End-to-end Audio Deepfake Detection from RAW Waveforms: a RawNet-Based Approach with Cross-Dataset Evaluation

Audio deepfakes represent a growing threat to digital security and trust, leveraging advanced generative models to produce synthetic speech that closely mimics real human voices. Detecting such manipulations is especially challenging under open-world conditions, where spoofing methods encountered during testing may differ from those seen during training. In this work, we propose an end-to-end deep learning framework for audio deepfake detection that operates directly on raw waveforms. Our mod...

On the Origins of the Term coaequaevus in Medieval Thought. Between Latin Platonism and Arabic Philosophy

Questo articolo analizza le prime attestazioni del termine coaequaevus nel pensiero latino medievale, prima dello sviluppo della dottrina teologica dei quattro coaequaeva nel XIII secolo. Le occorrenze del termine prima di questa data possono essere ricondotte a due contesti principali: da un lato quello del platonismo latino e della Scuola di Chartres; dall’altro, quello della traduzione di opere del peripatetismo arabo. L’articolo presenta l’ipotesi che il legame di Gundissalino con la Scuo...

Ciechi e non vedenti. Inserti persiani nella letteratura filosofica araba su affermazione e negazione

In the logical section of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī’s (d. 1111) The Intentions of the Philosophers [Maqāṣid al-falāsifa, MF], an Arabic text which depends on Avicenna’s (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) Persian summa titled Book of Science for ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla [Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī, DN], an interesting insert in Persian is preserved. The insertion serves to exemplify some conceptual problems concerning the affirmative or negative value of a predicate (and a proposition), through recourse to a language different fro...

Review essay of 'Francesco O. Zamboni. At the Roots of Causality: Ontology and Aetiology from Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. xi + 344 pages. ISBN 9789004684874.'