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7On the existential link of catastrophe and tragedyFilosofia Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. forthcoming.The main thesis of this dissertation is set out in its very title, and to prove it will be necessary to eliminate the usual negative or melodramatic meaning of the two concepts that appear there and take them rather as the two extremes of the dialectical process of redefining the sociopersonal consciousness. In accordance with this, any catastrophe implies the violent breakup of the normal conditions of existence due to a natural or human factor whose direct consequences each one must understand…Read more
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5Blanco Pérez, Carlos Alberto. El sentido de la libertad. Cómo construir una autonomía responsable, 2021, SalamancaThémata Revista de Filosofía. forthcoming.
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44Huemer, Michael. Knowledge, Reality and Value. A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy, 2021Thémata Revista de Filosofía. forthcoming.
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19Rodríguez Aramayo, Roberto. Schopenhauer: la lucidez del pesimismo, Alianza editorial, Madrid, 2018Thémata Revista de Filosofía. forthcoming.
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42La création du Monde : La philosophie entre art et scienceRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 60 (4): 517. 2008.La philosophie contemporaine est tiraillée entre deux pôles apparemment inconciliables, que sont la littérature et les sciences dures. Une possibilité de réconciliation et de fusion est pourtant envisageable en remontant à Descartes, qui ne voit pas, dans son traité du Monde, de discontinuité entre philosophie et science et qui utilise la fable et la fiction pour exposer une vérité scientifique universelle. Or, cette vérité est exposée par des moyens (la déréalisation expérimentale du monde, la …Read more
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29DeFinettian ConsensusTheory and Decision 49 (1): 79-96. 2000.It is always possible to construct a real function φ, given random quantities X and Y with continuous distribution functions F and G, respectively, in such a way that φ(X) and φ(Y), also random quantities, have both the same distribution function, say H. This result of De Finetti introduces an alternative way to somehow describe the `opinion' of a group of experts about a continuous random quantity by the construction of Fields of coincidence of opinions (FCO). A Field of coincidence of opinions…Read more
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46DeFinettian ConsensusTheory and Decision 49 (1): 79-96. 2000.It is always possible to construct a real function f, given random quantities X and Y with continuous distribution functions F and G, respectively, in such a way that f(X) and f(Y), also random quantities, have both the same distribution function, say H. This result of De Finetti introduces an alternative way to somehow describe the `opinion' of a group of experts about a continuous random quantity by the construction of Fields of coincidence of opinions (FCO). A Field of coincidence of opinions…Read more
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10The Mediasphere and the Metaphysical Link of the Political and the Cultural Meaning of NationGlimpse 11 27-32. 2009.In this paper we shall consider how the globalization of media has destroyed the metaphysical link between the nation as political entity the nation cultural unit, a link which was postulated by the Romantic philosophical tradition and that at the same time has been deeply engrained in the common sense idea of national identity. The paper has three sections. In the first one we consider the two meanings of the concept "nation" and show that their possible aiffinity is only understandable taking …Read more
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1On Tragic Feeling and Human WeaknessIn Calley A. Hornbuckle, Jadwiga S. Smith & William S. Smith (eds.), Posthumanism and Phenomenology: The Focus on the Modern Condition of Boredom, Solitude, Loneliness and Isolation, Springer Verlag. pp. 191-211. 2022.The thesis that I uphold in this dissertation is double: I start from the idea that there is a special kind of feeling that I call tragic and that belies both what I call “natural” feeling and the current experience thereof, an experience that implicates a return to a selfish or narcissist conception of individuality. To prove this, I shall divide the dissertation in three sections: in the first one, I meditate on the phenomenological framework of feeling, music and history that leads to a tragi…Read more
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46BackgroundThe Patient Health Questionnaire-9 is the most well-known self-report measure to screen for depressive symptomatology, although discerning which is the factor structure that represents the best fit remains a challenge.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Spanish version of the PHQ-9 in a large sample of Ecuadorian college students.MethodsA total of 5,394 students from three Ecuadorian universities were surveyed using a…Read more
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10The Impact of Cooperative Learning on University Students’ Academic GoalsFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2022.Cooperative learning encourages the development of interpersonal skills and motivates students to participate more actively in the teaching and learning process. This study explores the impact of cooperative learning on the academic goals influencing university students’ behavior and leading to the attainment of a series of academic objectives. To this end, a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design was used, with a sample of 509 university students from Preschool, Primary and So…Read more
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8A Criticism of the Current Subjectivist Totemism in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly ManIn Calley A. Hornbuckle, Jadwiga S. Smith & William S. Smith (eds.), Phenomenology of the Object and Human Positioning: Human, Non-Human and Posthuman, Springer Verlag. pp. 267-284. 2021.It is more and more evident in the sociocultural dynamics the tendency to criticize the would-be substantial superiority of man over animal or even to invert the terms and take the latter as a being endowed with a vitality a lot more powerful than the human, which makes up for the undeniable limitations in rationality that have traditionally been the ground of the right to subject the animals to the human wants. Taking as a thread Herzog’s film, I propose to analyse this vindication of an animal…Read more
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7A Psychometric Study of a Spanish Version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised: Confirmatory Factor AnalysisFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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58Archeological Tourist Destination Image Formation: Influence of Information Sources on the Cognitive, Affective and Unique ImageFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.Image has been considered an influential factor in tourists’ perceptions and evaluations of a destination. This paper analyzes the formation of the tourist destination image of Segóbriga Archaeological Park, a cultural destination of great heritage value, located in the province of Cuenca (Spain). The image is analyzed using a multidimensional approach, considering not only its cognitive and affective components, but also the unique-image component. The latter has received less attention in the …Read more
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Metaphore in Cinema RevisitedPhilosophy Study 3 (12). 2013.The theory of rhetorical figures in cinema is highly problematic, besides it can be considered as outdated as the semiotic theory of cinema, yet it is convenient to reexamine the idea of “cinematographic metaphor” in order to throw some light on the dominant idea of cinema as narrative medium. In this paper we will examine: the supposedly existing metaphor of urban and industrial man as sheep at the beginning of Chaplin’s film Modern Times; and the sequence of the awakening stone lion in Eisenst…Read more
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10Metaphor in Cinema RevisitedGlimpse 15 19-23. 2009.This paper will unfold the theoretical object mentioned in the title thereof without solution of continuity, but it will be convenient to take into account some points before beginning: firstly, we shall throughout uphold the difference existing between visual and narrative cinema, that is to say, on the one hand, a cinema whose utmost aim is to dazzle the spectator and fill his sight with images of the most variegated kind no matter how much the anecdotic content of the picture is feeble or pla…Read more
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8Is There Metonymy in Film?Glimpse 14 31-42. 2009.This paper will unfold the theoretical object mentioned in the title thereof without solution of continuity, but it will be convenient to take into account some points before beginning: firstly, we shall throughout uphold the difference existing between visual and narrative cinema, that is to say, on the one hand, a cinema whose utmost aim is to dazzle the spectator and fill his sight with images of the most variegated kind no matter how much the anecdotic content of the picture is feeble or pla…Read more
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5On Why Cinema Is Not Reducible to the Sheer ImageGlimpse 11 122-127. 2009.This paper will unfold the theoretical object mentioned in the title thereof without solution of continuity, but it will be convenient to take into account some points before beginning: firstly, we shall throughout uphold the difference existing between visual and narrative cinema, that is to say, on the one hand, a cinema whose utmost aim is to dazzle the spectator and fill his sight with images of the most variegated kind no matter how much the anecdotic content of the picture is feeble or pla…Read more
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