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    Conceptual recombination and stimulus-independence in non-human animals.Laura Danón - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):309-330.
    Camp (2009) distinguishes two varieties of conceptual recombination. One of them is full-blown or (as I prefer to call it) spontaneous recombination. The other is causal-counterfactual recombination. She suggests that while human animals recombine their concepts in a full-blown way, many non-human animals are capable of conceptual recombinability but only of the causal-counterfactual kind. In this paper, I argue that there is conceptual space to draw further sub-distinctions on how different animals may recombine their concepts. More specifically, I propose to (...)
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    Conceptual recombination and stimulus-independence in non-human animals.Laura Danón - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):309-330.
    Camp (2009) distinguishes two varieties of conceptual recombination. One of them is full-blown or (as I prefer to call it) spontaneous recombination. The other is causal-counterfactual recombination. She suggests that while human animals recombine their concepts in a full-blown way, many non-human animals are capable of conceptual recombinability but only of the causal-counterfactual kind. In this paper, I argue that there is conceptual space to draw further sub-distinctions on how different animals may recombine their concepts. More specifically, I propose to (...)
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    Kripke’s Gödel case: Descriptive ambiguity and its experimental interpretation.Chao Ding & Chuang Liu - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):291-308.
    Kripke has taken the Gödel case as a counterexample for reference descriptivism. Machery et al. question the validity of Kripke’s case and had conducted empirical studies to show its inadequacy. Experimental data suggest intuitions on this matter vary both across and within cultures. However, there is a descriptive ambiguity, we argue, in Kripke’s Gödel case, for people associate different types of descriptions with proper names, such as the description of brute facts and the description of social facts. We argue in (...)
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    The machine-like repair of aging. Disentangling the key assumptions of the SENS agenda.Pablo García-Barranquero & Marta Bertolaso - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):379-394.
    The possibility of curing aging is currently generating hopes and concerns among entrepreneurs, experts, and the general public. This article aims to clarify some of the key assumptions of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence agenda, one of the most prominent paradigms for rejuvenation. To do this, we present the three fundamental claims of this research program: (1) aging can be repaired; (2) rejuvenation is possible through the reversal of all molecular damage; (3) and the human organism is a sophisticated (...)
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  5. ¿Dos sistemas de lectura de mentes? Análisis crítico de la teoría de dos sistemas.Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):331-355.
    Apperly and Butterfill’s (2009) hold that there are two cognitive mind-reading systems. System 1(S1) is fast, automatic and inflexible, whereas system 2 (S2) is reflective, flexible and slow. This paper presents and discusses two central assumptions of this theory: the independence of S1 and S2 and the encapsulation of S1. It is argued that findings on longitudinal trajectories in infancy on the false belief test and visual perspective taking undermine the two-system theory in three respects: (1) S1 is not encapsulated, (...)
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    Efectos metalingüisticos y metacontextuales.Ricardo Mena - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):275-290.
    Algunas aseveraciones que no son acerca del significado de las palabras usadas pueden transmitir información acerca de ese significado. En (Mena, 2022) ofrecí una teoría para explicar este fenómeno de manera puramente semántica. Lo novedoso de la teoría consiste en incluir las interpretaciones del lenguaje en las circunstancias de evaluación: los parámetros respecto a los cuales evaluamos los contenidos de las expresiones ling¨üísticas. En este ensayo argumento que las aseveraciones de oraciones que contienen indéxicos pueden transmitir información acerca del contexto (...)
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    Argumentos ad hominem y epistemología de las virtudes: Cómo atacar a la persona sin cometer una falla lógica o moral en el intento.Ángel Rivera-Novoa - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (3):357-377.
    El objetivo de este artículo es ofrecer una explicación de la legitimidad de ciertos argumentos ad hominem acudiendo a la epistemología de las virtudes. La tesis central es que hay argumentos ad hominem que son aceptables si se conciben como argumentos inductivos cuya fuerza está determinada por una apelación justa a los vicios epistémicos del interlocutor. Se argumenta que algunos argumentos ad hominem abusivos son aceptables si descansan en un señalamiento justo de la carencia de virtudes epistémicas confiabilistas por parte (...)
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    Duchenne smiles are actions not mere happenings: lessons from the debate on expressive action.Marta Cabrera - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (2):163-179.
    In this paper, I will argue that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the debate on expressive action, we do not have good reasons to exclude facial and bodily expressions of emotion such as smiling or frowning from the category of actions. For this purpose, I will compare facial and bodily expressions of emotion with simple expressive actions, such as jumping for joy or covering one’s face in shame. I will try to show that simple expressive actions cannot be (...)
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    Mario Gómez-Torrente (2020). Roads to Reference. [REVIEW]Scott Soames - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (2):265-267.
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    Editors’ introduction.Marc Artiga & Javier González de Prado - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (1):5-6.
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    Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes.Katrina Elliott & Marc Lange - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (1):53-62.
    Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of causal and explanatory relations in our world, but also are the worldly basis of causal and explanatory directions. We raise questions about Woodward’s envisioned epistemology, but our primary focus is on his metaphysics. We argue that any alleged connection between statistical dependence and causal/explanatory direction is contingent, at best. (...)
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    Bi-directionality in causal relationships.Fernanda Samaniego - 2022 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 37 (1):103-109.
    This paper aims to provide an answer to James Woodward’s article “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”. It will be conjectured that, when causal directionality depends on the experimental design, it is because the variables involved are capable of producing changes in each other. This will be exemplified using the case of ideal gases as opposed to the flagpole-shadow scenario.
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