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The book Philosophy of Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, Person by Michelle Farisco examines the philosophical and ethical challenges posed by the growing impact of neuroscience on understanding human nature. Farisco critiques neuroscientific reductionism in studying consciousness, highlighting the difficulty of explaining subjective experience from a purely biological approach. He questions neurocentrism, which ties personal identity solely to the brain, advocating for a non-reductionist perspective that includes sociocultural factors. Additionally, Farisco explores "neuroethics," which addresses the ethical boundaries of neurotechnology use and the social implications of conceiving humans solely as neural beings. The work invites reflection on emerging dilemmas at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and society.

This article examines the distinction between orality and writing in the work of Emmanuel Levinas as a key to understanding the genesis of his notion of teaching. The analysis seeks to lay the groundwork for a pedagogical reading of his thought, arguing that this requires reading beyond Totality and Infinity, where teaching is stripped of its pedagogical content. The exploration of unpublished writings and Levinas’ texts devoted to Jewish education enables the reconstruction of his ideas on school and reading, as well as an examination of the influence of the Talmudic tradition upon his conception of scriptural interpretation. From this foundation, it is concluded that reflections on the pedagogical aims of the École Normale Israélite Orientale and on the tradition of Torah reading permeate his unpublished texts, thereby offering a framework that contextualises and justifies the appearance of certain pedagogical terms within them. In this regard, the article opens a new avenue for interpreting Levinas' unpublished works through an educational lens and demonstrates that, whilst it is possible to recover a pedagogical dimension in his work, this dimension was configured prior to the writing of Totality and Infinity.

Book review Améry, Jean (2024). Fragmentos sobre el antisemitismo. Medellín, Ennegativo Ediciones; Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid.

Although Kate Gordon is today an almost unknown figure in philosophical historiography, she can be considered one of the pioneers of pragmatist aesthetics. The research hypothesis developed here is that Gordon’s aesthetic work, produced in the first decade of the twentieth century, should be recovered from oblivion, as she was the first philosopher, on the one hand, to openly declare that her aesthetic theory adopted a pragmatist perspective and, on the other, to question what it would mean to transpose the pragmatist method to the field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. This study employed a bibliographical method to review the most relevant articles by the author. It concludes that Gordon’s aesthetics — both in terms of its topics of interest and the concepts it develops — anticipates by decades the better-known contributions to pragmatist aesthetics, such as those later formulated by John Dewey. Therefore, she should be recognized as one of the notable forerunners of this tradition.

The following article proposes to review one of Levinas's main criticisms of Heidegger, which pertains to a sort of annulment of all alterity based on the understanding of Dasein as the being that is each time mine, interpreted by the French philosopher as an essential egoism, positioning ethics as prior to ontology, as the first philosophy. However, through the discussion of the ontological difference and Heidegger's Mitsein, we will see that, in our view, Levinas's criticism is rather situated in an ontic realm of things, unlike Heidegger, who strives to maintain his philosophical program in the ontological order. Although this work is dedicated to highlighting such differences, it does not aim to take sides with either philosopher but rather to contribute to the clarification of the thematic ground where such criticisms unfold.

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This paper offers a phenomenological description of playful time as the genesis of human play. Husserl’s phenomenology of temporality provides a comprehensive and defining framework for understanding playful time through four essential dimensions, which are presented in the order followed in this text. The first part addresses the extraordinary condition of playful time; the second explores its ritual and festive qualities; and the third and fourth sections examine its free and imaginary nature. Playful time exhibits the anthropological unity of existential spheres such as work, and value, often excluded from play in anthropological accounts, while also highlighting the boundary between animal and human play as a site of intersection.

The relational interpretation of quantum mechanics (RQM) has generated intense philosophical debate, particularly regarding its distinctive conception of knowledge. This paper examines how RQM articulates that conception through the notion of “information.” I begin by analyzing Carlo Rovelli’s view of scientific knowledge, followed by a reconstruction of the main argument supporting RQM. I then critically assess how the theory connects information and knowledge to present a realist, naturalist, and relational account of science. I argue that, in its current form, RQM fails to offer a coherent epistemological framework. Moreover, recent attempts by its advocates to resolve these issues expose deep philosophical tensions at the core of the interpretation, indicating the need for substantial theoretical revisions.

The text aims to examine the trajectories of rural women landowners in the tropical forests of southern Campeche during the expansion of Mexico’s southern border through the privatization of property rights over the jungle. Under the federal laws of 1863, 1883, and 1884 on the occupation and alienation of vacant lands, merchant families settled in Isla del Carmen dominated the forest extractive economy until its transfer to United States gum companies. The vacant land claim files from 1860 to 1897 have been cross-referenced with other sources that have allowed for an intersectional approach that confirms the prominent role of these women landowners as guarantors of the liberal project in a frontier region.

This work examines the role of women in times of war, focusing on two groups of women who, although they did not suffer violence firsthand, were nonetheless affected by the consequences of the Caste War in Yucatán in 1847. Historiography on this topic has rarely addressed women, thus the central question of this article is how different women acted in wartime contexts. On one hand, the study analyzes a corpus of documents derived from the decree issued in October 1850, which granted various debt payment benefits to hacienda owners affected by the war (including some women from privileged groups). On the other hand, based on a government petition, it examines the claims of a group of women from a village whose husbands or sons were forced to go to war. Beyond violence, the article finds that written language and petitions were widely used as tools to claim rights.