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A Family Meal as Fiction
2020
Stacie Friend's theory of fiction departs from those ap- proaches that seek to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to count as fiction. She argues that this goal cannot really be achieved; instead, she appeals to the notion of genre to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction. This notion is significantly more flex- ible, since it invites us to identify standard¿but not necessary¿and counter-standard features of works of fiction in light of our classifi- catory practices. More specifically, Friend argues that the genre of fiction has the genre of nonfiction¿and only that genre¿as its con- trast class. I will refer to the particular way in which Friend elabo- rates …
Rilkean Memories and the Self of a Robot
2019
This paper discusses the concept of Rilkean memories, recently introduced by Mark Rowlands, to analyze the complex intermix of hardware and software related to the self of a robot. The Rilkean memory of an event is related to the trace of that episode left in the body of the individual. It transforms the act of remembering into behavioral and bodily dispositions, thus generating the peculiar behavioral style of the individual, which is at the basis of her autobiographical self. In the case of long-life operating robots, a similar process occurs: the software of the robot has to cope with the changes that happened in the body of the robot because of damaging events in its operational life. T…
The Rocky Road of Growing into Contemporary Citizenship: Dewey, Gramsci, and the Method of Democracy
2015
Characterized by globalization, increasing pluralism, and new complexities of citizenship, the contemporary world poses challenges to the ways in which we conceptualize of the processes of searching for shared solutions to ever-complicated social problems. While the political rhetoric emphasizes the value of citizens’ participation, engagement, and “voices,” there are increasing feelings of frustration, incapacity, and disinterest on behalf of the citizens regarding the supposed eff ects of their political engagement. In order to conceptually grasp the problem of searching for shared solutions and the related challenges to education, we draw on John Dewey’s idea of the method of democracy a…
Creer en el mundo, creer en el futuro: Deleuze y la “gran política” del pensamiento
2015
El propósito del presente trabajo es mostrar en qué medida la afirmación deleuziana de una unidad compleja entre vida y pensamiento implica, no sólo una crítica radical de (la filosofía de) la trascendencia –y, a su través, de (la metafísica de) la presencia–, sino también una clínica (relativa al pensar, a la sensibilidad, al cuerpo y, por ende, al tiempo) de cuyo desarrollo la “fe” en este mundo (inmanencia), así como la creencia en el porvenir (novación), constituyen las dos principales directrices
Social Media as Platform for Stimulating Urban Changes
2016
Images have always been an important part of city planning – current images of place, images with planned improvements, maps and sketches. Some time ago all that was a private property of stakeholders like planner and client. But nowadays this confidentiality rather much has vanished – no copyrights or competition is noteworthy. Plans do not have their privacy anymore. They are exposed even before they got implemented. This article will display why city planners share the images of their ideas, of their dreams in public (mostly in blogs and social networks) – why it is important for them and what kind of feedback they are waiting for. This article is based on case study where 12 respondents…
La segunda operación del intelecto según santo Tomás de Aquino
2013
De acuerdo con la teoría del conocimiento de santo Tomás de Aquino, el juicio se parece a un fin en el proceso intelectivo iniciado por la simple aprehensión. La segunda operación del intelecto es necesaria para conocer la verdad como adecuación “intelletus et rei” y como carácter extramental del objeto conocido con la primera operación, de manera tal que se pueda decir que el juicio es “generador” de las fronteras entre Aristóteles y el “ens ut verum” de Aquino.
Fuga de cerebros y biografías low cost: nueva etapa en la precarización de la juventud
2015
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Continuidad de las innovaciones tecnológicas: el reto de las intervenciones biomédicas de mejora humana
2013
One of the most recent debates among ethicists concerning the course of technological innovation is the human enhancement debate, which has been generated by the possibility of pushing human limits further by using the power of science. Many philosophers have warned us about the dangers of modifying human nature in a technical way. However, others argue that there are no morally salient differences between enhancing technical interventions and other kinds of technologies that human beings have taken to be usual for them. This paper shall critically analyze this argument. The main aim of this critical analysis is twofold, first, to show that people who make this argument are biased in severa…
La libertad incorporada como clave para la neuroeducación moral
2019
La libertad es uno de los principales atributos con los que tradicionalmente se ha caracterizado al ser humano. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar si a la luz de las investigaciones y los experimentos neurocientíficos es posible seguir caracterizando al ser humano como un ser con libertad. Para ello se alude al conocido experimento de Benjamin Libet y las conclusiones reduccionistas que influyentes autores como Patricia S. Churchland o Michael Gazzaniga extraen para la filosofía práctica. Desde una metodología hermenéutica, se denuncia el reduccionismo neurocientífico que pretende negar la libertad basándose en evidencias empíricas. Frente a dicho reduccionismo se propone un enfoque h…