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Ritual Pain: Valuable pain
Why would a person stick a knife through their skin? Well, maybe because it is part of a ritual. A good friend of mine, who happens to be a great cognitive psychologist, and a probably even better MMA fighter, once told me the following anecdote: So, one day, after...
Masoquismo: El valor extrínseco de sufrir (online talk)
Masoquismo: El valor extrínseco de sufrir (online talk) IFICC Quédate en tu casa n° V: Charlas en línea, realizadas en el contexto de cuarentena 2020. Santiago de Chile. Enlace del video
The evolutionary explanation: The limits of desire theories of unpleasantness
Link to full pdf. Abstract Several theorists have defended that unpleasantness can be explained by appealing to (intrinsic, simultaneous, de re) desires for certain experiences not to be occurring. In a nutshell, experiences are unpleasant because we do not want them,...
The structure of unpleasantness
Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2020). Link to full pdf. Abstract A fair amount of the philosophical discussion about pain and unpleasantness has focused on providing a constitutive account of unpleasantness. These theories provide a more fundamental description...
Zozobra: somos humanos y nos llaman mexicanos
Link para pdf. Resumen Somos humanos y nos llaman mexicanos. ¿Qué significa ser mexicano, cuál es la particularidad de un mexicano, que nos distingue de los demás? Durante mediados del siglo pasado se discutió qué significaba ser mexicano, qué era ‘lo mexicano’, o si...