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45The Role of Image Schemas and Superior Psychic Faculties in ZoosemiosisBiosemiotics 7 (3): 405-427. 2014.Image schemas are mental constructs central to human cognitive psychology. The neurobiological grounding of these structures has been suggested by experimental research both in non-human primates and lower animals . However, their applicability as concrete cognitive products has not been explored yet in zoosemiotics. This study shows that image schemas are highly instrumental to making sense of the impersonations of two animals featured in biology research studies and wildlife documentary films:…Read more
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35Is the Epistemic View of Quantum Mechanics Incomplete?Foundations of Physics 34 (12): 1993-2003. 2004.One of the most tantalizing questions about the interpretation of Quantum Theory is the objective vs. subjective meaning of quantum states. Here, by focusing on a typical EPR experiment upon which a selection procedure is performed on one side, we will confront the fully epistemic view of quantum states with its results. Our statement is that such a view cannot be considered complete, although the opposite attitude would also pose well-known problems of interpretation
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34On the probabilistic postulate of quantum mechanicsFoundations of Physics 26 (10): 1357-1374. 1996.We study whether the probabilistic postulate could be derived from basic principles. Through the analysis of the Strong Law of Large Numbers and its formulation in quantum mechanics, we show, contrary to the claim of the many-worlds interpretation defenders and the arguments of some other authors, the impossibility of obtaining the probabilistic postulate by means of the frequency analysis of an ensemble of infinite copies of a single system. It is shown, though, how the standard form of the pro…Read more
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34A Mathematical Characterization of Quantum Gaussian Stochastic Evolution SchemesFoundations of Physics 36 (4): 526-540. 2006.We give a common mathematical characterization of relevant stochastic evolution schemes built up in the literatute to attack the quantum measurement problem. This characterization is based on two hypotheses, namely, (i) the trace conservation with probability one and (ii) the existence of a complex phase determining a linear support for the stochastic process driving the random evolution
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32A Further Review of the Incompatibility between Classical Principles and Quantum PostulatesFoundations of Science 18 (1): 125-138. 2013.The traditional “realist” conception of physics, according to which human concepts, laws and theories can grasp the essence of a reality in our absence , seems incompatible with quantum formalism and it most fruitful interpretation. The proof rests on the violation by quantum mechanical formalism of some fundamental principles of the classical ontology. We discuss if the conception behind Einstein’s idea of a reality in our absence, could be still maintained and at which price. We conclude that …Read more
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30Coming From Material RealityFoundations of Science 20 (2): 199-212. 2015.In a previous essay we demonstrated that quantum mechanical formalism is incompatible with some necessary principles of the mechanism conception still dominant in the physicist’s community. In this paper we show, based on recent empirical evidence in quantum physics, the inevitability of abandoning the old mechanism conception and to construct a new one in which physical reality is seen as a representation which refers to relations established through operations made by us in a world that we are…Read more
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27Lo que el tiempo educa: el ocio como construcción pedagógica y socialArbor 188 (754): 301-313. 2012.
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26The ‘Mimic’ or ‘Mimetic’ Octopus? A Cognitive-Semiotic Study of Mimicry and Deception in Thaumoctopus MimicusBiosemiotics 12 (3): 441-467. 2019.This study discusses the mimic octopus’ acts of imitation of a banded sea-snake as an antagonistic response to enemies from a cognitive-semiotic perspective. This mimicry model, which involves very close physical resemblance and highly precise enactment, displays goal-orientedness because the octopus only takes it on when encountering damselfish, a territorial species, and not other sea animals that the octopus has been shown to imitate, such as lionfish and flounders. Based on theoretical princ…Read more
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20El carácter fronterizo de las identidades contemporáneas: el caso de ChiapasAposta: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2010, Núm. 44. forthcoming.
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19Online Construction of Multimodal Metaphors In Murnau’s Movie FaustMetaphor and Symbol 32 (3): 192-210. 2017.This study explores multimodal metaphors and metonymies in Faust, a German Expressionist silent fiction movie by Murnau. The article combines principles of psychocinematics, an interdisciplinary scientific field of enquiry, with the multimodal metaphor and expressive movement model, which looks into the temporal dynamics of metaphoric meaning-making by movie watchers. It is shown that interrelating both film-analytic approaches provides a deeper and more comprehensive insight into how figurative…Read more
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17Reflexiones en torno al comportamiento estéticoEstudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 5 65-94. 1992.El interés de estas reflexiones es mostrar la base zoológica del comportamiento estético, corregir la precipitada identificación de lo estético con lo artístico, y revisar la concepción dominante sobre la historia del arte. El hilo conductor es la atención a la función del lenguaje y su relación con la memoria y la etnia.
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16Ortega y Gasset y Américo Castro: Originalidad y creación en el pensamiento español de s. XXCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 10 15-36. 1983.
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16El carácter fronterizo de las identidades contemporáneas. El caso de ChiapasAposta 44 4. 2010.La tesis o hipótesis que se sostiene en el artículo es que la puesta en relación de formas explícitas e implícitas de vida compartida en las sociedades contemporáneas conlleva el auge de identidades híbridas, múltiples o complejas. Entendiendo por identidades híbridas la confluencia de múltiples identificaciones en la biografía personal. Siendo la globalización y la pluralización cultural las formas fundamentales de la sociedad contemporánea, la movilidad se convierte en su principal ingrediente…Read more
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15Interpretación actual de la teoría cuántica: de los muchos universos a las historias consistentesArbor 167 (659-660): 489-507. 2000.
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15Psychometric Properties of a Measure of Borderline Personality Organization in a Spanish Court-Referred Partner-Violent Male SampleFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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13On the Emergence of Islands in Complex NetworksComplexity 2017 1-10. 2017.Most growth models for complex networks consider networks comprising a single connected block or island, which contains all the nodes in the network. However, it has been demonstrated that some large complex networks have more than one island, with an island size distribution obeying a power-law function Is~s-α. This paper introduces a growth model that considers the emergence of islands as the network grows. The proposed model addresses the following two features: the probability that a new isl…Read more
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13El discurso antrópico: hacia una hermenéutica del texto literarioCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 22 283-314. 1995.
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12This paper proposes and analyzes the psychometric properties of the PREVI-A scale. It describes the process of item development, the factorial structure of the scale, reliability, evidence of validity and diagnostic performance with regard to recidivism risk in juvenile offenders. The sample was made up of 212 juvenile offenders held at detention centers run by the Madrid Agency for Reeducation and Reintegration of Juvenile Offenders, a regional government body. Statistical analyses were used to…Read more
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11La naturaleza de la lengua (Discurso de ingreso a la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua)Ágora Papeles de Filosofía 34 (1). 2015.
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11El historiador es criatura de civilizaciones que se desintegran: una plática diacrónica entre Ernesto Volkening y Nicolás Gómez DávilaCo-herencia 20 (38): 137-169. 2023.En este texto se examina el fructífero diálogo sobre la naturaleza de la historia consignado en el Diario de lectura que lleva Ernesto Volkening (1908-1983) sobre los Escolios de Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994). Entre escolios y comentarios se hila una concepción de la historia que, a pesar de ser fragmentaria, guarda una auspiciosa coherencia. El historiador, el hecho histórico y el individuo son los conceptos centrales respecto a los cuales se compone el pensamiento histórico. Sin embargo, es…Read more
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10La "morada vital" y su interpretación desde el estructuralismoCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 5 427-434. 1978.
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9La fi de l'hegemonia neoliberal i el renaixement populista. L’antropologia neoliberal com a origen de l’actual moment populistaQuaderns de Filosofia 8 (2): 43. 2021.
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9La Ecología: ¿Nnuevo Paradigma Hermenéutico?Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 59 (3). 2003.O presente artigo tem por objectivo, em primeiro lugar, mostrar os diversos caminhos através dos quais a sociedade contemporânea tem progressivamente vindo a descobrir o problema ecológico. Num segundo passo, o artigo procede a uma análise das raízes histórico-culturais da redução da natureza a objecto de exploração por parte do ser humano, bem como dos diferentes modos mediante os quais este se relaciona com aquela, sublinhando de modo particular as consequências para o meio ambiente de um uso …Read more
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8A Psychometric Study of a Spanish Version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised: Confirmatory Factor AnalysisFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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7Interdisciplinariedad en gerontología. La calidad de vida como criterio integrador de la interdisciplinaMedicina y Ética 30 (4): 1357-1370. 2019.El artículo presenta un análisis del término multidisciplina e interdisciplina en Gerontología. Para lograr lo anterior se presenta una analogía con el uso del término interdisciplina en Bioética. Se parte de la consideración de la ética como unificador metodológico de la Bioética que permite pasar de ser una multidisciplina a una interdisciplina. De modo análogo, se aplica ese sentido al término gerontología, y se propone así el uso del término «calidad de vida activa debida» como eje ético que…Read more
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |