc...