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  • The invention of political realism. An exercise of conceptual history

    Cabrera García, Ernesto (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-07)
    This article is a historiographical and conceptual attempt of clarification and delimitation to offer an alternative view to the studies of the realist political theory. I pretend to put forward an outline of the historical sense of the concept of political realism, placing it on the contexts of German Realpolitik and the realist school of international relations. Thus, I pretend to show the contextual relations of political realism, the location of its antagonism against liberalism and the retrospective invention of a realist tradition as a result of a set of intellectual and political additions.
  • Heraclitus and Ephesus: Philosophy of the cosmos on a city-state scale

    Aguirre De la Luz, Nazyheli (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2021-03-19)
    This paper, inspired by Vernant’s belief that Greek reason is “a creature of the city”, explores the connection linking Heraclitus’ thought to the political and social circumstances prevailing at Ephesus. Indeed, the tension arising from Heraclitus’ own historical framework and this philosopher’s resulting outlook on it led him to conceive of a rule for organizing a city, according to which a pólis should be governed by the same principle guiding the universe —i. e. the lógos—, which would materialize in concrete form as a monarchical government.
  • The concept of historical ethos. Achievements and limitations: The problem of reification

    Gandler, Stefan (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2021-03-19)
    This article is analyzing if in the theory of the four ethe of capitalist modernity, developed by Bolívar Echeverría, isn’t included a basic weakness. It is about understanding if for to arrive to its highest contributions, this theory is not paying a too high prize. Does it possibly renounce to the critique of ideology, at least in the radicality fulfilled by the authors of Critical theory, inspired in this point originally by Georg Lukács?
  • José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado y Mabel Moraña (coords.) (2018), Del monólogo europeo al diálogo inter-filosófico. Ensayos sobre Enrique Dussel y la Filosofía de la Liberación, México, CEIICH-UNAM, 443pp.

    HERRERA SALAZAR, GABRIEL (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2020-10-22)
    La reseña que se presenta es sobre un libro enmarcado en el encuentro que se realizó en torno a los 80 años de Enrique Dussel. Los 19 autores que escriben representan las diversas discusiones compartidas en congresos, simposiums, seminarios, clases, conversaciones y otros espacios de encuentro donde se dialoga sobre temas de la Filosofía de la Liberación. El aporte es sobre la discusión sobre la crítica a la modernidad, que desde el paradigma de la liberación el Otro como alteridad antropológica irrumpe como víctima y rompe la totalidad para ir más allá del proyecto moderno; desde la condición transmoderna se hace evidente la violencia de la modernidad mostrando la fetichización o irracionalidad de su realización. 
  • A deduction of Kant’s concept of the highest good

    Bowman, Curtis (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-07)
    Este artículo intenta desarrollar una deducción del concepto de sumo bienkantiano: esto es, intenta demostrar, de acuerdo con la interpretación de Dieter Henrich acerca de la deducción, que el sumo bien es un fin a la vez que un deber. Apelo a los rasgos de la razón práctica que constituyen la legitimidad de los hechos, la premisa que cualquier deducción debe tener. De acuerdo con Kant, el sumo bien consiste en la felicidad, la virtud y sus relaciones de proporcionalidad y causalidad, tal que la felicidad es proporcional a, y causada por, la virtud. Sostengo, utilizando las nociones kantianas aceptadas, que Kant tiene razones convincentes para concluir que el sumo bien es, de hecho, un fin a la vez que un deber. Si esto es correcto, entonces este argumento ofrece la deducción prometida en mi título.
  • Tableaux for an alethic-epistemic logic and its conditional versions

    Sánchez Hernández, Juan Carlos (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2022-09-23)
    Although modal logic has significantly developed since the possible worlds semantics invention, today, it is recognized that a modal logic that uses only one type of modality is very restricted. In this article, I aim to provide the semantics and tableaux systems for some alethic-epistemic-doxastic logics. The basic system (T/T/KD*) is used to discuss the validity of some principles and some of Spinoza’s ideas on modal thinking, for he believed that the possibility and contingency ideas are defects of our cognition. Next, the system’s extensions based on are used to discuss the validity of the doxastic, epistemic, and alethic closure principles by means of the distinction between absolute and relative knowledge. Finally, the system is extended to develop a pair of conditional epistemic-doxastic logics to evaluate some skeptical statements.
  • Abel Lassalle Casanave (2019), Por construção de conceitos: em torno da filosofia kantiana da matemática, Río de Janeiro, PUC-Rio/Edições Loyola Jesuítas, 208 pp.

    Fernández de Castro, Max (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2021-03-19)
    El libro presenta una interpretación novedosa de la filosofía de las matemáticas de Kant según la cual por "construcción de conceptos matemáticos" Kant se refería ciertos tipos de resolución de problemas. La tesis se analiza en los casos de la geomatría, la aritmética y el álgebra, y se fundamenta en la práctica matemática que Kant conocía y en las discusiones en torno a la misma que se daban en su época. 
  • Heidegger and his dialogues with psychiatry: The problem of the psychosomatic in the Zollikon Seminars

    Lagos Berríos, Rodrigo Andrés (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2022-09-23)
    This article has the general objective of addressing the problem of the psychosomatic that was exposed by Martin Heidegger and the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss in the so-called Zollikon Seminars. First, I provide an overview of the origin and gestation of these seminars, as well as their historical context. Then, the problem of method and the corresponding differentiation between psyche and soma in psychiatry are analyzed. Finally, the article collects Heidegger’s reflections on the phenomenon of the body (Leibphänomen) for making a brief analysis of Major Depressive Disorder in the DSM-5, and shows how the experience of the body (Leib) becomes an aspect fundamental to consider in the diagnosis of this type of disorder.
  • Ferdinand Tönnies: community and society

    Schluchter, Wolfgang (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2012-01-25)
    Like Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Werner Sombart, Georg Simmel and Vilfredo Pareto et al., Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) belonged to a generation of scholars, who became founding fathers of modern sociology. He used Hobbes' contractualism as a devise for a proper understanding of modern society and its deficiencies, and took issue, however, with Hobbes' notion of the natural state. This notion can not be conceived as an empty shell or as a mere assumption to carry out a mental experiment. Rather, it must be regarded as a social entity, defined by a volitional pattern which Tönnies called Wesenwille (the essential will) in contradistinction to Willkür (the arbitrary will, later named Kürwille) dominating modern society, the two volitional patterns are at the core of two social entities: community and society, respectively, which became the title of Tönnies famous book, and the sequence of two social entities. In this paper, it will be demonstrated how this basic idea came about and with which fallacies it is burdened. It will also be shown how the book triggered of an ongoing debate.
  • Valuing our humanity

    Korsgaard, Christine (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2012-01-25)
    In this paper I discuss the different attitudes that are involved in "valuing" our humanity as Kant understands it. The distinct attribute of humanity is the capacity for rational and moral choice. I argue that valuing our moral capacity commits us to caring about being morally good, but not to thinking that it renders us superior to the other animals. Valuing people as ends in themselves also involves an attitude towards people's capacity of rational choice. I distinguish two views of what this attitude is: regarding rationality as valuable property and regarding it as the source of normative standing. Kant's casuistical arguments reflect both views, and together suggest that view we should regard our normative standing as a valuable property. Finally, I argue that Kant is committed to the view that regarding ourselves as ends-in-our-selves involves thinking that our natural interests are worth satisfying a sense of end-in-itself that can be extended to the other animals.
  • Public reason: an approach to Jürgen Habermas' political philosophy

    Sahuí, Alejandro (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2012-01-25)
    This paper examines Jürgen Habermas' political philosophy, from Kant's ideal of public use of reason. It is argued here that this ideal is the common thread between his initial work on communicative action, modern public sphere, and his most recent contributions on deliberative democracy. The possibility of such ideal, however, entails a duty to ensure the procedural and material conditions for reciprocal recognition, justice and solidarity between people.
  • Hypocrisy. Paradoxical apology of a lesser evil

    Diana, Rosario (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-06)
    After a short historical excursus, that doesn’t pretend to be complete, but is only directed to understand the meaning of the term hypocrisy in some authors. I concentrate on its paradoxical defense. Paradoxical because, though morally censurable, the hypocritical attitude preserves the integrity of the ethical value, that it apparently respects, but secretly violates.
  • Th. W. Adorno: The praise of theory and the impatience of praxis

    Juárez, Esteban Alejandro (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-05)
    This work pretends to show the political sense that the defense of the theory by Adorno acquired in the last years of his life. He used this defense as an answer to the students’s imperatives of applying the critical theory to the immediate practical intervention. In order to justify this thesis will be considered not only what Adorno said, but also, in a different discursive level, what he was doing on having used concentrations of terms and dense and erudite declarations. This entails, then, to relate Adorno’s reflections and assessments concerning to the theoretical and practical approach —specially those outlined in Negative Dialectic— to a broader contextual framework.
  • In search of the evolutionary origin of morality: the social brain and empathy

    Montiel-Castro, Augusto; Martínez-Contreras, Jorge (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-06)
    Recent comparative evidence suggests that some nonhuman species feel empathy towards fellow group members and empathy is a necessary capacity for the presence and evolution of morality. On the other hand, the Social Brain Hypothesis suggests relationships between the evolution of brain’s neocortex in primates and the size of their social groups. This paper links these ideas by suggesting that (i) empathy and morality are by-products of the expansion of brain’s neocortex, and that (ii) the function of such capacities is to facilitate cooperation between individuals, increasing their social cohesion.
  • Philosophy against poetry: Reflections about an ancient dispute

    Marulanda, Federico (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-06)
    The article offers an interpretation of the controversial and apparently unacceptable characterization of poetry developed in Plato’s Republic. The main objectives of the discussion are: to clarify the motivations for such characterization, to disentangle the various and discontinuous arguments that compose it, and to critically evaluate its limitations and the extent of its defensibility. It is concluded that not all the positions adopted by Plato with respect to poetry are unsustainable, and that when they are, this is due to reasons which result particularly revealing.
  • Of the magnitudes' qualities: Scientific measurement as cognitive integration in the emergence of modern astronomy

    Guillaumin, Godfrey (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-06)
    Measurement has been the main cognitive resource through which science has obtained empirical information about the world. Scientific measurement is not a fixed process but an historical and dynamical one; nevertheless, almost all philosophical analysis have studied it from a formal point of view. My aim in this paper is to outline a cognitive and historical notion of scientific measurement that allows us to appreciate its diverse epistemic, methodological, and cognitive features.
  • Science and éthos. An ethics turned to the future (about the Diskursethik of Jürgen Habermas)

    Sancén Contreras, Fernando (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-07)
    The Diskursethik of Jürgen Habermas is analysed in order to consider, in the field of Ethical reflection, the change that Science and Technology drive into Society. It is pointed out that Diskursethik does not take into account the historicity of human being and suscribes a kantian position that separate rationality from phenomenology. Facing Habermas’s denial to recognize a value to science different from its submission to dictum of theoretical reason, this paper offers the main features of a dynamical ethics which sees the future of humanity and nature as its own object.
  • Revisitando Lógica viva: un modelo de análisis argumental

    Seoane, José (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2018-12-10)
    El filósofo uruguayo Carlos Vaz Ferreira elaboró una obra filosófica vasta y ambiciosa; en ella, su Lógica viva -cuya primera edición data de 1910- ocupa un lugar muy destacado. En ese libro este filósofo desarrolla un análisis original, sutil y sugerente del raciocinio falaz. Este artículo ofrece una interpretación de sus críticas al tratamiento tradicional de las falacias y, a partir de esta, un desarrollo desprejuiciado (en clave lógica) de las valiosas observaciones meta-argumentales de Vaz Ferreira.

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