Catholic Portuguese University, Regional Center at Braga – To What Extent Does So-called “Liberation Ethics” Deliver Us from Violence?

On Friday, November 18, 2005, I participate in the International Congress “Pessoa & Sociedade: Perspectivas para o Século XXI” organized by the Centro de Estudos Filosóficos de la Facultade de Filosofia del Centro Regional de Braga de la Universidade Católica Portuguesa and held in Braga (Portugal) with the paper To What Extent Does So-called “Liberation […]

Pirouettes between transcendence and immanence: notes on the ethics of early Wittgenstein.

On Friday, October 21, 2005, I speak on Pirouettes between transcendence and immanence: notes on the ethics of early Wittgenstein, at the V Jornadas de Diálogo Filosófico: “Religion and Person” organized by the Philosophy School, the Teaching School Luis Vives and the Iberian-American Institute of Thought of the Pontifical University of Salamanca and by the […]

Rites as freedom: towards a postmodern interpretation of magical and symbolic rituals

On Tuesday, September 27, 2005, I give the paper Rites as freedom: towards a postmodern interpretation of magical and symbolic rituals, at the Colloquium on Analogical Hermeneutics organized by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science and Theory and History of Education of the University of Valladolid. This Colloquium is held in Valladolid.

Language/Violence

On Wednesday, November 17, 2004, I present the paper Language/violence, at the XIV Congress of the Spanish Association of Ethics and Political Philosophy: “Violence: an ethical-political analysis”, organized by the University of Seville and the Spanish Association of Ethics and Political Philosophy and held in Seville.

Conceptual schemes and problems of the application of concepts

On Friday, November 12, 2004, I speak about Conceptual schemes and problems of the application of concepts, at the XX Congress of the Castilian-Leonese Society of Philosophy: “Critical revision of the concept of reason. In the second centenary of Kant’s death”, organized by the Sociedad Castellano-Leonesa de Filosofía and the University of Salamanca and held […]

Machines as symbols: Kant, Wittgenstein and the dispositionalist thesis on normativity

On Thursday, October 14, 2004, I present the paper Machines as symbols: Kant, Wittgenstein and the dispositionalist thesis on normativity, at the II International Symposium of the Instituto de Pensamiento Iberoamericano “Actualidad de Kant y su presencia en el mundo iberoamericano. Razón y experiencia”, organized by the Instituto de Pensamiento Iberoamericano and the Faculty of […]