Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia
@drxl.bsky.social
Filósofo de la Ciencia de el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la UNAM y programador musical de Reactor 105, México
The traditional tiered analysis of arguments begins with the necessary conditions for something to count as an argument, then adds further requirements for logical validity, and may impose still further conditions for soundness or for dialectical and rhetorical aims.
Es claro que en la lógica formal no hay sujetos, ni individuales ni sociales, nada sobre su psicología, sus intereses, etc. Pero ¿se debe esto a que hemos abstraído estos aspectos del fenómeno lógico o porque le son externos?
Explosión es una regla lógica fundamental, pero NO da la forma de un buen argumento; su función es otra.
“Our reflexive response to the question of whether human behaviour is the product of nature or culture is typically ‘both’. But when concerned instead with specific human behaviours, that initial pluralism often defers to a naturalistic cause …” J R Miller 2026 academic.oup.com/analysis/art...
Tangles and Knots: A Response to Alva Noë’s The Entanglement
Alva Noë’s The Entanglement belongs among those remarkable writings that shepherd the reader along a path of insights so well curated that its most radical
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Some people think of logical rules as directives one ought to follow, even if one could choose not to – others think of them as constitutive of thought itself and in that sense, metaphysically necessary and neither optional nor enforceable. 🧵
The world of norms is as ontologically heterogenous as the world of facts, if not more so
The question of why we have the logical rules we have is very different from the more fundamental question of why we have logical rules at all in the first place!
The question of why we have the social rules we have is very different from the more fundamental question of why we have social rules at all!
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/02/c... BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post about an investigation by The Breach into a secret network set up by Canadian universities to crack down on prop-Palestine encampments and demonstrations
Canadian Universities Set Up Secret Network to Crack Down on Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrators
The Breach has published an illuminating article about the secret network that Canadian universities set up and surveillance in which they engaged to crack down on student pro-Palestine demonstrato…
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I know it is unfashionable to criticize the (yes, wonderful) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, yet it is hard not to remark that, for example, this entry has almost all its secondary references in English and only some in German. plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/
Gottlob Frege (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Joanna Luc, "Formalised Axiomatic Theories and Bourbaki’s Concept of Species of Set-Theoretical Structure", Journal of Philosophical Logic 55 (2026): 581-615 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Formalised Axiomatic Theories and Bourbaki’s Concept of Species of Set-Theoretical Structure - Journal of Philosophical Logic
This paper investigates Bourbaki’s concepts of set-theoretical structure and isomorphism. First, I introduce Bourbaki’s formalism in a modern guise. Second, I show that there is a one-to-one correspon...
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I resist the general tendency of academia to expect feminist analysis from women. It feels like a gendered sphere, separating women from all the other kinds of analysis. Also, documenting one’s disadvantage is a bummer. But if the material is such that a feminist critique is necessary, I'll do it.
One of the main points of Katherine Angel’s feminist work has been to remind us that emancipation and empowerment are different notions, and to argue that they cannot only diverge at times, but even – and more controversially – be at odds with each other.
¿Un silencio vale más que mil palabras? A menudo mejoramos el debate público si callamos theconversation.com/un-silencio-...
¿Un silencio vale más que mil palabras? A menudo mejoramos el debate público si callamos
Saber cuándo callarse no supone abandonar la deliberación pública. A menudo es la mejor forma de cuidarla y cuidarse.
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Does the use/mention distinction entail a generalized ambiguity in language?
Cognitivist theories of hypocrisy conceive it as either a sin of inconsistency or the unjustified belief of being an exception to a general (moral) rule;
Por lo que leo del trabajo de Pamela Villafaña, la tensión entre las concepciones semántica y sintáctica de validez lógica ya estaba presente entre los estoicos.
If you want to understand what a hermeneutic resource is, study the VHS/Beta conflict in the XXth Century
A study of 384,061 students in 52 countries (!) finds ~no relationship between social media use and wellbeing (life satisfaction [β = − 0.011], positive affect [β = 0.038], meaning in life [β = − 0.008]) H/t @oliverscottcurry.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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As of today, I have reviewed 145 manuscripts for academic journals
Me uno a los que andan 'descubriendo' a Paycheque. Bandota. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRl...
Heatwave (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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I am puzzled at people who think that there are ‘philosophical’ films, i.e., films that touch upon philosophical problems. All issues are philosophical and therefore every film, no matter how shallow or trite, deals with at least one major philosophical problem
"Medical assistance in dxing is discrimination not a solution to it." Gabrielle Peters
Lo único que me devolvería la fé en la humanidad es que todas esas playeras fueran piratas
When the debate is on whether to “expand our options or limit our options for combatting … injustice” (Colin R. Caret 2025), one must be very careful not to fall into the trap of thinking that the obvious answer is always to expand our options.
If in fact, P then there is no fact that not-P and therefore there is nothing to which the fact P would be related through negation. Therefore, there is also no hierarchy between P and not-P, for there is no not-P – and vice versa.
It would be a mistake to say that negation is a hierarchical relation between beings for it is not a relation at all! What-is-not is not related – by negation – to what-is since what-is-not is not and thus cannot be related neither to being nor to anything else.
