Claudio Paolucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 3774791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Paolucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Paolucci |
| SIGNATURE | PAOLUCCI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3038-5266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The myth of meaning
This article explores the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and human cognition through semiotics, proposing that generative AI offers a lens through which the essence of human being is revealed and through which semiotic enunciation and meaning can be radically reevaluated. Drawing on semiotic, philosophical, and neurodevelopmental frameworks, it argues that generative AI, as exemplified by language-endowed systems like Cha…
A semiotic lifeworld. Semiotics and phenomenology
If we think of cognition and experience from the enactivist idea of a structural coupling between organism and environment, we see that this environment is first and foremost a semiotic environment, crowded with objects, norms, habits, institutions, and artefacts that shape our minds and represent the background of our perception of the world. This semiotic environment, which goes far beyond the opposition between nature and culture, (See Paolucc…
Early prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorders through interaction analysis in home videos and explainable artificial intelligence
Pre-Truth
In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre-Truth (as opposed to post-truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are better equipped to explain what is happening in our contemporary societies, especially if we take into account the world of media and communication. In the first part of the article, I will frame the problems of fake news and post-truth within the dynamics characterizing the re…
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies
In this paper, we try to build a semiotics of stereotypes through the key idea of enunciation. We investigate stereotypes of Persons with Disabilities in the context of social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) by adopting a semiotic perspective. The mainstream idea about stereotypes is that they are necessarily something negative, that must be avoided to maximize inclusivity and fairness. However, in our view, stereotypes are the backgro…
Face and Mask
In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the…
L’énonciation comme addition de soustractions
Dans cet article, je me propose de réfléchir au rapport entre notre niche écologique, qui est faite aussi des formations discursives à travers lesquelles nous habitons l’environnement, et les différentes formes d’acte et d’actantialité qui régulent et produisent les formations discursives qui nous permettent de « meubler » notre environnement, en transformant la niche écologique en une véritable niche sémiotique. La notion clé pour penser la rela…
Sentido y cognición
En este artículo, comparo desde un punto de vista epistemológico las teorías semióticas de la narratividad elaboradas en el marco semiótico con las que han surgido en el de las ciencias cognitivas. Al examinar el lugar cada vez más central que la narratividad ha tomado en estas últimas, demuestro que la noción misma de narratividad tiene un impacto espectacular sobre ellas, en tanto que esta noción es susceptible de modificar sus posiciones epist…
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics
In this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature of meaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will wor…
Three Pragmatist Legacies in the Thought of Umberto Eco
1. Eco and Pragmatism Pragmatism was one of the greatest influences on Umberto Eco’s intellectual adventure. This influence can be seen not only in his philosophical work, but also in many of the ideas hidden behind his novels, which, as Eco himself had recently admitted by authorising the Library of Living Philosophers to extensively cover such a topic in the volume dedicated to him, are an important part of his philosophy. Or, perhaps, Eco’s no…
A philosophical platypus
When John Hartley first asked me (Patrizia) to write an appreciation for Umberto Eco, I started wondering what would be the most appropriate way to honour his memory. Another, necessarily incomplete, exposition of his incredibly extended work? Another attempt to capture his multiform personality, the semiotician and flute player, novelist and collector of ancient books, medievalist scholar and entertaining teller ofjokes? In the days and weeks th…
Social Cognition between Theories, Simulations and Narratives
La cognition sociale entre théories, simulations et narrations : l'hypothèse sémiotique de la pratique narrative. Dans cet article, je vais présenter l'Hypothèse Sémiotique de la Pratique Narrative (Narrative Practice Semiotic Hypothesis) afin de défendre les théories narratives (Hutto, Gallagher, etc.) comme solution de rechange aux théories actuelles de la cognition sociale (Théorie de la Théorie et Théorie de la Simulation), en faisant valoir …
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies
In this paper, we try to build a semiotics of stereotypes through the key idea of enunciation. We investigate stereotypes of Persons with Disabilities in the context of social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) by adopting a semiotic perspective. The mainstream idea about stereotypes is that they are necessarily something negative, that must be avoided to maximize inclusivity and fairness. However, in our view, stereotypes are the backgro…
The myth of meaning
This article explores the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and human cognition through semiotics, proposing that generative AI offers a lens through which the essence of human being is revealed and through which semiotic enunciation and meaning can be radically reevaluated. Drawing on semiotic, philosophical, and neurodevelopmental frameworks, it argues that generative AI, as exemplified by language-endowed systems like Cha…
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics
In this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature of meaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will wor…
Social Cognition between Theories, Simulations and Narratives
La cognition sociale entre théories, simulations et narrations : l'hypothèse sémiotique de la pratique narrative. Dans cet article, je vais présenter l'Hypothèse Sémiotique de la Pratique Narrative (Narrative Practice Semiotic Hypothesis) afin de défendre les théories narratives (Hutto, Gallagher, etc.) comme solution de rechange aux théories actuelles de la cognition sociale (Théorie de la Théorie et Théorie de la Simulation), en faisant valoir …
A philosophical platypus
When John Hartley first asked me (Patrizia) to write an appreciation for Umberto Eco, I started wondering what would be the most appropriate way to honour his memory. Another, necessarily incomplete, exposition of his incredibly extended work? Another attempt to capture his multiform personality, the semiotician and flute player, novelist and collector of ancient books, medievalist scholar and entertaining teller ofjokes? In the days and weeks th…
Three Pragmatist Legacies in the Thought of Umberto Eco
1. Eco and Pragmatism Pragmatism was one of the greatest influences on Umberto Eco’s intellectual adventure. This influence can be seen not only in his philosophical work, but also in many of the ideas hidden behind his novels, which, as Eco himself had recently admitted by authorising the Library of Living Philosophers to extensively cover such a topic in the volume dedicated to him, are an important part of his philosophy. Or, perhaps, Eco’s no…
L’énonciation comme addition de soustractions
Dans cet article, je me propose de réfléchir au rapport entre notre niche écologique, qui est faite aussi des formations discursives à travers lesquelles nous habitons l’environnement, et les différentes formes d’acte et d’actantialité qui régulent et produisent les formations discursives qui nous permettent de « meubler » notre environnement, en transformant la niche écologique en une véritable niche sémiotique. La notion clé pour penser la rela…
Sentido y cognición
En este artículo, comparo desde un punto de vista epistemológico las teorías semióticas de la narratividad elaboradas en el marco semiótico con las que han surgido en el de las ciencias cognitivas. Al examinar el lugar cada vez más central que la narratividad ha tomado en estas últimas, demuestro que la noción misma de narratividad tiene un impacto espectacular sobre ellas, en tanto que esta noción es susceptible de modificar sus posiciones epist…
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics
In this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature of meaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will wor…
Face and Mask
In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the…
Early prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorders through interaction analysis in home videos and explainable artificial intelligence
Pre-Truth
In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre-Truth (as opposed to post-truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are better equipped to explain what is happening in our contemporary societies, especially if we take into account the world of media and communication. In the first part of the article, I will frame the problems of fake news and post-truth within the dynamics characterizing the re…
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies
In this paper, we try to build a semiotics of stereotypes through the key idea of enunciation. We investigate stereotypes of Persons with Disabilities in the context of social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) by adopting a semiotic perspective. The mainstream idea about stereotypes is that they are necessarily something negative, that must be avoided to maximize inclusivity and fairness. However, in our view, stereotypes are the backgro…
A semiotic lifeworld. Semiotics and phenomenology
If we think of cognition and experience from the enactivist idea of a structural coupling between organism and environment, we see that this environment is first and foremost a semiotic environment, crowded with objects, norms, habits, institutions, and artefacts that shape our minds and represent the background of our perception of the world. This semiotic environment, which goes far beyond the opposition between nature and culture, (See Paolucc…
The myth of meaning
This article explores the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and human cognition through semiotics, proposing that generative AI offers a lens through which the essence of human being is revealed and through which semiotic enunciation and meaning can be radically reevaluated. Drawing on semiotic, philosophical, and neurodevelopmental frameworks, it argues that generative AI, as exemplified by language-endowed systems like Cha…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Semiotics (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Semiotics and Representation Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works)