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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 ...
Enhancing second-order empathy in medical practice by supplementing patients' narratives with certainties
(BMC Medical Education, 2018-03-14)
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 ...
Should Business Organizations be Blind to Anomalies? On the Role of the Attributor in the Blurred Confines of Modern Error Theory
(Philosophy of Management, 2018-06)
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 ...
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 ...
The pedagogical relevance of certainties from the teacher's perspective
(Revista Española de Pedagogía, 2015-09)
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 ...
Learning to Believe: Challenges in Children’s Acquisition of a World-Picture in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty
(Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2014-09-10)
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 ...
Some variations of the certainty of one’s own death
(Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2015-01)
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 ...
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 ...