Listar por tema "certainty"
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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 ... -
Can a culture of error be really developed in the classroom without teaching students to distinguish between errors and anomalies?
(Educational Philosophy and Theory, 24/08/2019)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 ... -
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 ... -
Enhancing second-order empathy in medical practice by supplementing patients' narratives with certainties
(BMC Medical Education, 14/03/2018)Most scholars agree that empathy is one of the keys for medical education, but it is not yet clear precisely how this term should be defined. Currently, the predominant tendency in this area consists in considering empathy ... -
How Negative Knowledge Relates to Negative Certainty: An Instance of Cognitive Vulnerability
(De Gruyter Brill, 2023)In this chapter, I aim to show how Ortega y Gasset’s conception of “belief” and Wittgenstein’s notion of “certainty” can also be understood in negative terms; furthermore, I analyze how they relate to negative knowledge. ... -
Learning to Believe: Challenges in Children’s Acquisition of a World-Picture in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty
(Studies in Philosophy and Education, 10/09/2014)Wittgenstein scholars have tended to interpret the acquisition of certainties, and by extension, of a world-picture, as the achievement of a state in which these certainties are assimilated in a seemingly unconscious way ... -
Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
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Should Business Organizations be Blind to Anomalies? On the Role of the Attributor in the Blurred Confines of Modern Error Theory
(Philosophy of Management, 06/2018)In this paper, I describe the main lines of modern error theory, a systemic theory which regards errors not as the results of someone's negligence, but as parts of a complex system. Bearing in mind that errors must be ... -
Some variations of the certainty of one’s own death
(Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 01/2015)In principle, every mentally healthy adult in Western civilization should be completely convinced that he will die and that his death might happen at any time. In this paper, however, I bring up the work of two Spanish ... -
Teaching children to ignore alternatives is sometimes necessary: indoctrination as a dispensable term
(Studies in Philosophy and Education, 07/2019)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 ... -
The pedagogical relevance of certainties from the teacher's perspective
(Revista Española de Pedagogía, 09/2015)Taking into account that the pedagogical implications of Ludwig Wittgenstein's On, Certainty have scarcely been addressed in the existing literature, this paper presents the basic concepts of the mentioned work, especially ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
