Juan F. Álvarez

Université Grenoble Alpes
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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    Remembering and relearning: Against exclusionism
    Philosophical Studies. forthcoming.
    Many philosophers endorse “exclusionism”, the view that no instance of relearning qualifies as a case of genuine remembering, and vice versa. Appealing to simulationist, distributed causalist, and trace minimalist theories of remembering, I develop three conditional arguments against exclusionism. First, if simulationism is right to hold that some cases of remembering involve reliance on post-event testimonial information, then remembering does not exclude relearning. Second, if distributed caus…Read more
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    Argumentos de contraste fenoménico a favor de la fenomenología cognitiva
    Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 57 175-203. 2018.
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    ABSTRACT The focus of this essay is Kant's argument in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals III that regarding oneself as rational implies regarding oneself as free. After setting out an interpretation of how the argument is meant to go, I argue that Kant fails to show that regarding oneself as free is incompatible with accepting universal causal determinism. However, I suggest that the argument succeeds in showing that regarding oneself as rational is inconsistent with accepting univers…Read more