Search results for "Piste"

What Purpose, if any, could a Feminine Theory of Education serve Today?

2015

The aim of this paper is to depict the contours of a feminine theory of education within the epistemological framework of phenomenology. Actually, in spite of the fact that a widespread appeal to the many aspects of feminist epistemology has so far been developed mainly in other branches of human sciences as well in many studies of the history of education and pedagogical methods, considerable benefits can be gained also for the sake of a theory of education. It is argued that the seminal project of Women Studies – fighting women’s invisibility and exclusion also from the work of producing thought – together with the phenomenological account of personhood and, in particular, of human body c…

Hegel’s Non-Metaphysical Idea of Freedom

2016

the article explores the putatively non-metaphysical – non-voluntarist, and even non-causal – concept of freedom outlined in Hegel’s work and discusses its influential interpretation by robert Pippin as an ‘essentially practical’ concept. I argue that Hegel’s affirmation of freedom must be distinguished from that of Kant and Fichte, since it does not rely on a prior understanding of self-consciousness as an originally teleological relation and it has not the nature of a claim ‘from a practical point of view’.

O humor como problema de pesquisa em Estudos da Tradução

2019

This article is an overview of translation studies applied to the case of humour, divided into four parts, plus an extensive bibliography. The first part goes over humour translation as a relevant object of research and why it is worthy of more academic attention. Humour translation should not be dealt with or looked upon as a strange body within translation studies. Part two is an overview of key contributions to the field, from Spain and elsewhere, covering a considerable number of authors and theories. Part three focuses on promising areas of interest for researchers and illustrates how audiovisual translation is a good instance of dynamism within the field, connecting all this to the ri…

Misconceptions and Ambiguities in VET: Do We Speak the Same Language?

2021

This chapter reviews some of the most extended notions used in the field of VET. Historical and comparative analysis of education run the risk to use commonplaces without proper understanding of the nuances, difficult to translate but which give different meaning to the same words. In particular, I explain these notions and their meaning and context to show the contrast among countries with different VET traditions. The main challenge is probably to consider current and historical differences between a school-based vocational education system and those where apprenticeships have been the mainstream. Academic work needs to be accurate and avoid quick and careless translation, and even manipu…

El concepto “ciencia” en la hipótesis del diseño inteligente, según la sentencia “Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District”

2010

PLANTEAMIENTO. La presente tesis doctoral propone una discusión crítica sobre si la hipótesis del diseño inteligente puede ser calificada, desde un punto de vista técnico-filosófico, como un discurso científico, o por el contrario pseudocientífico. Los parámetros de la discusión caen dentro del área de Filosofía de la Ciencia y subárea de Filosofía de la Biología, tratando de señalar las inconsistencias teóricas y empíricas del antievolucionismo, en el marco del debate entre evolucionismo y creacionismo. TEMA. El concepto "ciencia" en la hipótesis del diseño inteligente, análisis crítico. OBJETIVOS. Se pretende demostrar que la hipótesis del diseño inteligente: 1º Incumple los estándares re…

The significance of the concept of sin for bioethics.

2005

After a period during which the theological categories of sin and forgiveness were ignored or trivialized, presently these notions are being rediscovered. What could their impact be on bioethics, either in the narrow sense of medical ethics, or in the more encompassing sense of the ethics of the life sciences? This essay begins with describing the processes of transcending and ethitization, which gave rise to the biblical notion of sin. It portrays the theological foundation of sin in terms of a twofold refusal of proper relations to God and other humans. Through the practise of confession in the face of God (coram deo), sin is placed into a horizon of hope for forgiveness and reconciliatio…

Varieties of Vagueness, Fuzziness and a few foundational (and ontological) questions

2011

In this paper we discuss the multifaceted nature of vagueness, the limits of (standard) set theory in dealing with the foundational aspects that a really innovating theory of vagueness should manifest, and the difficul- ties in outlining the possible features that such a type of new formalism should exhibit in order to be able to deal with such innovative aspects. We shall highlight some aspects of the role that Fuzzy Set Theory (FST) can play in this process.

The Epistemics of “Personalized Medicine”. Rebranding Pharmacogenetics

2015

Whereas chapter 4 focuses on uses and normative claims of the rhetorical frame “Personalized Medicine” in medical and popular writings, chapter 5 analyzes the intellectual formation of pharmacogenetic, -genomics as a disciplinary field. It explores when, how, and why the leading journals in the field present themselves as part of the overall phenomenon labelled “Personalized Medicine”. Pharmacogenetic journals founded at the beginning of the twenty-first century, not only adopted the rhetorical framing of PM, but also branded pharmacogenomics as a milestone in medical history. Their vision extended to a large societal context that included not only pharmacology and genetics, but also broad …

In Memóriam de José Vidal-Beneyto: Pepín

2010

El papel que desempeñan las teorías en la Biología

2006

Resumen basado en el de la publicación Resumen en inglés Se trata de enfatizar la importancia del término interpretación de la teoría y su uso indebido en la educación científica. También se discute la conveniencia de enseñar biología como una ciencia hipotético-deductiva, y el papel que el mapeo conceptual juega en estos elementos. ESP