Mariano Alvarez

In this paper we study the distribution of power in the Basque Parliament since the restoration of the Spanish democracy. The classic simple games do not fit with the particular voting rule that it is used to invest the president of the regional government. In order to model this voting mechanism we incorporate coalitional externalities to the game. We use the extensions of the most popular power indices to games with externalities that have been proposed in the most recent literature. Moreover, we propose a method to estimate the probability of a given coalition based on the ideological positions of its members in a two-dimensional political spectrum.

El “dominio de la naturaleza” es uno de los tópicos que ha tenido una sig-nificación positiva hasta que el término “dominio” se convirtió en algo controvertido. Desde distintas perspectivas se han discutido las condiciones de la naturaleza que los seres humanos pueden controlar, hasta el punto de que la tensión irresuelta entre uso y dominio de la natu-raleza ha apuntado a la responsabilidad, como tema central del mismo. La cuestión es no solo ética, sino también antropológica y ontológica, porque el poder tecnológico de la acción humana aumenta de tal manera que cabe ser caracterizado como exponencial

Like much in this book, the title and dust jacket illustration are clever. The first evokes Hume's remark in the Treatise that ‘Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.’ The second, which represents a cross between a dance-step and a clinch, links up with the title and anticipates an example used throughout the book to support its central claims: that Ronnie, unlike Bradley, has a reason to go to a party – namely, that there will be dancing at the party – because Ronnie, unlike Bradley, loves dancing. So, the explanation of why Ronnie's and Bradley's reasons differ lies in their respective psychologies.Schroeder argues for a version of the Humean Theory of Reasons he calls Hypotheticalism, which says that every reason is explained by a desire in the same way as Ronnie's is. Schroeder argues that on almost every count, Hypotheticalism is as good as, or preferable to, the Humean and non-Humean alternatives; and he defends it against an array of objections. For example, he explains that while Hypotheticalism claims that ‘desires have to serve in the explanation of every reason because desires are part of the correct analysis of reasons’ , it does not claim that a desire that explains a reason is part of that reason: rather it is a background condition for it. This, Schroeder argues, allows him to rebut a variety of objections that depend on conflating reasons with their background conditions. Other …

Tanto Unamuno como Ortega se sienten vivamente interesados por las cuestiones que tienen que ver con la circunstancia española en sus más variadas vertientes, pero en sus respuestas y actitudes intentan atenerse a fundamentos rigurosos y últimos. De ahí que, hablando y escribiendo sobre lo momentáneo y efímero, nos hayan puesto en contacto con manifestaciones esenciales de la verdad, a cuya búsqueda se dedicaron de forma tan apasionada como ocasional y azarosa. El lenguaje que elaboraron sigue siendo, en lo fundamental, obligado recurso para pensar filosóficamente en español. Por ello nos sigue resultando ineludible la vuelta a su obra.