The aim of this article is to discuss and illustrate the grammaticalization process and the polysemic and polyfunctional nature of the Spanish and Catalan markers la verdad and la veritat, from an original objectified referential meaning of the forms to a highly subjectified procedural meaning of the markers. The pragmatic meaning of these markers stems from the loss of semantic features and the different uses that they can adopt in a variety of syntactic and pragmatic contexts, where their subjective, evaluative, (...) and intensifying modal dimensions are fully manifested. In lexical terms, they are noun phrases that can take variable and invariable forms. In morphological terms, the variable form is inflected in number and has a referential value, whereas the invariable form, prosodically extraposed, or followed by a verbal predicate when working as pragmatic marker, is always uninflected and is polyfunctional, with a procedural value. When followed by a verbal predicate, la verdad and la veritat acquire a structural dimension, besides their modal illocutionary one, being used as boundary markers that separate description of facts from first person evaluation, in a monologued stretch of discourse. In an interactional context, the marker frequently prefaces counter expectations. In order to show its grammaticalization process, I will discuss and exemplify their role as evidential marker with a truth-attesting value, epistemic modality markers used to introduce the speaker’s attitude to the content of the proposition or to the addressee in the context of an utterance, intensifiers or boosters used to modify the illocutionary force of a speech act, and discourse boundary markers used to delimit real-world facts from personal opinion. In order to account for their polysemic and polyfunctional dimensions, I will propose salient meanings and prototypical functions. (shrink)

This presentation analyzes in a general way the relationship between politics and conflict. The main argument is based on Carl Schmitt’s criterion for the definition of politics. In doing so, I introduce the central points of the different articles of this volume.

This paper inquires into the conceptual nature of self-deception. I shall afford a theory which links SD to wishful thinking. First I present two rival models for the analysis of SD, and suggest reasons why the interpersonal model is flawed. It is necessary for supporters of this model to work out a strategy that avoids the ascription of inconsistency to the self-deceiver in order to fulfill the requirements of the charity principle. Some objections to the compartmentalization strategy are put forward, (...) and a motivational theory is advanced. This theory diverges from Mele 's account of SD in that it establishes as a necessary condition for SD the existence of a causal link between a desire and a belief unacknowledged by the self-deceived subject, who is unaware also of the counterevidential nature of his belief, allows only 'weak SD' cases and offers methodological reasons against the seemingly intentional and dissociative nature of SD and stresses the deception-SD asymmetry. /// El presente artículo intenta investigar la naturaleza conceptual del autoengaño. Presentaré dos modelos rivales de análisis y ofreceré razones contra la teoría interpersonal frente a la motivacional, alegando las dificultades que comporta seguir alguna de sus estrategias de compartimentación para evitar la atribución de inconsistencia simple al sujeto autoengañado. Defenderé una teoría que vincula el autoengaño con la creencia desiderativa. Se trata de una teoría motivacional que difiere de la de Mele en que establece como condición necesaria para el autoengaño que se dé una relación causal entre el deseo y la creencia pertinentes, relación cuya existencia desconoce el sujeto, que ignora también el grado en que su creencia es incompatible con los datos empíricamente disponibles, acepta sólo casos de autoengaño débil y ofrece razones metodológicas contra la supuesta naturaleza intencional y disociativa del autoengaño y subraya la asimetría autoengaño/engaño. (shrink)

Almost all scholars of the Enlightenment consider Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke as the founding theorists of the “secular modern state.” In contrast to the widely held view of the modern state, I argue that far from being “secular” it was the product of the sacralization of politics, which resulted from the way these philosophers interpreted the Scriptures as part of their philosophical inquiries. The analysis of the “linguistic turn” in their biblical interpretations reveals how they tried to undermine the power (...) of the Church to claim greater freedoms for the state. Their philosophical inquiries initiated the secularization of the Christian religion and the sacralization of politics as two correlative developments, rather than the secularization of the state per se, as is usually supposed. The philosophical arguments proposed by Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke helped to resolve the religious battles of Europe’s many confessions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but are still pertinent to our c... (shrink)

The aim of this paper is not to focus on a particular thematic issue of Aesthetics, offering an exhaustive approach of it, but to display a broader map allowingto capture the essence of this topic from an overall perspective. To achieve it, I have paid attention to a number of points that will help to place Aesthetics in historical terms in the context of 18th century Great Britain. In this vein, I have addressed certain pillars deemed crucial in understanding Aesthetics, (...) such as the socio-historical background in which it emerged, the meaning of this field of study, its main theoreticians and its three most important aesthetic categories. Finally, I close the paper by drawing some brief conclusions. (shrink)

Resum: Aquesta tarda se’ns convida a dialogar, des de la filosofia i des del periodisme, sobre la «immortalitat». Tal com vam plantejar aquesta nova intervenció en format de pòdcast filosòfic, el mot «immortalitat» pot interpretar-se en diversos sentits perquè és, com gairebé cada noció, equívoc. Així, pot fer esment a la qualitat d’immortal, és a dir, la d’aquell ens que no pot morir; o pot referir a la duració indefinida –que no té un termini fix o conegut– d’alguna cosa a (...) la memòria dels humans encara «incessants». Part de: Comunicació a: Xè Festival de Filosofia - Barcelona Pensa Pòdcast filosòfic: La immortalitat. 13 de novembre de 2023. (shrink)

The article addresses the question of whether Derrida in his political theology can be considered an “unfaithful” reader of Schmitt. While Derrida does not quote Schmitt’s Political Theology, some of his assertions are reminiscent of Schmitt’s disciplinary use of political theology. Indeed, Schmitt’s account of the relationship between exception, decision, and sovereignty was abundantly discussed in Derrida’s last seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign. Derrida attempts in this seminar to deconstruct the sovereignty of the nation-state and its onto-theologico-political foundation. The (...) question I raise in this article is whether, in previous years, Derrida himself had not implicitly made a different political theology that, considering the negative theological path, develops an alternative idea of power. The hypothesis explored is that this alternative paradigm is derived from one of the names of the impossible: the gift. (shrink)

Many bodies around the world make their decisions through voting systems in which voters have several options and the collective result also has several options. Many of these voting systems are anonymous, i.e., all voters have an identical role in voting. Anonymous simple voting games, a binary vote for voters and a binary collective decision, can be represented by an easy weighted game, i.e., by means of a quota and an identical weight for the voters. Widely used voting systems of (...) this type are the majority and the unanimity decision rules. In this article, we analyze the case in which voters have two or more voting options and the collective result of the vote has also two or more options. We prove that anonymity implies being representable through a weighted game if and only if the voting options for voters are binary. As a consequence of this result, several significant enumerations are obtained. (shrink)

The purpose of this paper is to formulate some questions about a concept, justice, and some of its theoretical problems. When we discuss social and distributive justice, we are not simply pointing to a "state" problem. Justice is a challenge that is incumbent to every human being and, therefore, to everyone, in this era that is undoubtedly that of globalized capitalism. Taking into consideration congress emphasis on exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges facing humanity, and our (...) need for global discussions about the values and concepts of development, values and human concerns, trying to find out what concepts might be essential, I think that one of those essential concepts is justice. But the problem begins from its very definition – justice is a concept that, from its root, is indeterminate. Justice comprises multiple meanings: it refers to a human capacity, an ideal and an essential element in social institutions, as well as a double but, at the same time, a singular dimension, individual and sociopolitical. My pretension is to explore some meanings of justice opening a dialogical perspective, believing that this is a fertile way to consider actual world challenges. Part of: Paper - 24th World Congress of Philosophy, FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie), Peking University. Beijing (People's Republic of China) 13/08/2018. (shrink)

Resumen: El concepto “womenomics” propone la idea de “comprar la economía femenina” designando con ello la necesidad de Japón de hacer esfuerzos por incluir exponencialmente a la mujer en el mercado laboral e introducir uno de los mecanismos para corregir un futuro de estancamiento y contracción del crecimiento económico. El concepto lo acuñó en 1999 Kathy M. Matsui al frente de la división de investigación en Asia de Economía, Materias primas y Estrategia del grupo de banca y valores más importantes (...) del mundo, Goldman Sachs. En este ensayo se propone estudiar y analizar críticamente el marco político y económico de la estrategia conocida como Abe-Womenomics con el objetivo de conocer un aspecto de la actual política japonesa doméstica, y, por extensión, las implicaciones regionales e internacionales de su adopción y adaptación, para, luego, demostrar si este tipo de medidas buscan un giro hacia la equidad genuina o solamente replican un patrón productivista, resignificando las aspiraciones feministas en beneficio del sistema neoliberal. Palabras clave: Abe-Womenomics, Womenomics, Kathy M. Matsui, Nancy Fraser, resignificación, neoliberalismo. Abstract: The concept "womenomics" proposes the idea of "buying the female economy", thus designating Japan's need to make efforts to exponentially include women in the labor market and introduce one of the mechanisms to correct a future of stagnation and contraction of the economic growth. The concept was coined in 1999 by Kathy M. Matsui at the head of the Asian research division of Economy, Commodities and Strategy of the world's leading banking and investment group, Goldman Sachs. This essay proposes to study and critically analyze the political and economic framework of the strategy known as Abe-Womenomics, with the aim of knowing an aspect of current Japanese domestic policy, and, by extension, the regional and international implications of its adoption and adaptation. Then, the objective is to demonstrate whether this type of measure seeks a turn towards a genuine equity or only replicates a productivist pattern, re-signifying feminist aspirations for the benefit of the neoliberal system. Keywords: Abe-Womenomics, Womenomics, Kathy M. Matsui, Nancy Fraser, resignification, neoliberalism. (shrink)

Resum: La doctrina jurisprudencial del Tribunal Suprem defineix la «ignorància deliberada» com el «principi que disposa que aquell que no vol saber allò que pot i ha de conèixer, i no obstant es beneficia de la situació, es fa responsable de les conseqüències penals del seu actuar». Partint d’un repàs sobre els diferents tipus d’ignoràncies considerades negativament, l’article proposa emprar analògicament la figura jurídica de la «ignorància deliberada» per explorar alguns dels aspectes que poden ajudar a pensar l’educació filosòficament avui. (...) Paraules clau: tipus d’ignoràncies, ignorància deliberada, filosofia i educació. Deliberate ignorance Abstract: The jurisprudential doctrine of the Spanish Supreme Court defines «deliberate ignorance» as the «principle that states that one who does not want to know what he can and must know, and yet benefits from the situation, is responsible for the criminal consequences of his act». Based on a review of the different types of ignorance considered negatively, the article proposes to use analogously the legal figure of the «deliberate ignorance» to explore some of the aspects that can help to think philosophically education today. Keywords: types of ignorance, deliberate ignorance, philosophy and education. (shrink)

Abstract: El coloquio nos invita a reflexionar sobre la movilidad, considerando si respecto a nuestros modos de desplazarnos hay diferencias entre hombres y mujeres y, si es así, en qué situaciones tales diferencias se traducen en desigualdades socialmente significativas. It is part of: Comunicació a: III Col·loqui Mobilitat i Gènere Asociación para la Prevención de Accidentes de Tráfico (P(A)T) Barcelona, 14 de desembre de 2023.

What I propose here is to dialogue and check the confluences and divergences between McDowell’s relaxed naturalism and Nishida’s historical naturalism, and their strategies to surmount modern philosophy everlasting questions that pivot on a series of dualisms, among which that of reason and nature stands out. In what follows, in the first section, I will clarify some of the reasons why the division between nature and culture, or reason and nature, or minds and world, represents one of the facets of (...) this modernist “great division”, or, as I rename it, the “dual track” between nature and humankind. The section includes a succinct exposition on how the “great division” is transferred to East Asian modern philosophy, and, in fact, how it remains in cultural projections of Japan’s native non-division between humans and nature. Later, I use the second section to describe and discuss John McDowell’s strategy to escape out of the dilemma between the Myth of the Given and the Myth of Coherentism, through the notion of “second nature”, recovered from Aristotle’s ethics, as a path to offer a different conception of what is natural, and of human being’s nature. Once we understand why McDowell’s second nature is his way to reconcile conceptual capacities and humankind animal-being maturation through upbringing -Bildung, formation-, I connect his conceptualization with Nishida’s own vision of what second nature is. In his late philosophical works, Nishida’s central notion is “action-intuition”, an epistemic hyphen that links subject and object, or perceiver and perceived, that opens the way for his discussion of “historical world” as a “media(c)tion” (settlement action); and “historical nature” considered as a telos-bearing motion that unfolds the “world of force”, the “world of life”, and the “world of living things”, and, lately, “second nature” as the world of custom. As I will show, Nishida’s “second nature” is not secondary in relation to a presupposed “first” nature. The world of custom has ontological priority. My final wish is to demonstrate that Nishida’s late statement of “historical-naturalness” -human beings coming into being from the historical world as the mediation of the continuity of discontinuity- offers a way to solve McDowell’s criticized fatal dualism -human life discontinuous with the rest of nature. And, at the same time, offers new possibilities to overcome the image of reason and nature as opposing spheres, or human estrangement from nature and from himself. At the end, I open the floor for a rethinking Aristotle and Marx, Nishida and McDowell orientation towards a symbiotic, relaxed or humanized naturalism as a tool to untie modern philosophy dualist conundrum. (shrink)

Resum: En el seu dia, vàrem imaginar aquesta activitat partint de la metàfora, espacial i musical, del «punt de fuga». M’agradaria començar aquesta intervenció estirant aquesta metàfora o, millor dit, aquesta manera de representar-nos la mort humana. Part de: Comunicació a: Conferència VilaPensa -Festival del Pensament del Penedès 2023 12 d’abril de 2023.