Papers by Olimpia G . Loddo
Sociologia del diritto, Jan 30, 2024
International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology, Jan 31, 2022
Programming Languages (PL) effectively performs an intersemiotic translation from a natural langu... more Programming Languages (PL) effectively performs an intersemiotic translation from a natural language to machine language. PL comprises a set of instructions to implement algorithms, i.e., to perform (computational) tasks. Similarly to Normative Languages (NoL), PLs are formal languages that can perform both regulative and constitutive functions. The paper presents the first results of interdisciplinary research aimed at highlighting the similarities between NoL (social sciences) and PL (computer science) through everyday life examples, exploiting Object-Oriented Programming Language tools and an Internet of Things (IoT) system as a case study. Given the pandemic emergency, the urge to move part of our social life to the digital world arose, together with the need to effectively transpose regulative rules and constitutive rules through different strategies for translating a normative utterance expressed in natural language.
Global jurist, Jun 24, 2022
The expression “intersemiotic legal translation” refers to all forms of legal translation that us... more The expression “intersemiotic legal translation” refers to all forms of legal translation that use at least two different semiotic codes, of which at least one is not verbal. The article will analyze four different conceptions of intersemiotic translation by highlighting the different potential applications in the legal field, as well as the limitations related to this form of translation. The concept of “intersemiotic legal translation” will be examined as a species of the genus “legal translation”, and will be framed according to a typology consisting of six types of legal translation that will take both its semiotic and its legal dimensions into account.
Routledge eBooks, May 26, 2021
Springer eBooks, Nov 17, 2021
Lecture notes in networks and systems, 2022
The article explores the concept of «function assignment» starting from John R. Searle's ... more The article explores the concept of «function assignment» starting from John R. Searle's distinction between agentive and non-agentive function. The agentive function assignments «mark uses to which we put objects» (e.g. «this stone is a paperweight»); the non-agentive functions are assigned to processes occurring in nature (e.g. «the function of the heart is to pump blood»). Searle thinks that both kinds of function assignments have something to do with normative evaluations. However, the relationship between function assignment and normative evaluations is not clear. The article tries to clarify Searle's distinction between agentive and non-agentive function assignment, investigating the role of the axiological commitment in function assignment. It also highlights that the expression 'function assignment' can refer to acts that are different in kind since they presuppose different kind of agency (physical agency, mental agency and social agency). Finally, the article focuses on the normativity that rules function assignment and distinguishes two kinds of normativity that play an important role in function assignment: axiologically oriented normativity and constitutive normativity". The "axiologically oriented normativity" behind "function assignments allows a teleological representation of a process that exists independently from the observer. Constitutive normativity can establish new patterns of action to fulfil requirements that natural processes had originally been fulfilling. For instance, tissue engineering and the creation of artificial organs presuppose a normativity that creates new system of working for an organ of the human body. Indeed, a non-agentive function (as the one of pumping blood) is assignable to an artificial device. Despite this fact, the non-agentive nature of that function (e.g. to circulate the blood) does not change.
Routledge eBooks, Jul 26, 2022
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2016
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
An intersemiotic translation is any form of translation that involves at least two different semi... more 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 in digital environments. In this case, if the source text is a legal text, we encounter a particular type of intersemiotic translation, namely an intersemiotic legal translation in a digital environment. This paper will focus on the intersemiotic legal translation of contracts in digital environments, and is divided into two parts. In the first part (Section Ways of intersemiotically translating a contract using digital tools), we will analyze four possible uses of the intersemiotic translation of contracts in a digital context. In particular, we will highlight the technical characteristics of intersemiotic translation, its limitations, and...
Philosophical Explorations, 2021
ABSTRACT Since the middle of the last century, normative language has been much studied. In parti... more ABSTRACT 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 thoroughly investigated. We propose to call this specific type of artifacts with normative intent ‘deontic artifacts’. This article aims to investigate this normative phenomenon that is so widespread in our daily reality, but so often forgotten by scholars of norms and normativity.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Generally, when thinking of artifacts, one imagines “technical artifacts”. Technical artifacts ar... more 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 artifacts that we can call “cognitive artifacts”. Cognitive artifacts are all those artifacts that operate upon information in order to improve human cognitive performances. Artifacts of a further, different kind are what we may call “regulatory artifacts”; that is, material artifacts devised and made to regulate behaviour. Consider a roundabout, a traffic light or a speed bump. These artifacts do not make us stronger, faster, or more intelligent. They are placed on the road surface to regulate traffic. This article investigates artifacts of this third kind and, especially, the functions that they perform.
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
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Attraverso l’analisi fenomenologica degli atti sociali, Reinach offre un contributo fondamentale alla ricostruzione del complesso passaggio dalla percezione sensoriale all’esperienza sociale e giuridica. Gli atti sociali non si esprimono necessariamente mediante parole. Il requisito della verbalizzazione è per essi solo accidentale. Tuttavia, gli atti sociali devono essere manifestati. Essi non sono meramente atti interiori. Il loro sostrato, che può essere percepito attraverso i sensi, è un canale che consente ai loro destinatari di esperirne la natura. La manifestazione dell’atto sociale presenta, da un lato, una morfologia esterna mutevole e, dall’altro lato, un télos fondamentale immutabile che deriva da un carattere essenziale dell’atto manifestato: la necessità di essere percepito e pienamente compreso dal destinatario.
L’analisi della manifestazione degli atti sociali rappresenta un’occasione di confronto tra giuristi e filosofi per indagare, sotto nuova luce, la forma dell’atto giuridico.
“Hidden Normativity: Normative Mindshaping,”
which will take place on Friday, September 20, 2024. The event will start at 14:30 CEST (08:30 EDT).
Info: [email protected]
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Event Schedule
14:30 – 14:40: Welcome
Chair: José Giromini (CONICET & National University of Córdoba)
14:40 – 15:30: Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University) Pattern Finding and Pattern Making
15:30 – 16:20: Jaroslav Peregrin (University of Hradec Králové) Implicit Rules
16:20 – 16:30: Break
Chair: John Andrew Michael (University of Milan)
16:30 – 17:20: Kristina Musholt (Leipzig University) Mindshaping, Agency, and the Role of the Emotions
17:20 – 18:10: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Social Meanings: Signs, Signals, and Scripts
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Event Description:
Humans live immersed in a nomosphere, in a complex world of norms that condition their way of thinking and behaviour. Sometimes, people are aware of these rules, as is the case with certain legal norms and certain moral norms that are also explicitly formulated and used in a criminal process or in moral judgments. However, humans are also conditioned by norms they are not themselves aware of and by axiological elements inscribed in their practices.
A recent conceptual tool for investigating this hidden normativity that lies in the background of human actions and thoughts is the idea of "mindshaping." If mindreading is the ability to read the mental states of others, "mindshaping" is the ability to shape each other's minds, which also transforms into the ability to shape each other's behaviours.
This “NormaCtivity Online Workshop” aims to investigate the normative atmosphere in which humans live in light of the concept of "mindshaping," to study the relationship between mindshaping and the cultural and normative background of human actions and to analyse the regulatory function of mindshaping. The workshop will bring together leading philosophers working on hidden forms of normativity and regulation, mindshaping and social and normative cognition.
Speakers:
Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kristina Musholt (Leipzig University)
Jaroslav Peregrin (University of Hradec Králové)
Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University)
Organizers:
Laura Danón (CONICET & National University of Córdoba)
Olimpia Giuliana Loddo (University of Cagliari)
Giuseppe Lorini (University of Cagliari)
We look forward to seeing you online!
The event is organized by the Normactivity Network, the Department of Law (University of Cagliari) the Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), the Institute of Humanities at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).It will take place as part of the project "NAND Normative Artifacts and Normative Drawings: Investigating Non-Linguistic Regulation (NAND)" (CUP: F53D23003500006), funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR).