Journals
Journal:
FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
ISSN:
1572-8471
Year:
2022
Vol.:
27
N°:
1
pp.
77 - 94
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) stands out as one of the most promising theories for dealing with the hard problem of consciousness. Founded on five axioms derived from phenomenology, IIT seeks for the physical substrate of consciousness that complies with such axioms according to the criterion of maximally integrated information (phi). Eventually, IIT identifies phenomenal consciousness with maximal phi or, what is the same thing, with the strongest cause-effect power in the system. Among the scholars critical of this theory, some point to the so-called Intrinsicality Problem (IP), namely that consciousness cannot be an intrinsic property of the system because maximal phi crucially depends on the possible existence of bigger values of phi if the initial system is appropriately linked to or embedded in larger systems. Although proposals in the recent literature aim to solve the IP by going beyond reductionism and physicalism, none of them tackle the real issue, i.e., the insufficiency of IIT's causal-metaphysical structure. This papers endeavors to provide a solution to the IP in IIT within a hylomorphist ontology that includes formal causation. Complementing IIT with formal causation provides the theory with a criterion of individuation that solves the IP and, by relaxing identification between maximal phi and consciousness, it lends a more robust metaphysical structure. To wit, maximal phi is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness.
Journal:
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
ISSN:
1841-0464
Year:
2022
Vol.:
18
N°:
6
pp.
113 - 128
Current discussions on the philosophy of Nature hinge on the concept of emergence. Such a concept has long succeeded in the Life sciences and is increasingly receiving the focus of Physics and Philosophy of Physics alike. Remarkably enough, even for basic scientists, there is no agreement on whether emergence should be considered fundamental (ontological) or just an elegant and more straightforward (epistemic) way of referring to complex arrangements of basic stuff. In this paper: (1) I evince said disagreement by confronting two distinguished approaches, namely Bishop and Ellis¿s, and Sean Carroll¿s. (2) I intend to move beyond the loggerheads by supporting ontological emergence as a widespread feature in Nature. I invoke Penrose¿s argument of functional freedom as an epistemic hint for ontological emergence, i.e. the necessary recourse to additional - apparently non-fundamental - criteria to justify the coarse-graining of finer, lower levels into coarser, higher levels in Nature. Said move, if understood in keeping with a minimum scientific realism, points towards a different kind of causality at work in the universe, classically referred to as formal causation. (3) Once ontological emergence is naturalized, one can frame the emergence of immaterial knowledge as an ontological apex - dubbed ultimate emergence - that reverses the trend of coarse-graining.
Journal:
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES
ISSN:
1355-8250
Year:
2022
Vol.:
29
N°:
1-2
pp.
56 - 78
Integrated information theory (IIT) stands out as one of the most promising approaches to scientifically understand the emergence of consciousness. Even if it borrows from the phenomenology of consciousness to derive its axiomatic formulation, IIT does not initially adhere to any particular ontological position. However, its founder leans towards panpsychism. More recently, Owen has studied the pros and cons of different ontologies as a metaphysical basis for IIT, defending a hylomorphic stance where en-grounding, en-forming relations gain the upper hand in the causal narrative. This paper aims at (1) complementing Owen's work by invoking additional arguments against physicalist IIT, both reductive and non-reductive; and (2) improving Owen's characterization of non-physicalist causality through a `nested' version of hylomorphism that avoids the combination problem of panpsychism.
Journal:
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
ISSN:
0140-525X
Year:
2022
Vol.:
45
pp.
E207
Bruineberg et al. underestimate the ontological weight of Markov blankets as actual boundaries of systems and lean toward an instrumentalist understanding thereof. Yet Markov blankets need not be deemed mere tools. Determining their reality depends on the fundamental problem of distinguishing between system and environment in physics, which, in turn, demands a metaphysical bedrock backed by a realist stance on science.
Journal:
THE CONVERSATION
ISSN:
2201-5639
El científico británico utilizó sus investigaciones como un medio para entender la creación divina.
Journal:
ENTROPY
ISSN:
1099-4300
Year:
2021
Vol.:
23
N°:
2
pp.
238
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is currently one of the most promising frameworks with which to address a unified explanation of life-related phenomena. With powerful formalism that embeds a small set of assumptions, it purports to deal with complex adaptive dynamics ranging from barely unicellular organisms to complex cultural manifestations. The FEP has received increased attention in disciplines that study life, including some critique regarding its overall explanatory power and its true potential as a grand unifying theory (GUT). Recently, FEP theorists presented a contribution with the main tenets of their framework, together with possible philosophical interpretations, which lean towards so-called Markovian Monism (MM). The present paper assumes some of the abovementioned critiques, rejects the arguments advanced to invalidate the FEP's potential to be a GUT, and overcomes criticism thereof by reviewing FEP theorists' newly minted metaphysical commitment, namely MM. Specifically, it shows that this philosophical interpretation of the FEP argues circularly and only delivers what it initially assumes, i.e., a dual information geometry that allegedly explains epistemic access to the world based on prior dual assumptions. The origin of this circularity can be traced back to a physical description contingent on relative system-environment separation. However, the FEP itself is not committed to MM, and as a scientific theory it delivers more than what it assumes, serving as a
Journal:
ACTA PHILOSOPHICA
ISSN:
1121-2179
Year:
2019
Vol.:
28
N°:
2
pp.
375 - 378
Journal:
ZYGON
ISSN:
0591-2385
Year:
2019
Vol.:
54
N°:
2
pp.
543 - 545
Reseña de Rovelli, Carlo. The Order of Time. Editor: New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2018.
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2019
Vol.:
51
N°:
1
pp.
268 - 270
Reseña de Hernando José BELLO RODRÍGUEZ y José Manuel GIMÉNEZ AMAYA, Valoración ética de la modernidad según Alasdair MacIntyre, Pamplona: Eunsa («Astrolabio, Serie Antropología y Ética»), 2018, 208 pp., 11 x 18, ISBN 978-84-313-3284-6.
Journal:
FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
ISSN:
1233-1821
Year:
2019
Vol.:
24
N°:
2
pp.
275 - 285
Journal:
FRONTERASCTR
ISSN:
2530-657X
El compatibilismo afirma que el libre albedrío es compatible con el determinismo. Para el "compatibilismo de las bifurcaciones" pertenece a la esencia de la libertad "poder actuar de otra manera", mientras que para el "compatibilismo de la fontalidad" resulta decisiva la ultimidad del agente como fuente de control. Ahora bien, dadas dos partículas con entrelazamiento EPR, la medición de una variable en una de ellas determina instantáneamente el valor de dicha variable en la otra. Experimentos recientes hacen finalmente insostenibles explicaciones basadas en variables ocultas locales: o la naturaleza está ónticamente indeterminada o bien está determinada de modo global. El primer caso es incompatible con los dos compatibilismos y el segundo es incompatible con el "poder actuar de otra manera". Además, implicaría la existencia de variables ocultas no locales como fuente última de determinación, con longitudes de correlación típicas mayores que las del cuerpo humano: la acción no podría originarse en su interior. El compatibilismo, por tanto, debe ser rechazado
Journal:
AUSTRALASIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW
ISSN:
2474-0500
Year:
2018
Vol.:
2
N°:
2
pp.
209 - 213
We support the development of non-reductive cognitive science and the naturalization of phenomenology for this purpose, and we agree that the 'relational turn' defended by Gallagher is a necessary step in this direction. However, we believe that certain aspects of his relational concept of nature need clarification. In particular, Gallagher does not say whether or how teleology, affect, and other value-related properties of life and mind can be naturalized within this framework. In this paper, we argue that (1) given the phenomenological standards recognized by Gallagher, his commitment to a naturalized phenomenology should entail a commitment to a naturalized concept of value; and (2) the kind of 'relational nature' described by Gallagher in his paper is insufficient for this purpose
Journal:
REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS
ISSN:
0034-6632
Year:
2018
Vol.:
71
N°:
4
pp.
755 - 787
The philosopher Roberto Unger and the physicist Lee Smolin have recently argued that the current explanatory framework of cosmology, which presumes a timeless background of unchanging physical laws, should be replaced by a thoroughly relational framework in which time is fundamental and all laws are subject to change. Within this alternative framework, however, Unger and Smolin find themselves confronted by a dilemma: either the laws of nature evolve according to some higher set of ¿meta-laws,¿ which reinstates a timeless background at a higher level, or the laws of nature evolve randomly and the path of inquiry is blocked. In response to this dilemma, the authors propose a theory of causal events as singular, freely chosen, and self-determined optimalities constrained only by their intrinsic relations to all other events.
Journal:
FRONTERASCTR
ISSN:
2530-657X
Journal:
FORUM (ROMA. 2015)
ISSN:
2498-9746
Year:
2018
Vol.:
4
pp.
103 - 122
Thermodynamics developed as a new branch of physics in the 19th century helping to go beyond a purely mechanistic understanding of nature. Among its founding fathers, it is William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) who offers a most promising perspective in order to highlight the influence of religious views in the improvement of science. In this article, I will focus on the controversy about the age of the Earthwhich confronted Kelvin with many geologists and defenders of the theory of evolutionand I will explain the connections between Kelvins credo and his scientific attack on uniformitarianism. Kelvins contribution, even if ultimately proven wrong, was right in spirit and served the transition from qualitative to quantitative geology.
Journal:
ZYGON
ISSN:
0591-2385
Year:
2017
Vol.:
52
N°:
3
pp.
905 - 913
Journal:
PENSAMIENTO
ISSN:
0031-4749
Year:
2017
Vol.:
73
N°:
276
pp.
599-602
Journal:
ANUARIO FILOSOFICO
ISSN:
0066-5215
Year:
2017
Vol.:
50
N°:
3
pp.
601-617
¿Resulta estrictamente posible realizar una reducción epistemológica? La metodología científica reclama que se defina un contorno que separe el sistema del ¿extra-sistema¿. Pero ningún sistema define sus límites desde sí mismo: todo sistema necesita presupuestos extra-sistémicos definidos desde fuera del sistema. En este artículo ilustramos cómo diversas áreas del conocimiento presuponen la presencia de una realidad extra-sistémica que les dé significado: el conocimiento del ¿extra-sistema¿ es necesario para conocer el sistema.
Journal:
NEWMAN STUDIES JOURNAL
ISSN:
1547-9080
Year:
2016
Vol.:
13
N°:
2
pp.
40-52
Journal:
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
ISSN:
1841-0464
Year:
2016
Vol.:
12
N°:
1
pp.
17 - 37
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2015
Vol.:
47
N°:
2
pp.
556 - 557
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2015
Vol.:
47
N°:
2
pp.
534 - 535
Journal:
SCIENTIA ET FIDES
ISSN:
2300-7648
Year:
2015
Vol.:
3
N°:
1
pp.
7 - 9
Journal:
ACTA PHILOSOPHICA
ISSN:
1121-2179
Year:
2014
Vol.:
23
N°:
2
pp.
361 - 364
Journal:
ESSSAT-NEWS
ISSN:
1385-3473
Year:
2014
Vol.:
24
N°:
2 (June 2014)
pp.
28 - 31
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2014
Vol.:
46
N°:
2
pp.
279 - 305
Journal:
NATURALEZA Y LIBERTAD
ISSN:
2254-9668
Year:
2014
Vol.:
3
pp.
133 - 141
Journal:
NEUROQUANTOLOGY
ISSN:
1303-5150
Year:
2014
Vol.:
12
N°:
1
pp.
76 - 95
Journal:
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
ISSN:
1662-5161
Year:
2014
Vol.:
8
N°:
May
pp.
312/1-2
Journal:
SCIENTIA ET FIDES
ISSN:
2300-7648
Year:
2014
Vol.:
2
N°:
1
pp.
231 - 241
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2013
Vol.:
45
N°:
2
pp.
549 - 550
Journal:
STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA
ISSN:
1970-4879
Year:
2013
Vol.:
7
pp.
472-473
Journal:
SCIENTIA ET FIDES
ISSN:
2300-7648
Year:
2013
Vol.:
1
N°:
1
pp.
10 - 14
Journal:
SCIENTIA ET FIDES
ISSN:
2300-7648
Year:
2013
Vol.:
1
N°:
1
pp.
7 - 10
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2012
Vol.:
44
N°:
3
pp.
777-778
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2012
Vol.:
44
N°:
3
pp.
641-669
ICS Resumen (inglés):
The Church's Magisterium has first considered human activity from the perspective of Christian anthropology in the third Chapter of the Pastoral Constitution Gaudiurn et Spes. Such treatment has proved to be both a point of arrival for precedent theology and a starting point for further theological progress on human action in the world. This study analyzes the content of the Council's text, identifies its key achievements in relation to the earlier tradition and assesses its reception from the main theological and magisterial developments it has inspired.
Resumen (español):
El magisterio eclesial ha considerado pot primera vez la actividad humana desde la perspectiva de la antropología cristiana en el tercer capítulo de la constitución pastoral Gaudiurn et spes. Dicho tratamiento ha resultado tanto un punto de Ilegada para la teologfía precedente como un punto de partida para ulteriores progresos teológicos sobre la acción humana en el mundo. A lo largo de este estudio se analiza el contenido del texto conciliar, se señalan sus logros fundamentales en relación con la tradición anterior y se valora su recepción a partir de los principales desarrollos teológicos y magisteriales que ha inspirado.
Journal:
REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE TEOLOGIA
ISSN:
0210-7112
Year:
2012
Vol.:
72
N°:
2
pp.
283-300
ICS
Journal:
ANUARIO FILOSOFICO
ISSN:
0066-5215
Year:
2011
Vol.:
44
N°:
2
pp.
416-418
Journal:
PATH
ISSN:
1091-6121
Year:
2011
Vol.:
10
N°:
2
pp.
311 - 330
ICS
Journal:
VERITAS (MEXICO)
ISSN:
0717-4675
Year:
2011
N°:
25
pp.
107 - 117
ICS
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2010
Vol.:
42
N°:
2
pp.
493 - 498
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2010
Vol.:
42
N°:
3
pp.
827 - 828
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2010
Vol.:
42
N°:
3
pp.
828 - 829
Journal:
ANUARIO FILOSOFICO
ISSN:
0066-5215
Year:
2010
Vol.:
43
N°:
1
pp.
185 - 187
Journal:
SCRIPTA THEOLOGICA
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2010
Vol.:
42
N°:
2
pp.
530 - 531
Journal:
Scripta Theologica
ISSN:
0036-9764
Year:
2010
Vol.:
42
N°:
2
pp.
453-478
Resumen (inglés):
This article analyzes specific proposals in Italian theology for the construction of Fundamental Moral after the publication of Veritatis splendor. It considers the contributions of authors who, even without having a global project in mind, have written specific works in this field. The most notable feature is the central pole of conscience as mediator between the Christological foundation of morality on one hand and anthropology on the other. We suggest, as a further line of research for the dialogue with global perspectives in Fundamental Moral Theology, the study of Jesus Christ's moral conscience in his Paschal Mystery.
Resumen (español):
Este estudio aborda algunas propuestas particulares de la teología italiana para la construcción de la moral fundamental después de la publicación de Verítatis splendor. Se considera la contribución de los autores que, sin ofrecer un proyecto global, han dedicado obras específicas a esta disciplina. La característica más destacada es la centralidad de la conciencia como mediadora entre una fundación cristológica de la moral y la antropología subsiguiente. Se sugiere como una posible línea de investigación para el diálogo con los proyectos globales de Teología Moral fundamental el estudio de la conciencia moral de Jesucristo en su Misterio Pascua.
Book chapters
Book title:
Ciencia y filosofía: estudios en homenaje a Juan Arana
Place:
Sevilla
Publisher:
Estudios Thémata
Year:
2021
pp.
491 - 499
Book title:
Providencia, libertad y mal: Estudios de teología filosófica analítica
Place:
Granada
Publisher:
Comares
Year:
2021
pp.
157 - 169
Book title:
La cosmovisión de los grandes científicos del siglo XIX. Convicciones éticas, políticas, filosóficas o religiosas de los protagonistas del siglo de la ciencia
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Tecnos
Year:
2021
pp.
206 - 217
Book title:
Encubrimiento y verdad: algunos rasgos diagnósticos de la sociedad actual
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
EUNSA Ediciones Universidad De Navarra, SA.
Year:
2021
pp.
13 - 14
Book title:
Fe y razón: el nexo entre la fe y la ciencia
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
EUNSA
Year:
2021
pp.
11 - 21
Book title:
III Diálogo entre las ciencias, la filosofía y la teología. III Congreso Razón Abierta. 19-21 de septiembre de 2019
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Year:
2020
pp.
103 - 114
Book title:
Studies in Science and Theology, Volume 17 (2019-2020): Are We Special?
Place:
Halle (Saalle)
Publisher:
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Year:
2020
pp.
327 - 343
Despite the endless efforts of fundamental physics, it is becoming increasingly understood that our most basic scientific theories do not fully determine the existence of complex dynamical systems in nature. The revival of optimization principles can be considered a response to mere bottom-up scientific approaches which posit extremely rare boundary conditions of the universe and ad hoc coarse grainings of degrees of freedom in order to recover the classicality of the observed world. In this paper, after making the case for the insurmountable obstacles confronting basic physical theories and obtaining some hints for a possible way out, we briefly review some of the currently most promising optimization procedures trying to explain the emergence of the classical world and, more specifically, of life and consciousness. We claim that all such procedures aim at and make room for new optimizing principles in which value and teleology are fundamental concepts for understanding the self-constitution of complex dynamical systems
Book title:
La cosmovisión de los grandes científicos del siglo XX. Convicciones éticas, políticas, filosóficas o religiosas de los protagonistas de las revoluciones científicas contemporáneas
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Tecnos
Year:
2020
pp.
149 - 159
Book title:
Diálogos entre las ciencias, la filosofía y la teología. II Congreso Razón Abierta
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Editorial Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Year:
2019
pp.
57 - 72
Book title:
San Josemaría e il pensiero teológico. Atti del Convegno Teologico Roma 14-16 novembre 2013
Place:
Roma
Publisher:
EDUSC
Year:
2015
pp.
55 - 70
Book title:
Diccionario Teológico del Concilio Vaticano II
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
EUNSA
Year:
2015
pp.
103 - 125
Book title:
Habits: Plasticity, Learning and Freedom
Place:
Lausanne
Publisher:
Frontiers Media
Year:
2015
pp.
85-86
Book title:
60 Preguntas sobre Ciencia y Fe respondidas por 26 profesores de universidad
Place:
Barcelona
Publisher:
Stella Maris
Year:
2014
pp.
245 - 251
Book title:
Diccionario de San Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
Place:
Burgos
Publisher:
Monte Carmelo
Year:
2013
pp.
1041 - 1043
Book title:
50 preguntas sobre la fe
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
Year:
2013
pp.
54-57
Book title:
Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico
Place:
Cizur Menor
Publisher:
Aranzadi
Year:
2012
pp.
255-257
Book title:
Fede e ragione: le luci della verità: in occasione del decimo anniversario dell'enciclica "Fides et ratio"
Place:
Roma
Publisher:
Edizioni Università della Santa Croce
Year:
2012
pp.
249-257
Book title:
"Creemos y conocemos": Lectura teológica del Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
ASTROLABIO EUNSA
Year:
2012
pp.
349-367
Book title:
El valor de la educación (Liber Amicorum): estudio interdisciplinar en homenaje al profesor Dr. D. Emilio López-Barajas Zayas, catedrático emérito de universidad
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Editorial Universitas
Year:
2012
pp.
393-404
Book title:
Religión, Sociedad Moderna y Razón Práctica
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
EUNSA
Year:
2012
pp.
105-120
Este volumen recoge algnos trabajos presentados en el XXXII Simposio de Teología de la Universidad de Navarra, que se celebró del 19 al 21 de octubre de 2011
Book title:
Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico
Place:
Cizur Menor
Publisher:
Aranzadi
Year:
2012
pp.
48-53
Book title:
Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico
Place:
Cizur Menor
Publisher:
Aranzadi
Year:
2012
pp.
53-55
Book title:
Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico
Place:
Cizur Menor
Publisher:
Aranzadi
Year:
2012
pp.
58-59
Book title:
La Iglesia como familia de Dios
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Ediciones Rialp
Year:
2010
pp.
115 - 144
Book title:
Dysputy Nawarryjskie w Toruniu = Debates Navarros en Torún
Place:
Torún
Publisher:
Dysputy nawarryjskie w Toruniu
Year:
2010
pp.
25 - 40
