Dairon Rodríguez

Universidad Industrial de Santander
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    Meaning in Artificial Agents: The Symbol Grounding Problem Revisited
    with Jorge Hermosillo and Bruno Lara
    Minds and Machines 22 (1): 25-34. 2012.
    The Chinese room argument has presented a persistent headache in the search for Artificial Intelligence. Since it first appeared in the literature, various interpretations have been made, attempting to understand the problems posed by this thought experiment. Throughout all this time, some researchers in the Artificial Intelligence community have seen Symbol Grounding as proposed by Harnad as a solution to the Chinese room argument. The main thesis in this paper is that although related, these t…Read more
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    One or two types of death? Attitudes of health professionals towards brain death and donation after circulatory death in three countries
    with J. C. Tortosa, C. J. Burant, P. Aubert, M. P. Aulisio, and S. J. Youngner
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (3): 457-467. 2013.
    This study examined health professionals’ (HPs) experience, beliefs and attitudes towards brain death (BD) and two types of donation after circulatory death (DCD)—controlled and uncontrolled DCD. Five hundred and eighty-seven HPs likely to be involved in the process of organ procurement were interviewed in 14 hospitals with transplant programs in France, Spain and the US. Three potential donation scenarios—BD, uncontrolled DCD and controlled DCD—were presented to study subjects during individual…Read more
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    Advance directives and the family: French and American perspectives
    with G. Moutel, M. P. Aulisio, A. Salfati, J. C. Coffin, J. L. Rodríguez-Arias, L. Calvo, and C. Hervé
    Clinical Ethics 2 (3): 139-145. 2007.
    Several studies have explored differences between North American and European doctor patient relationships. They have focused primarily on differences in philosophical traditions and historic and socioeconomic factors between these two regions that might lead to differences in behaviour, as well as divergent concepts in and justifications of medical practice. However, few empirical intercultural studies have been carried out to identify in practice these cultural differences. This lack of standa…Read more
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    Causal Cognition and Skillful Tool Use
    with Jorge Francisco Maldonado Serrano
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25 (3): 479-492. 2021.
    An epistemological account of tool use is fundamental for a better comprehension of technical objects within the philosophy of technology. In this paper, we put forward an answer to the question “What is the role of causal cognition in skillful tool use?” We argue that an interventionist account of causal representation enables us to see how cases of skillful tool use presuppose the acquisition of representations of the causal relationships between direct interventions on a tool and the desired …Read more
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    Digitalidad crítica: de lo virtual a lo digital
    with Jorge Francisco Maldonado
    Praxis Filosófica 145-163. 2018.
    En este artículo se afirma que la idea de ‘virtual’ o de ‘virtualidad’ pertenece a una perspectiva teórica que pretende explicar los componentes del fenómeno de la sociedad tecnológica de hoy en día. En primer lugar, la perspectiva digital es explicada en su estructura ontológica básica: códigos binarios que organizan un set de elementos físicos o un hardware de acuerdo con reglas lógicas. Por ende, la idea de sociedad en red, comunicación virtual y seres humanos digitales son conceptos que no a…Read more