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  1. Leibniz on free and responsible wrongdoing.Juan Garcia Torres - 2022 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (1):23-43.
    According to intellectualists, the will is a rational inclination towards apprehended goodness. This conception of the will makes its acts intelligible: they are explained by (i) the nature of the will as a rational inclination, and (ii) the judgement of the intellect that moves the will. From this it follows that it is impossible for an agent to will evil as such or for its own sake. In explaining wrongdoing intellectualists cite cognitive error or the disruptive influences of the passions; (...)
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  2. Carlos Vaz Ferreira on Freedom and Determinism.Juan Garcia Torres - 2022 - Res Philosophica 99 (4):377-402.
    Carlos Vaz Ferreira argues that the problem of freedom is conceptually distinct from the problem of causal determinism. The problem of freedom is ultimately a problem regarding the ontologically independent agency of a being, and the problem of determinism is a problem regarding explanations of events or acts in terms of the totality of their antecedent causal conditions. As Vaz Ferreira sees it, failing to keep these problems apart gives rise to merely apparent but unreal puzzles pertaining to the nature (...)
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  3. Jorge Portilla on philosophy and agential liberation.Juan Garcia Torres - 2024 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 62 (2):246-262.
    Jorge Portilla argues that authentic philosophical inquiry plays a liberating function. This function is that of bringing more fully to consciousness aspects of identities or ways of being‐in‐the world that have been, up until then, tacit or opaque to the agent herself to facilitate her endorsement, rejection, or modification of these identities. For Portilla, this function facilitates greater self‐mastery by increasing the range of free variations of subjectivity available to the agent, and this increase in self‐mastery itself constitutes a kind (...)
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    On the limits of enhancement in human gene transfer: Drawing the line.Juan Manuel Torres - 1997 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (1):43-53.
    Enhancement-line human genetic engineering has recurrently been targeted for bioethical discussion and is usually illustrated by examples alluding to a genetic technology that is far beyond our current possibilities. By discussing an ambitious project related to solid tumor cancers – multidrug resistance – the present paper places the question on a more realistic plane and draws bioethical conclusions to serve as guidelines in the field. The paper also establishes the inadequacy of the prevalent concept of genetic medicine as one of (...)
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  5. L’approche phénoménologique en urbanisme : la recherche d’une meilleure pratique, la pratique d’une meilleure recherche.Juan Torres & Sandra Breux - 2010 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 5 (2):117-125.
    En urbanisme, l’approche phénoménologique permet de se pencher sur l’expérience de l’individu et, plus précisément, sur le rapport que celui-ci entretient avec son milieu de vie. Cette approche permet de concevoir des milieux de vie mieux adaptés aux besoins et aux expectatives des individus et suppose des démarches d’aménagement qui accordent un rôle important au citoyen. Toutefois, si l’approche phénoménologique est couramment utilisée dans le cadre de travaux théoriques, elle est difficilement adoptée sur le terrain, en dépit de son utilité (...)
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  6. Introduction (Dossier : Design et aménagement : quelques enjeux éthiques).Juan Torres, Rabah Bousbaci & Anne Marchand - 2010 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 5 (2):49-51.
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  7. Agir de manière appropriée : la participation des jeunes à l’aménagement.Juan Torres - 2009 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 4 (1):88-96.
    La réflexion sur l’éthique et la participation des jeunes et des enfants à l’aménagement com- porte au moins deux dimensions : d’une part, les justifications d’une telle participation ; d’autre part, les problèmes que la pratique participative fait émerger et face auxquels les cadres de réfé- rence conventionnels (non participatifs) ne sont pas toujours utiles. Le présent article aborde ces deux dimensions et explore leurs liens à la lumière de trois méthodes distinctes en matière de théorie morale, soit l’éthique déontologique, (...)
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  8. Introduction au dossier "Comprendre et façonner la ville avec des enfants : éthique et participation".Juan Torres & David Driskell - 2009 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 4 (1):67-68.
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  9. Éthique et environnement : Introduction.Juan Torres - 2012 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 7 (3):69-70.
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    Carlos Vaz Ferreira on intellectual flourishing as intellectual liberation.Juan Garcia Torres - 2024 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (6):1374-1395.
    I argue for a substantive interpretation of Carlos Vaz Ferreira’s account of intellectual flourishing as intellectual liberation. For Vaz Ferreira, I argue, there is an inescapable master-slave dynamic between language and language users, so that flourishing intellectually essentially involves a type of mastery of language that frees up thinking from enslaving linguistic/conceptual confusions and thus facilitates the acquisition of truth. Central to this project are Vaz Ferreira’s most interesting, and radical, views on the nature of language signification and thus on (...)
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    The influence of Genetics in Contemporary Thinking.Anne Fagot-Largeault, Shahid Rahman & Juan Manuel Torres (eds.) - 2007 - Springer.
    This volume reflects on the effects of recent discoveries in genetics on a broad range of scientific fields. In addition to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and medicine, contributors analyze the effects of genetics on theories of health, law, epistemology and philosophy of biology. Social and moral concerns about the relationship between genetics, society and the individual also figure prominently. Genetic discoveries fuel central contemporary public policy debates concerning, for example, human cloning, equitable access to healthcare or the role of genetics (...)
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    Special Sciences and the Unity of Sciences.Olga Pombo -Universidade Lisboa, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons & Shahid Rahman (eds.) - 2012 - Springer.
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    Special Sciences and the Unity of Science.Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons & Shahid Rahman (eds.) - 2012 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer.
    Science is a dynamic process in which the assimilation of new phenomena, perspectives, and hypotheses into the scientific corpus takes place slowly. The apparent disunity of the sciences is the unavoidable consequence of this gradual integration process. Some thinkers label this dynamical circumstance a ‘crisis’. However, a retrospective view of the practical results of the scientific enterprise and of science itself, grants us a clear view of the unity of the human knowledge seeking enterprise. This book provides many arguments, case (...)
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  14. New approaches to the Unity of Science, vol. 1: Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science.John Symons, Juan Manuel Torres & Olga Plomb (eds.) - 2011 - Springer.
     
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    (1 other version)Über dialoge, protologische kategorien und andere seltenheiten.Juan Manuel Torres - 1994 - Theoria 9 (2):223-225.
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    Competing research programmes on the origin of life.Juan Manuel Torres - 1996 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (2):325-346.
    During the course of its short history the discipline concerned with the origin of life has given birth to several scientific programmes in the Lakatosian sense, two of the most prominent and widespread being those initiated by Oparin (life began from protein entities) and Muller-Haldane (life began from genetic entities). The present paper sets down the bases for the rational reconstruction of both views by identifying their hard core and some of their successive developments. An assessment is made of the (...)
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  17. El acto propio del filósofo desde el realismo interiorista de Alberto Caturelli.Juan Manuel Díaz Torres - 1996 - Filosofia Oggi 19 (75):279-298.
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    (1 other version)El concepto de salud y el proceso de genetización.Juan Manuel Torres - 2013 - Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 2:13.
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    Genetic Tools, Kuhnean Theoretical Shift and the Geneticization Process.Juan Manuel Torres - 2005 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 9 (1):3-12.
    The growing use of genetic tests in medical practice has a strong influence on some widespread notions of health and unhealth. Two consequences of this phenomenon are: (i) important changes in the meaning of these current notions and, therefore, (ii) the arrival of a new taxonomy or rearrangement for the so-called “health-concepts”. This paper attempts to demonstrate that both facts fuel a theoretical change that might be considered a model of scientific Kuhnean change in a fundamental aspect. On the other (...)
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    Introducción.Juana Torres - 2013 - 'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones:7-12.
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  21. Lenguaje informático Y moléculas de la Vida.Juan Manuel Torres - 2011 - Ludus Vitalis 19 (36):321-324.
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    "refutatio Et Persuasio" En Las Obras Apologéticas De Tertuliano.Juana Torres - 2013 - 'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones:137-165.
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    Reflexiones sobre la catalogación de ejemplares alcoránicos (a proposito del ms. 1397 de El Escorial).Juan Pablo Arias Torres - 2011 - Al-Qantara 32 (1):243-260.
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  24. Terapia génica:¿ realidad o sólo un sueño de pipa?Juan Manuel Torres - 2007 - Ludus Vitalis 15 (27):181-192.
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  25. The importance of microevolutionary tenets in the debate on germ-line human gene theraphy.Juan Manuel Torres - 1994 - Ludus Vitalis 2 (3):137-150.
     
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    The importance of genetic services for the theory of health: a basis for an integrating view of health. [REVIEW]Juan Manuel Torres - 2002 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 5 (1):43-51.
    The first part of this article shows that oureffective means to know and modify directly thehuman genetic make-up generates singular anddifficult situations for the application offundamental medical categories. Specifically,we demonstrate that in dealing with thesesituations, some predominant views on health,such as descriptivism or that which reduces thestate of health to not having presentdisabilities, cannot provide adequate answerseither from the point of view of medicalscience or in terms of our ordinary intuitions.The second part of the article examines thereasons for the failure (...)
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