José E. Muñoz-Negro, Juan F. Mula-Ponce, Josefa M. López-Pérez, José Pablo Martínez-Barbero, Jorge A. Cervilla Abstract: The object of study of Psychiatry is hybrid, that is, it is both natural and social. It combines the methods of natural Sciences and those of social Sciences. Currently, Psychiatry is the branch of Medicine where epistemological and hermeneutical conflicts are more than […]

Luis Ugalde 15 de Junio de 2018. La situación es tan grave y la crisis se acelera tanto cada día que ya no se puede hablar con eufemismos y en susurros para que el enfermo no se alarme. Es necesario que civiles y militares hablemos y discutamos abiertamente sobre la necesaria y rápida intervención quirúrgica […]

Whereas for many truths, truthmaker theory offers a plausible account, there are certain kinds of truths for which the theory seems less helpful: principally (though not exclusively) analytic truths. I argue that an augmentation of the usual idea of truthmakers can solve this problem. Moreover that once solved we are able to look afresh at the nature of mathematics, whether conceived as analytic or synthetic, necessary or contingent, and reduce the ontological options. I also argue that it was Quine’s reformulation of analyticity, deployed in place of the correct Leibniz-Wolff-Kant account, which led to his holistic account of knowledge and pragmatist account of scientific revisability.

The release of the U.S. National Security Strategy is a welcome document. Its objectives and priority actions are concise and comprehensive. However, its implementation toward the Western Hemisphere must be done in the spirit of cooperation and recognition of the sovereignty of the nations of Latin America. While the document only mentions specifically the Northern Triangle nations (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras), it must be remembered that other nations in the region are facing the same perils, such as Cuba and Venezuela. The inability or unwillingness to work together in the spirit of cooperation, interference in the internal affairs, and lack of respect for the sovereignty could further alienate the United States from Latin American nations, thus allowing U.S. enemies to interfere in the internal affairs of a region traditionally within the U.S. sphere of influence.

César Tinoco 15 de Junio de 2018. Philip Kotler es reconocido mundialmente como “padre” y la mayor autoridad del marketing moderno. De hecho, la organización de adiestramiento europea Management Centre Europe lo define como “el primer experto del mundo en la práctica estratégica de la comercialización”. En 1975 publicó un trabajo titulado “Una visión general […]

Diario El Universal Caracas 14/06/2018.-El Consejo Venezolano de Relaciones Internacionales (COVRI) recordó ayer en un comunicado, que el 18 de junio próximo es el día fijado por la Corte Internacional de Justicia para recibir a los representantes de los Gobiernos de Guyana y Venezuela, a petición de la diplomacia guyanesa. Tal como fue dispuesto por […]

A Norwegian research center has found that IQ test scores have plummeted over the past several decades in a remarkable reversal of the so-called Flynn effect, which says that people have grown progressively smarter in the past century. Previously, population intelligence quotients were known to have increased throughout most of the 20th century, a phenomenon commonly known as the Flynn effect named for New Zealand researcher James Robert Flynn, who discovered a rapid rise of IQ at a rate of about 3 points per decade. The brightening of the human mind has been attributed to several factors, such as better nutrition, healthcare, education and others. Flynn himself claimed decreasing IQ levels to be part of a global trend in a 2017 interview with Swedish magazine “Forskning & Framsteg (“Research & Progress”). Flynn argued that school education has become increasingly less demanding in many countries, pointing out that students spend less time doing homework and reading “thick” books.

Einstein Millán Arcia  13/06/2018. En artículo reciente [https://www.aporrea.org/energia/a264106.html] mostramos nuestra proyección sobre la producción esperada para el cierre de Mayo basada en “big data”, posicionándola en un rango entre 1.460 y 1.390 MBD. Dicha proyección resultó muy similar a los resultados reportados por OPEP de 1.533 Vs. 1.392 MBD (directo Vs. Secundario), con un error […]

The year 2012 was the 30th anniversary of William H. Riker’s modern classic Liberalism against populism (1982) and is marked by the present special issue. In this introduction, we seek to identify some core elements and evaluate the current status of the Rikerian research program and its empirical applications. Special attention is given to three phenomena and their possible empirical manifestations: The instability of social choice in the form of (1) the possibility of majority cycles, (2) the non-robustness of social choices given alternative voting methods, and (3) the possibility of various forms of manipulation of the decisions (heresthetics). These topics are then connected to the contributions to the current special issue

Ahiana Figueroa 12-06-2018. La casa de cambio Zoom inició este lunes sus operaciones con remesas familiares tras la autorización por parte del gobierno para recibir divisas de venezolanos que se encuentran en el exterior. De acuerdo a la información suministrada por el Grupo Zoom a través de su redes sociales, la tasa de cambio utilizada […]