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43Justification, Attachments and RegretEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 1718-1738. 2017.: In The View From Here, Jay Wallace emphasises that an agent's capacity to regret a past decision is conditioned by the attachments that she may have developed as a result. Those attachments shape the point of view from which she retrospectively deliberates. Wallace stresses, however, that not every normative aspect of her decision is affected by this change in perspective, because her decision will remain as unjustified as it was in the past. I will argue, however, that this approach to justif…Read more
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41The Insight of Empiricism: In Defence of a Hypothetical but Propositional GivenInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2): 289-298. 2009.I1. Anil Gupta distinguishes between thin and thick experiences. There are thick experiences like, say, the American Experience of a European traveller. And thin experiences like looking at a yello...
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39The Mud of Experience and Kinds of AwarenessTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 22 (1): 5-15. 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 deliberative 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 between the theoretical and the deliberative attitude, should rather be interp…Read more
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36Mental Contents, Tracking Counterfactuals, and Implementing MechanismsThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 9 1-11. 2000.In the ongoing debate, there are a set of mind-body theories sharing a certain physicalist assumption: whenever a genuine cause produces an effect, the causal efficacy of each of the nonphysical properties that participate in that process is determined by the instantiation of a well-defined set of physical properties. These theories would then insist that a nonphysical property could only be causally efficacious insofar as it is physically implemented. However, in what follows we will argue agai…Read more
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34Mental contents, tracking counterfactuals, and implementing mechanismsIn The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Charlottesville: Philosophy Doc Ctr. pp. 1-11. 2000.In the ongoing debate, there are a set of mind-body theories sharing a certain physicalist assumption: whenever a genuine cause produces an effect, the causal efficacy of each of the nonphysical properties that participate in that process is determined by the instantiation of a well-defined set of physical properties. These theories would then insist that a nonphysical property could only be causally efficacious insofar as it is physically implemented. However, in what follows we will argue agai…Read more
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27Subjetividad y valor en un mundo naturalTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 17 (2): 25-44. 1998.I discuss, in this paper, the view of value that is associated with Humean motivational theories. I argue that these theories unjustifiably constrain the kind of element that may contribute to our motivational economy and, thereby, unduly reduce our capacity to recognize certain sources of value. To this purpose, I will examine some axiological experiences that, if I am right, are inaccessible to a Humean analysis of our motivational structure. I will insist, for instance, on a sense in which so…Read more
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27El refugio de la claridadAnálisis Filosófico 30 (1): 89-121. 2010.La claridad y la argumentación sirven de refugio frente a la charlatanería en el filosofar, pero quienes enfatizan tales principios metodológicos tienden a identificar la claridad con la literalidad y la argumentación con la formalización. En este trabajo, considero los límites de una elucidación filosófica de nuestras prácticas morales que descanse en tal identificación; para ello, examino la relevancia de la posición original de John Rawls para la determinación de los principios de la justicia…Read more
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25The Principle of Inferential Justification, Scepticism, and Causal BeliefsPhilosophical Issues 10 (1): 377-385. 2000.
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23Evidence and First-Person AuthorityTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 51-66. 2011.
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22Distinctive substantial self-knowledge and the possibility of self-improvementSynthese 201 (6): 1-22. 2023.Quassim Cassam distinguishes between trivial and substantial cases of self-knowledge. At first sight, trivial cases are epistemically distinctive insofar as the agent needn't provide any sort of evidence to ground her claim to knowledge. Substantial cases of self-knowledge such as ‘I know I want to have a second child’ do not seem to bear this distinctive relation to evidence. I will argue, however, that substantial cases of self-knowledge are often epistemically distinctive and, to this end, I …Read more
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20Habermas: pragmática universal y normatividadDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 1 39-57. 1989.
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19Emociones morales en la flecha del tiempo: un esquema de la experiencia del dañoAzafea: Revista de Filosofia 7 (1). 2005.La experiencia del daño tiene, a primera vista, dos polos: el polo de quien causa el daño y el polo de quien lo sufre. Existe, no obstante, una tercera perspectiva: la de quien no causa daño ni lo sufre, pero la del verdugo hiriendo a la víctima. El verdugo puede hacer sentir su voz, insistir en su representación de los hechos. En cambio, la víctima permanece indefensa y la verdad de su daño queda soterrada bajo la palabra del verdugo. Quien tiene noticia acaba aceptando el discurso legitimador …Read more
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19Normativity, moral realism, and unmasking explanationsTheoria 19 (2): 155-172. 2010.In this paper, I argue that moral projectivism cannot be coherently fix the content of our moral responses. To this purpose, I develop a number of arguments against moral dispositionalism and, in this context, I challenge both David Lewis' dispositionalist account of colour and Chistine Korsgaard's procedural realism.
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15Self and Sense in a Natural WorldCroatian Journal of Philosophy 1 (2): 87-116. 2001.A subject is a being who has a life to lead. In this paper, I explore the array of resources that are available to us (i.e., Westerners at the turn of the millennium) to articulate and assess our lives. Specifically, I shall reflect on the impact that such matters may have on our naturalist conviction that the world ultimately consists of a causal network where notions such as sense and value have no direct bearing. Sometend to assume that an implication of our naturalist world-view is that the …Read more
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15First‐Person Authority and Self‐Knowledge as an AchievementEuropean Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 325-362. 2010.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…Read more
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14El uso expresivo de las palabras: Daño sexual, narración y transformaciónQuaderns de Filosofia 8 (2): 11. 2021.Resumen: Marta Suria escribe Ella soy yo como parte de su respuesta a la irrupción del recuerdo de las agresiones sexuales que había sufrido desde su infancia. Confía en que la forma en que narra su experiencia, la transforme y la libere. ¿Cómo es posible, sin embargo, que una forma de narrar nos transforme, tenga el poder de liberarnos? En este escrito, describiremos, primero, la concepción de la relación entre lenguaje y experiencia que da pie a esta perplejidad; esbozaremos, posteriormente, u…Read more
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9Presentació. El nostre lloc al món en què creiemQuaderns de Filosofia 2 (2). 2015.Presentación de las tres conferencias impartidas por Barry Stroud en la Càtedra Filosofia i Ciutadania J.L. Blasco, 2014.
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8The Mud of Experience and Kinds of AwarenessTheoria 22 (1): 5-15. 2009.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 deliberative and theoretical attitude is seriously contaminated by that traditional picture.
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8La epistemología como epistemología política: conocimiento, daño y relatoQuaderns de Filosofia 9 (2): 39. 2022.Epistemology as Political Epostemology: Knowledge, Wound and Narrative Resumen: El tipo de conocimiento que a menudo se toma como modelo en Conocimiento expropiado es el que nos proporciona la ciencia, vinculado a la idea de información y a los desarrollos tecnológicos; solo emerge otro modelo cuando se analiza la injusticia hermenéutica y otras formas de daño epistémico. Broncano aúna ambos modelos bajo el rótulo ‘conocimiento’ y esta opción terminológica tiene sentido en la medida en que consi…Read more
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7El principio de justificación inferencial, escepticismo y creencias causalesTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 195-202. 2000.
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6Ensayos sobre libertad y necesidad (edited book)Pre-Textos. 1997.En su Investigación sobre el entendimiento humano, David Hume consideró la cuestión de las relaciones entre libertad y necesidad como “el tema más discutido de la metafísica, la ciencia más discutida”. El debate sobre esta venerable cuestión sigue siendo hoy tan vivo como lo fue en tiempos de Hume. El presente volumen colectivo es una buena muestra de ello. Los ensayos que lo forman, escritos desde una pluralidad de perspectivas, ponen de manifiesto la complejidad y la unidad interna del problem…Read more
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3El arrullo de la lija. Una propuesta pedagógicaDilema: Revista de Filosofía 12 (2): 117-120. 2008.
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Sobre héroes, dioses y palabras: el siglo de FregeDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 6 131. 1993.
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The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophy of MindCharlottesville: Philosophy Doc Ctr. 2000.
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