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La tesis del impacto cognitivo del lenguaje sostiene que las lenguas humanas afectan de forma no trivial al pensamiento. A su vez, existe diversidad lingüística, en la medida que hay varios millares de lenguas humanas que se hablan actualmente en el mundo. Luego, existe relatividad lingüística, esto es, diversidad cognitiva entre los hablantes de las diferentes lenguas. En este contexto, el libro explora la multitud de posturas intermedias que se alejan de las divergencias clásicas entre el determinismo lingüístico y la total autonomía del pensmiento

This article proposes a comparison between the French Renaissance demonologist Jean Bodin and the fictional character Don Quijote. Like the hero of Cervantes’ novel, Bodin believes everything he reads. Consequently, Bodin makes his own discipline of demonology a species of romance that eagerly blurs the boundary of fact and fiction. This type of credulity can be usefully juxtaposed to Michel de Montaigne’s understanding of the imagination and to his more philosophical exploration of the realm of possibility.Keywords: Demonology, fiction, imagination, Jean Bodin, Cervantes, Montaigne.

The aim of this volume is not to offer a comprehensive overview of the multifarious aspects of fiction and its implications for early modern philosophy, but to be an invitation, from the standpoint of the history of philosophy, to survey some of the fundamental problems of the field, using six case-studies written by some of the finest international scholars in their respective areas of Renaissance studies. Although perhaps not evident at a first reading, these six studies are linked by common concerns such as the theoretical relationship between (literary) history, rhetoric, poetics, and philosophy; the tensions between res, verba, and imago; and the concept of enargeia. They have been arranged according to the chronology of the corpus each one considers.

El presente artículo pretende, en primer lugar, evidenciar los límites de la visión instrumental de la técnica para una comprensión integradora del fenómeno técnico. Ante la amenaza que supone para el individuo el proceso creciente de tecnificación, que acaba relegando al ser humano a la zona del instrumento, existen indicios de que la pedagogía orientada al aprendizaje de «cómo hacer un buen uso de la técnica», amparada en la tradición humanista y fundamentada en una visión instrumental, no basta para hacer que el hombre recupere la posición de sujeto y conductor del poder técnico. Por ello, en segundo lugar, y sirviéndonos del pensamiento de Martin Heidegger y Ernst Jünger, asentamos las bases para un nuevo marco regulativo desde el que repensar lo técnico y proveer al ser humano de estrategias que le permitan restablecer su relación con la técnica.

A review of the book Realismo, verdad y significado, is made. I bring to the fore the thematic axes of the compilation and make a one-by-one sketchy study of each chapter. The volume broachs the general topic of the justification of scientific knowledge, i.e., tha conditions which decide the epistemological status of a scientific theory or practice. This approach leads the authors to do a bit of metaphysics, that is, to discuss whether and to what extent the posits that guide the researches reliably reveal something about the structure and composition of the world in some of its aspects.

La luz de un gran frío. Ensayos sobre Georges Bataille (Ediciones Casus-Belli, 2017), editado por Jesús Ezquerra y Joaquín Fortanet, es, ante todo, un ajuste de cuentas con el silencio pues se trata de la primera obra colectiva sobre Georges Bataille (1897-1962) que se publica en España. Así, la imponente tonalidad de su portada nos presenta un variado número de colaboradores de distinta procedencia, desde Denis Hollier, editor de varios tomos de las oeuvres complètes aparecidas en Gallimard, a Michel Surya, autor de la imprescindible biografía Bataille, la mort à l’oeuvre, o Antonio Campillo, presidente de la Red Española de Filosofía, y Marco Tabacchini, ambos habituados a bregar con los textos políticos del francés.

This paper analyses the role played by myths in Francesco Patrizi’s Dialoghi della retorica (1562). In the discussion of the tenets of classical rhetoric contained in the work, Patrizi aims to define both the matter and the form of the discipline through the analysis of the nature of language and the limits of human knowledge. Patrizi uses some stories where fiction and history are intertwined to provide a mythical explanation of the causes behind the first decay of human social, political and intellectual life. Therefore, the present contribution will focus on Patrizi’s approach to reforming language in its rhetorical dimension, and will determine what role is reserved for fiction in the Dialogues on Rhetoric. In other words, I will try to respond with Patrizi to the following question: What meaning can fiction offer when language is employed as a way of accessing truth?Keywords: Francesco Patrizi da Cherso, Rhetoric, Aristotle, Myth and History.

This article focuses on Lucrezia Marinella’s L’Enrico, ovvero Bisanzio acquistato (1635) and Moderata Fonte’s Tredici canti del Floridoro (1581). Marinella’s epic, or ‘heroic,’ poem belongs to a genre not well represented in women’s writings, while Fonte’s work is the first original chivalric poem written by a woman, an Italian woman who grappled with epic and chivalric romance. These genres were so elite and laborious that they discouraged all but the most enterprising writers of either sex. The female warriors of epic, the women’s aptitude for martial arts, and the increasing openness to female involvement in battle correspond to a shifting emphasis in warfare from physical force to mental agility and astuteness. No attempt will be made here at a comprehensive treatment; rather the focus of the article will be on the question of how women in this period responded to what might be broadly termed the gender politics of chivalric works.Keywords: Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Gender roles, Gender attitudes, Fiction, Epic, force (physical and mental)

This essay is an introduction to the issue of the journal Análisis devoted to thephilosophy of Hilary Putnam. This paper provides a thematic introduction to Putnam’sthought, though some indications concerning his intellectual development are alsoincluded. It begins with Putnam’s work on realism, whether metaphysical, internalor natural; then it deals with Putnam’s relations with classic authors of Americanpragmatism as William James and John Dewey. In the last section, before concludingremarks, Putnam’s position concerning the interpretation of quantum mechanics isbriefly shown. Each section includes an exposition of the essays that make up thisissue as well as their relations with the themes previously expounded.

In this paper I present a positive progressive picture of Putnam's philosophy. According to this way of seeing things, Putnam is a normative cartographer of our linguistic practices who has over time refined his understanding of the concepts of truth and verification and their complex relationship from discourse to discourse. Looked at in this way Putnam is primarily a philosopher of objective normativity, who explores the various conceptions of objectivity with which we operate as well as resisting the excesses of both metaphysics and skepticism which do violence to our ordinary and scientific practices. However, Putnam sees himself as a philosopher of ‘reality’ focused on “the realism issue”, a metaphysically inflationary way of thinking that, I argue, stands in the way of his deepest insights