The philosophical problem of personal identity –the issue of finding the necessary and sufficient conditions for a past or future being to be a certain present being– has been treated by analytical metaphysics mostly. In ...

Theories focusing on the repression of incest (Freud, Levi-Strauss) or the social contract (Hobbes, Rousseau) have emphasized the importance of the family and the State, respec-tively, but have paid little attention to ...

The article answers the question Why does language matter in philosophy? Formulated more than forty years ago by the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, In doing so, part of the new conception of the philosophical method ...

Discussion of modeling within philosophy of science has focused in how models, understood as finished products, represent the world. This approach has some issues accounting for the value of modeling in situations where ...

In this paper I examine the notion of “agency” and its possible application to the animal technique. Although the traditional theory of action considers that non-human animals cannot be agents due to their lacks of language, ...

Pathological objects and counterexamples play an important role in mathematical understanding even though there is no precise definition of them. What is a pathological object? What makes a mathematical object pathological?The ...

The classic solution of the twin paradox is based on the idea that there is an asymmetry between accelerated and inertial systems of reference. This traditional solution points out that only the twin on the spaceship ...

The study of the evolution of social behavior, in terms of cooperation and altruism, has usually been framed in quantitative explanations and mathematical models, which intend to capture the interdependence relationships ...

The purpose of this article is to clarify the distinction between primary and secondary qualities in the philosophy of Locke, in the light of the traditions that on the subject had on hand. First, I will contrast his claims ...