Ricerc@Sapienza

The nature of the data of financial systems raises several theoretical and methodological issues, which not only impact finance, but have also philosophical and methodological implications, viz. on the very notion of data. In this paper I will examine several features of financial data, especially stock markets data: these features pose serious challenges to the interpretation and employment of stock markets data, weakening the ‘myth of data’. In particular I will focus on two issues: (1) the way data are produced and shared, and (2) the way data are processed.

The view from outside on finance maintains that we can make sense of, and profit from, stock markets’ behavior, or at least few crucial properties of it, by crunching numbers and looking for patterns and regularities in certain sets of data. The basic idea is that there are general properties and behavior of stock markets that can be detected and studied through mathematical lens, and they do not depend so much on contextual or domain-specific factors.

The view from inside maintains that not only to study and understand, but also to profit from financial markets, it is necessary to get as much knowledge as possible about their internal ‘structure’ and machinery. This view maintains that in order to solve the problems posed by finance, or at least a large part of them, we need first of all a qualitative analysis. Rules, laws, institutions, regulators, the behavior and the psychology of traders and investors are the key elements to the understanding of finance, and stock markets in particular.

This article offers an unconventional interpretation of Carl Schmitt’s conception of the political. It first identifies two alternative readings – an
‘exceptionalist’ and a ‘concretist’ one – to make the claim that in the late 1920s he laid the foundations for a theory of politics that overcame the
flaws of his theory of exception. It then explains why the concretist reading provides an insightful key to Schmitt’s take on the relationship

Oltre a rendere possibile la riscoperta di uno dei pionieri dello studio della filosofia araba, islamica ed ebraica medievale riempiendo una lacuna della storiografia filosofica moderna e contemporanea, il libro mette in questione la validità delle categorie di Oriente e Occidente e riconsidera l'influenza che queste categorie hanno avuto sulla formazione del canone filosofico in epoca moderna e contemporanea, inserendosi nel più attuale dibattito internazionale su questi temi. Il carattere interdisciplinare del libro è determinato dalla natura del soggetto.

Il volume prende in esame, con un approccio multidisciplinare, il dibattito in merito al libero arbitrio tra la fine del Medioevo e primi decenni del Cinquecento.