THEORIA
Revista de  Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia

An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

Editor: Andoni Ibarra             Más información / Texto completo (página oficial)

COEDICION: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua / Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco    y  Centro de Análisis, Lógica e Informática Jurídica (CALIJ)

Volume 25/2, Number 68, May 2010,  pp. 128-256       ISSN 0495-4548

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SUMMARY

Monographic Section:   XIIth TALLER D'INVESTIGACIÓ EN FILOSOFIA
Guest Editor:  Mireia LÓPEZ

Mireia LÓPEZ (University of Barcelona): Editor's Introduction  .....  133-135.

UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 137-147
Sergi OMS (University of Barcelona): Truth-Functional and Penumbral Intuitions

After presenting two of the main intuitions underlying vagueness, the truth-functional and the penumbral ones, I will put forward Tappenden's gappy approach to vagueness contrasting it with Supervaluationism. I will analyze some objections to both accounts and, finally, I will present my own worries about the former.
Keywords: vagueness, Tappenden, Supervaluationism, essentially vague predicates, truth-functionality, penumbral sentences.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 149-161
Gonçalo SANTOS (University of Barcelona):  A Not So Fine Version of Generality Relativism

The generality relativist has been accused of holding a self-defeating thesis. Kit Fine proposed a modal version of generality relativism that tries to resist this claim. We discuss his proposal and argue that one of its formulations is self-defeating.
Keywords: absolute generality, generality relativism, indefinite extensibility, expansionism.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 163-174
Alfredo TOMASETTA (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele): Counting Possibilia

Williamson has presented a short argument for the existence of merely possible objects (MPOs): MPOs are required to make sense of some counting questions regarding artifacts. I claim that one can avoid reference and ontological commitment to MPOs by using the notions of 'rule of an art' and 'possible world'.
Keywords: Williamson, merely possible object, possible world, rule, artifact.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 175-185
Fiora SALIS (University of Barcelona):  Fictional Names

Against standard descriptivist and referentialist semantics for fictional reports, I will defend a view according to which fictional names do not refer yet they can be distinguished from one another by virtue of their different name-using practices. The logical structures of sentences containing fictional names inherit these distinctions. Different interpretations follow.
Keywords: fictional reports, fictional names, sententialism, interpreted logical forms, gappy propositions, name using practices.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 187-196
Marta JORBA (University of Barcelona):  Is There A Specific Experience of Thinking?

I defend the claim that there is specific phenomenality for some thinking mental states. First I present Husserl's theory of intentionality in the Logical Investigations as a way to approach it and I consider its assumptions. Then I present the phenomenal contrast argument and I defend it against two objections.
Keywords: cognitive experience, sensory experience, intenrionality, phenomenal consciousness.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 197-209 
Marc ARTIGA (University of Girona): Learning and Selection Processes

In this paper I defend a teleological explanation of normativity, i. e., I argue that what an organism (or device) is supposed to do is determined by its etiological function. In particular, I present a teleological account of die normativity that arises in learning processes, and I defend it from some objections.
Keywords: normativity, function, selection, learning, operant conditioning.

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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 211-224
Miroslav IMBRISEVIC (University of London): The Consent Solution to Punishment and the Explicit Denial Objection

David Boonin raises the 'explicit denial objection' against Carlos Nino's 'Consensual Theory of Punishment'. I will defend Nino against this objection. Further, for Nino the legal-normative consequences of an act (of crime) are 'irrevocable', i.e. a denial of liability cannot succeed. I will suggest an explanation for Nino's irrevocability claim.
Keywords: Carlos S. Nino, consensual theory of punishment, explicit denial objection, tacit consent, irrevocability.

ARTICLES     --------------------------------------------------

UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 227-241
Larrie D. FERREIRO (Catholic University of America): The Aristotelian Heritage in Early Naval Architecture, From the Verdee Arsenal to the French Navy, 1500-1700

This paper examines the Aristotelian roots of the mechanics of naval architecture, beginning with Mechanical Problems, through its various interpretations by Renaissance mathematicians including Vettor Fausto and Galileo at the Venice Arsenal, and culminating in the first synthetic works of naval architecture by the French navy professor Paul Hoste at the end of the seventeenth century.
Keywords: naval architecture; Aristotle; Archimedes; mechanics.

BOOK REVIEWS      --------------------------

Mario Casanueva y Bernardo Bolaños (coords.)(2009): El giro pictórico. Epistemología de la imagen (José Ramón MARCAIDA), Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 245-247

Amparo Gómez y Antoni Fco. Canales (eds.)(2009): Ciencia y fascismo. La ciencia de posguerra española (Lino CAMPRUBÍ), Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68, 247-250

José Lázaro (2009): Vidas y muertes de Luis Martín Santos (Juan Carlos HERNÁNDEZ-CLEMENTE), Theoria, 2010, Vol. 25/2, N° 68 250-252.