Learnable Theory & Analysis

This introduction to Learnable Theory and Analysis leverages several contributions that Italian researchers and research centers have provided in Philosophy, Linguistics and Neurosciences. Contributions which appear particularly relevant in the construction of a solid link between Philosophy and Business Studies. A link which has the ambition to guide both Academics and Practitioners of Management across the tumultuous waters of Philosophy, Linguistics and Neurosciences, whose investigations the authors here present and develop in view of new opportunities of deeper understanding and broader interventions. Contributions of scholars such as Giacomo Rizzolatti and Silvio Ceccato, as well as the work of others who have been following their tracks and, in some cases, even drastically reconsidered their propositions, are here highly leveraged and celebrated together with Roy Bhaskar’s revolutionary ontological framework and George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s enlightening studies on metaphors.

Ahlam Alharbi

Ahlam Alharbi, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, has a B.A. in English language and literature and M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics. She was a visiting scholar at Wright State University during 2020-2021, where she focused on developing her performative theory of solidarity discourse. Alharbi’s primary research interest lies in the area of critical discourse analysis and how language is utilized to achieve communicative and ideological goals in various social and political situations. In her research, she published papers addressing under-examined topics in discourse studies such as solidarity and controversial discourse. She is a reviewer in several journals, including Sage Open, Cogent Arts and Humanities, and Cogent Education.

Giorgio Marchetti

Giorgio Marchetti is a theorist of the mind. He graduated in foreign languages and literatures at IULM, Milan, under the supervision of Silvio Ceccato. He and was a contract professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Urbino and collaborated with the Laboratory for the Culture of the Artificial directed by Massimo Negrotti at the University of Urbino. In 2002, together with Giulio Benedetti, he founded the www.mind-consciousness-language.com research net. Currently, he collaborates with the Open Research Unit in Learnable Analysis & Metaphors Operational Studies directed by Luca Magni at LUISS Business School. He is review editor of various scientific journals. He has published several books and articles in various peer-reviewed scientific journals and edited books in the areas of semantics, psychology of consciousness, psychology of attention and sociology.

Luca Magni

Luca Magni, Professor of Practice at LUISS Business School, graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan and completed his studies in the UK, gaining a Master of Science in Organizational Psychology at the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in Technology Enhanced Research and Learning at the University of Lancaster. Member of C-suites and boards for a wide range of multinationals in Italy and abroad, his latest corporate role was as Human Resources Director of the South Developed Markets in EMEA at Johnson & Johnson Medical. Before Johnson & Johnson he worked for Sorin, with the responsibility for HR worldwide. Previously he covered relevant national and international HR positions in Medtronic, Boehringer Ingelheim as well as Barilla and Ernst & Young Consultants. In 2000 he also measured himself with headhunting services and supported, in such capacity, several large companies active in Lifesciences and other contiguous sectors. Parallel to his career in business, Prof. Magni has taught and conducted research for Business Schools and Universities, both in Italy and in UK. He has also authored numerous publications within the areas of learning, problem solving, transactional analysis, leadership, change management, mergers and acquisitions.