DIÁNOIA

A Rereading of Creer, saber, conocer

Guillermo Hurtado — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I offer a rereading of Luis Villoro’s Creer, saber y conocer that highlights its main ideas, links it to the rest of Villoro’s work and places it in the history of Mexican and global philosophy.

Non-argumentative paralogisms in Lógica viva: false precision

José Seoane — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Uruguayan philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira published his main philosophical work in 1910: Lógica viva. In this work he presents a logical exploration program, its foundations and some of its applications. As part of them, he studies various paralogisms; These can be enhanced by appealing to a methodology that I called “model M”. Does this model manage to cover all the paralogisms proposed by Vaz? No. Other types of stereotyped errors are refractory to such treatment: I will call them non-argument paralogisms. For example, false precision. In this paper I will suggest an alternative model M* and apply it to the false precision

The Normativity of know-how: A defense of the framework of normative attitudes

José Giromini, Sofía Mondaca — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper discusses the normative aspects of know-how. Our purpose is twofold. First, we critically examine certain approaches to know-how that, influenced by phenomenological and embodied cognition theories, employ what we call an “experientialist” vocabulary. We argue that this vocabulary fails to capture certain crucial aspects of the normativity of know-how: the agency it involves, the distinctive generality of normative interactions, and the adjustment of actions to social standards. Second, we recommend the vocabulary of normative attitudes in order to accommodate these aspects, and we underline the complementarity between this framework and the “situated normativity” approach. In a pragmatist vein, we defend that skillful agents establish normative relations with the world by evaluating it through their actions.

Education and the cultivation of virtue for the progress of communities in Kant

Noelia Eva Quiroga — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I propose to elucidate in Kant’s mature practical philosophy the relevance of the cultivation of virtue and education for the progress of political and ethical communities, at the same time that I show it can be approached in an integrated way from the ethical-political parallel. First, I explain that the task and duty of human beings to carry out the end of the highest ethical and political good can be clarified in relation to the destiny of humanity. Then, I argue that the task of human beings lies in the cultivation of virtue, which is a duty that we might call ethical-political in the sense that the moral dispositions of individuals develop socially and serve communal ends. Finally, in an integrated view of the ethical-political parallel, I maintain that education is a necessary means to achieve the progress of communities.

Memories of Colonial Pasts: Dossier: Perspectives from the Philosophy of History. Introduction

Miriam Hernández Reyna — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The text presents a brief introduction to the Dossier: “Memories of colonial pasts: perspectives from the philosophy of history”, edited by Miriam Hernández Reyna.

Golden Calves: Perspectives on De-Monumentalization in Latin America

Isabel Piniella — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In connection with the wave of dismantling monuments in America and the magnetism of the figure of Christopher Columbus for the questioning of colonial memory, this text offers a reflection based on key notions of the debate such as heritage, memory, iconoclasm, archive and repertoire. It also questions the influence of our contemporary digital reality on the phenomenon of historical contestation. Given that the materiality of the monument offers different layers of temporality, I argue the possibility of turning the pedestal into a stage for intervention as an optimal strategy for the activation of critical memory, far from reverence or violence.

Identity and Memory. Decolonial Rewritings of History

Lola Yon-Dominguez — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common criticisms of the decolonial turn is that it presents essentialist and ahistorical views of identities. This essay addresses this issue by analyzing some fundamental texts of the decolonial current. On the one hand, I show that although the decolonial turn takes up the traditional
theme of Latin American identity, to label this thought as essentialist originates in a simplistic and homogenizing reading. On the other hand, my hypothesis is that the core issue lies in a “regime of historicity” (Hartog 2015), characterized by the prominence of the past in discourses on cultural identity.

Reinterpretations of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Mexico

Miriam Hernández Reyna, Julio Andrés Camarillo Quesada — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article addresses the reinterpretations of the colonial past initiated in Mexico at the end of the 1960s as expressed by the opposition between indigenous memory and ethnocidal History. From a perspective of critical studies on memory, we show that this resignification of the past was shaped by the concept of ethnocide, coined by a generation of critical anthropologists to describe colonialism as a crime of cultural destruction, a crime that was perpetuated by the ideologies of national homogeneity. We also clarify the premises that they assume, such as the equivalences between the Holocaust and colonialism. Then, we explore the emergence of the idea of indigenous memory that problematically assumes the survival of the pre-Hispanic past as a form of resistance to colonialism.

Neutralization of the Colonial Past in the Pathologization of Memories: The Case of the Algerian War

Sébastien Ledoux — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Memories of the colonial past of the Algerian War have undergone various developments in France since Algeria’s independence in 1962. Different groups structured specific relationships to this past, while the nation-state pursued a categorical policy devoid of historical narrative during the first decades, before opening up an official narrative as part of a general mutation of its narrative framework as well as its temporal plotting. This paper thus proposes a diachronic approach to these memories that pays attention to the experiences of time that they imbue and modify. Between colonialist finalism and the process of pathologization, these memories of the Algerian war illustrate the interplay of temporalities that refer to our presentist society.

The Foundation of the Nation of Haiti: Colonial Pasts as a Problem of the Present

Gabriel Martínez Saldívar — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Within the context of the discussions on decoloniality and the politics of memory, there is a distinct point of contention: earlier colonial eras seem to anachronistically endure and remain within the sovereign “postcolonial” nations through ever-recurring structures of domination, exploitation, and segregation. This article delves into the experience of the “colonial within the postcolonial” by positing the following questions: What understanding of the concept of “historical truth” supports colonial pasts as a problem of the present? And what phenomenological construal of the past and the present is at play in such a conception? By recurring to the foundation of the nation of Haiti and its revolution as an example, the article analyzes history as an ontological as well as an epistemological entity, i.e., history as occurrence and as knowledge or narration of the occurrence.

Sarah Abel, Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome

Vivette García Deister — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this critical review of Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome, I offer an intimate reading of author Sarah Abel’s analysis of the uses of ancestry tests in Brazil and the United States. I highlight the book’s methodological contribution (the comparative analysis of two very different national contexts) and emphasize the research findings in the context of a decade of work that has also addressed the social uses of DNA technologies and the discussions these uses raise around the racialization of identities and the anti-racist potential of genetic science. Finally, I note a minor criticism concerning the forensic application of genealogical evidence. This allows me to show other important avenues of inquiry that the book raises.

Mabel Alicia Campagnoli (ed.), Destellos de una biopolítica afirmativa. Andar y desandar las violencias contemporáneas

Esteban Rosenzweig — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Mabel Alicia Campagnoli (coord.), Destellos de una biopolítica afirmativa. Andar y desandar las violencias contemporáneas, Biblos, Buenos
Aires, 2023, 233 pp