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3El arrullo de la lija. Una propuesta pedagógicaDilema: Revista de Filosofía 12 (2): 117-120. 2008.
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25The Principle of Inferential Justification, Scepticism, and Causal BeliefsPhilosophical Issues 10 (1): 377-385. 2000.
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80Minds, Causes and Mechanisms: A Case Against PhysicalismWiley-Blackwell. 2000.This volume includes a lucid discussion of recent developments by philosophers such as Block, Davidson, Fodor, Kim, Lewis, Mellor, Putnam, Schiffer, Shoemaker, ...
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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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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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76Observation, Character, and A Purely First-Person Point of ViewActa Analytica 26 (4): 311-328. 2011.In Values and the Reflective Point of View (2006), Robert Dunn defends a certain expressivist view about evaluative beliefs from which some implications about self-knowledge are explicitly derived. He thus distinguishes between an observational and a deliberative attitude towards oneself, so that the latter involves a purely first-person point of view that gives rise to an especially authoritative, but wholly non-observational, kind of self-knowledge. Even though I sympathize with many aspects o…Read more
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20Habermas: pragmática universal y normatividadDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 1 39-57. 1989.
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23Evidence and First-Person AuthorityTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 51-66. 2011.
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59The relevance of moral disagreement. Some worries about nondescriptivist cognitivismGrazer Philosophische Studien 63 (1): 217-233. 2002.Nondescriptivist Cognitivism vindicates the cognitive value of moral judgements despite their lack of descriptive content. In this paper,I raise a few worries about the proclaimed virtues of this new metaethical framework Firstly, I argue that Nondescriptivist Cognitivism tends to beg the question against descriptivism and, secondly, discuss Horgan and Timmons' case against Michael Smith's metaethical rationalism. Although I sympathise with their main critical claims against the latter, I am les…Read more
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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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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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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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113Classical and connectionist models: Levels of descriptionSynthese 95 (2). 1993.To begin, I introduce an analysis of interlevel relations that allows us to offer an initial characterization of the debate about the way classical and connectionist models relate. Subsequently, I examine a compatibility thesis and a conditional claim on this issue.With respect to the compatibility thesis, I argue that, even if classical and connectionist models are not necessarily incompatible, the emergence of the latter seems to undermine the best arguments for the Language of Thought Hypothe…Read more
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145The mud of experience and kinds of awarenessTheoria 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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7El principio de justificación inferencial, escepticismo y creencias causalesTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 195-202. 2000.
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60Understanding, truth, and explanationInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3 (1): 19-34. 1988.(1988). Understanding, truth, and explanation. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 19-34. doi: 10.1080/02698598808573322
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Sobre héroes, dioses y palabras: el siglo de FregeDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 6 131. 1993.
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50In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.
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148First-Person Authority and Self-Knowledge as an AchievementEuropean Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 325-362. 2009.Abstract: 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 wa…Read more
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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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67PresentationTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 16 (1): 5-12. 2001.As I see bus no. 29 approaching, I raise my arm. The bus stops, I take a few steps and get on it. This happens because the driver, having seen my arm raised, interpreted the gesture as a conventional expression of my wish to get on the bus. If it had been bus no. 17, I would not have raised my arm because I know that that bus follows quite a different route. This is not, of course, the end of the story. I might also mention the reasons why I really wanted route 29, and so on. Fortunately, there …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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