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Filósofo de la Ciencia de el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la UNAM y programador musical de Reactor 105, México
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A paradox of comparison and similarity
What is the relation between comparison and similarity? Here is a paradox: For philosophers like Kant, Frege and others, comparison allows...
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Here is a paradoxical proof that we cannot gain any knowledge from comparing things:
A paradox of comparison and similarity axelbarcelo.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-pa...
A paradox of comparison and similarity axelbarcelo.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-pa...
Como que el nuevo disco de FKA Twigs está muy pop, ¿no? Muy bueno , sí, obvio; pero también muy pop.
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Como que el nuevo disco de FKA Twigs está muy pop, ¿no? Muy bueno , sí, obvio; pero también muy pop.
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Check out the public lecture with Edouard Machery, organized by BIAP and the Ateneu Barcelonés about whether we should trust science! 🧪
If you missed, you have the video!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXm...
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If you missed, you have the video!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXm...
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Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?
YouTube video by Ateneu Barcelonès
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November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Check out the public lecture with Edouard Machery, organized by BIAP and the Ateneu Barcelonés about whether we should trust science! 🧪
If you missed, you have the video!
📼📽️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXm...
@biap.bsky.social
@ateneubcn.cat
@filosofiaub.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social
If you missed, you have the video!
📼📽️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXm...
@biap.bsky.social
@ateneubcn.cat
@filosofiaub.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social
Luz Ascarate, César Gómez Algarra:
Faire de la philosophie en espagnol ? Un aperçu de la philosophie hispanophone contemporaine
www.revue-klesis.org/index.html#d60
Faire de la philosophie en espagnol ? Un aperçu de la philosophie hispanophone contemporaine
www.revue-klesis.org/index.html#d60
Klēsis - Revue de philosophie en ligne
Revue philosophique de tradition analytique et continentale.
www.revue-klesis.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Luz Ascarate, César Gómez Algarra:
Faire de la philosophie en espagnol ? Un aperçu de la philosophie hispanophone contemporaine
www.revue-klesis.org/index.html#d60
Faire de la philosophie en espagnol ? Un aperçu de la philosophie hispanophone contemporaine
www.revue-klesis.org/index.html#d60
The structure of definitions in Aristotle.
After a talk by Charles Pfeiffer
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After a talk by Charles Pfeiffer
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The structure of definitions in Aristotle, according to Christian Pfeiffer (and me)
Complexity is both a sufficient and necessary condition of definability: every complex is definable and only complex entities can be defined...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The structure of definitions in Aristotle.
After a talk by Charles Pfeiffer
axelbarcelo.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
After a talk by Charles Pfeiffer
axelbarcelo.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
...the moral challenge of rethinking the meaning of agency, responsibility and blame on a global scale and over many generations. Moral categories originally conceived with individuals in mind begin to creak when stretched to cover nations or span generations..
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
...the moral challenge of rethinking the meaning of agency, responsibility and blame on a global scale and over many generations. Moral categories originally conceived with individuals in mind begin to creak when stretched to cover nations or span generations..
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Si bien todos estamos de acuerdo en que no es posible desarrollar una habilidad sin afectividad, no estamos de acuerdo en si esto significa que no es posible desarrollar-sin-afectividad una habilidad o que no es posible desarrollar una habilidad-sin-afectividad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Si bien todos estamos de acuerdo en que no es posible desarrollar una habilidad sin afectividad, no estamos de acuerdo en si esto significa que no es posible desarrollar-sin-afectividad una habilidad o que no es posible desarrollar una habilidad-sin-afectividad.
El enojo nunca es bueno
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
El enojo nunca es bueno
Calibración es a habilidades lo que confiabilidad es a conocimiento
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Calibración es a habilidades lo que confiabilidad es a conocimiento
El primero, es un juicio (no necesariamente consciente o intelectual) de uno mismo y su capacidades, por lo que nos afecta en nuestro propio ego, mientras que el segundo es un juicio sobre la tarea misma.
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
El primero, es un juicio (no necesariamente consciente o intelectual) de uno mismo y su capacidades, por lo que nos afecta en nuestro propio ego, mientras que el segundo es un juicio sobre la tarea misma.
¿Porqué nos cuesta trabajo distinguir entre la frustración del "no puedo" y la sabiduría del "no vale la pena seguir intentando"?
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
¿Porqué nos cuesta trabajo distinguir entre la frustración del "no puedo" y la sabiduría del "no vale la pena seguir intentando"?
¿Puede existir algo de manera indeterminada que luego existirá de manera determinada?
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
¿Puede existir algo de manera indeterminada que luego existirá de manera determinada?
Determinism is not the only way in which free will can be false.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Determinism is not the only way in which free will can be false.
The only way we can say that is the same as something is that thing itself. This might mean one of two things: that the only true identity is that a=a (Heraclitus & Hume), or that some attributes of things are not essential to what they are (Aristotle).
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The only way we can say that is the same as something is that thing itself. This might mean one of two things: that the only true identity is that a=a (Heraclitus & Hume), or that some attributes of things are not essential to what they are (Aristotle).
Aristotle: "... it is the distinctive mark of substance [that] remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities…” Categories I,5
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Aristotle: "... it is the distinctive mark of substance [that] remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities…” Categories I,5
Things that appear as the same, may only be similar
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Things that appear as the same, may only be similar
Things may be similar, even if they do not resemble each other.
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Things may be similar, even if they do not resemble each other.
Every argument for the asymmetry of past/present/future is subject-centered; therefore, it makes sense to think that the distinction itself is subject-centered
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Every argument for the asymmetry of past/present/future is subject-centered; therefore, it makes sense to think that the distinction itself is subject-centered
But what will happen when the AII bubble busts?
November 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
But what will happen when the AII bubble busts?
Sé que es una tontería, pero me choca lo común que es que las canciones tengan títulos con faltas de prosodia 🧐
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sé que es una tontería, pero me choca lo común que es que las canciones tengan títulos con faltas de prosodia 🧐
¡Ay, no se claven en lo simbólico!
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
¡Ay, no se claven en lo simbólico!
Carrillo is right: machines have no second person cognition
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Carrillo is right: machines have no second person cognition
Both Haraway and Deleuze and Guattari have as conditions of their assemblages and cyborgs heterogeneity, but why? Specially given that Deleuze and Guattari explicitly want their assemblages to be ontologically on a par
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Both Haraway and Deleuze and Guattari have as conditions of their assemblages and cyborgs heterogeneity, but why? Specially given that Deleuze and Guattari explicitly want their assemblages to be ontologically on a par
who is afraid of distance?
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
who is afraid of distance?