Social practices and embubblement

The present contribution describes the nature of social practices based on habitual behavior. The first part concerns the notion of “habit” from a perspective that crosses philosophy and science. Habits structure our daily life and possess also a social nature showed by informally shared habits and institutionalized rituals. After a brief reference to the philosophical debate, we point out the fundamental dimensions of habitual behavior i.e. routine and goal-directed behavior. They characterize also shared social habits like rituals because we need (a) to simply follow social institutional practices and (b) actively cooperate to reach a certain goal. Our descriptive strategy aims at promoting the aspect of “control” in habitual behavior namely the possibility of accepting or refusing to do something. This control does not work in many pathological cases and cases of auto-illusion. The second part of the article will illustrate the interesting but disregarded case of the epistemic and moral embubblement, explaining it as an individual cognitive process and as a specific social practice that once followed or institutionalized becomes a shared practice routinely performed. The main features of an epistemic bubble concern the widespread situation in which the cognitive agents always resolve the tension between their thinking that they know P and their knowing P in favor of knowing that P”. The related case of the moral bubble indicates the situation in which agents are potentially or actually violent and unaware of it. This cognitive process expresses how difficulties in recognizing one’s own violence lead to disregard the possible or actual inflicted harm: in this case a process of what can be called “autoimmunity” is at play. We will contend that the concept of moral bubble can provide an integrated and unified perspective able to interpret in a novel way many social practices in which morality and violence are intertwined

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties\u3c/em\u3e by Paul Collier

Book review of: Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties. HarperCollins (2018), 256 pages

Making the great transformation, November 13, 14, and 15, 2003

This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This Conference took place during November 13, 14, and 15, 2003. Co-organized by Cutler Cleveland and Adil Najam.The conference discussants and participants analyze why transitions happen, and why they matter. Transitions are those wide-ranging changes in human organization and well being that can be convincingly attributed to a concerted set of choices that make the world that was significantly and recognizably different from the world that becomes. Transition scholars argue that that history does not just stumble along a pre-determined path, but that human ingenuity and entrepreneurship have the ability to fundamentally alter its direction. However, our ability to ‘will’ such transitions remains in doubt. These doubts cannot be removed until we have a better understanding of how transitions work

Individuation and the organization in complex living ecosystem: recursive integration and self-assertion by holon-lymphocytes

International audienceIndividuation and organization in complex living multi-level ecosystem occurs as dynamical processes from early ontogeny. The notion of living “holon” displaying dynamic self-assertion and integration is used here to explain the ecosystems dynamic processes. The update of the living holon state according to the continuous change of the dynamic system allows for its viability. This is interpreted as adaptation, selection and organization by the human that observes the system at posteriori from its level. Our model concerns the complex dynamics of the adaptive immune system, integrating holon-lymphocytes that collectively preserve the identity and integrity of the organism. Each lymphocyte individualizes as a dynamic holon-lymphocyte, with somatic gene individuation leading to an individual, singular antigen immunoreceptor type, promoting the self-assertion. In turn, the “Immunoception” allows for perception of the environmental antigenic context, thus integration of the holon in its environment. The self-assertion/integration of holon-lymphocyte starts from fetal stages and is influenced by mother Lamarckian acquired historicity transmissions, a requisite for the integrity of the holobiont-organism. We propose a dynamic model of the perception by holon-lymphocyte, and at the supra-clonal level of the immune system functions that sustain the identity and integrity of the holon-holobiont organism

PAUB Catalog 1980-1981

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Influence of household behaviour and perception on Malaria control and prevention in Zamfara State North West Nigeria

Household behaviour has been established as a fundamental element in health preventive practices. Malaria control paradigm focuses mostly on the medical and health approach. Household behaviour has been to a large extent do not take into account. Household behaviour, not only plays a critical role in the influence of malaria prevalence, but these behaviours and attitudes can also play a role in its control and management. The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of household behaviour and perception on malaria control and prevalence in Zamfara state North West Nigeria. The study used a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative research. For the quantitative, a total of 409 respondents participated in the study. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and smart PLS 2.0 is use for the quantitative analysis. For the qualitative, 20 people participated as respondents. Thematic analysis was used for qualitative analysis. Result from the PLS analysis supported the entire three hypothesis. Specifically, the finding from hypothesis one shows that there is a significant relationship between behaviour on fumigation and malaria control. Furthermore, results from hypothesis two indicate that there is a connection between household behaviour on waste disposal and malaria control. The result from the hypothesis three reveals that there is a relationship between household malaria perception and malaria control. A finding from the qualitative study reveals that household behaviour has the influence to available and effective malaria control measures in Nigeria. Part of the result also shows that available and effective control measures influence household behaviour. The findings of the study were supported by the literature and theories. In general the study provides further proofs on the influence of household behaviour on malaria control and prevention with particular reference to Zamfara state in North West Nigeria. Household behaviour should be considered as an important concept for malaria control and prevention

PAUB Catalog 1981-1982

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Good Health, Quality Education, Sustainable Communities, Human Rights

The publication collects the contributions presented during the International Symposium of the Italian UNESCO Chairs (CONIUS) entitled Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals 2030, which took place on 16 November 2018 at the University of Florence. The contributions of national and international experts address the Global Aims for Sustainable Development of the UNESCO including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) n. 3 Improvement of the ‘Global Health’, n. 4 ‘Quality Education’, n. 11 ‘Cities and Inclusive Human Sett lements’ and n. 16 ‘Peace and Justice’, using transdisciplinary and transnational perspectives and implemented through theoretical studies and good practices