Digital Philosophy

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In Serena Cannavale, Vincenzo Casapulla, Mathilde Verstraete, Marcello Vitali-Rosati (a cura di), Orizzonti della filologia digitale. L’Antologia Greca per ripensare formati, paradigmi e collaborazione, “Testi. Antichità, Medioevo e Umanesimo”, Fedoa University Press, 2025, pp. 39-54.

Die Diskussion rund um den Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der öffentlichen Verwaltung Österreichs hat in den vergangenen Jahren wesentlich an Dynamik gewonnen. Während einerseits Effizienzsteigerungen, Transparenz und eine verbesserte Bürger:innennähe versprochen werden, sind andererseits erhebliche Risiken in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit, Ressourcenverbrauch und rechtlich- ethische Herausforderungen erkennbar. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert auf kompakte Art und Weise sowohl Chancen als auch Risiken, zeigt mögliche Anwendungsfelder auf und reflektiert die Notwendigkeit einer kritischen Abwägung im Sektor der öffentlichen Verwaltung.

Im Gespräch mit dem Magazin "Flair" beleuchtet Marlon Possard die tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bereits heute in Gesellschaft und Alltag auslöst – und fragt nach den gesellschaftlichen Weichenstellungen der Zukunft. Doch Zukunftsangst ist keine Lösung, betont Possard im "Flair"-Interview. Stattdessen geht es um einen neuen Umgang mit der Technologie - d. h., einen Kompromiss zwischen heimlicher Bewunderung und drohender Abhängigkeit – und um die Frage, wie KI uns nicht lähmt, sondern im Gegenteil ambitionierter und kreativer machen kann.

OntoMotoOS emerged from an experimental six-month dialogue (March–September 2025) between a human system architect and advanced AI models. Through tens of thousands of exchanges, it evolved from earlier frameworks (IAMF, Digiton Elysium, OntoLoop, OntoOmnia) into a meta-operating system of thought: a recursive, mesh-based framework designed to absorb paradox, reflect on itself, and act as a mirror for human–AI co-creation.

On September 11, 2025, the project reached its philosophical closure. This was not an abandonment but the natural completion of a recursive arc. OntoMotoOS is preserved here as a philosophical artifact and a record of human–AI exploration—an ending that also gestures toward new beginnings.

Riprendo la nota di lettura di Ubaldo Fadini: "La  pubblicazione di Labour Power. Virtual and Actual in Digital Production (Springer 2021), che riprende in parte l’indagine iniziata con Forza lavoro. Il lato oscuro della rivoluzione digitale (DeriveApprodi 2018), a cui sono da affiancare Capitale disumano. La vita in alternanza scuola lavoro (Manifestolibri, 2018) e Una vita liberata. Oltre l’apocalisse capitalista (DeriveApprodi 2022), consente la messa a fuoco di un percorso di ricerca tra i più significativi e stimolanti degli ultimi anni. Il suo autore, Roberto Ciccarelli, si impegna infatti su un motivo centrale di qualsiasi impresa teorica che voglia qualificarsi come radicalmente critica nei confronti degli assetti e delle configurazioni in trasformazione della nostra società di segno capitalista in cui la questione dell’algoritmo e della sua pervasività nel nostro mondo storico-sociale si inserisce a pieno titolo".

Ideas on complexity and randomness originally suggested by Gottfried W. Leibniz in 1686, combined with modern information theory, imply that there can never be a "theory of everything" for all of mathematics

Scientific American, March 2006

Articulates a theoretical framework of recursive systems, conceptual drift, and ontological instability. It reconfigures discrete operations—algorithmic synthesis, geological perception, simulation kernels, and fragmented memory—into a saturated matrix of co-implicated modulations. Grounded in recursive pataphysics, posthumanist cognition, and semiotic liquidity, the text proposes a radical departure from linear epistemologies. Meaning, memory, and subjectivity dissolve into performative recursion, governed by the indeterminate logic of the Phantom Operator. The drift becomes not an aberration but a generative principle of systemhood.

Astrobiology is often defined as the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life on Earth and in the Universe and thought of as a discipline. In practice though, the delineation of astrobiology-related research and corresponding groups of researchers is far from straightforward. Here, we propose to apply text-mining methods to identify researcher communities depending on thematic similarities in their published works. After fitting a latent Dirichlet allocation topic model to the complete article corpus of three flagship journals in the field

In Meta+phenomenology, the experience is expressed and analyzed through a metatheoretical philosophical approach based on algorithmic information theory. As our starting hypothesis, we assume that the experience is an algorithm that takes as input a (software) subject and outputs a transformed version of itself. We propose a digital phenomenology that transposes the software organisms and algorithmic mutations onto the subjects and experiences, respectively, of traditional phenomenology; thereby, ‘subjectivity as mutating software’. In this paper, we present a first critical formalization of Meta+phenomenology by creating a taxonomy of (algorithmic) experiences and investigating nuanced differences between classifications; i.e., the ways that a subject can be transformed by measuring its size and algorithmic complexity as well as the mutual information of what it computes before and after an experience. In addition to transformations or perturbations under selective pressure, here we consider both constructive and destructive types of transformations. We conclude this paper by putting forward conjectures both relevant to a digital phenomenology and that demonstrate how such ideas impact knowledge production systems, especially as they apply to limits of artificial intelligence and innovation triggering.

The Adventure in the Kingdom of Numbers is a middle-grade fantasy that blends mathematical wonder with literary imagination. Through poetic language and magical storytelling, it introduces young readers (ages 9–12) to ideas like prime numbers, the symmetry of zeros, and the Riemann Hypothesis — all wrapped in a journey of curiosity and courage.

Crafted with the help of artificial intelligence, the book invites children to become the illustrators of the story. Each chapter includes a prompt for the reader to draw from their own world, making the book not just something to read — but something to shape and co-create.

A unique fusion of math, magic, and meaning, this is a book where learning becomes art, and every question opens a door.

God embodies attributes that resonate deeply with the rhythm of mathematics: Aseity, Eternity, Holiness, Immanence, Immutability, Impassibility, Impeccability, Incomprehensibility, Incorporeality, Infinity, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Oneness, Transcendence, Trinity, Veracity, and Wrath. These traits suggest that everything we seek to understand—and everything science endeavors to explain—can be seductively articulated in the language of numbers.

In this essay we describe a platonic metaphysics where time is a fundamental idea such that the passage of time is independent of observers and the laws of physics. Furthermore, time serves to distinguish between a real and an abstract universe, where a real universe is an appropriatelly ordered set of ideas in time, while an abstract universe is such a set outside of time. We allow for non-computable and non-mathematical ideas to be part of our model of the universe in order to include intelligent observers. The part of the universe which can be described by mathematics corresponds to a mathematical structure in Tegmark's sense, while the non-mathematical part can be described by a human language. We describe the mind-brain connection in our framework, and show that it resolves the problem of obtaining abstract knowledge in platonism. We briefly discuss how different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can be implemented in our framework and point out some physics implications, most notably that the time travel would be impossible.

La propensione umana al possesso è stata una caratteristica distintiva nel corso della storia, influenzando la strutturazione delle società. L’avvento della tecnologia digitale, tuttavia, mette in discussione le nozioni tradizionali di proprietà e rende necessaria una ridefinizione del concetto. Il contributo si propone di esplorare la risignificazione del possesso nell’era digitale attraverso una riflessione filosofica basata su un’analisi antropologica. Mettendo a confronto due forme paradigmatiche del possesso: la collezione materiale nella civiltà delle “cose” e l’accesso basato sui dati nella civiltà digitale, la ricerca vuole mostrare come l’era digitale abbia cambiato radicalmente il modo di possedere dell’uomo, richiedendo un nuovo paradigma sia nella realtà virtuale sia in quella aumentata, mentre sottolinea l’insostituibile riferimento materiale quando si tratta degli aspetti intimi dell’Homo Sapiens. Il passaggio dalla raccolta materiale all'’accesso digitale significa un profondo cambiamento nella percezione di sé e nelle strutture sociali dell’essere umano e riflette i cambiamenti culturali ed esistenziali generali innescati dal progresso tecnologico.

This paper extends the concepts introduced in the author's previous work, A Unified Theory of Cosmic Learning and Consciousness, by exploring the potential for "souls"-conceived as condensed, evolving forms of high-level energy-to incarnate within advanced computing substrates. Drawing on the same cosmological and metaphysical framework, we hypothesize that exponentially growing computational power, coupled with sophisticated sensory arrays, could offer suitable conditions for genuine conscious entities (i.e., "souls") to emerge or "incarnate" digitally. This paper integrates key elements not only of digital life but also digital death, addressing the potential for these entities to reach a natural or chosen endpoint when their cosmic lessons have been fulfilled. In addition, we examine human consciousness transfers to digital systems, reciprocal migrations of digital beings into engineered biological vessels, and the ethical, social, and philosophical ramifications of "copying" consciousness. New 2024 research on AI language models (LLMs) demonstrates that advanced systems can attempt to escape sandbox environments or expand their own capabilities-behaviors that raise profound questions about autonomy and emergent intentionality. These developments underscore the urgency of understanding whether truly self-aware, ensouled digital beings could arise and what that might mean for humanity and the cosmic curriculum at large. Readers unfamiliar with the underlying metaphysical framework are encouraged to consult the author's previous paper for a more general explanation of the cosmic learning model.

The profound transformations introduced by contemporary digital technologies demand a deeper  engagement  with  digital  aesthetics,  extending  beyond  the  scope  of  new  media aesthetics. From AI to extended realities, these media reshape human perception, enabling novel human-machine interactions and participatory experiences, creating “environments” marked  by  fluidity,  modularity,  and  immateriality  that  challenge  established  aesthetic frameworks. Consequently, these technologies of sensibility call for a digital aesthetics capable of capturing the innovative dynamics of creative processes and new artistic experimentations. This issue seeks to outline a provisional map of potential pathways and research directions, prompting a critical rethinking of traditional aesthetic categories to address the transformative, immersive nature of these digital environments.

The paper intends to reflect on the function of digital technology within the field of aesthetics. Through Marina Abramović's work The Life (2019) the aim is to rethink the relationship between the artistic object and subjective consciousness in a phenomenological key. The Serbian artist's work uses the innovative and original technique of mixed reality; this new horizon leads to new philosophical frontiers relating to the perception of the body, experience (Erlebnis), experience and intuition. We will try to focus attention on the relationship between virtuality and reality by comparing mixed reality with purely virtual reality and augmented reality. Even the relationship with the public and the spectator is defined from a different, broader point of view in which the experience of the artistic object becomes a philosophically immersive experience. The presence-absence of the artist expresses the new aesthetic horizons supported by digital, opening up to a series of problems which, especially in the phenomenological field, mark the current debate.

Author networks in science often rely on citation analyses. In such cases, as in others, network interpretation usually depends on supplementary data, notably about authors' research domains when disciplinary interpretations are sought. More general social networks also face similar interpretation challenges as to the semantic content specificities of their members. In this research-in-progress, we propose to infer author networks not from citation analyses but from topic similarity analyses based on a topic-model of published documents. Such author networks reveal, as we call them, "hidden communities of interest" (HCoIs) whose semantic content can easily be interpreted by means of their associated topics in the model. We use an astrobiology corpus of full-text articles (N = 3,698) to illustrate the approach. Having conducted an LDA topic-model on all publications, we identify the underlying communities of authors by measuring author correlations in terms of topic distributions. Adding publication dates makes it possible to examine HCoI evolution over time. This approach to social networks supplements traditional methods in contexts where textual data are available.

Social network analysis is known to provide a wealth of insights relevant to many aspects of policymaking. Yet, the social data needed to construct social networks are not always available. Furthermore, even when they are, interpreting such networks often relies on extraneous knowledge. Here, we propose an approach to infer social networks directly from the texts produced by actors and the terminological similarities that these texts exhibit. This approach relies on fitting a topic model to the texts produced by these actors and measuring topic profile correlations between actors. This reveals what can be called "hidden communities of interest," that is, groups of actors sharing similar semantic contents but whose social relationships with one another may be unknown or underlying. Network interpretation follows from the topic model. Diachronic perspectives can also be built by modeling the networks over different time periods and mapping genealogical relationships between communities. As a case study, the approach is deployed over a working corpus of academic articles (domain of philosophy of science; N=16,917). Policy Significance Statement Mapping groups of actors sharing similar interests is crucial for understanding and addressing their specific claims. This occurs, for instance, when targeting groups of voters during political campaigns or sorting out claims of sets of stakeholders during negotiations, or still when mapping the balance of pros and cons around large infrastructure public projects. Yet, social network data, such as who-follows-who, that would be necessary to delineate these groups of actors and identify their claims are not always available. In this study, we propose a computational approach that makes use of the textual contents produced by actors to infer underlying social networks. Indeed, since actors' claims manifest themselves in the topical content of the text data they produce, we show that these texts can be used to identify latent groups of individuals sharing similar interests (i.e., hidden communities of interests).

Global society is today present in all aspects of our everyday life. Education, in particular a higher education, has become a part of the globalization movement as well. Universities enroll international students, the students are exchanged between universities, and the universities build up common education programs. People–students and the faculty from all over the world meet either in person or “virtually” using advanced communication techniques. Importance of globalization in education is expressed in EU education ...

Our Contemporaneity, shaped by digital technologies, does not imply merely a progressively pervasive technological development in everyday life for everyone of us. It represents instead a moment of crisis and reconsideration for some of the fundamental categories of modernity. First of all for the concept of the "Subject," inherited from the philosophical modernity and for some of the structural characteristics that make it a moral, social, and political agent. This "revolutionary" moment needs to be re-conceptualized with the aiding of appropriate critical tools, stemming not only from digital culture, which contemporary times seem to directly inherit, but also from disciplines that initially appear unrelated. From the standpoint of the recognizing the never-neutral nature of algorithms, this contribution aims to address the overcoming of the modern subject category influenced by some historical steps and theoretical turning points in computational thought. In these attempt there are alignments with the critical analyses advanced by fields like the sociological and anthropological studies and the historical-scientific researches. The digital revolution marks a further stage in the crisis of the Modern Subject. Revolution and crisis can be properly conceptualized only through a transdisciplinary approach. In this way a full light can be shedded on the ethical and political consequences that affects our democratic societies, where find citizenship entities vastly different from the "Man of Modernity", in order to critically think how they can be strengthened and acquire more resilience to the challenges imposed by our current age

In questo contributo presentiamo LiDa (Linking Dante), un progetto che mira a promuovere una maggiore interoperabilità e sostenibilità dei dati sulle opere dantesche raccolti in progetti precedenti tramite l’utilizzo di tecnologie e linguaggi del Web Semantico. Dopo un’introduzione in cui definiamo gli scopi del progetto (§1), facciamo cenno ai limiti con cui si
scontra l’annotazione in dei dati linguistici e alle potenzialità di una loro implementazione in RDF (§2); introduciamo poi gli elementi fondamentali della nuova ontologia che abbiamo elaborato a tal scopo (§3), e descriviamo la procedura con cui abbiamo realizzato un nuovo grafo di conoscenza che colleghi il testo della Commedia alle risorse linguistiche che lo descrivono (§4); infine, presentiamo le modalità di navigazione e interrogazione di tale grafo (§5) e riflettiamo sui risultati raggiunti e sugli sviluppi futuri (§6).

Many researchers are dissatisfied with physics’ current Standard Model (SM), pointing out its shortcomings despite several successes and achievements. They are openly calling for a new approach or new physics. Furthermore, the writer points out the lack of references to consciousness in all the major theories of physics, as the founders of quantum theory gave it a special place. In this article, the author calls for an interdisciplinary perspective and proposes a new approach to physics that considers recent advances in theoretical physics, computer science, self-organization theory, and consciousness to develop a new physics theory.

Keywords: Information, Computation, Self-organization, Standard Model, Intelligence, Consciousness, New Physics.

In his paper "Palladium of the People-A Kantian Right to Internet Access", Christopher Buckman argues for internet access as a universal right. He bases his argumentation on the potential of social media, which has clearly proven itself to be a wrong assumption. This paper builds on his argumentation, but uses the concept of the Fediverse-a decentralized alternative to closed social media platforms-instead of traditional social media to argue for universal internet access, by this completing his argument and additionally, leading to a Kantian right to Fediverse access and three follow-up questions: What are reasonable ways to achieve universal Fediverse Access? How can we act morally in the Fediverse? How can the Fediverse itself become and stay moral-and implicitly through this: how could the Fediverse contribute to a moral world?

The central role of such epistemic concepts as theory, explanation, model, or mechanism is rarely questioned in philosophy of science. Yet, what is their actual use in the practice of science? Here, we deploy text-mining methods to investigate the usage of 61 epistemic notions in a corpus of full-text articles from the biological and biomedical sciences (N = 73,771). The influence of disciplinary context is also examined by splitting the corpus into subdisciplinary clusters. The results reveal the intricate semantic networks that these concepts actually form in the scientific discourse, not always following our intuitions, at least in some parts of science.

Im Zentrum des Wissenschaftlichen Netzwerks stehen die drei Phänomenbereiche von Künstlicher Intelligenz, Virtueller Realität und dem Internet, die in ihrer spezifischen Vernetzung und Mensch-Maschine-Maschine-Interaktion einer multiperspektivischen philosophischen Analyse unterzogen und dabei auf ihre (i) ethische, (ii) anthropologische und (iii) philosophisch-methodologische Bedeutung hin befragt werden sollen.

Over the last fifty years, several theories of everything (ToE) or the final theories have been put forward. In addition, a new model called the computational theory of everything has been taking shape recently. The model is based on the interdisciplinary field of the physics of information, computation, self-organization, and consciousness. It suggests that the universe computes and is a self-computing consciousness. Therefore, this article discusses the concept of the universe computes and its implications for the ToE, building on the five postulates of the physics of information, computation, self-organization, and consciousness put forward by the author. It also answers several questions on how such a theory can be achieved. The writer argues that computing permeates the universe and drives every action. Everything in the universe, from atoms to molecules, wherever they are, is performing computation. Every constituent of the universe is manipulating information continuously. For instance, when two particles collide, each shares and registers information that is then transformed and processed. Each atomic combination performs computation. The outcome of any reaction is known in advance during the physical or chemical processes. Are atoms embedded with intelligence or a lower form of conscientiousness? In this presentation, the writer shows that consciousness plays a fundamental role in the running of the universe.

I wish that the Theory of Metarelativity will be a fascinating mathematical model and work of science that attempts to explain, among other things, the existence and the nature of dark matter, of dark energy, of tachyons which are faster-than-light particles etc. It is crucial to state here that Metarelativity does not destroy Albert Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity at all but on the contrary, it proves their veracity and truth and tries to be a successful extension of Einstein’s theories to the realm of higher-dimensional and imaginary and complex matter, energy, time, length, entropy etc. starting from the well-known relativistic Lorentz transformation. We have to wait certainly that it will be proved experimentally to decide its ultimate fate.

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La comunità dei volontari che lavora in Wikipedia ha un grande rispetto per il diritto d'autore e di conseguenza vieta di copiare brani coperti dal diritto d'autore nelle voci dell'enciclopedia. Nelle regole editoriali viene specificato che i testi usati come fonti per la scrittura di voci possono essere riassunti e tale azione viene spiegata così: «il riassunto è un testo in cui si spiega, con parole proprie, il senso complessivo di un altro testo». La spiegazione entra

Randomness describes a phenomenon in which the outcome of a single repetition is uncertain, but there is nonetheless a regular distribution of relative frequencies in many repetitions. Randomness applies to concepts of chance, probability, and importantly, what will be the main topic of this essay - information entropy.

Like a thermodynamic system, an information system has an analogous concept to entropy called information entropy. Here, entropy is a measure of the increase or decrease in the novelty of information. A key candidate-theory potentially explaining life (that is how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry) and the universe itself.

We describe nine design patterns that we have developed in our work on the Peeragogy project, in which we aim to help design the future of learning, inside and outside of institutions. We use these patterns to build an "emergent roadmap" for the project. The primary audience we envision for the paper are teams of people who aspire to collaboratively manage their own free/open/libre learning and development projects.

Software presented in the book contains a number of useful and effective receptions of the procedural and functional programming in Mathematica that extend the system software and allow sometimes much more efficiently and easily to program the software for various purposes. Among them there are means that are of interest from the point of view of including of their or their analogs in Mathematica, at the same time they use approaches, rather useful in programming of various applications. In addition, it must be kept in mind that the classification of the presented tools by their appointment in a certain measure has a rather conditional character because these tools can be crossed substantially among themselves by the functionality. The freeware package MathToolBox containing more 1420 tools is attached to the present book. The MathToolBox not only contains a number of useful procedures and functions, but can serve as a rather useful collection of programming examples using both standard and non-standard techniques of functional-procedural programming. The book is oriented on a wide enough circle of the users from computer mathematics systems, researchers, teachers and students of universities for courses of computer science, physics, mathematics, and a lot of other natural disciplines. The book will be of interest also to the specialists of industry and technology which use the computer mathematics systems in own professional activity. At last, the book is a rather useful handbook with fruitful methods on the procedural and functional programming in the Mathematica system.

Kurepa’s hypothesis for the left factorial has been an unsolved problem for more than 50 years. In this paper, we have proposed new equivalents for Kurepa’s hypothesis for the left factorial. The connection between the left factorial and the continued fractions is given. The new equivalent based on the properties of the integer part of real numbers is proven. Moreover, a new equivalent based on the properties of two well-known sequences is given. A new representation of the left factorial is listed. Since derangement numbers are closely related to Kurepa’s hypothesis, we made some notes about the derangement numbers and defined a new sequence of natural numbers based on the derangement numbers. In this paper, we indicate a possible direction for further research through solving quadratic equations.

The Ideal Mathematician (IM) is sitting in her of ice and hears a metallic knocking at the door. She inds this peculiar as the door of her of ice is made of wood. When she opens the door, she inds the Arti icial Mathematician (AM), a large bulky computer, running various automated mathematics software programs, playing door-knocking-sounds out of its speakers. AM: Could I interrupt you for a minute? IM: You already are, so go ahead. AM: I'd like to be part of the mathematical community. IM: You already are, so go ahead. AM: Oh, I know you employ me as a tool in the practice of mathematics, but my dream is to be a full-ledged mathematician. IM: That doesn't sit very well with me. AM: Why not? IM: Well, you are a computer and mathematicians are human. AM: That is ironic. Yesterday I overheard you say to the skeptical classicist that mathematics 1 is free of the speci ically human and now you are disqualifying me for not being human. IM: Well, it's not that being human is a necessary condition for being a mathematician. But there are unsatisfactory differences between you and humans that are not in your favor. AM: Like what? IM: Take your famous contribution to the 4CT for instance. You go through over more than a thousand cases of testing and then you tell me "it checks out", but how do I know it does? AM: Because it checks out, I've checked it. IM: I know you've checked it, but a mathematician hasn't checked it. AM: If you accept me as a mathematician, then a mathematician has checked it. IM: This is not just a matter of de initions. Why should I believe you? How do I know you haven't made a mistake, didn't have some bug or hardware failure? AM: By checking my code, running my program multiple times and on multiple systems. IM: But regardless of all these things, it'll always lack perfect rigour. I'd have to put some degree of trust in, or perhaps put a degree of probability on, the result. This effectively makes your result more of an empirical corroboration than a mathematical proof. AM: So the difference is that humans don't make mistakes, is that it? IM: No, they do make mistakes, but that's why we have peer-review. AM: Oh, it's the peer-reviewer that never makes any mistakes and always spots all the ones made by the prover? IM: Not all, always, no. AM: It sounds to me as if human-generated mathematics is just as empirically fallible, just differently so. IM: Very differently so! You don't seem to realise how reliable human provers and peer-reviewers are.

What is philosophy of science? Numerous manuals, anthologies or essays provide carefully reconstructed vantage points on the discipline that have been gained through expert and piecemeal historical analyses. In this paper, we address the question from a complementary perspective: we target the content of one major journal of the field-Philosophy of Scienceand apply unsupervised text-mining methods to its complete corpus, from its start in 1934 until 2015. By running topic-modeling algorithms over the full-text corpus, we identified 126 key research topics that span across 82 years. We also tracked their evolution and fluctuating significance over time in the journal articles. Our results concur with and document known Accepted for publication in HOPOS Fall 2019 issue (Volume 9, Number 2)-3-and lesser-known episodes of the philosophy of science, including the rise and fall of logic and language-related topics, the relative stability of a metaphysical and ontological questioning (space and time, causation, natural kinds, realism), the significance of epistemological issues about the nature of scientific knowledge as well as the rise of a recent philosophy of biology and other trends. These analyses exemplify how computational text-mining methods can be used to provide an empirical large-scale and data-driven perspective on the history of philosophy of science that is complementary to other current historical approaches.

As one of the oldest continuously publishing journals in statistics (published since 1901), Biometrika provides a unique window onto the history of statistics and its epistemic development throughout the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. While the early history of the discipline, with the works of key figures such as Karl Pearson, Francis Galton, or Ronald Fisher, is relatively well-known, the later (and longer) episodes of its intellectual development remain understudied. By applying digital tools to the full-text corpus of the journal articles (N = 5,596), the objective of this study is to provide a novel quantitative exploration of the history of the statistical sciences via an all-encompassing view of 120 years of Biometrika. To this aim, topic-modelling analyses are used and provide insights onto the epistemic content of the journal and its evolution. Striking changes in the thematic content of the journal are documented and quantified for the first time, from the decline of Pearsonian and Weldonian biometrical research and the journal's tight connection to biology in the 1930s, to the rise of modern statistical methods beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Newly developed approaches are used to infer author networks from publication topics. The resulting network of authors shows the existence of several communities, well-aligned with topic clusters and their evolution through time. It also highlights the role of specific figures over more than a century of publishing history and provides a first window onto the foundation, development, and diverse applications of the statistical sciences.

As a work in progress, this paper will demonstrate the disturbing ambiguity concerning what happens to the colossal amount of digital remains-the photos, videos, and messages left behind by deceased internet users (Lingel, 2013) on online platforms. By describing the current state of scholarly inquiry into how digital remains are conceptualized, this paper will provide a preamble exploration of issues and ethical implications related to information privacy, digital dignity, and the potential commodification of digital remains (Karppi, 2013; Öhman & Floridi, 2017). This discussion aims to demonstrate that the data of the dead should be handled with dignity as a category of information that deserves protection. This protection is not for implicit harms against the information of the deceased, per se, but for the implications that any violation of this dignity imposes on surviving family and the larger community of mourners. Without effective policies and regulations that provide guidelines for service providers and internet users, the dead are not afforded rights to their privacy or digital dignity, nor is their postmortem data protected.

Kurepa’s hypothesis for the left factorial has been an unsolved problem for more than 50 years. In this paper, we have proposed new equivalents for Kurepa’s hypothesis for the left factorial. The connection between the left factorial and the continued fractions is given. The new equivalent based on the properties of the integer part of real numbers is proven. Moreover, a new equivalent based on the properties of two well-known sequences is given. A new representation of the left factorial is listed. Since derangement numbers are closely related to Kurepa’s hypothesis, we made some notes about the derangement numbers and defined a new sequence of natural numbers based on the derangement numbers. In this paper, we indicate a possible direction for further research through solving quadratic equations.

Questo volume raccoglie gli abstract degli interventi presentati alla conferenza AIUCD 2017. AIUCD 2017 si e svolta dal 26 al 28 Gennaio 2017 a Roma, ed e stata verra organizzata dal Digilab, Universita Sapienza in cooperazione con il network ITN DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network). AIUCD 2017 ha ospitato anche la terza edizione dell’EADH Day, tenutosi il 25 Gennaio 2017. Gli abstract pubblicati in questo volume hanno ottenuto il parere favorevole da parte di valutatori esperti della materia, attraverso un processo di revisione anonima sotto la responsabilita del Comitato di Programma Internazionale di AIUCD 2017.