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Isaac Levi, For the Sake of the Argument. Ramsey Test Conditionals, Inductive Inference, and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, xv + 341 pp.
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Oscar Nudler (compilador), La racionalidad: su poder y sus límites, Buenos Aires, Paidós, 1996, 504 pp.
No full textEl relato histórico, ¿hipótesis o ficción? : Críticas al "narrativismo imposicionalista" de Hayden White
Get PDFIn the last years, both philosophers of history and historians have been concerned about the epistemological status ofhistorical stories. The debate traces back to Hayden White, who rejected the idea that historical s¡ories can be told from fictional ones on the basis of the real character of the facts referred to. In what follows, I will critically examine White's conception and I will show that the rejection ofthe thesis in question depends on three assumptions. The first one is a narrow characterization ofthe explanatory effect of the historical story conceived as a pictorial representation. Secondly, there is a narrow conception ofhistorical reality, which allows for a continuity between the analytic philosophy of history and the imposicionalist narrativism. In third place, there is a reduction of the content of the historical text -namely, the past- to its form of expression. The upshot is a hypostatization of the litterary aspects of the historical story, with the consequent detriment to its ontological and evaluative commitments. Resumen en inglés
Alicia E. Gianella, Introducción a la epistemología y a la metodología de la ciencia, La Plata, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1995, 186 pp.
Get PDFAspectos éticos de la eutanasia
No full textI analyze sorne traditional distinctions around euthanasia. In contrast to those who most discuss the justification of active versus passive, or direct versus indirect euthanasia, I claim, following and expanding a Holly Smith's argument, that the possibility of active and/or direct euthanasia cannot be morally excluded, once we have accepted passive and/or indirect euthanasia, even though we assume the asymmetry between killing and letting die, or between killing someone intentionally as a means and doing that as an undesired side-effect (the "doctrine ofthe double effect"). I evaluate then some objections and limits ofthe argument and make a shorter reference to the problem of voluntariness
El eticista como "anthropos megalopsychos'': De la tiranía de los principios a la tiranía de los expertos
No full textIn this paper I suggest sorne arguments against the proposal elaborated by A. Jonsen and S. Toulmin for applied ethics. First of all I try to demonstrate that "the new casuistics" tends to reduce the critica! capacity of the ethics. On the other hand I argue that this proposal could also transform the ethics into a "tyranny of the experts", the people who finally select both the agenda of topics to discuss and the paradigmatical cases that form the warrants of the moral reasoning
La autonomía y el yo demente
No full textIn this article the author considers the rights, not of someone who was bom and always been demented, but of someone who has been competent in the past. He asks if a competent person's right to autonomy includes the power to dictate that life prolonging treatment be denied him later, even ifhe, when demented, pleads for it. To answer this question he considers the extension of contemporary and precedent autonomy and the consequences holding an evidentiary view or the integrity perspective of autonomy implies
Sobre la interpretación deflacionaria de la teoría de Tarski
Get PDFThis paper is centered on the semantic theory of truth, fonnulated by Alfred Tarski. According to some authors, this theory is to be construed as a contemporary version of the traditional correspondence theory, namely, the one that defines truth as the correspondence between language and the world. In contrast, there are others vvho think that Tarki's theory reveals a deflationary conception oftruth, according to which truth can be reduced to a linguistic resource for semantic ascent. Since I agree with the last group, I set out to support a special version -the so-called ''semanticalist version"- of the deflationary interpretation of the semantic theory. In the first section, I characterize the two alternative conceptions of truth above mentioned, that is, correspondence and deflationism.The second section contains an exposition of the modal argumcnt, wich takes the Tarskian theory to inspire a syntacticalist version of the dcflationary conception. In the third section, l criticize the argument in question and attcmpt to ground the above mentioned wide, semanticalist interpretation of deflationism