In this article, we describe a longitudinal inquiry into what it means to be a person in our contemporary world. Our method constitutes a dynamic, non-objectifying fusion of empirical and philosophical anthropology. Field-based anthropology examines actualities: how people lead their lives and talk about them. Philosophical anthropology addresses possibilities: who and what people could become in light of actualities while not being determined by them. We describe and illustrate our fieldwork in the classrooms of 16 teachers who work in New (...) York City public schools. We have sought in our observations to identify and think about signs or expressions of persons-in-the-making. We also touch on a series of dinner-discussions we have held with the teachers. These meetings have centered on the question of becoming a person in today’s political and cultural environment, and how education figures into the equation. Finally, we also describe the weekly meetings we have held as a research team, in which we engage the play of concepts and percepts. We close with remarks on the conceptual and existential ties that can link philosophy and fieldwork in schools. (shrink)

Este trabajo tiene por propósito presentar de manera secuencial dos puntos asociados a la actualidad filosófica de lo religioso en el contexto de un pensamiento como el de María Zambrano. Por qué María Zambrano, pues porque nos da dos cosas:1) nos ubica en un tejido hermenéutico que califica de filosófica la cuestión religiosa y, 2) si bien lo religioso como problema tiene su tiempo, Zambrano recupera el tono de actualidad de la relación Dios-persona, vale decir, su pertinencia para la descripción (...) de la impronta del lugar primario de lo religioso en la comunidad humana. Además, que ante la tarea de validar sus objetivos filosóficos, ve en la razón la capacidad de elaborar discursos explicativos sobre la presencia o no de lo sacro en la existencia. This paper has for intention to present sequentially two points associated with the philosophical current importance of the religious thing in a context of a thought as that of Maria Zambrano. Why Maria Zambrano, because she gives us two things: 1) She locates us in a hermeneutical tissue who qualifies of philosophical the religious question and 2) though the religious thing like problem has his time, Zambrano recovers the tone of current importance of the relationship God-person, that is, its pertinence for the description of the stamp of primary place that the religious thing take place in the human community. In addition, that before the task of validating her philosophical aims, she sees in the reason the aptitude to elaborate explanatory speeches about the presence or not of the sacred thing in the existence. (shrink)

Sobrevoar a estrada ou percorrê-la a pé: o lugar da atenção na experiência do caminhar e suas possibilidades filosófico-formativas Resumo: Este artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa na qual investigamos os sentidos, limites e possibilidade da atenção na formação filosófica e suas possíveis repercussões no ensino de filosofia e em práticas de ensino filosóficas. O desafio de tornar as aulas de filosofia uma ocasião de experimentação de si no pensamento parece servir de ponto de convergência entre as nossas experiências na (...) formação de professores de filosofia e os resultados alcançados em nossas pesquisas. Assim, formulamos o problema que circunscreve o presente trabalho nos seguintes termos: quais os sentidos da atenção na experiência do caminhar e suas possibilidades no contexto da formação filosófica? De modo geral, objetivamos analisar e problematizar os pressupostos teóricos, limites e potencialidades da Atenção na formação filosófica. Palavras-chave: Atenção. Caminhar. Formação filosófica. To fly over the road or to walk on foot: the place of the attention in the experience of walking and their philosophical-formative possibilities.: This article is the result of a research in which we investigate the senses, limits and possibility of attention in the philosophical formation and its possible repercussions in the teaching of philosophy and in philosophical teaching practices. The challenge of making philosophy classes an occasion for self-experimentation in thought seems to serve as a point of convergence between our experiences in training philosophy teachers and the results achieved in our research. Thus, we formulate the problem that circumscribes the present work in the following terms: What are the senses of attention in the experience of walking and its possibilities in the context of philosophical formation? In general, we aim to analyze and problematize the theoretical presuppositions, limits and potentialities of Attention in the philosophical formation. Keywords: Attention. Walking. Philosophical formation Sobrevolar lo camino o cruzalo la pie: el lugar de la atención en la experiencia del caminar y sus posibilidades filosofico-formativas. Resumen: Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación en la que investigamos los sentidos, límites y posibilidad de la atención en la formación filosófica y sus posibles repercusiones en la enseñanza de filosofía y en prácticas de enseñanza filosóficas. El desafío de hacer las clases de filosofía una ocasión de experimentación de sí en el pensamiento parece servir de punto de convergencia entre nuestras experiencias en la formación de profesores de filosofía y los resultados alcanzados en nuestras investigaciones. Así, formulamos el problema que circunscribe el presente trabajo en los siguientes términos: ¿Cuáles son los sentidos de la atención en la experiencia del caminar y sus posibilidades en el contexto de la formación filosófica? En general, objetivamos analizar y problematizar los presupuestos teóricos, límites y potencialidades de la Atención en la formación filosófica. Palabras clave: Atención. Caminar. Formación filosófica. Data de registro: 17/01/2019 Data de aceite: 11/06/2019. (shrink)

The conventional wisdom is that the best way to alleviate poverty is to provide the maximum freedom for individual entrepreneurs and corporations to create wealth. Drawing on the case of Latin America, this article contends that there are serious defects in analyses based on such assumptions. New technologies and restructuring of international capitalism have accelerated wealth creation worldwide but amid growing inequalities. Technology is mainly controlled by large multinational corporations and not directed at relieving the deprivation suffered by the world's (...) poor. Pervasive, persistent economic inequality and lack of access to appropriate education and training have all been significant in Latin America's failure to develop rapidly during the twentieth century. Most successful “latecomer” countries in the past two hundred years have adopted heterodox autonomous growth strategies, and the authors suggest that such strategies are necessary now to counter the powerful processes that sustain inequality. (shrink)

The author considers the field of the Media, analyzing some of its structural aspects; especially the socioeconomics. He begins with the democratic horizon and concludes his analysis of the «telework», showing clearly its evolution and the liberation of the new technologies market. He also shows the positive influences of the Mass Media and the risks to which it is exposed.

Neste trabalho, pretendemos avaliar criticamente algumas das teses de John McDowellsobre a natureza da virtude, tal como expostas em seu artigo “Virtue and Reason” e, ao fazê-lo,expor algumas de suas limitações. Mais especificamente, tratarei o que vejo como problemas emsua apresentação da virtude como uma forma de conhecimento, e sua proposta – corporificada natese da unidade das virtudes – de que as virtudes comumente reconhecidas deveriam ser vistascomo manifestações parciais da virtude enquanto tal. Também enfocarei a assertiva de McDowellde que (...) o conhecimento que constitui a virtude não pode ser visto como tendo um conteúdoproposicional que se preste a uma codificação em princípios de conduta – a tese de nãocodificabilidade– e a relação da postura pessoal de McDowell com a empreitada mais ampla daética de virtudes. (shrink)

We present a Hilbert-style axiomatization of a recently introduced logic, called G'3 G'3 is based on a 3-valued semantics. We prove a soundness and completeness theorem. The replacement theorem holds in G'3. As it has already been shown in previous work, G'3 can express some non-monotonic semantics. We prove that G'3can define the same class of functions as Lukasiewicz 3 valued logic. Moreover, we identify some normal forms for this logic.

This paper discusses the introduction of fraudulent “molecular detector” technology into Mexico. The case is used to argue that contemporary science and technology studies’ approaches to scientific policy-making make basic assumptions about the societies they operate in that are inconsistent with the Mexican context. This paper also argues that contrary to what happens in the so-called Global North, the relative power of Mexican science in government and policy circles is as much limited by its relatively weak position as much as (...) it is by self-censorship and unrealized impact in the country’s fragile democracy. The case is also used to highlight the necessity for more politically involved scientific institutions in Mexico, as these become critical safeguards against incoming destabilizing technologies from more powerful nations into the local “peripheral” context. (shrink)

Este artículo examina cómo la separabilidad y unidad mente-cuerpo resultan clave para poner de manifiesto lo inapropiado del “teatro cartesiano”, metáfora creada por Daniel Dennett para criticar la experiencia consciente unificada en Descartes. La primera sección introduce al problema de la separabilidad cartesiana. La segunda examina cómo mente y cuerpo, separables mediante lo concebible según Descartes, resultan ser cosas metafísicamente distintas. La tercera enfatiza como separables no implica separados. La última sección enfatiza el argumento de la dis-analogía del piloto y (...) el navío, y cómo, según el filósofo francés, aunque separables, mente y cuerpo son substancias estrechamente unidas, formando un ens per se. En vista de este, criticamos la metáfora del “teatro cartesiano” de Dennett: es imposible que la mente sea un espectador, puesto que la experiencia consciente ya es unificada e incluso somatizada. Notamos, por último, que pese a Dennett, hay investigadores de la Ciencia Cognitiva que coinciden con Descartes en relación con la estrecha unión mente-cuerpo, i.e., quienes defienden que la mente es encarnada, incrustada o incluso extendida. (shrink)