The struggle of the forces Good and Evil is one leading themes European art Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque. Personifications positive negative qualities a person are depicted in book miniatures, monumental paintings, mosaics sculpture from time Carolingians up to XIX century. victory Virtues over Vices described «Psychomachy» by Aurelius Prudentius Clement functioned as subjects Carolingian ...

Since at least the mid-2000s, political commentators, environmental advocates, and scientists have raised concerns about an “anti-science” approach to policymaking in conservative governments US Canada. This paper explores resolves a paradox surrounding some uses of epithet. I examine two cases such policy, both which involve appeals epistemic values that are widely endorsed by philosophers sci...

This paper aims at illustrating the virtues and vices of biased rationality. Starting with the virtues of biased rationality, we will illustrate the idea of Homo Heuristicus along with its fallacious dimension. We will claim that the rationale of biased rationality consists in turning ignorance into a cognitive virtue. More precisely, we will argue that biases provide us with premissory startin...

Over the last 30 years, Silvana Patriarca, a professor of Contemporary History at Fordham University, New York, has deeply and consistently investigated construction Italian national narrative: its ‘long term’ genealogy, characteristics, tensions. Her first book, Numbers Nationhood (Patriarca 1996), focused on co-production statistical knowledge image Italy during Restoration Risorgimento, rere...