Interview with Juan. A. Negrete, annual prize 2014 to the promotion of the philosophy and the culture in Málaga. The award is extended to the network of blogs: Cavernisofía, Cavernética and Cavernisofíasegundaplanta.

In this full review paper, the recent emerging trends in Computing Structures, Software Science, and System Applications have been reviewed and explored to address the recent topics and contributions in the era of the Software and Computing fields. This includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art, framework, implemented approaches and techniques research projects in the areas of Software Technology & Automation, Networking, Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Big Data and E-learning. Based on this systematic (...) review, we have put some recommendations and suggestions for researchers, practitioners and scholars to improve their research quality in this area. (shrink)

Why is it so difficult to achieve universal health coverage in the United States? First and foremost, as Richard Kirsch points out in his book, Fighting for Our Health, health care is deeply personal. Since most people in the United States have health insurance, efforts to modify the system understandably cause a certain amount of unease regarding how changes could impact their access to trusted doctors or necessary care.

Juan A. Nicolás, Department of Philosophy II, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain © 2010 Juan A. Nicolás Sociedad Española Leibniz has started the project ‘Leibniz en español’Leibniz in Spanish...

Juan A. Nicolás, Department of Philosophy II, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain © 2010 Juan A. Nicolás Sociedad Española Leibniz has started the project ‘Leibniz en español’Leibniz in Spanish...

In recent decades, there has been a proliferation among the scientific community of works that focus on Alan Turing’s contributions to the design and development of the modern computer. However, there are significant discrepancies among these studies, to such a point that some of them cast serious doubts on Alan Turing’s work with respect to today’s computer, and there are others that staunchly defend his leading role, as well as other studies that set out more well-balanced opinions. Faced with this (...) situation, the aim of this paper is to analyse the evidence existing today in order to be able to draw a conclusion about whether or not Turing anticipated the trivialisation of the modern computer memory and, likewise, if his universal a-machine is the precursor of the general-purpose computer so omnipresent today. As a result of our research, the authors conclude that Turing did indeed play a leading role in the appearance of the modern computer, although he was not the only one or the first in the field of Computing Science, albeit he was the most influential, both in scope and in depth. (shrink)

This text summarizes the 15 articles included in the book Futurizar el presente. Estudios sobre la filosofía de Leonardo Polo, edited by I. Falgueras, J. A. García and J. J. Padial. The writings are grouped in these chapters: Theory of language, History of Philosophy, Ratio and Will, Synderesis, Metaphysics and Anthropology. In this latest topic some very interesting and suggestive ideas are proposed.

RESUMENLa tesis es, más bien, que la discusión del empirismo, la solución de ese reto empirista que separa el pensar del ser, forma parte de la altura histórica de la filosofía en el momento presente, es una exigencia suya. Si la filosofía comenzó buscando la unidad del ser, ha proseguido resquebrajándola; en particular distinguiendo el ser creado del increado, y luego distinguiendo el ser natural del personal, las cosas de las personas. Estas distinciones afectan de una manera muy particular a (...) las relaciones entre el ser y el pensar, y a su eventual unidad; éste es, por eso, el tema del empirismo, y de nuestro tiempo.PALABRAS CLAVESEMPIRISMO, SER, PENSARABSTRACTThe argument is that the discussion of empiricism is a requirement of philosophy at the present time, solving that challenge that separates thinking of being. If philosophy began seeking the unity of being, has continued dividing this unity; in particular distinguishing the uncreated and created being, and then distinguishing the natural and the personal being. These distinctions affect a particular the relationship between being and thinking, and his eventual drive way; it is, therefore, the issue of empiricism, and our time.KEY WORDSEMPIRICISM, BEING, THINK. (shrink)

resumo Neste trabalho é analisada a estratégia da exposição de Fichte em seu escrito Sobre o conceito da Doutrina da Ciência e interpretada como indo de encontro a um determinado tipo do ceticismo moderno. Todavia, ao contrário da leitura proposta por Rockmore, que sustenta ser possível considerar toda a epistemologia fichteana dessa época como uma linha de argumentação de cunho pragmático e antifundacionista, defende-se a tese de que Fichte está comprometido desde o início com a tarefa de uma fundamentação última (...) de toda ciência a partir de um primeiro princípio. Esta fundamentação seria levada a cabo mediante uma demonstração indireta que pretende refutar de modo muito original objeções levantadas por Maimon, por Schulze e outros contra a filosofia transcendental de Kant. O mero fato de que Fichte não considerasse este último princípio como passível de demonstração direta não é suficiente para tachar sua estratégia de pragmática. palavras-chave Fichte; Filosofia Transcendental; Pragmatismo; Ceticismo; Fundacionismo. (shrink)

Entender a san Agustín desde la filosofía poliana. Este trabajo confronta algunos logros de la filosofía agustiniana con aportaciones de Leonardo Polo. Se centra en la gnoseología, el método y la antropología de ambos filósofos. Compara el trascendimiento agustiniano con el abandono del límite mental, la intimidad agustiniana con los radicales humanos y las tríadas agustinianas con las dualidades humanas.

English summary: G.W. Leibniz's philosophy represents a fundamental chapter in the constitution of what we mean by modernity. Leibniz can be considered a source of inspiration for both the moment of the emergence of modernity as well as for the moment of the crisis of Enlightenment. Despite his influence on various authors, Leibniz does not let himself be identified with the core of Enlightenment thinking that was prevalent in the Western world in recent centuries. We are therefore faced with a (...) thinking that in its development depends neither on the enlightened modernity, nor on the principal alternative, hermeneutics. Thus, the span of Leibniz's thought ranges from the time before the Enlightenment through to post-hermeneutics. This volume presents a selection of articles from the "IV Congreso Internacional Leibniz: G. W. Leibniz entre la genesis y la crisis de la Modernidad" which was selected by the "Sociedad Espanola Leibniz" held in Granada. German, English, & French text. German description: Die Philosophie G. W. Leibniz stellt ein grundlegendes Kapitel fuer die Konstituierung dessen dar, was wir unter Modernitat verstehen. Leibniz kann als eine Inspirationsquelle sowohl im Moment der Entstehung der Modernitat als auch im Moment der Krise der Aufklarung verstanden werden. Trotz seines Einflusses auf verschiedene Autoren lasst sich Leibniz nicht mit dem Kern des aufklarerischen Denkens identifizieren, das in der westlichen Welt in den letzten Jahrhunderten vorherrschend war. Wir stehen also vor einem Denken, das in seinem Werdegang weder von der aufgeklarten Modernitat noch von deren hauptsachlicher Alternative, der Hermeneutik, abhangt. Somit spannt sich der Bogen des Denkens Leibniz von der Zeit vor der Aufklarung bis hin zur Post-Hermeneutik. Dieser Sammelband prasentiert eine Auswahl der Beitrage auf dem IV Congreso Internacional Leibniz: G. W. Leibniz entre la genesis y la crisis de la Modernidad, der von der Sociedad espanola Leibniz in Granada abgehalten wurde. Die Studien umfassen vier thematische Bereiche: Leibniz und die Entstehung der Modernitat, die Prinzipien der Philosophie und der Naturwissenschaften, die Sprachphilosophie und die Erkenntnistheorie, Ontologie und Theodizee. (shrink)

The human person looks wither inside towards her more intimate truth, or it omits that search and one forgets himself generously. Then it finds: noticing without getting to see, and also watching and supervising. It is the metalogic unfolding of the personal freedom: a gift that we accept and we give back looking for the divine acceptance.

We examine the role of working memory's central executive in the mental model explanation of propositional reasoning by using two working memory measures: the classical “reading span” test by Daneman and Carpenter (1980) and a new measure. This new “reasoning span” measure requires individuals to solve very simple anaphora problems, and store and remember the word solution in a growing series of inferential problems. We present one experiment in which we check the involvement of the central executive in conditional and (...) disjunctive inference tasks and compare predictions of the new reasoning span test with those of the classical reading span test. The results of the experiment confirm that reasoning responses, which according to mental model theory require high cognitive work, are predicted by working memory measures. Results also show that some reasoning responses are probably obtained by means of superficial biases or strategies that do not load working memory. The reasoning span test, which involves the central executive to a greater degree, predicts reasoning performance better than the reading span test. The significance and possibilities of the new measure in studying reasoning are discussed. (shrink)