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Errores y horrores contemporáneos : conferencia contra el materialismo, el ateísmo, el indiferentismo y la inmoralidad
Into the world of e-waste: mobility among e-scrappers in Nigeria
2017
AbstractIn the management of e-waste, mobility of e-scrappers plays a pivotal role, especially in e-waste acquisition and sales of extracted materials. This research examines the relationship between e-scrappers and the locations of their work by analysing the influence of environmental and social factors on their mobility behaviour in Nigeria. A qualitative analysis of video material collected from 29 male e-scrappers in Nigeria between 2014 and 2015 reveals that e-waste has inherent properties that intermittently mobilise e-scrappers to search for recyclable and valuable electronic trash. Applying the new mobilities paradigm and the new materialism theory, we present that e-scrappers’ mob…
Jean-Paul Sartre: cultura egemonica e cultura subalterna
2017
Scorrendo l’indice delle opere letterarie e teatrali di Jean-Paul Sartre, si po- trebbe ricavare l’impressione di trovarci dinanzi ad un autore che ha realizzato una vasta ed articolata produzione sezionabile in più parti. Di conseguenza si potrebbe desumere che ciascuna opera risulti slegata dalle altre, costituenti il complesso e ricco mosaico dell’uomo di cultura francese. In effetti, il Sartre scrittore e saggista o autore di opere teatrali non può essere disgiunto dal Sartre fi losofo.
Materialism and the Bright and Dark Sides of the Financial Dream in Spain: The Positive Role of Money Attitudes-The Matthew Effect
2012
Research suggests that materialism leads to the dark side of the financial dream. In this study, we treat love of money as a mediator and test a theoretical model's direct path (Materialism to Financial Satisfaction) and indirect path (Materialism to Love of Money to Financial Satisfaction) simultaneously using the whole sample and across several demographic variables based on 1,011 citizens in Spain. Results for the whole sample showed that the positive indirect effect suppressed the negative direct effect creating an overall small positive effect. Furthermore, we found a significant negative direct path for rural dwellers, the 30–44-year-old age group, and married people, but a positive i…
Äärellisyysfilosofia kaappaa Kantin?
2021
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness.
2010
We argue that Kant’s views about consciousness, the mind—body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind—body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but of substances; and his views about the possibility of psychology as a science did not employ the requirement of a mechanistic explanation, but of a quantification of phenomena. This shows strikingly how deeply philosophical problems and conceptions c…
Del «arte povera» a la pedagogía póvera: El arte de trasmudar lo efímero en intensidad
2016
The present article seeks to recover some pedagogical ideas forgotten and abandoned by current mainstream pedagogy. Namely, it refers to ideas taken from art and history, «useless» models that deviate from the «useful» positivistic, materialistic and commercial ideas that are shaping the future of pedagogy. First, we briefly describe the movement founded by Germano Celant in 1967 known as «arte povera», noting that there are innumerable thought constructions related to his work that are relevant for pedagogy. «Poor pedagogy» emerges from the comparison between «arte povera» and pedagogy, a concept that recycles ideas that have fallen into oblivion despite their enormous interest. Secondly, …
Anthony Collins on the Status of Consciousness
2014
Anthony Collins (1676-1729) maintains that consciousness might be a material process or result from material processes. On the one hand, Collins accepts Locke’s view that from consciousness, i.e., the activity of thinking, we acquire no knowledge about the nature of the thinking substance. On the other, he takes seriously Samuel Clarke’s challenge that the thinking substance must be suitably unified because consciousness is unified. In this paper, I argue that, throughout his correspondence with Clarke, Collins maintains that consciousness signifies actual thinking and does not refer to the capacity of thinking. His main materialist thesis is that the powers of parts of material systems can…