GRAMMAR OVERCOMING SOCIAL CONFLICT IN AXEL HONNETH’S THOUGHT

Social conflict

Numerous approaches in the social sciences either refuse to consider or minimize the importance of conflict in community, or else replace it with a Spencerian vision of the social struggle. Between these two extremes there is considerable space for us to consider conflict as a relationship; this is what differentiates it from modes of behaviour involving war and rupture. Sociology suggests diff...

Axel Gelfert

The present paper argues for a more complete integration between recent „genealogical‟ approaches to the problem of knowledge and evolutionary accounts of the development of human cognitive capacities and practices. A structural tension is pointed out between, on the one hand, the fact that the explicandum of genealogical stories is a specifically human trait and, on the other hand, the tacit a...

Overcoming of Metaphysics: Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant's Thought and the Problem of Metaphysics

Bayesian selection of grammar productions for the language of thought

1 Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2 CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación (ICC). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3 CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Cálculo (IC). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4 Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM...

Language and thought: Does grammar makes us smart?

Many philosophers and psychologists believe that only people with rich language skills are capable of abstract reasoning. A man with a severe linguistic impairment poses a striking challenge to this view.