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Emotions as aesthetic properties of absolute music
(2017-09-20)
This work studies the relation between emotions and music, the place that emotive properties occupy in it. I hold that music expressiveness cannot be explained appealing to what listeners or composers feel, but just to ...
Explaining culture. A constraint-based approach
(2017-09-21)
The three main naturalistic approaches to culture¿the Epidemiological account (Sperber 1996; Atran 1990, 2002; Sperber and Claidière 2006), Memetics (Dawkins 2006 [1976], Dennett 1996) and the Standard Evolutionary approach ...
DEINOTATON and POLEMOS: Human being and the search for the abode
(2017-05-11)
The goal of this Thesis is to present a philosophical interpretation of the idea/event of "Polemos". Focusing on the philosophical thought of Heraclitus and Martin Heidegger we will approach "Polemos", not only ontically, ...
Structural and organisational conditions for the appearance of a functionally integrated organisation in the transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cell
(2021-02-12)
The concept of functional (or physiological) integration is explanatorily relevant to both biology andphilosophy of biology, but it suffers from two main related problems: first, it is an umbrella termencompassing any ...
Participatory sense-making in psychotherapy
(2022-02-28)
La presente tesis propone un enfoque enactivo de la psiquiatría y la psicoterapia que va más allá de una concepción puramente ¿mentalista¿ de la empatía y la alianza terapéutica hacia una perspectiva de segunda persona, ...
The Resemblance Structure of Natural Kinds: A Formal Model for Resemblance Nominalism
(2021-01-12)
The aim of this thesis is to better understand the ways natural kinds are related to each other by species-genus relations and the ways in which the members of the kind are related to each other by resemblance relations, ...
Mandeville, Hutcheson and Hume on Pride and Honor
(2022-12-12)
The thesis argues that Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Hume shared an original conceptionof pride as a useful passion in society. It also identifies the interplay of ideas that took partamongst these authors during the 1730s ...
Anticipation and responsible innovation: opening-up futures through plausibility negotiations
(2022-07-11)
This dissertation aims to develop a more robust conceptualisation of anticipation as a methodological-interventive relevant tool to promote more socio-politically responsible science, technology, and innovation (STI) ...
Imagen del mundo, percepción y descripción de la naturaleza. Un estudio comparado en torno a las presuposiciones onto-epistemológicas en la poesía romántica inglesa y la prosa científica de Charles Darwin
(2016-06-30)
Esta tesis es un estudio comparado de las descripciones de la naturaleza de dos tipos de sujeto cognitivo: de un lado, poetas reconocidos del Romanticismo inglés como William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy ...