Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Research

Last Writings for a New Beginning. The Open Legacy of Thomas S. Kuhn

2024-04-09T11:30:30+00:00

In this text we present a synthesis of the three seccions that make up The Last Writings of Thomas Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, a volume that collects the latest works of Thomas Samuel Kuhn. The book comprises two fundamental texts from the eighties, “Scientific Knowledge as Historical Product” and “The Presence of Past Science”, as well as the last and unfinished book on which the author would work in the last years of his production, Plurality of Worlds. Along with this synthesis, we review the two key arguments that connect his late stage with the classic work and allow us to praise the transversality of his ideas: knowledge as a historical product and the outline of a theory of meaning.

Representation and judgment

2023-07-24T14:10:21+00:00

This paper aims to consider the Stoic roots in Brentano's theory of judgment. It is not, however, intended as a work of philology, that is, it does not seek to teach, source after source, that Brentano's philosophy is elaborated as an interpretation of Stoicism. It will show, instead, that there are thematic affinities between these two great traditions. For this purpose, we will devote three moments. In the first, we will review the notions of phantasy (phantasía) and assent (synkatathésis), as well as cognitive phantasy (phantasía kataleptiké). We will then present the Brentanian theory of judgment, emphasizing the notions of representation (Vorstellung) and judgment (Urteil). Finally, we will try to show thematic similarities in the treatment and interpret inner perception (innere Wahrnehmung) as a paradigmatic case of cognitive phantasy.

World is a Theatre

2024-03-21T19:33:49+00:00

This article studies the baroque metaphor of theatrum mundi, which conceives the world as a theater where life is enacted, and human beings are the actors. This concept has recurred throughout the history of philosophy in various moments and intellectual currents. First, according to the study of Ernst Robert Curtius, we will inform about the most outstanding references of theatrum mundi’s baroque metaphor in Antiquity and Modernity, with special attention to The Great Theatre of the World by Calderón de la Barca. Then, we will compare how this resource is used in Miguel de Unamuno’s play Brother Juan or The World is a Theatre to finally comment on the use of this literary topic in the work and its characteristics as baroque fiction.

Salience-based Contextualism in the Explanation of Communicative Success

2024-02-27T10:50:53+00:00

This article analyzes how people interpret the meaning of utterances used in conversations, particularly when the meaning of words changes depending on the context. It focuses on a version of a theory called prominence-based contextualism, which explains how speakers understand the meanings of key expressions used in conversation. The article argues that the ability of interlocutors to comprehend what a speaker meant at a specific moment (communicative success) depends on their understanding of the most prominent meaning of the words used. This understanding is determined by the situation in which the words were spoken, and it does not require knowing the speaker's communicative intention. The theory of salience contextualism proposes a word meaning formulation based on five sources of information: beliefs about the world, the meaning of words and sentence structure, the speech situation, the properties of the human inferential system, and stereotypes and presuppositions about society and culture.

On artificial intelligence as an instrument

2023-09-13T12:02:20+00:00

For various reasons, the philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle disagree on the possibility that AI is capable of thinking and understanding as humans do. Both the enactivism of Dreyfus (1992) and the semantic position of Searle (1980) serve as the basis for the thesis of cognitive dependence defended here, which considers that AI is incapable of developing its own functions without the support of the cognitive abilities that derive from the creativity and experience of living beings, especially human life.

Singularity as a (di)solution of the subject-object problem

2023-12-14T11:37:50+00:00

Abstract: In this this paper we will reflect on the concept of singularity in Deleuze (according to his reading on Spinoza). We will present singularity as a way of dissolving the inveterate subject-object problem that runs through the history of philosophy. We will look for the attributes of singularity and its relations with the Spinozian concept of conatus. Here a political reading will be imbricated, according to the meanings of the forces that Deleuze takes from Nietzsche: the (active) singularities persevere in their potency, while the (reactive) entities generate impotence and Power. Later, we will insert necessity, freedom and will in this conceptual frame, we will stop at the critique of anthropocentrism. We will conclude associating the problem of measurement in science with our study and anchoring various current ecological-political proposals in this Spinozian-Deleuzian ontological framework.

Keywords: singularity; Spinoza; Deleuze; subject; object.

Ecologism: Past and Present

2024-04-22T16:33:10+00:00

Acceleration and Resonance

2024-02-24T16:01:52+00:00

Review of: Rosa, H. (2023): ¡Aceleremos la resonancia! Por una educación en la época del Antropoceno. Barcelona: Ned Ediciones

The evil of giving life. An essay in Spanish antinatalism

2023-12-09T18:36:52+00:00

Review of: Miguel Ángel Castro Merino (2023): El Maldito regalo de nacer. Un ensayo antinatalista. Ed. Punto Didot, Madrid, 375 pp.

Redefining alienation. A reading of marxist emancipation in the light of Spinoza by Franck Fischbach

2024-03-06T21:59:50+00:00

Review of: Fischbach, F. (2023): La producción de los hombres. Marx con Spinoza, Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 248 pp.

A Brain Full of Words. About the Mental Lexicon

2024-03-21T17:45:21+00:00

Review of: Mamen Horno Chéliz (2024): Un cerebro lleno de palabras, Barcelona: Plataforma Editorial, 184 pp.