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Unamuno´s mirrow-games: on the seeming omnipotence and meaningfulness of writing in the grammatical void
(Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2017)
Miguel de Unamuno wanted the readers of some of his novels and plays to seriously doubt whether they are fictitious characters, for such a doubt should lead them to fervently crave for immortality. In this article, I argue ...
Can a culture of error be really developed in the classroom without teaching students to distinguish between errors and anomalies?
(Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019-08-24)
It is expected that children increasingly learn to identify errors throughout their schooling process and even before it. As a further step, however, some scholars have suggested how a culture of error should be implemented ...
Teaching children to ignore alternatives is sometimes necessary: indoctrination as a dispensable term
(Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2019-07)
Literature on indoctrination has focused on imparting and revising beliefs, but it has hardly considered the way of teaching and acquiring certaintiesin Wittgenstein's sense. Therefore, the role played by rationality in ...
Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
(2012)
Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
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 ...
What the language of the Third Reich – as described by Klemperer – can teach us about certainties in Wittgenstein’s sense
(Aufklärung revista de filosofia, 2023)
Victor Klemperer (18811960) was a German Professor of Romance Languages who became famous especially for the writings in which he related how the Nazis deformed the German language to the extent of developing what he called ...