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The aim of this dissertation is to explore the hypothesis that language is occasion- sensitive. To hold that language is occasion-sensitive is to hold that the truth-conditions of most of our utterances depend on the ...
[spa] Esta investigación aborda en primer lugar la cuestión del estatuto de cientificidad del sadismo en nuestra actualidad así como de qué manera éste nos define a nosotros mismos. ¿Hasta dónde es posible establecer a ...
In this thesis, I propose and defend a theory according to which committing oneself to knowing the proposition expressed counts as an assertion of that proposition. A consequence of this view is the knowledge account of ...
[cat] El respecte a l’autonomia dels pacients ha esdevingut un principi fonamental de la bioètica que ha marcat canvis legislatius i de model assistencial, tanmateix el cas dels pacients menors és especialment controvertit: ...
This essay is devoted to the study of proper names. Although the view that sees proper names as referential singular terms is widely considered orthodoxy, there is a growing popularity to the view that proper names are ...
[por] O objeto de pesquisa é o ser humano e sua situação na sociedade contemporânea, com ênfase no encobrimento e desmantelamento de seus atributos essenciais, especialmente o direito ao projeto de vida. Por meio da ...
[spa] La identidad es una construcción que permite a todo sujeto perteneciente a una cultura responder a la pregunta sobre quién es. Partiendo de la lengua que se habla, el lugar del que se procede y la forma en la cual ...
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal analizar la emergencia y los usos del concepto de vulnerabilidad en base a dos vectores principales, a saber, el vector económico-social y el vector crítico. Esta consideración ...
[eng] Emotions are intrinsically and extrinsically interesting. On the one hand, they are intrinsically interesting because they are part of our mental economy standing in relations to other mental states (e.g., the belief ...
The goal of this thesis is to show, against Harry Collins, that there are scientific and internal grounds for the resolution of controversies in experimental practice. The approach I take is twofold: On the one hand, I ...
[eng] The dissertation investigates the method of explication from an externalist point of view. Chapter1 explains externalism in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism holds that the meaning of many of our kind ...
En la situación actual de incertidumbre, de interdependencia y de cambio constante al que se enfrenta la sociedad desde todos sus ámbitos existenciales, surge la siguiente pregunta: ¿Es razonable mantener y seguir ...
The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically evolved from the late 1940s to the present ...
En esta investigación pretendo mostrar que los híbridos cyborg son un tipo de metáforas que son fruto de la experiencia de corporalización. Estas metáforas aparecen cuando el cyborg logra que sus órganos artificiales ...
Esta investigación vindica que las obras de arte forman parte de un sistema de producción que las reconoce como objeto (material) y como sujeto (social). La disposición de estas imágenes tangibles permite considerarlas ...
[spa] Las crisis de 2007-10 pusieron en evidencia la forma en que las dinámicas neoliberales (iniciadas a partir de los años 80) menguan las políticas redistributivas. La pérdida de derechos desató una ola de protestas que ...
Symbiosis research is a growing field in contemporary biology. Current advances in modelling and experimental techniques have made possible to develop new ways of studying some multispecies symbiotic systems whose study ...
In this dissertation the feasibility of Experientialism about the sense of bodily ownership (SBO) is explored and defended. An original experientialist proposal on the SBO is presented. On this view, for a subject to have ...
This PhD Dissertation explores a variety of topics in relation with metaphysical naturalness and the assessment of our conceptual and classificatory practices. It is divided in three self-standing—albeit connected—papers. In ...
[ita] L’hate speech, è un fenomeno complesso che interessa molti settori della società e si diffonde anche attraverso i social network, raggiungendo molte persone grazie alla sua viralità. L’odio online, infatti, si trasmette ...
