Bolzano is a small city placed in the centre of Europe, where the North German and the East cultures meet the Mediterranean.
The choice of Bolzano as the location for the Foundation is a natural consequence of several factors: firstly, the city’s geographical position, close to the old provinces of the Austrian Empire where cognitive science seems to have seen the light; secondly the multilingual nature of its surrounding area; thirdly the long time cultural and artistic vocation of the town which guests, for example, the Busoni Award for music. Finally, the occasional meeting of some philosophical minds who found in the town hospitality for their ideas and in the landscape the occasion for their peripathetic promenades.
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Axiomathes is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of ontology and cognitive systems. It is open to contributions from several scientific communities (psychology and cognitive science, artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, linguistics and lexicography, mathematics and logic, biology, philosophy). Axiomathes will distinguish itself from other journals through the thesis that real advances in the above fields may depend upon a consideration of the origins and intellectual history of certain key ideas at the forefront of current research. Contributions are invited especially on turn-of-the century Central-European thinkers such as Brentano, Husserl or Hartmann and on their contemporaries in the English-speaking world such as Peirce and Whitehead. In other words, Axiomathes will have a foreground interest in contemporary issues in cognition and ontology, and a background interest in intellectual history. Axiomathes' foreground interests are synthesized in the subtitle 'An International Journal in Ontology and Cognitive Systems'. Some of the focal topics of interest are: Intentionality and intentional reference, time and space, the difference between the perceptive and the mental, levels of reality, forms of dependence, ontological vs. cognitive categories, types of particulars, wholes and their parts, dynamical and evolutionary systems, classification theory, natural and non-natural kinds, cognitive semantics, assumptions and counterfactuals, mathematical and logical modeling.