Alejandro Vázquez M.
@tormentas.bsky.social
Empiricist in recovery, working on applied epistemology and cognitive diversity. UNAM, Mexico City. https://unam.academia.edu/vazquezdelmercado
New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...
Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press
In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP
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Alejandro Vázquez M.@tormentas.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf you think Chomsky gets burned in the Epstein files, wait until you read @tonychemero.bsky.social (2009) on the poverty of stimulus argument.
If you think Chomsky gets burned in the Epstein files, wait until you read @tonychemero.bsky.social (2009) on the poverty of stimulus argument.
To be complety honest, I don't miss the days when the US pretended wars to be about human rights and democracy.
This week, we welcome Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado, Professor of Philosophy at UNAM, to present a piece on Bereavement and Epistemic Functionality. Introducing the particular epistemic disruptions that may occur in the process of bereavement. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....
I just made the experiment of taking out the word "enactive" and its cognates from an enactivist analysis of medical practice via an ethnography, and everything just equally made sense. So maybe we don't have to commit to a specific view of cognition to do good interpretative social science?
CFP: Reimagining Social Epistemology - Methodological Reassessments and Future Prospects (Special Issue of Crítica in memory of Alvin I. Goldman) Please feel free to send your queries here or with @angeleserana.bsky.social
Reimagining Social Epistemology: Methodological Reassessments and Future Prospects (Special Issue of Crítica in memory of Alvin I. Goldman)
Since the publication of Alvin Goldman’s (1999) Knowledge in a Social World, social epistemology has undergone remarkable growth and innovation, establishing itself as a dynamic and influential ...
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Dirían que el Frege de Dummett hizo más mal que bien?
Often "collegiality" is the customer-friendly word for risk minimization.
The usual fans of pop-science rarely engage with explorations of contingency, cooperation, relationality, and system-level emergence.
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Vladimir STOP! would be a great name for a punk band.
"America is finding out the hard way that much of its government is based on tradition and the honor system, and not explicit laws." -Garry Kasparov, 2017
La Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Analítica organiza cada dos años una Escuela con profesores invitados de distintos países latinoamericanos. Este año será en México. Acá la convocatoria👇 y aquí el micrositio con la información: www.filosoficas.unam.mx/Escuela-ALFA...
"Elon Musk doesn't sell cars, he sells a science fiction fantasy of unlimited growth" -Adam Conover
With the right policies, there is no such thing as bad immigration. (But there can be bad emigration).
widely acclaimed film that you hate / widely derided film that you like
It's crazy how the favorite songs of a 76 year old person who's trained in classical music and who's had a unique life --traveling around the world, meeting a crazy list of VIPs-- are pretty much taken from the Billboard top 40. He really is the most boring human alive.
Am I missing anything major if I list the US sphere as NATO, MNNA, Latam, the Quad & the Sunni countries?
I feel like I won't like Balatro that much, even though I like poker and sort of liked (but not became hooked on) Slay the Spire, the only turned base roguelike I've ever played. It sounds unappealing on paper. Still, I'm afraid to try it because I've heard of folks getting really obsessed.
The naiveté of an academic philosopher (Paul Weiss) --fun fact, he was Rorty's advisor-- when confronted with a writer + activist (James Baldwin)
I Am Not Your Negro | James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show | Netflix
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