Elenkhos - Revista de la Sociedad Filosófica del Uruguay

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Ricardo Navia — 2025-08-05

Sin resumen.

A sort of analytic philosophy. Its methodology and inspiration

Ernest Sosa — 2025-08-05

A Platonist methodology for a sort of analytic philosophy is expounded and defended. The Platonic analysis that figures in the dialogues, inquiries into the nature of various phenomena that constitute human flourishing, individual or collective. In such Platonic analysis we try to understand phenomena such as knowledge, justice, responsibility, love, beauty, virtue, personal identity and its survival through time. Such phenomena of human flourishing have been of persistent and profound interest to philosophers of various times and traditions, which is why it seems so natural and appropriate that the so-called humanities give them a prominent place, even if that sort of study remains exceptional sociologically among the humanities as they are presently constituted.

Linguistic Putsch and philosophical revolution

Alejandro Tomasini Bassols — 2025-08-05

The aim of this essay is to critically examine, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, the nature of philosophical problems and theories. I show how Wittgenstein's thinking in this respect evolved from an excessively simple diagnosis in the Tractatus (basically, lack of or mistaken adscription of meanings) to a much more complex and sophisticated one (in the Philosophical Investigations) in terms of detailed descriptions carried out by means of a particular conceptual apparatus. With a new conception of language in which the latter is essentially linked to praxis, in the broadest possible sense, Wittgenstein develops a whole series of argumentative strategies which enable him to offer precise diagnoses of concrete philosophical problems. A case in point is the so called ‘private language argument’. An interesting result is that one of the fundamental features of philosophical discourse is its decontextualisation, i.e., the use of language totally disconnected from human activities. I conclude by answering in the affirmative to my two initial questions, namely, whether it is possible to live for centuries in intellectual self-deception and whether one can ignore the movement that frees us from it.

Philosophy and poetry. Essential tensions and confluences

Samuel Manuel Cabanchik — 2025-08-05

Since its birth in ancient Greece, philosophy has been compelled to clarify its connection with poetry, at least as fundamentally as with rhetoric and its sophistic drift. In this essay, we consider these complex relationships through paradigmatic examples taken from the history of philosophy and the history of poetry. We begin by showing the ambivalence of Plato's position to indicate, precisely, how the question gravitated from the very beginnings of philosophy. We then focus on a pair of contrasting contemporary examples: Schopenhauer and Frege. Regarding the latter, we show that some aspects of his semantic arguments depend on the metaphorical use of language, in a sense that, according to his own conceptualization of the difference between representation and thought, leads to questioning the established distinction, showing that, contrary to his orientation, it must be accepted that there is poetic thought. Along the same lines, we illustrate poetic thought through arguments and poems from some paradigmatic works, such as those of Antonio Machado, Fernando Pessoa, and Paul Valéry, among others. From all these sources, we believe it has been sufficiently demonstrated that philosophical and poetic thought maintain points of convergence, both in the impulse from which they originate and in their final expressions. This confluence does not eliminate the tensions between image and idea, so to speak, but even less does it deny their essential links.

Truth pluralism: a proposal

Massimo Dell'Utri — 2025-08-05

This text defends “plain alethic pluralism” (PAP), a reinterpretation of simple alethic pluralism (SAP), which holds that the term “true” is polysemous but not ambiguous. This polysemy is grounded in a shared focal meaning, defined by three key features: equivalence, minimal correspondence, and normativity. PAP argues that while “true” takes on different context-specific meanings depending on the domain of discourse (e.g., correspondence in science, coherence in mathematics, warranted assertibility in ethics), all such uses derive from a unified focal meaning. Metaphysically, PAP maintains that truth depends on the world, understood as a plurality of domains of states of affairs, each supporting a property relevant to truth that satisfies the focal features. Thus, PAP preserves the conceptual unity of truth while embracing its metaphysical plurality. This allows it to sidestep nihilist objections and offers a coherent and realistic pluralist theory of truth, bridging linguistic practice with ontological commitments through a focal-point-based framework.

Recensión "Perspectivas actuales de la filosofía" de Mauricio Beuchot

Luis Gabriel Mateo Mejía — 2025-08-05

From an approach to the frontiers of philosophical thought, the author provides a very clear view of the trajectory of current positions, such as phenomenology and critical theory. These are key elements for understanding analogical realism. Likewise, he reviews the epistemic and ontological foundations of the latter, structuring his position with analogical hermeneutics. This work is of utmost importance because it places us in the ultimate position of working on the new direction that must interweave hermeneutics with scientific thought, especially for the social sciences and humanities.