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    Review of 'Tratado de una hermenéutica analógica' by Mauricio Beuchot (review)
    Analogía Filosófica 2 (2): 193-97. 2006.
    La tercera edición del Tratado de hermenéutica analógica se hace eco de las sugerencias y propuestas suscitadas a partir de la que fuera su primera edición en el año 1997. Entre los muchos interlocutores que han acogido con interés la propuesta de una hermenéutica analógica, están Emerith Coreth y Paul Ricoeur, cuyas valoraciones sobre la pertinencia de una lectura en clave analógica de la hermenéutica filosófica se recogen en este Tratado de hermenéutica analógica. En este Tratado, Mauricio Beu…Read more
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    Cognitive Abduction in the Study of Visual Culture
    with Noemi de Haro García
    Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Western and Eastern Studies 2 205-220. 2012.
    In this paper art history and visual studies, the disciplines that study visual culture, are presented as a field whose conjectural paradigm can be used to understand the epistemic problems associated with abduction. In order to do so, significant statements, concepts and arguments from the work of several specialists in this field have been highlighted. Their analysis shows the fruitfulness and potential for understanding the study of visual culture as a field that is interwoven with the assump…Read more
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    The purpose of this paper is to argue that abductive reasoning is part of a cognitive process of interpreting something as being something. The paper holds two fundamental claims. First, it proposes a definition of interpretation as a type of cognitive event. Second, it is argued that in some cases the activity of interpreting is a process to search for plausible assumptions for consistent explanatory hypotheses formation. As a result of these two theses, it is concluded that logic of interpreta…Read more