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Impoliteness among slaves. An epigraphic evidence for insults from a Graeco-Roman bilingual context of Southern Italy
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
A threefold inscription scratched on a tile found in the surroundings of Reggio Calabria, dating back to late 2nd century BCe, evidences for insults addressed to slaves employed in a local pottery. Both context and abusive ...
The fate of causal structure under time reversal
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What happens to the causal structure of a world when time is reversed? At first glance it seems there are two possible answers: the causal relations are reversed, or they are not. I argue that neither of these answers is ...
On the unity between observational and experimental causal discovery
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In “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”, James Woodward supplements his celebrated interventionist account of causation and explanation with a set of new ideas about causal and explanatory asymmetries, ...
Duchenne smiles are actions not mere happenings: lessons from the debate on expressive action
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In this paper, I will argue that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the debate on expressive action, we do not have good reasons to exclude facial and bodily expressions of emotion such as smiling or frowning from ...
Politeness and interaction in Ancient Greek: preventing and avoiding dispreferred reactions in the dialogues of Plato
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Following the descriptive and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, this paper analyzes the linguistic strategies employed in order to avoid or prevent dispreferred reactions in interaction, and examines their ...
Explanation, persistence and location
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According to the “received view” the disagreement between endurantism and perdurantism is ontological and concerns the existence of temporal parts of continuants. In a recent paper, Wasserman (2016) argues that the ontological ...
Towards a Pricean foundation for cultural evolutionary theory
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
La ecuación de Price es actualmente considerada una de las ecuaciones fundamentales -o incluso la ecuación fundamental- de la evolución. En el presente artículo exploramos el papel de dicha ecuación dentro de la teoría de ...
Politeness in early Ptolemaic papyri: a frame-based approach
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyrus letters, through a data-oriented approach exploiting the notion of “frame” (cf. terkourafi 2001), which accounts for ...
The (cyclical) path towards impoliteness in electoral debates
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses the nature of the acts of (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological ...
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