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Identidad/IndiscernibilidadIn Luis Vega and Paula Olmos (ed.), Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica, Editorial Trotta. 2011.
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EnunciadoIn Luis Vega and Paula Olmos (ed.), Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica, Editorial Trotta. 2011.
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16First Edition of the Lullius Lectures: Kitcher’s Reconstruction in the Philosophy of ScienceTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 28 (2): 181-184. 2013.This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July 18th-20th, 2012). It also includes three of the contributions presented to the Symposium on Kitcher’s work in the same Conference.
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1No Miracles: What does it mean that science seeks the truth?Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (202). 2014.
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34The Nature of TruthSpringer. 2013.The book offers a proposal on how to define truth in all its complexity, without reductionism, showing at the same time which questions a theory of truth has to answer and which questions, although related to truth, do not belong within the scope of such a theory. Just like any other theory, a theory of truth has its structure and limits. The semantic core of the position is that truth-ascriptions are pro-forms, i.e. natural language propositional variables. The book also offers an explanation o…Read more
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32Identity, necessity and a prioricity:The fallacy of equivocationHistory and Philosophy of Logic 13 (1): 91-109. 1992.The aim of this paper is to discuss Kripkc?s reasons for declaring the existence of both necessary a posteriori as well as contingent a priori statements, thus breaking the traditional extensional coincidence of the two pairs of concepts:necessary?contingent and a priori?a posteriori. As I shall argue, there is no reason, from Kripke?s work at least, to reject the usual picture of the topic The appeal ot his arguments rests on the ambiguity with which his expressions are used and on the introduc…Read more
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7F. P. Ramsey: Critical Reassessments (edited book)Thoemmas Continuum. 2005.Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation. He lived in an extraordinarily stimulating milieu, surrounded by figures such as Russell, Whitehead, Keynes, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Ramsey's highly original papers on the foundations of mathematics, probability, economics, philosophy of science and the theory of knowledge were very influential in the 20th century and are still widely discussed in the 21st. Perhaps two of Rams…Read more
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22It Takes Two to Make a Truth: Comentarios a la Teoría Semántico-ontológica de Puntel desde la Teoría Pro-oracionalRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 65 (1). 2009.Este artículo debate algunas de las cuestiones que el Profesor Puntel discute en su conferencia “‘verdad’ como concepto ontológico-semántico” (2007). La conferencia de Puntel toca numerosos aspectos de la noción de verdad; de entre ellos, hemos aislado dos conjuntos temáticos. El primero tiene que ver con cuestiones preliminares acerca de la verdad que el Prof. Puntel discute antes de presentar su posición. El segundo está relacionado con la posición particular que Puntel defiende y en concreto …Read more
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3Essay ReviewHistory and Philosophy of Logic 20 (2): 111-114. 1999.This paper critically revises Horwich's book, Truth, from a similar perspective, from the perspective of the prosentential theory of truth
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4¿Qué son las constantes lógicas?Critica 44 (132): 65-99. 2012.El artículo ofrece una caracterización de las constantes lógicas, [CL], analizando el significado de las expresiones que son sus contrapartidas en el lenguaje natural. [CL] recoge los rasgos sintácticos, semánticos y pragmáticos individualmente necesarios y conjuntamente suficientes para que una expresión sea una constante lógica. Se obtendrá la siguiente conclusión: que la lista de las expresiones que habitualmente se consideran constantes lógicas no comparten rasgos relevantes desde el punto d…Read more
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