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This paper examines the theoretical and methodological thesis of Georges Didi-Huberman in “Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art" The analysis model is based on Imre Lakatos' thesis on “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes", therefore the Freudian Didi-Huberman's proposal was evaluated against a mature science: the neo-Kantian iconology of Erwin Panofsky. Did Didi-Huberman propose a research program? After reviewing “Confronting Images" one realizes many of his criticisms on Panofsky, the iconology and Art History are not correctly argued. It also seeks to demonstrate how the proposal of Didi-Huberman is far from being a research program for Art History and closer to a lengthy philosophical reflection on the notions of art, existence (and feasibility) of a Science of Art and the human possibilities to interpret images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to provide some grounded criteria, based on principles from cognitive science and related theoretical positions, to address the concept of representation from a perspective that allows placing it in the context of knowledge construction processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the idea of reason as a constellation producer of knowledge and meaning is exposed under a gadamerian view. The aim is, with and from Hegel to overcome the dissociations found in the Kantian philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains the following three similarities between the thought of primatologist Frans de Waal and philosopher Mary Midgley: (a) rejection of Hobbesian contract theory, (b) emphasis on altruism in both the human and non-human animal realms as a basis for human ethics and (c) defense of anthropomorphism in observations of feelings and behavior in non-human animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we focus on Deleuze's interpretation of small perceptions in Leibniz's thought, as well as on the supposed abandon of this notion in Kant. In connection with the two issues we contend that the way both authors deal with them makes sense within the framework of the Enlightenment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops an outline of the close connection that, according to Leibniz's view, obtains between ontology and logic to the extent that the latter can be conceived as a replacement for the former. At the same time, the leibnizian views on logic as ontology is interpreted in the context of the 17th Century discussion about the status and structure of metaphysics as a philosophical discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we study the relationship between Leibniz's mechanics and his metaphysics of bodies from 1663 to 1676. In particular, we focus on the reduction of the nature of body from extension to motion and, likewise, the problem this thesis entails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of the German thinker G.W Leibniz in the philosophical scene in Costa Rica is the subject of this paper. With this purpose we have analyzed the 125 issues of the Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica so far published, where most of the local production devoted to the thought of the philosopher has appeared. We also include references to syllabi in the curriculum of the School of Philosophy and the Graduate Program in Philosophy in the University of Costa Rica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relationship between science, technology and women. Thus, it resorts to the history of science and gender as a theorethical instrument because it provides a new way to interrogate reality, visualizing new analytical categories in order to explain aspects of reality that had not been taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at determining the theoretical framework where a mass media hermeneutics can be developed from Heidegger's philosophical presumptions. The thesis proposed says that that theoretical framework represents the phenomenology of the space. Therefore, first it is exposed the meaning of "media". Then, the main concepts of the Dasein spatiality are presented. And, finally, two consequences about the relation between space and mass media from a narrative reading of the spatiality are extracted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains Giambattista Vico's idea of progress in The New Science. For Vico, progress in history consists of stages with patterns and ideal eternal history as a reference point. Progress in The New Science is not linear and irreversible, but general and cyclical, with room for declines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper concerns Baruj de Spinoza's theory of affections (=ethics) and liberty. The present contribution remarks the constructive character of spinozistic ethics and some difficulties intrinsic to the dutch philosopher's metaphysical theory of liberty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although this paper does not pretend to be a history of the Costa Rican Philosophical Association, it may be helpful in its reconstruction. Its aim is to reflect informally on the activities of the Association in these fifty years and to explore some possibilities for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When using history as a source of moral lessons, Glover assumes that his analysis is ethical in character and morally good. How to justify both assumptions is our aim in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reviews Marcusian thinking regarding Freudian psychoanalysis in two of its primary aspects: the critique of metapsychology and the hypothesis of subversive sexuality, both concerning their gnoseological and political validity in the present. Some reformulations stated by the author concerning Marxism and its description of the new forms of social conflict in advanced capitalism are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]