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“David Hume on Materialism”. During the 17th and 18th centuries, an intense debate concerning materialism took place. This paper aims to describe David Hume’s position within this debate. I claim that, even though Hume rejects substantialist metaphysics to focus on the study of perceptions, he defends a position concerning the relationship between mind and matter. However, this position is rather complex to reconstruct since it is not explicitly stated in the texts edited during Hume’s life. I propose to define it as a restricted materialism since, regarding the nature of mind, Hume discards both the materialist and the immaterialist positions; although concerning the causes of thought he comes close to materialist positions by using arguments based on experience and the analogy with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Some Reflections on the Ethical-legal Parallel in Kant's Religion". The aim of this paper is to contribute to understanding the ethical-legal parallel drawn in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. I will analyze the similarities, differences and the analogy among the ethical state of nature, the exeundum and the community, on the one side, and the juridical state of nature, the exeundum and the community, on the other. I will argue that moral progress, understood as overcoming radical evil, requires a complement between the ethical and legalpolitical spheres, given that each area provides a different approach and a different community solution within the same public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a study about the development of Edmund Husserl's empathy theory. It seeks to reconstruct two of the main milestones regarding the reflections on empathy as an intentional apprehensive experience of an alien subjectivity, from an interpretation of posthumous texts on intersubjectivity edited by Iso Kern in 1973 in volumes XIII, XIV and XV of Husserliana. The first milestone is the discussion from the early 1900s Husserl engages with, on the one hand, in relation to the theory of inference by analogy of Benno Erdmann - originally formulated by John Sturart Mill - and, on the other hand, in relation to the theory of empathy as an instinct of imitation and expression of Theodor Lipps. The second is the reworking of the concept of empathy based on genetic phenomenology and the discovery of passive synthesis based on the cogitative acts of the ego. I maintain in this work that these two milestones of Husserlian thought regarding intersubjectivity are not completely unlinked: the notions of analogy and non-yoician operations, so important in the second period, were already present in their own way in the critical interpretation of theories from Erdmann/Mill and Lipps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from Descola's ideas (Par-délà Nature et Culture: 2005), we make a comparison between an analogic system, the Nahuas from Mexico, and the systems from the Northwest Amazon that create problems in the classification because —altough described as animists— they resemble the analogists ones. Our main goal is to find out what kind of systems could be generated by the different modes of identification, and if these configurations can explain these similarities. After underlying their logic components, we describe the systems that organise them. Although both of them —the Nahuas and the Northwest Amazon— have the ideas of circular causality, an order organising the relationships between the components of the world, the notion that individual actions dangerously affect the whole, these would be just surface effects from systems whose components are too closely related. Even though there is a difference of intensity between both configurations, the harder version would be the Nahuas —one system, components below the level of individuality, idea of balance— and the softer one the Northwest Amazon-system and subsystems, components at the level of individuality, idea of stability—. We believe this difference of intensity is based on their difference in theirs modes of identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]