Los problemas de la verdad en las humanidades. Valoraciones críticas del libro: Verdades a medias

Luis Antonio Velasco-Guzmán; Mónica Marcela Maya-Castro; Cecilia Beristáin-Beristáin; Valente  Vazquez-Bautista

doi:10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2022.4.1.241

Authors

Luis Antonio Velasco-Guzmán National Autonomous University of Mexico (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1845-8795
Mónica Marcela Maya-Castro National Autonomous University of Mexico (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4504-167X
Cecilia Beristáin-Beristáin National Autonomous University of Mexico (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-0008
Valente Vazquez-Bautista National Autonomous University of Mexico (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1211-2985

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2022.4.1.241

Keywords:

Truth, poetry and truth, historical truth, truth and power, post-truth and the end of thinking

Abstract

This essay offers a critical group review of the collective study edited by Sandra Ramírez and Carolina Depetris, entitled Verdades a medias. La pertinencia d ela verdad en las humanidades (UNAM, 2021), in which special attention is paid to the implicit conceptual links on the question of the truth between the different essays that make up this book.

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Author Biographies

Luis Antonio Velasco-Guzmán, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Bachelor of Philosophy from the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales Acatlán (1994), Master (2009) and PhD (2013) in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Professor of Modern Philosophy at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán. Member of the National System of Researchers Level I of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). Tutor of the Graduate Degrees in Philosophy, Pedagogy, Political and Social Sciences and MADEMS (Philosophy) at UNAM. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Red Iberoamericana Leibniz, secretary of the Grupo de Estudios Iberoamericanos Rousseau, as well as a member of the Red Iberoamericana Descartes and the Asociación Filosófica de México, A. C. He coordinates the Permanent Seminar on Modern Philosophy at FES Acatlán since 2014. He has published two books of his own authorship, one on his philosophical interpretation of classical comedy entitled El problema de la Paz en Aristófanes. Hermeneutics of classical political poetry, 2003, Serie Alfonsina, Literatura y Filosofía 1 (Series Coordinator: Miguel Ángel de la Calleja), Mexico, UNAM-ENEP Acatlán, and another on his understanding of the problem of the Enlightenment and the modern philosophical project entitled La crisis de la razón moderna (Descartes-Rousseau-Kant), 2015, Mexico, Colección Ciencia Nueva, UNAM. He has coordinated five collective books, one on Saberes híbridos (2014), another on John Locke (2016), three others on Leibniz (2018, 2020 and 2022) and has been guest editor of the Journal Murmullos Filosóficos, 2014 (Year 3, Number 7) to coordinate the Dossier on Rousseau. He has published in specialized journals and chapters in national and foreign books on Machiavelli, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche.
Mónica Marcela Maya-Castro, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Professor in the area of Philosophy of History in the Philosophy program at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán, UNAM. She also teaches Philosophical Anthropology, Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy. He participates in the Permanent Seminar of Modern Philosophy at FES Acatlán.
Cecilia Beristáin-Beristáin, National Autonomous University of Mexico

PhD in Philosophy from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Germany. From 2008 to 2012 scholarship holder of the Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland (ICALA). International interdisciplinary Master's degree in Social Sciences (Global Studies Programme) from 2005 to 2007 in Freiburg, Germany; Durban, South Africa and New Delhi, India. From 1995 to 1999, degree in Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Participation in numerous national and international conferences. Among his publications: (2012) "Yo digo 'yo': una reflexión desde la filosofía del lenguaje de la palabra 'yo' y de lo que decimos acerca de nosotros mismos", as well as book chapters, reviews, conference papers, and translations in books and national and international journals. Teaching experience since 2001 in the areas of Philosophy of Language, Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, History of Philosophy, Race and Racism, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology, among others. She currently teaches Philosophy at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, the Postgraduate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of London and the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán-UNAM, where she is also responsible for the Permanent Seminar on Wittgenstein.
Valente Vazquez-Bautista, National Autonomous University of Mexico

B.A. in Philosophy from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán with the thesis "The concept of mens in Spinoza's metaphysics". Master in Philosophy from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with the dissertation "Felicidad y beatitud en la ética de Spinoza". Professor of high school and higher education. Member of the Permanent Seminar on Modern Philosophy at FES Acatlán (UNAM), the Permanent Seminar on Poetics and Thought at CEPHCIS, Mérida (UNAM) and the Seminar on Metaphysics, Epistemology and History of Philosophy at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (UNAM).

References

Verdades a medias. La pertinencia de la verdad en las humanidades. Editado por Sandra Ramírez y Carolina Depetris. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2021