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Ignacio Ellacuría (1930—1989) Ignacio Ellacuría, a naturalized citizen of El Salvador, was born in Spain in 1930. He joined the Jesuits in 1947 and was quickly sent to El Salvador, where he lived and worked for the next forty-two years, except for periods when he was pursuing his education in Ecuador, Spain, and West Germany. He developed an important and novel contribution to Latin American
Humor The philosophical study of humor has been focused on the development of a satisfactory definition of humor, which until recently has been treated as roughly co-extensive with laughter. The main task is to develop an adequate theory of just what humor is. According to the standard analysis, humor theories can be classified into three neatly identifiable groups:incongruity, superiority, and relief theories. Incongruity theory is
Héraclite (fl. c. 500 avant notre ère) A Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE, Heraclitus criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience. He claims to announce an everlasting Word (Logos) according to which all things are one, dans un certain sens. Opposites are necessary for life, but they are unified in a system of balanced exchanges. The world itself
Supervenience and Mind This article is an informal introduction to the concept of supervenience and the role it plays in the philosophy of mind. It surveys some of the many ways the concept has been used to reveal the manner and degree to which mental phenomena depend on facts about our bodies and their physical features. Philosophers usually construe the supervenience relation as a relation
Constructivism in Metaphysics Although there is no canonical view of “Constructivism” within analytic metaphysics, here is a good starting definition: Constructivisme: Some existing entities are constructed by us in that they depend substantively on us. Constructivism is a broad view with many, more specific, iterations. Versions of Constructivism will vary depending on who does the constructing, par exemple, all humans, an ideal subject, certain groups.
Scientific Representation To many philosophers, our science is intended to represent reality. Par exemple, some philosophers of science would say Newton’s theory of gravity uses the theoretical terms ‘center of mass’ and ‘gravitational force’ in order to represent how a solar system of planets behaves—the changing positions and velocities of the planets but not their color changes. Toutefois, it is very difficult to give a