Observer memories involve a representation of the self in the memory image, which is presented from a detached or external point of view. That such an image is an obvious departure from how one initially experienced the event seems relatively straightforward. However, in my book on this type of imagery, I suggested that such memories can in fact, at least in some cases...
In texts such as “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn” Jürgen Habermas defends a theory that associates, on the one hand, the truth-claim raised by a speaker for a proposition p with, on the other hand, the requirement that p be “defendable on the basis of good reasons […] at any time and against anybody”. This, as is known, has been the target of criticisms by Rorty, who−in spite of...
ReseñasThomas S. Kuhn, Desarrollo científico y cambio de léxico, Montevideo, FIC-UDELAR/ ANII /SADAF, 2017, 153 pp.María Cristina González1 1Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaEste libro, editado por Pablo Melogno y Hernán Miguel, prologado por...
In memoriamRecordando a un maestro: Mario BungeMartha Frassineti1 Alicia Gianella2 María Cristina González3 Estela Santilli4 Nora Stigol5 1Universidad de la Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina2Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires...
Focusing on biolinguistic considerations, Merge is a formal operation proposed by theoretical linguistics and linked to specific principles of neural computation. In this sense, Merge can be viewed as a natural operation of the brain. Merge is commonly claimed to be a digital operation. In a first approximation, digital computation is the processing of strings of digits according...
In this paper, we examine a case of application of the hypothesis of linguistic relativity (HLR): the influence of the grammatical gender of languages on the cognition or thinking of speakers. Since languages differ both in their lexical repertoires, but, specially, in their gender grammars to refer to people, other animated beings and even inanimate entities, our purpose will be...
In the present paper I discuss some normative aspects of perceptual experience by considering Wittgenstein’s contributions to the topic in the Second Part of Philosophical Investigations (PI, II, xi). In these passages, Wittgenstein criticizes the physiological causalist explanations provided by Wolfgang Köhler as well as the representational empiricist view about sensory...
Although the study of emotion regulation constitutes a thriving research field, there is still an ongoing debate about the very notion of emotion regulation. According to a popular approach, regulation is a second-order process which is different from (and modifies) emotion. This view has been challenged by the fact that emotion regulates itself through different feedback loops...
In this article, I critically address David Papineau’s assertion that accumulated physiological evidence is sufficient to reasonably adopt the principle of the Causal Closure of the Physical and the via negativa, viz. to understand “physical” as “nonmental”, as a solution to Hempel’s dilemma. We will start lowering the strength of his view by reviewing the work of W. Penfield and...
RESEÑASDiana Pérez y Diego Lawler (eds.), La segunda persona y las emociones, Buenos Aires, SADAF, 2018, pp. 297. Los compiladores Diana Pérez y Diego Lawler nos ofrecen un campo de batalla con un enemigo que está en retirada pero todavía no se rinde. “Hay un programa común de ocupación”, dicen Pérez y Lawler, y señalan el territorio a conquistar: los estudios filosóficos y...
RESEÑASTomás Balmaceda y Karina Pedace (eds.), Temas de filosofía de la mente: Atribución psicológica, Buenos Aires, SADAF, 2018, 233 pp. Este libro recoge las investigaciones y discusiones de un equipo de destacados especialistas, cuya comunidad de lecturas y discusiones se refleja en los trabajos que lo componen. Se trata de ocho artículos finamente articulados en torno al...
RESEÑAS Los libros reseñados a continuación fueron presentados por Nora Stigol, Carolina Scotto y Federico Penelas en un evento realizado en la sede de SADAF el 4 de octubre de 2018 con motivo de la inauguración del sello editorial de la asociación, codirigido por Cecilia Hidalgo y Eleonora Orlando. El encuentro contó también con la presencia de los respectivos autores, Gustavo...