Giovanni Scarafile
List of John Benjamins publications in which Giovanni Scarafile is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1574-1583
Titles
Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model
Edited by Jens Allwood, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile
Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous becomes heterogeneous and what was hierarchical becomes heterarchical.When… read more[Controversies, 16] 2020. vi, 279 pp.
Controversies in the Contemporary World
Edited by Adriano Fabris and Giovanni Scarafile
Inspired by Marcelo Dascal’s theory of controversies, this volume includes studies in the theory of controversies, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, and case-studies of particular historical and current controversies.The purpose of this volume is to identify a… read more[Controversies, 15] 2019. xiv, 305 pp.
Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts
Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Giovanni Scarafile
The relationship between science and democracy has become a much-debated issue. In recent years, we have even seen an exponential growth in literature on the subject. No doubt, the interest has partly been justified by the concern of public opinion over the technological repercussions of scientific… read more[Controversies, 13] 2018. viii, 198 pp.
2020 Introduction. Crossing borderlines: Beyond the structure of parallel world views Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell: Ethics of listening, resistance to change and interdisciplinarity Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 235–254 | Chapter
One of the risks to the study of interdisciplinary dynamics is to limit the analysis to a description of the visible structures through which it is in action. Indeed, there are a number of factors which, although invisible, may contribute to the success or failure of an interdisciplinary… read more
2019 Foreword Controversies in the Contemporary World, Fabris, Adriano and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. xi–xiv | Foreword
2019 Chapter 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz: Rationality, controversies and the ethics of communication Controversies in the Contemporary World, Fabris, Adriano and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 7–28 | Chapter
This essay explains the conceptual tools used in the international LeLo project, coordinated by Marcelo Dascal, which have led, often with innovative results, to the reconstruction of the virtual debate between Leibniz and Locke. The project focuses on the connection between controversies… read more
2018 Foreword: Like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Foreword
2018 Chapter 8. The ethics of communication and the Terra Terra project Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 145–164 | Chapter
The Terra Terra project is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration. In it several components converge, and they can be traced back to the following two macro-categories: on the one hand, the need for renewed food traceability as a result of satisfying the demands of the movements of food… read more
2016 Controversies on Body: Brief Remarks on the nexus between the Ethics of Communication and the Altruistic Convenience in the doctor–patient relationship Controversies, Communication and the Body, Lehmann, Joseph (ed.), pp. 486–499 | Article
My paper is related to applied ethics with special reference to the ethics of communication. The task of this discipline is to defend otherness in the various contexts where it exists. The departure point for my paper is the observation that the physician–patient relationship, instead of being… read more
2016 Perpetual beginners: Introduction to the Special Issue Controversies, Communication and the Body, Lehmann, Joseph (ed.), pp. 359–363 | Article