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Confusing Subjective with Objective Criteria of Correctness: A Philosophical Approach to the ‘Tip-of-the-Tongue’ Phenomenon
(Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2020)
One of the most striking features of the so-called “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon (TOT) is that the finding of the sought-for word generates a kind of click or a feeling of fit between that word and an alleged mental mould ...
Advantages and Paradoxes of Regarding Omniscience as Subjective Certainty in Wittgenstein's Sense
(SOPHIA, 2021)
In this paper, I try to facilitate the understanding of the concept of 'omniscience' by taking into account the terminology developed in Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty. Thus, I start by explaining why omniscience can ...
Religious Certainty: Peculiarities and Pedagogical Considerations
(Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020-11)
This paper presents the concept of 'religious certainty' I have developed by drawing inspiration from Wittgenstein's notion of 'certainty'. After describing the particular traits of religious certainty, this paper addresses ...
Morality in Disguise. A Response to Laves
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)
Samuel Laves´ "Why the Wrongness of Killing Innocent, Non-threatening People is a Universal Moral Certainty" has argued against the views offered in my "Why the Wrongness of Killing Innocents is Not a Universal Moral ...
Cómo investigar en historia recopilando certezas Algunas orientaciones a partir de las obras tardías de Wittgenstein y Ortega y Gasset
(Cuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofia, 2022)
José Ortega y Gasset se basó en su noción de ‘creencia’ para argumentar que los estudios históricos deberían consistir sobre todo en compilar las creencias características y distintivas de un período histórico: pues de ese ...
Arithmetical Certainties: A Few Exceptions Among Countless Knowledge- Statements
(Thémata. Revista de Filosofía, 2022)
In this paper I disagree with Kusch (2016) on three issues concerning expressions of arithmetical certainties - in Wittgenstein's sense - and regular uses of arithmetical expressions. Specifically, I explain why calculations ...
The teacher as persuader: On the application of Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘persuasion’ in educational practice
(Routledge, 2022)
Wittgenstein’s conception of ‘persuasion’, understood as the persuader’s attempt to modify the persuadee’s certainties, has been recently misinterpreted by some scholars. For Persichetti has overlooked the fact that one ...
Why the Wrongness of Killing Innocents is Not a Universal Moral Certainty
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)
In this paper, I argue that the certainty about the wrongness of killing must not be considered as a universal, but as a local one. Initially, I show that there exist communities in which the wrongness of killing innocents ...
Ortega y Gasset sobre la supuesta inconveniencia de leer Don Quijote en la escuela
(Logos (Spain), 2022)
Este artículo presenta la postura mantenida por José Ortega y Gasset en el debate que tuvo
lugar en la España de comienzos del siglo veinte sobre la conveniencia de leer Don Quijote en las
escuelas. Con este fin, comenzamos ...
Is There an Internal Link between Seeing a Human and Seeing One to Whom Moral Consideration Is Due?
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022)
Is There an Internal Link between Seeing a Human and Seeing One to Whom Moral Consideration Is Due?