Giuseppe Lorini- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Cagliari
Giuseppe Lorini
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Cagliari
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January 2005 - February 2024
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September 1993 - March 1998
November 1988 - July 1993
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A widespread opinion holds that norms and codes of conduct as such can only be established via words, that is, in some lexical form. This perspective can be criticized: some norms produced by human acts are not word-based at all. For example, many norms are actually conveyed through graphics (e. g. road signs and land-use maps), sounds (e. g. the r...
Starting from the ontological question of norms, namely from the question “What do we talk about when we talk about norms?”, the author highlights the existence of thetic norms, that is, norms established through an act of normative production, which have not been formulated linguistically. Notably, the author focuses on drawn (or graphic) norms, t...
Often, when a problem arises, someone immediately declares: “There’s a regulatory gap to plug. What we need is a new rule.” As if everything could be solved with a new regulation. And, when we think of a regulation that can fix things, generally what we have in mind is a verbal – preferably written – regulation. There are two aspects we wish to hig...
A human being is not only a social and teleological animal, she/he is also a nomic animal, a creature that can act in light of rules. Starting from this new image of humankind, the author extends the investigation of normativity to other members of the animal kingdom, posing the question of whether other nomic animals exist outside the human specie...
This article is focused on the rules that we create using drawings (designs, pictures, paintings, etc.) which will be termed ‘graphic rules’. Its attention is therefore not simply on the use of images in normative documents but also ‘as law’. We will delve into one of these types of graphic rules: that is, graphic rules used in urban planning. The...
Hidden Normativity: Normative Mindshaping
III NormaCtivity Online Workshop
Friday, September 20, 2024.
14:30 CEST (08:30 EDT).
Info: normactivity@gmail.com
website: https://www.normactivity.com/conferences.html
This article concerns the types of praxeological constraints on nomothetic power; that is, constraints that are inherent in the nature of the nomothetic act itself and exist independently of the norms in force in a specific system of norms.
The praxeological constraints on nomothetic power are different in kind. In this sense, it is possible to dra...
Recently, various philosophers and ethologists have argued or hypothesised that, in addition to humans, there are also non-human animals that are capable of following rules and implementing normative behaviours. The investigation of animal normativity until now, however, has been almost exclusively focused on mammals and, in particular, non-human p...
In everyday discourse, and also in the academic literature , the expressions "regulatory interventions" (i.e. interventions intended to regulate behaviours) and "normative interventions" (i.e. interventions which set norms/rules) are usually assumed to be synonymous. From this perspective, any regulatory intervention is also normative, and vice ver...
La riflessione scientifica sulla pandemia da Covid-19 è molto estesa. La questione della regolazione introdotta per contrastarla è stata però meno studiata di altri aspetti. A questo proposito, è interessante notare che in molti studi internazionali si
classi*ca questo tipo di intervento come “non-phamaceutical”, come se fosse una categoria residua...
Generally, when thinking of artifacts, one imagines “technical artifacts”. Technical artifacts are those artifacts that perform a mere causal function. Their purpose is to instrumentally help and support an action, not to change behaviour. However, technical artifacts do not exhaust the set of artifacts. Alongside technical artifacts there are also...
An intersemiotic translation is any form of translation that involves at least two different semiotic codes; for example, the translation from words to images, to numerical code, or to non-verbal sounds. One of the most widespread examples of intersemiotic translation in the contemporary world is transposing natural language into machine language i...
Regulation through artifacts. When we think about artifacts, we usually consider objects such as, for example, a nutcracker, a screwdriver, a bicycle, a table, a fountain pen, a toothbrush, a food mixer; that is, material objects designed and constructed to perform a ‘technical functiom’. However, there are also artifacts with which we normatively...
Our research objective is to study the role of metaphor on the effectiveness of technologies that are designed to nudge people towards more healthy or socially appropriate behaviors. Towards this goal, we focus on the problem of motivating and encouraging appropriate social behaviors in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, such as maintain...
Credentials are the documents we are required to have in our possession to achieve certain ends—for instance, driving licenses, identity cards, passports, and credit cards. Credentials play an important role in COVID regulations. This paper aims to reconstruct and analyse their role during the pandemic. In particular, the paper will stress how cred...
When thinking about how human behaviour is regulated, one generally imagines a regulation consisting of norms linguistically expressed in sentences: that is, “sentential deontic regulation”. However, this notion of regulation is reductive because there are (non‐deontic and) non‐sentential forms of regulation. In this article, we do not restrict our...
This chapter focuses on the most famous book by the Italian legal philosopher Antonio Pigliaru, La vendetta barbaricina come ordinamento giuridico, first published in 1959. The book collects Pigliaru’s investigations on the Barbagian code and describes the social dynamics of an ancestral folk law that emerged in the territory of Barbagia, located i...
The goal of this research is to study the role of metaphor on the effectiveness of technologies that are designed to nudge people towards more healthy or socially appropriate behaviors. Towards this goal, we focus on the problem of motivating and encouraging appropriate social behaviors in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, such as maint...
Regulation can occur "with (specific) rules/norms" or "without (specific) rules/norms". Numerous studies have been devoted to the first option. To the point where "regulation" and "rules" have often been seen to coincide in some academic research, and also in everyday ways of thinking. We deal with the second option in this article: regulation with...
Since the middle of the last century, normative language has been much studied. In particular, the normative function performed by certain sentences and by certain speech acts has been investigated in depth. Still, the normative function performed by certain physical artifacts designed and built to regulate human behaviors has not yet been thorough...
In the twentieth century, the functions of written or spoken language were extensively studied. The functions of drawings were studied less. This was largely due to a kind of ‘verbal-centrism’ that dominated the general discussions on the mechanisms of interaction and communication. This article explores the various possible functions of drawings,...
Credentials play an important role in all modern societies, but the analysis of their nature and function has thus far been neglected by social philosophers. We present a view according to which the defining function of credentials is to certify the identity and the institutional status (including certain rights) of individuals. More importantly, c...
En el presente ensayo, el autor, partiendo del libro de John R. Searle The Construction of Social Reality, estudia la ontología social del último Searle poniendo en evidencia las novedades respecto a la teoría de los hechos institucionales formulada por el propio Searle en los años sesenta. Es así novedosa la cuestión que se plantea sobre la fundac...
The research on constitutive rules has from its beginnings onwards been inextricably connected with social ontology. In social ontology, the fundamental role played by constitutive rules (referred to by different names) in the construction of social reality and its institutions with their normative implications was already acknowledged by three pio...
Human beings are “rule-following animals” or “nomic animals” whose behavior is strictly supported by social norms that reflect shared expectations on what a particular social context considers as appropriate behavior. Yet, little is known about the biological processes that determine how we learn to accept a particular social behavior as the most a...
Revenge is usually considered a mere instinctive and spontaneous reaction to an injustice. However, as the legal anthropologist knows well, revenge is also an action regulated by unwritten laws in most traditional communities. It is therefore possible to see revenge as one of the most ancient legal institutions, and possibly the most ancient form o...
The paper will challenge the theories that deny that norms are spatial entities. For this purpose, we will study the relationship
between norms and space, and investigate the possibility that, although norms are not material entities, they have not only temporal but also spatial coordinates. The first step in our inquiry will consist in an analysis...
O autor investiga o papel das regras constitutivas na construção da realidade social. Ele nega que as regras constitutivas sejam condição suficiente de uma prática como um jogo de xadrez. Para criar uma nova prática com regras, é necessário que já exista uma gramática dessa prática, ou seja, o sentido dessa prática (por exemplo, o sentido de jogo)....
The Polish philosopher Czesław Znamierowski (1888–1967) was perhaps not a pur sang phenomenologist; however, he was significantly inspired and influenced by Reinach’s A priori foundations of the civil law. In 1921, a few years before Gerda Walther, Edith Stein and Dietrich von Hildebrand, he started publishing articles and books on what he called “...
In Speech Acts, John Searle argues that institutional facts presuppose, for their existence, the existence of certain institutions (understood as systems of constitutive rules). In this paper I extend Searle s theory of institutional facts arguing that a further level is needed for the investigation of the structure of institutional reality: the le...
El autor investiga el papel desarrollado por las reglas constitutivas en la construcción de la realidad social. En particular, niega que, por ejemplo, las reglas constitutivas del ajedrez sean condición suficiente de la práctica llamada juego del ajedrez. Para crear una nueva práctica, se necesita también la existencia de la gramática de esa prácti...
The author investigates the role of constitutive rules in the construction of social reality. He denies that constitutive rules are a sufficient condition of a practice such as a chess game. To create a new practice with rules, it is necessary that there already be the grammar of this practice, that is, the sense of this practice (for example, the...
This is a collection of 31 essays, by 25 well-known authors, concerning different aspects of the philosophy of norms. The essays are grouped in five sections devoted to (i) the ontology of norms, (ii) the typology of norms (with a special focus on the typology of constitutive rules), (iii) the entities that are constituted by norms, (iv) the validi...
Contents
Preface / vii
I. Tradition
Stanisław Czepita
Czesław Znamierowski’s Conception of the Norm and the Problem
of Truth / 3
Jakub Martewicz
Truth of Legal Norms in Czes³aw Znamierowski’s Philosophy / 8
Giuseppe Lorini
The Threefold Role of the Logical Value of Norms / 16
Edoardo Fittipaldi
Illusions of Imperatives, Norms, and Truth / 26
Paweł...
This is a collection of 16 essays, by five scholars, on recent research topics in the philosophy of law. The essays are grouped into five sections devoted to (i) the law, (ii) norms, (iii) normative language, (iv) validity, and (v) legal and performative acts.
