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The historical dimension of all social knowledge, and why not say it, of the most important natural theories, such as those that refer to the origin of the universe, to the evolution of living organisms, and to life on our planet, makes the question…
Bruce, Beatriz

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Abstract:This paper shows how Einstein had to modify concepts considered fixed (inertial mass, gravitational mass, and gravity) in order for a series of new experimental facts, which did not fit within Newton’s paradigm, to be integrated into a…
Bass, Alfredo

Position: 1462 (9 views)

Epistemology claims for itself the condition of being a philosophical discipline that directs its reflection toward a special form of knowledge. As a form of radical thought, it should examine the hypotheses that it takes as supporting points, making…
Bruce, Beatriz

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In his Novum Organum Francis Bacon tried to build a method of discovery, a logic «to create and increase knowledge». However, the inductive strategies developed there seem to be strategies of evaluation rather than of discovery, to the point that…
Menna, Sergio

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A problem that cannot be avoided in most of the problems related to epistemology and semantics is that of relativism. Through spontaneous observation we verify the existence of different social and cultural groups, that possess their particular way…
Sosa, Rosario

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The growth of a scientific discipline, the discovery of new phenomena and new interrelations, leads to the development of a specialized conceptual system with an increasing degree of abstraction. The presence of non-observational terms in these…
Santillán, Miguel Ángel

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In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the phenomenon of poverty has shown extensive and intensive growth.
On one hand, there are more and more people who have less, and on the other hand, there are new sectors added to this category who…
Scribano, Adrián

Position: 859 (12 views)

This paper approaches hermeneutics from a scopic perspective, that is to say, in terms of what hermeneutics conveys as the manifestation or showing of the self and the world.
It has a paradoxical behavior because, at the same time, it manifests,…
Guerci de Siufi, Beatriz

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This article analyzes student participation in university classes from the students’ own perspective and examines the reasons underlying frequent or limited classroom involvement. The study was conducted with 151 students enrolled in different degree…
Rinaudo, María Cristina

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This article analyzes university students’ perceptions of the assessment of their learning. It first presents a theoretical synthesis organized around six dimensions: what assessment is, what should be assessed, how and when it should be conducted,…
Porto Currás, Mónica

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We understand professional development as something more than a plan for continuing education, although the latter is a determining factor in professional development. Likewise, we believe that responsibility for continuing education at the…
de la Serna, Manuel Cebrián

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This article proposes preliminary guidelines for constructing a general history of the Latin American university based on the substantial body of existing sectoral research. Such a history should account for both shared features and regional, local,…
Lértora Mendoza, Celina A.

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This article examines the contemporary situation of philosophy within a context marked by the cultural, cognitive, and social fragmentation associated with postmodernity. This transformation affects both the traditional unity of the philosophical…
Lértora Mendoza, Celina A.

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Today virtual reality, among other things, appears as one of the pathological forms of utopia, which in turn reinforces the weight of the anomalous forms of ideology. Some examples of the culture of Tucumán offer a clear testimony of the influence of…
Maidana, Susana

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This article reviews some of Clifford Geertz’s central contributions to interpretive anthropology and examines the epistemological assumptions underlying several chapters of The Interpretation of Cultures. It first considers the importance attributed…
Zoppi, Ana María

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