¿Pensar? ¿Abstractamente? –Sauve qui peut! ¡Sálvese quien pueda! Ya escucho exclamar a uno de los traidores comprados por el enemigo, pregonando que este ensayo será un discurso de metafísica. Pues “metafísica” es la palabra, al igual que “abstracto” y casi también “pensar”, de la que todo el mundo huye más o menos como de alguien atacado por la peste.

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo retomar la temática expuesta por Martín Heidegger, en su artículo “El concepto hegeliano de experiencia”, para rescatar sus reflexiones en el campo de la ontología. Se busca abrir nuevamente la discusión en un mundo metafísico donde se consolida lo que el autor llama “la imagen del mundo”, y donde se considera esta, erróneamente, como la única forma de enfrentarse y apoderarse de la realidad.

Our century has unprecedented new challenges, which need creative solutions and deep thinking. Contemplative, deep thinking became an “endangered species” in our rushing world of Tweets, elevator pitches and fast decisions. Here we describe that important aspects of both creativity and deep thinking can be understood as network phenomena of conceptual and social networks. “Creative nodes” occupy highly dynamic, boundary spanning positions in social networks. Creative thinking requires alternating plasticity-dominated and rigidity-dominated mindsets, which can be helped by dynamically changing social network structures. In the closing section we present three case studies which demonstrate the applications of the concept in the Hungarian research student movement, the Hungarian Templeton Program and the Youth Platform of the European Talent Support Network.

This paper analyzes the use of kinship categories to refer to personified (hypostasized) concepts in Ancient Greek literature, with particular emphasis on Pindar. This device serves to include an abstract concept within a genealogy that is dominated by divinities or quasi-religious entities. Comparing the use of this device in Hesiod, Plato, and Pindar, I suggest that, before the emergence of properly analytic categories within the philosophical discourse, genealogical metaphor served as the most important means of concept formation available to Ancient Greeks. In particular, Pindar’s use of genealogical metaphors points to a productive encounter between image and concept. In this context, I review the neglected work of the Soviet Classicist Olga Freidenberg, who put forward a theory of poetic metaphor as a transitional phenomenon between mythological image and philosophical concept

In the article ‘Ordinal Logics and the Characterizations of the Informal Concept of Proof’, Georg Kreisel poses the problem of assigning unique notations to recursive ordinals, and additionally suggests that the methods which are developed for its solution will be non-constructive in character. In this paper we develop methods in which various uniqueness results for notations of recursive ordinals can be obtained, and thereafter apply these results to investigate the problems surrounding the hierarchical classification of the computable functions.

One of the biggest indicators that one is reading propaganda from the deep state is that the government’s lies are not being called »lies» (unless the deep state is losing control over the government, which rarely happens). Instead, they are called by such phrases as ‘failures of intelligence’. But what about when the people who control the government misrepresent what their ‘intelligence’ actually shows and doesn’t show? Lying is attributed, in the ‘news’ media, only to the aristocracy’s enemies. After all: the aristocracy’s enemies can be acknowledged to exist, even if the existence of an aristocracy isn’t being acknowledged.

We introduce The Fabric of the Universe, an art and science collaboration focused on exploring the cosmic web of dark matter with unconventional techniques and materials. We discuss two of our projects in detail. First, we describe a pipeline for translating three-dimensional density structures from N-body simulations into solid surfaces suitable for 3D printing, and present prints of a cosmological volume and of the infall region around a massive cluster halo. In these models, we discover wall-like features that are invisible in two-dimensional projections. Going beyond the sheer visualization of simulation data, we undertake an exploration of the cosmic web as a three-dimensional woven textile.

Deirdre McCloskey has now completed the third (and final?) volume of her trilogy on how the West (from 1800 to 1950) and most of the rest of the world (from 1900 to 2015) grew rich. The message of all three volumes is spelled out in the subtitle: “How ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world”.

A enero de 2017 aún no se tiene ninguna cifra concreta de la inflación acaecida en el año 2016, ni siquiera la de los primeros meses. Aunque todas las estimaciones concluyen que el año 2016 fue más negativo que el 2015, aún no se sabe cuánto más decreció la economía. Como boom noticioso se ha propagado una supuesta filtración de cifras preliminares del Banco Central de Venezuela.Reuters comenta que tuvo acceso a documentos donde se cuelan cifras que indican que el PIB cayó en 18,6 %, la inflación fue de 799 % y las importaciones se desplomaron en un 52 %. En la epidermis de tan tremebundo panorama se observa un desastre monetario nunca antes visto, impulsado por una serie de medidas monetarias peculiares. De ello hablaremos de manera sucinta en este escrito.

En este artículo se presenta una interpretación de las tesis fundamentales de Hegel en la Fenomenología del Espíritu acerca de la relación entre tiempo, historia y filosofía especulativa o ciencia. Para Hegel la formación de la conciencia individual hacia la ciencia se conecta con la historia universal, y el concepto de la historia es inseparable del concepto del espíritu. Se distinguen los distintos sentidos del tiempo en la Fenomenología, para centrar la atención principalmente en uno de ellos, que corresponde a la organización fenomenológico-conceptual de la historia. Finalmente, se ofrece una reflexión sobre la cuestión más general de la relación entre filosofía y temporalidad desde una perspectiva actual.