Universidad De Granada
Departamento De Filosofia I
Alumnus, 1987
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    In this Interview, Professor Robert B. Brandom answered ten detailed questions about his philosophy of Rational Pragmatism and Semantic Expressivism, grouped into four topics. 1. Metaphysics and Anthropology, 2. Pragmatics and Semantics, 3. Epistemic Expressivism and 4. Philosophy of Logic. With his careful answers Professor Brandom offers many additional insights into his rigorously constructed account of the relationship “between what we say and think, and what we are saying and thinking about…Read more
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    Minimal Expressivism
    Dialectica 66 (4): 471-487. 2012.
    The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we outline a version of non-descriptivism, ‘minimal expressivism’, leaving aside certain long-standing problems associated with conventional expressivist views. Second, we examine the way in which familiar expressivist results can be accommodated within this framework, through a particular interpretation that the expressive realm lends to a theory of meaning. Expressivist theories of meaning address only a portion of the classical problems attributed t…Read more
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    Non-Representational Mathematical Realism
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 30 (3): 331-348. 2015.
    This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphysical inflationism derived from some versions of mathematical realism do not force them to embrace non-standard, epistemic approaches to truth and existence. It is also an attempt to convince mathematical realists that they do not need to implement their perfectly sound and judicious intuitions with the anti-intuitive developments that render full-blown mathematical realism into a view which even …Read more
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    The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field, 2009), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished. We do so by arguing that relativism and expressivism exemplify two very different approaches to context-dependence. Relativism, on the one hand, shares with other contemporary approaches a bottom–up, building block, model, while expressivism is part of a different tradition, one that might include Lewis’ epistemic contextualism and Frege’s content in…Read more
  •  58
    Truth in Perspective (review)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 14 (2): 382-383. 1999.
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    Un Analisis Logico de las Teorias de la Identidad Psiconeural (A logical analysis of the psychoneural identity theories)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (2): 319-348. 2000.
    El propósito de este artículo es mostrar que las llamadas "teorías de la identidad psiconeural" no tienen la estructura lógica de una teoría genuina de la identidad. Un operador de identidad genuino es un operador de segundo orden, o de órdenes superiores, que convierte predicados n-ádicos en predicados n-1-ádicos. Si las teorias de la identidad psiconeural no son, en realidad, teorías de la identidad, entonces la críticas habituales que usan la Ley de Leibniz y otros rasgos que se relacionan co…Read more
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    First Edition of the Lullius Lectures
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 28 (2): 181-184. 2013.
    This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July 18th-20th, 2012). It also includes three of the contributions presented to the Symposium on Kitcher’s work in the same Conference
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    Philosophy of language
    with E. J. Lowe
    Philosophical Books 46 (2): 158-163. 2005.
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    The logical enquiry into truth 1
    History and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1-2): 179-197. 1996.
    No abstract
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    Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge (edited book)
    University of Chicago Press. 2002.
    This volume comprises a lively and thorough discussion between philosophers and Tyler Burge about Burge's recent, and already widely accepted, position in the theory of meaning, mind, and knowledge. This position is embodied by an externalist theory of meaning and an anti-individualist theory of mind and approach to self-knowledge. The authors of the eleven papers here expound their versions of this position and go on to critique Burge's version. Together with Burge's replies, this volume offers…Read more
  •  18
    This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July 18th-20th, 2012). It also includes three of the contributions presented to the Symposium on Kitcher’s work in the same Conference.
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    The Norm of Truth: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic
    Philosophical Quarterly 44 (174): 126-127. 1994.
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    First Edition of the Lullius Lectures: Kitcher’s Reconstruction in the Philosophy of Science
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 28 (2): 181-184. 2013.
    This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July 18th-20th, 2012). It also includes three of the contributions presented to the Symposium on Kitcher’s work in the same Conference.
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    Un Analisis Logico de las Teorias de la Identidad Psiconeural (A logical analysis of the psychoneural identity theories)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (2): 319-348. 2000.
    El propósito de este artículo es mostrar que las llamadas "teorías de la identidad psiconeural" no tienen la estructura lógica de una teoría genuina de la identidad. Un operador de identidad genuino es un operador de segundo orden, o de órdenes superiores, que convierte predicados n-ádicos en predicados n-1-ádicos. Si las teorias de la identidad psiconeural no son, en realidad, teorías de la identidad, entonces la críticas habituales que usan la Ley de Leibniz y otros rasgos que se relacionan co…Read more
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    What is Identity?
    Philosophical Books 32 (1): 40-41. 1991.
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    We identify two senses of ‘pragmatics’ and related terms that give rise to two different methods of propositional individuation. The first one is the contextualist approach that essentially acknowledges contextual information to take part in the determination of what is said by the utterance of a sentence. In this sense, Pragmatics relies on the Principle of Compositionality and interprets propositions as structured entities. It epitomises the Building-block Model of Propositional Individuation.…Read more
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    Stop beating the donkey! A fresh interpretation of conditional donkey sentences
    with Aránzazu San Ginés
    Theoria : An International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science 32 (1): 7-24. 2017.
    We propose a new approach to conditional donkey sentences that allows us to face successfully the often called proportion problem. The main ingredients of the proposal are van Benthem's generalized quantifier approach to conditionals, and Barwise's situation semantics. We present some experimental data supporting our proposal.
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    The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth is perfectly possible and that the average educated philosopher of language has the tools to do it. The book offers an updated treatment of the meaning of truth ascriptions from taking into account t…Read more
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    Tracking the World Down
    Philosophical Topics 50 (1): 83-107. 2022.
    The background of this paper is what I call “pragmatic inferentialism,” a view that I attribute to Robert Brandom. Here, I develop Brandom’s view and argue that it is a kind of subject naturalism, in Price’s sense, and that the charge of idealism sometimes addressed against it is unwarranted. Regarding, I show that pragmatic inferentialism finds support from evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology. Regarding, I present what I call “level 0 expressivism,” which I take to be the seman…Read more
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    Hintikka’s semantic approach to meaning, a development of Wittgenstein’s view of meaning as use, is the general theme of this chapter. We will focus on the analysis of quantified sentences and on the scope of the principle of compositionality and compare Hintikka’s take on these issues with that of Frege. The aim of this paper is to show that Hintikka’s analysis of quantified expressions as choice functions, in spite of its obvious dissimilarities with respect to the higher-order approach, is ac…Read more
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    This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege ́s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and continued by Hilbert and Tarski is completely alien to Frege's approach in the Begriffsschrift. A central thesis of the book is that judgeable contents, i.e. propositions, are the primary bearers of logical properties, which makes logic embedded in our …Read more
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    F. P. Ramsey. Critical Reassessments (edited book)
    Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005.
    Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation. He lived in an extraordinarily stimulating milieu, surrounded by figures such as Russell, Whitehead, Keynes, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Ramsey's highly original papers on the foundations of mathematics, probability, economics, philosophy of science and the theory of knowledge were very influential in the 20th century and are still widely discussed in the 21st.
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    Identidad y primera persona
    Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 25 21-40. 2002.
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    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 102 (405): 195-197. 1993.
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    Autologic
    Philosophical Books 36 (2): 113-114. 1995.
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    Did Ramsey ever endorse a redundancy theory of truth?
    Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 41 (1): 315-332. 2011.
    This paper deals with Ramsey's theory of truth and its aim is twofold: on the one hand, it will explain what position about truth Ramsey actually defended, and, on the other hand, we will pursue Ramsey's insight in the 20th Century. When the name of Frank Ramsey is mentioned, one of the things that comes to mind is the theory of truth as redundancy. In the following pages we will argue that Ramsey never supported such a theory, but rather an analysis of truth noticeably similar to the prosentent…Read more
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    Book Reviews (review)
    with Robert Kirk, Paul Rusnock, Mirella Capozzi, K. Misiuna, T. Boswell, Alan R. Perreiah, Victor Sánchez Valencia, James Gasser, D. P. Henry, E. J. Lowe, Besprechung von Guillermo Guillermo Bottcher, and Wolfe Mays
    History and Philosophy of Logic 15 (2): 237-263. 1994.
    Patrick Grim, The incomplete universe:totality, knowledge, and truth. Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1991. xiv + 165pp. £22.50 Jan SebestikLogique et mathématique chez Bernard Bolzano. Paris:Vrin, 1992. 522 pp. 198Fr J. De Lorenzo, Kant y la matemâtica. El uso constructivo de la razön pura Madrid:Editorial Tecnos, 1992. 180 pp. No price stated F. Coniglione, R. Poli And J. Woleintski, Polish scientific philosophy:The Lvov-Warsaw school. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1993. …Read more
  • Generalidad y Representación
    Suplementos de Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de Filosofía 10 139-153. 2004.