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Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following questions: Why do we act in a specific way? Why do we make particular decisions? Does one's form of life and language games determine our actions and decisions? Wittgenstein proposes a holistic method which enables us to give coherent answers to these questions. To answer the question of the contents of actions and decisions we have to explain how we have ins…Read more
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Language, Truth and Democracy: Essays in Honour of Jesús Padilla Gálvez (edited book)De Gruyter. 2020.The aim of this volume is to investigate three fundamental issues of the new millennium: language, truth and democracy. The authors approach the themes from different philosophical perspectives. One group of authors examines the use of language and the meaning of concepts from an analytic point of view, the ontology of scientific terms and explores the nature of knowledge in general. Another group examines truth and types of relation. A third group of authors focuses on the current factors influ…Read more
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Actions Embedded in Forms of LifeIn Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.), Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life, De Gruyter. pp. 45-59. 2016.n this paper I propose that any action attained through education and for-mation is embedded in a person’s form of life. The experiences that one was exposed to in early socialisation are crucial for the construction of a form of life. Actions are not regarded as acts per se or solely conceived of as singular move-ments but they are linguistically introduced and practiced. Someone’s acting or behaving in a specific way becomes manifest in language. Individuals …Read more
Jesús Padilla Gálvez
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaProfessor
Toledo, CM, Spain
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |