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The present paper offers an approach to the mature thought of Ignacio Ellacuría Beascoechea (1930-1989), focusing on the fundamental categories of historical reality and praxis, and highlighting the importance of integrating different disciplinary perspectives in order to understand reality and overcome ideologization. In this sense, focusing on the relationship between philosophy and theology, it is proposed that Ellacuría resolves the conflict of disciplinary hierarchization and emphasizes the need for a methodological and epistemological balance that allows enriching the concepts and promoting a dialogue with implications in the transformation of society that overcomes the depletion of different knowledges and promotes an ecology of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a reading of the philosophical thought of Ignacio Ellacuría, from the Zubirian influence and the diagnosis made by this author of the dehumanizing condition that affected the popular majorities in El Salvador. Firstly, under the scope of some fundamental characterizations about its notion of historical reality, based on the Zubirian anthropological conception. Secondly, we will argue in favor of the realization of the sense of this reality in the process of humanization. And lastly, we will propose the minimum conditions for the politicization of this historical reality based on the process of humanization in the thought of Ignacio Ellacuría. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophical discussions on cognition (ranging from computational and representational approaches to the 4E framework), on the one hand, and those on sound and auditory perception, on the other, have hitherto remained apart. In this paper, the author addresses the concept of "auditory cognition". While committing to the conceptual analysis of the latter, the author introduces the discussion of modality-specific approaches. Since the contributions made so far in the domain of the philosophy of sound and auditory perception are prone to favor computational-representational approaches --e.g., the perceptual coherence model (Méndez-Martínez, 2022)--, the exploration of 4E possibilities will lay down a series of questions aimed to encourage future developers from that viewpoint. In that sense, the author explores conceptual entailments and connections between the genealogy of theories within the philosophy of sound and auditory perception, and the hypothesis of the extended cognition (EX). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an introduction to dynamic epistemic logic through some formal systems that allow to represent knowledge and beliefs of one or more agents, as well as epistemic actions that can modify them. Specifically, we present the public announcements logic, action models and plausibility models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines two alleged limitations in the use of formal languages: on the one hand, the trade-offs between expressive and inferential power, and on the other, the phenomenon of system imprisonment. After reconceptualizing the issue, we consider the role played by modality in the understanding of certain aspects of mathematical structures, and argue for its centrality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of "logical pluralism" is usually understood as the idea that there are two or more correct logics. But in some areas of logical practice, such as the solution of semantic paradoxes, the notion of correctness does not play such a fundamental role. In this paper I describe a different version of logical pluralism, which can be more adequately applied to these problematic disputes. According to this approach, logic (as a science) establishes the rules for accepting logical theories, while logicians can contribute by offering new, original, and technically solid approaches. This can be seen as a Carnapian pluralism, where everyone is free to build their own logic, as far as it follows some methodological rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the conditions in which the categories prescribe laws of understanding and how they are conceived as existing in what is thought. Kant formulates the legal prescriptive character of the categories, their aprioristic character, and their status as a form of thought and a pure concept, opening the possibility of granting them general content as absolute concepts (Hegel) or as an expression of reality (Marx). Categories govern the empirical, magical-religious, artistic, or theoretical appropriation of objects and phenomena. Categorical thought stripped of concepts was formulated and called theoretical reason by Kant, Hegel longs to think with concepts, and Marx builds pure categorical theoretical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach is described, and some criticisms against it are analysed with some level of depth. The main argument is that Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach remains influential and authoritative, among other reasons, because the most vigorous criticisms against it have not been uncontested, and because it draws important lessons as to how to understand philosophical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the purpose of discussing the imaginary quality of the future. The dominant, residual, and emerging imaginaries of the future are analyzed as internalized control devices, as well as their functions. This configuration reflects, in the light of new ways of understanding, the impact that the future has on the present and the past. It provides reflective elements to deepen the understanding of the scope of the imaginary/device in our lives. And the coexistence of various imaginaries of the future that shape not only our future but also our present and the configuration of the past. Its relevance lies in the need to think about the future from sociocultural categories that allow us to understand its relationship with the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines in-depth the root causes and consequences of Mexican forced displacement from a decolonial feminist perspective, emphasizing the intersections between the body and territory. The absence of quantitative and qualitative data on internal forced displacement in Mexico erases people and communities from the territory, making them invisible along the migratory routes and making them disappear on the map of contemporary geographies of terror. In this article, we focus on the embodied experiences of women, drawing upon extensive multi-sited binational research along the Mexico-US border. Their testimonies allow an understanding of forced displacement beyond passive and re-victimizing narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze, from an inclusive epidemiological approach, the problem of current violence in our country and in Morelos, as a relational and multi-causal phenomenon that results in damage and death that are avoidable, processes that configure spaces of pain and suffering. From the analysis of two life narratives, official statistical data, journalistic notes and academic articles, some causes and effects associated with violence are identified, which have been made invisible and unattended by the authorities, evidencing the absence of effective public policies for solving this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the reflections of a high school visual impairment student about his escolar experience through the Photo-Voice technique. It is a case study that analyzes four sessions where semi-structured interview scripts were used. The participant was a first-year regular high school student of an inland municipality from São Paulo in Brazil. The principal results show the effectiveness of the Photo-Voice technique to promote reflections and to motivate the participation of the students through their own stories; with them, the student shows interest in being changing's agents for himself and his community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper explores the new narratives around the experience of illness, acording to the movement of people with disabling chronic illneses. This article is divided into four different moments. The first one presente a description of the disabling chronic illneses, the second one offers some notes about the moral and capitalistic assumptions that have shaped the experience of illness. The third section focuses on disability as a mechanism for the territorialization and entrapment of the experience of illness. The four and last moment exposes a quick panoramic of the starting points for ill movement. We conclude that ill militancy achieves to build a narrative and experience of illness that come together as part of an anticapitalistic and antiableist praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The abolition of slavery in the Americas in the 19th century was understood as a "moral" and "civilizing" transformation of the nascent republics. Critical historiography shows that it was an economic mechanism that contributed to the accumulation of capital, which clandestinely maintained modalities of transatlantic traffic until the 20th century. Elements of work without freedom can be found today in the labor routes of migrants in Chile. Using qualitative methodologies, we show how the work of migrants is tied to obtaining and keeping "identity papers" and to the racialization of their labor relations. We conclude that unfree labor for migrants is defined by dependence, violence and racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is focuse on the theoretical articulation between the pimp system and the basic structure of sexual slavery, and is the result from the research of rural pimps in Tlaxcala, Mexico. It starts with the Hegelian proposal of the master-slave dialectic to discuss with other theoretical perspectives, mainly feminist, to propose the concept of the basic structure of sexual slavery. The analysis will make it possible to identify the characteristics of the new slavery by understanding the pimping process that took place in the southern area of Tlaxcala. It is concluded that the sexual slavery system adapts to local cultural practices, such as bride theft, to transform them in benefit of the pimp system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]