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Más de medio siglo de problema Gettier
2016
After more than half a century, the debate on the Gettier problem is still alive and continues to produce proposals of solution (or dissolution) that, regardless of their success, constitute interesting contributions to epistemology and even to other philosophical areas. As is well known, the Gettier problem is the challenge to provide an analysis of knowledge free of counterexamples. In this paper, first I review and critically examine the main pro-posals to tackle the problem; then, I draw some conclusions and offer my own suggestions. Después de más de medio siglo, el debate en torno al conocido como problema Gettier continúa vivo y produciendo propuestas de solución (o disolución) que, …
First-person authority and Self-Knowledge as an Achievement
2009
There is much that I admire in Richard Moran¿s account of how first- person authority may be consistent with self-knowledge as an achievement. In this paper, I examine his attempt to characterize the goal of psychoanalytic treatment, which is surely that the patient should go beyond the mere theoretical acceptance of the analyst¿s interpretation, and requires instead a more intimate, first-personal, awareness by the patient of their psychological condition. I object, however, that the way in which Moran distinguishes between the deliberative and the theoretical attitudes is ultimately inconsistent with a satisfactory account of psychoanalytic practice; mainly because, despite Moran¿s claims…
The Mud of Experience and Modes of Awareness
2007
In *Authority and Estrangement* Richard Moran takes some rather illuminating steps towards getting rid of the Cartesian picture of self-knowledge. I argue, however, that Moran¿s crucial distinction between delib- erative and theoretical attitude is seriously contaminated by that traditional picture. More specifically, I will point out why some crucial aspects of the phenomena that Moran describes in terms of the interplay be- tween the theoretical and the deliberative attitude, should rather be interpreted as a process that takes place within the deliberative attitude itself. The theoretical attitude will, as a result, constitute a rather marginal at- titude towards one¿s own psychological …
Belief, Content and Cause
1997
In some important papers, and especially in his 'The Problem of the Essential Indexical', John Perry has argued that we should draw a clear distinction between two aspects of belief: its causal role in action, on the one hand, and its semantic content (the proposition that is believed), on the other. According to Perry, beliefs with the same semantic content (with the same truth conditions) may have a very different causal influence on the subject¿s action. In this paper, we show that Perry's arguments in favor of this thesis are not sound and defend, against him, the common sense intuition according to which what leads us to act as we do is what we believe (the semantic content of our beli…
Proper Beliefs and Quasi-Beliefs
2013
In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which someone can be said to believe a proposition. In the light of this distinction, we question the widely held equivalence between considering a proposition true and believing that proposition. In some cases, someone can consider a proposition true and not properly believe it. This leads to a distinction between the conventional meaning of the sentence by which a subject expresses a belief and the content of this belief. We also question some principles of belief ascription, suggest a solution to a famous puzzle about belief and defend the unity of the semantic and causal aspects of beliefs.
El refugio de la claridad
2010
A stress on clarity and argumentation may serve as a refuge against quackery, but often those who focus on such methodological principles tend to identify clarity with literalness and argumentation with formalization. My reflection upon the limits of a philosophical style inspired in such an identification is mainly concerned with the use of thought experiments in the elucidation of our moral practices and, more specifically, with the relevance of John Rawls¿ original position for the determination of the basic principles of justice. To this purpose, I emphasize that the relevance of the original position rests on a matching assumption according to which, if agents deliberate appropriately,…
Presentación del Zaratustra de Nietzsche
1983
En estas fechas en que se cumple el primer centenario de la publicación de la primera parte de su máximo libro 'Así habló Zaratustra' nosotros le rendimos homenaje porque sus enseñanzas nos resultan imprescindibles. Quien fue maestro de la interpretación requiere a su vez que le reinterpretemos , y en esa tarea infinita bien podemos empezar por la narración escueta del contexto en el que se engendró la enigmática obra que celebramos.
Nietzsche, el escritor y el pensador: Notas para el centenario de su muerte
2001
Traducción castellana, debida al profesor José González Ortega, del ensayo que con motivo del centenario de la muerte de Nietzsche y de la publicación de la traducción catalana de su 'Libro de sentencias' seguido de 'Sobre verdad y mentira en sentido extramoral' (Benicull de Xúquer (València), Setimig, 2001) prologó esa edición bilingüe, alemán-catalán. En este ensayo se presenta la obra de Nietzsche insistiendo en su doble faceta de escritor y pensador. Y se expone una brece teoría de qué es la escritura aforística, correlacionando textos de Nietzsche y de Joan Fuster al respecto, ya que ambos fueron maestros tanto en la reflexión sobre esta modalidad expresiva como en la sorprendente escr…
Knowledge, Memory and Perception [Presentació]
2006
The articles included in this monographic section on epistemology are elaborations of papers previously submitted, accepted and presented in the IV Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica, SEFA), which took place at the University of Murcia (Spain), 16th through 18th of December, 2004. This philosophical event, which included many contributions from abroad, showed, once again, the high level of quality and the remarkable degree of normalization reached by the analytic way of conceiving philosophy in our country
When Deduction leads to Belief
1995
T h e paper questions the common assumption that rational individuals believe all propositions which they know to be logical consequences of their other beliefs: although we must acknowledge the truth of a proposition which is a deductive consequence ofour beliefs, we may not genuinely believe it. This conclusion is defended by arguing that some familiar counter- examples to the claim that knowledge isjustified true belief fail because they involve propositions which are not really believed. Beliefs guide conduct or issue in assertion by answering questions which arise in the course of deliberation and conversation, but the troublesome cases present proposi- tions which do not present the a…