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131Content and Consciousness Revisited: With Replies by Daniel Dennett (edited book)Springer. 2015.What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretica…Read more
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17Indigenous worldviews and Western conventions: Sumak Kawsay and cocoa production in Ecuadorian AmazoniaAgriculture and Human Values 35 (1): 163-179. 2018.This article explores the role of conventions in the normalization of cocoa production in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Convention theory provides key theoretical tools for understanding coordination among agents. However, conventions must be understood as cultural constructions with a strong Eurocentric background that must be substantially modified in originally non-European contexts. A creative application of convention theory can partially overcome bifurcation among Western and non-Western rationalit…Read more
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8Ingeniería conceptual e innovación teórica: esbozo de un modeloEscritos 29 (62): 144-171. 2021.Every area of knowledge is based on a variety of products of conceptual engineering. This article is programmatic in essence: it aims at introducing a model of how conceptual engineering works and, particularly, how conceptual innovation is achieved in the context of theoretical inquiry. First, it describes the context in which the explicit study of the relevance, scope, mechanisms, and aims of conceptual engineering was born. Secondly, it introduces a distinction between evaluative and instrume…Read more
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University of California, Santa BarbaraDepartment of Philosophy, University of California, Santa BarbaraGraduate student
Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |