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10Winning with mētis: embodied virtues in sport practice, from Odysseus to MaradonaSport, Ethics and Philosophy 1-19. forthcoming.The Greek word mētis (μῆτις) traditionally refers to a particular form of wily intelligence associated with the arts of deception (dolos) and the knowledge of tricks (kerdē), subterfuges, and traps. Mētis evokes innovative and ground-breaking solutions, based on the capability to understand, anticipate, and possibly violate the others’ expectations. Most importantly, mētis presupposes practical wisdom, or prudence (phrόnesis), a dispositional quality that underpins all the virtues that deserve t…Read more
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1Bernstein, Vygotsky and the Field of Promoted Action: Some Insights from Motor LearningConstructivist Foundations 18 (2): 237-239. 2023.I aim to strengthen the connection between Bernstein and Vygotsky, the key theoretical pillars in the target article on semiotic mediation during mathematics teaching/learning interactions. The concept of the field of promoted action (FPA) as understood through a constraints-led approach is crucial to foster such connection. FPA heavily relies on Bernstein’s characterization of (motor) problem solving in the learning process and relates to Vygotsky’s notion of the zone of proximal development. T…Read more
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14Historical Approach and Scale Reconstruction of Two Medieval Mechanisms from “The Book of Secrets”Foundations of Science 29 (1): 105-124. 2024.Abstract“The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas”, usually called “The Book of Secrets” is a codex containing drawings and descriptions of thirty-one artifacts attributed to the engineer Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī, who lived in Andalusia in southern Spain at the beginning of the 11th century. This manuscript is one of the first written testimonies that describe medieval mechanisms with complex precision. The aim of this work is to reconstruct and study from a historical and technological point…Read more
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33Playing with models and optimization to overcome the tragedy of the commons in groundwaterComplexity 19 (1): 9-21. 2014.
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62Choking RECtified: embodied expertise beyond DreyfusPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (2): 309-331. 2015.On a Dreyfusian account performers choke when they reflect upon and interfere with established routines of purely embodied expertise. This basic explanation of choking remains popular even today and apparently enjoys empirical support. Its driving insight can be understood through the lens of diverse philosophical visions of the embodied basis of expertise. These range from accounts of embodied cognition that are ultra conservative with respect to representational theories of cognition to those …Read more
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18Mechanical Wits Used in the America Colonization: Engineering AssessmentFoundations of Science 29 (1): 41-58. 2024.The first European settlements in the new world faced technical issues with the help of the XVI century scientific advances. Besides briefly exposing the scientific and technological situation, this paper explores, with the help of reverse engineering, two singular mechanical wits representative of the technological advances introduced in America to overcome different problems. Firstly, a pump, based on an alternative movement system through crankshafts and pistons used against the continuous fl…Read more
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26Bien común y sostenibilidad de base comunitaria para México. Aportaciones de la universidad pública y la Iglesia católicaCuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana 43 (127). 2022.A partir de una reflexión crítica de la sostenibilidad, en que identificamos que su dicurso ha estado regido por los supuestos del bien común del neoliberalismo progresivo, proponemos alternativas de interpretación ética y epistemológica de este concepto; es decir, lo trasladamos hacia un campo de reflexión y acción regido por una noción alternativa de bien común. Para ello, hacemos uso de tres elementos: ampliar la experiencia cooperativa humana, descrita por Graeber (2011), la tradición del pe…Read more
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21Distributed Attention: A Cognitive Ethnography of Instruction in Sport SettingsJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 48 (4): 433-454. 2018.
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196Attention alters appearances and solves the 'many-many problem'European Journal of Human Movement 34 156-179. 2015.This article states that research in skill acquisitionand executionhas underestimated the relevance of some features of attention. We present and theoretically discuss two essential features of attention that have been systematically overlooked in the research of skill acquisitionandexecution. First, attention alters the appearance of the perceived stimuli in an essential way; and second, attention plays a fundamental role in action, being crucial…Read more
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7Fighting as real as it gets. A Micro-Sociological EncounterFighting as real as it gets. A Micro-Sociological Encounter (review)Sport Und Gesellschaft 17 (3): 327-331. 2020.
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16The sociology of sport in Spain: Development, current situation, and future challengesSport Und Gesellschaft 17 (1): 69-95. 2020.SummaryThis article presents the development and current situation of the sociology of sport in Spain. It begins with a brief description of its origins and development as an academic field, which can be divided into three stages: birth, growth, and consolidation and internationalization. It then describes the theoretical and methodological traditions as well as the predominant topics (including the most representative research) in the social scientific studies on physical activity conducted so …Read more
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22Reseña de "Sociedad civil y teoría política" Jean Cohen y Andrew AratoSignos Filosóficos 5 241-248. 2001.
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19Reseña de "Ensayos sobre liberalismoy comunitarismo" de Eduardo Rivera LópezSignos Filosóficos 8 321-331. 2002.
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13RESEÑA de : Sánchez Meca, D. La Historia de la Filosofía como Hermenéutica. Madrid : UNED, 1996Endoxa 1 (8): 244. 1997.
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21Joseph Maguire: Power and Global Sport. Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance. Routledge, London, 2005Foro Interno. Anuario de Teoría Política 7 195-198. 2007.
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1Textos y contextos de las culturas latinoamericanas/Texts and Contexts of Latin American CulturesTelos (Venezuela) 15 (3): 307-324. 2013.
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Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |