Roberto Casati
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 978977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roberto Casati |
| PRENOMES | Roberto |
| SOBRENOME | Casati |
| ASSINATURA | CASATI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8215-6428 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Marine biodiversity and the epistemology of aquariums
This contribution aims to explore the role of ex situ conservation institutions, and aquariums in particular, in shaping our ideas of biodiversity.Ex situ conservation fulfils multiple relevant functions. It helps protect endangered species that may not survive in the wild. It also provides urban citizens with direct experience of organisms that are not part of people’s everyday lives, thus contributing to both scientific education and recreation…
Evaluating the effectiveness of Marine Conservation Strategies
In recent decades, the conservation of marine ecosystems has garnered global attention due to the substantial evidence of ocean degradation and biodiversity loss. Despite significant advances in marine science, a comprehensive understanding and adequate protection of marine environments still need to be improved. Marine ecosystems face cumulative anthropogenic pressures, both locally and globally, including overfishing, pollution, and climate cha…
Sea level rise
Social and temporal disorientation during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The societal hallmark of the Covid‐19 pandemic was a set of mitigation measures such as lockdowns and curfews. The cognitive impact on the public of the resulting spatial, social and temporal constraints is still being investigated. While pandemic time has been extensively studied and mostly described as slowed down and elongated, opposite experimental patterns across national and social contexts leave open an important explanatory gap in order t…
The cognitive advantages of the notebook
Notebooks are widely used in a large number of professional and everyday life contexts. The notebook has been widely mentioned in the context of distributed cognition, the extended mind hypothesis and the study of cognitive artefacts. Despite its ubiquity and almost paradigmatic status, to date, there is no dedicated analysis of the notebook qua cognitive artefact, to explain its success and its resilience. Our aim is to fill this gap in the lite…
Disorientation and time distortions during the metro commute
Public transport disruptions are conducive to disorientation narratives in which the temporal aspects of the experience are central, but it is difficult to collect psychometric data at the moment of disruption to quantify the occurring underlying feelings. We propose a new real-time survey distribution method based on travellers' interaction with disruption announcements on social media. We analyse 456 responses in the Paris area and find that tr…
The Sailing Mind
Introduction
Lost in pandemic time
People have experienced many forms of temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 crisis. For this study, we collected a rich corpus of reports on the multifaceted experiences of disorientation during the pandemic. In this paper, we study the resulting corpus using a descriptive approach. We identify six emerging themes: temporal rift; temporal vertigo; impoverished time; tunnel vision; spatial and social scaffolding of time; suspended time. We o…
Naturalizing Critical Thinking
While very popular in public discourse about education, critical thinking education is still a work in progress. Two key conditions for successfully addressing critical thinking education are lacking: (a) the availability of a clear, specific, and operational definition, and (b) a deeper understanding of the natural cognitive bases of critical thinking. We, therefore, propose a theoretical framework for critical thinking education, grounded on a …
The collective disorientation of the Covid-19 crisis
One of the chief features of this global crisis is that we find ourselves in a shifting landscape. The resulting disorientation extends beyond health research and into many domains of our individual and collective lives. We suffer from political disorientation (the need for a radical shift in economic thinking), from social disorientation (the rearrangement of social dynamics based on distancing measures), and from temporal disorientation (the wa…
Borgesian maps
A Slow Impossible Mirror Picture
A new type of impossible picture is presented and described. The picture involves an object along with its reflection in a plane mirror, delivering two apparently irreconcilable views of the object itself when seen simultaneously in its flesh and in the mirror. Contrary to other, more familiar impossible pictures, its interpretation requires explicit reasoning about the represented reality. It is a slow impossible picture
Disorientation and GIS-Informed Wilderness Search and Rescue
The Structure of Standard Music Notation
Western musicians and musically educated people acquire most of their repertoire through reading musical scores. Learning to read music is a long and time-consuming process. Some crucial conventions must be mastered, and implemented according to sensorimotor patterns that are specific to the instruments one plays. This chapter explores some aspects of these conventions related to time representation. It presents a syntactic characterization of a …
Resemblance and Representation
Size From Shadow
International audience
Numerals and Word Sequences
Shadow-Related Concavity-Convexity Inversions Reveal a Very Basic Tolerance for Impossible Shadows
The stimuli traditionally used for demonstrating shadow-related concavity–convexity inversions reveal a very basic tolerance for impossible shadows—namely, self shadows do not induce a visual request for geometrically mandatory cast shadows
Les modalités sensorielles
Hallucinatory Pictures
Trust, secrecy and accuracy in voting systems
Are Shadows Transparent? An Investigation on White, Shadows, and Transparency in Pictures
Shadow perception and transparency perception appear to use very similar rules, to the point that from the perceptual point of view shadows have been considered an instance of transparent objects. We claim that in spite of the similarities, shadows ought not to be considered transparent entities. The discussion has consequences both for the issue of the location of shadows, and for the conceptualization of transparency, and it provides insight in…
The Copycat Solution to the Shadow Correspondence Problem
Cast shadows (henceforth simply 'shadows') depicted in artworks can fulfil some of their perceptual roles, such as helping the retrieval of 3-D structure and of relative positions of objects, without having to be geometrically or physically accurate. The visual system displays a wide tolerance for shadows that are mostly inaccurate, at times making use of the scarce accurate but relevant information that can still be retrieved from them. However,…
Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences
Online collection of papers by Devitt, Dretske, Guarino, Hochberg, Jackson, Petitot, Searle, Tye, Varzi and other leading thinkers on philosophy and the foundations of cognitive Science. Topics dealt with include: Wittgenstein and Cognitive Science, Content and Object, Logic and Foundations, Language and Linguistics, and Ontology and Mereology.
The collective disorientation of the Covid-19 crisis
One of the chief features of this global crisis is that we find ourselves in a shifting landscape. The resulting disorientation extends beyond health research and into many domains of our individual and collective lives. We suffer from political disorientation (the need for a radical shift in economic thinking), from social disorientation (the rearrangement of social dynamics based on distancing measures), and from temporal disorientation (the wa…
Holes and Other Superficialities
This investigation on the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry and the theory of perception seeks to answer two basic questions: Do holes really exist? If they do, what are they? Holes are among entities that down-to-earth philosophers would like to expel from their ontological inventory. Casati and Varzi argues in favour of holes' existence, examining their ontology of holes, their geometry, their part-whole relations, their identity, t…
Trust, secrecy and accuracy in voting systems
Holes and Other Superficialities
La physique naïve
Le texte suggère que certains développements récents en Intelligence Artificielle pourraient largement profiter des recherches en phénoménologie et psychologie de la Gestalt, et montre que parmi les auteurs de ces deux traditions on trouve les précurseurs de la physique naïve
Holes and Other Superficialities
Holes and Other Superficialities
This investigation on the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry and the theory of perception seeks to answer two basic questions: Do holes really exist? If they do, what are they? Holes are among entities that down-to-earth philosophers would like to expel from their ontological inventory. Casati and Varzi argues in favour of holes' existence, examining their ontology of holes, their geometry, their part-whole relations, their identity, t…
Holes and Other Superficialities
Parts and Places
Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Their starting point is an analysis of …
Parts and Places
Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Their starting point is an analysis of …
The Shadow Knows
I list relevant properties of cast shadows that the visual system could exploit (although it may not exploit). The study concerns the various types of information that can be extracted from shadows by systems that are significantly like ours (including embodied artificial systems) in an environment that is significantly like ours
Commonsense, Philosophical and Theoretical Notions of an Object
Journal Article Commonsense, Philosophical and Theoretical Notions of an Object: Some Methodological Problems Get access Roberto Casati Roberto Casati CNRS Institut Nicod EHESS-ENS, Paris, France and Università WAV, Venice, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 88, Issue 4, 1 October 2005, Pages 571–599, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist200588429 Published: 25 November 2014
Is the subjective feel of “presence” an uninteresting goal
How can you be surprised? The case for volatile expectations
Insurmountable simplicities
How I Managed to Hide My Shadow
A special type of visual stimulus is described which gives the perceiver the impression that a shadow has been hidden behind a surface in the image, contrary to expectations based on ecological situations in which covering a shadow only passes it on to the cover
The Copycat Solution to the Shadow Correspondence Problem
Cast shadows (henceforth simply 'shadows') depicted in artworks can fulfil some of their perceptual roles, such as helping the retrieval of 3-D structure and of relative positions of objects, without having to be geometrically or physically accurate. The visual system displays a wide tolerance for shadows that are mostly inaccurate, at times making use of the scarce accurate but relevant information that can still be retrieved from them. However,…
Trust, secrecy and accuracy in voting systems
Are Shadows Transparent? An Investigation on White, Shadows, and Transparency in Pictures
Shadow perception and transparency perception appear to use very similar rules, to the point that from the perceptual point of view shadows have been considered an instance of transparent objects. We claim that in spite of the similarities, shadows ought not to be considered transparent entities. The discussion has consequences both for the issue of the location of shadows, and for the conceptualization of transparency, and it provides insight in…
Hallucinatory Pictures
Les modalités sensorielles
Numerals and Word Sequences
Shadow-Related Concavity-Convexity Inversions Reveal a Very Basic Tolerance for Impossible Shadows
The stimuli traditionally used for demonstrating shadow-related concavity–convexity inversions reveal a very basic tolerance for impossible shadows—namely, self shadows do not induce a visual request for geometrically mandatory cast shadows
The Structure of Standard Music Notation
Western musicians and musically educated people acquire most of their repertoire through reading musical scores. Learning to read music is a long and time-consuming process. Some crucial conventions must be mastered, and implemented according to sensorimotor patterns that are specific to the instruments one plays. This chapter explores some aspects of these conventions related to time representation. It presents a syntactic characterization of a …
Resemblance and Representation
Size From Shadow
International audience
Disorientation and GIS-Informed Wilderness Search and Rescue
Borgesian maps
A Slow Impossible Mirror Picture
A new type of impossible picture is presented and described. The picture involves an object along with its reflection in a plane mirror, delivering two apparently irreconcilable views of the object itself when seen simultaneously in its flesh and in the mirror. Contrary to other, more familiar impossible pictures, its interpretation requires explicit reasoning about the represented reality. It is a slow impossible picture
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