http://hdl.handle.net/10256/1532 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:14:22 GMT 2025-07-25T14:14:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27097 El De fato de Bardesanes d'Edessa, en la cruïlla de tradicions culturals de l'antiguitat tardana al Pròxim Orient Ponsatí-Murlà, Oriol This article aims to introduce Catalan readers to Bardaisan of Edessa and to the translation (by Joan Ferrer and available to read further on in this issue of tamid) of the only surviving work from the school of this Syriac thinker from the 2nd-3rd century AD: the Book of the laws of the countries, Liber legum regionum, Περὶ εἱμαρμένης, or De fato. The article describes the problems that the text poses, in terms of both authorship and original language (Greek or Aramaic-Syriac), and attempts to situate the main topics discussed (freedom, nature and fate) within the context of the confluence of cultural, philosophical and religious traditions of the Hellenized Near East in Late Antiquity; Aquest article vol presentar al lector català la figura de Bardesanes d’Edessa i la traducció de l’única obra de l’escola d’aquest pensador siríac del segle II-III dC que ens ha pervingut i que es pot llegir a continuació en aquest mateix número de Tamid en traducció de Joan Ferrer: el Llibre de les lleis dels països, Liber legum regionum, Περὶ εἱμαρμένης, o De fato. L’estudi descriu el problemes que el text presenta tant en termes d’autoria com de llengua original (grec o arameu-siríac) i intenta situar els principals temes tractats (llibertat, natura i destí) en el marc de la confluència de tradicions culturals, filosòfiques i religioses del Pròxim Orient hel·lenitzat durant l’antiguitat tardana Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27097 2025-07-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27033 Agnotologia i Terraplanisme. lgnorància en cadena des del mite de la Terra plana Pardo Vilardell, Òscar The present article aims to defend the thesis of ignorance in a knock-on effect. For this purpose, it focuses on the flat Earth myth, seeking its historical, philosophical, social and psychological motivations. The framework employed comprises Science Studies (STS) such as agnotology and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), psychology based in scientific method, approaches to conspiracy theory by Karl Popper and Brian L. Keeley, and studies on post-truth and misinformation by Harry G. Frankfurt. This text argues that in today's hyperconnected society, where the notion of veracity has been dismissed, an agnotology in a knock-on effect is produced, and causing people to connect different stories through spurious correlations according to their magnificence and scope; giving apparently simple and rational explanations to unpredictable and uncontrollable events. In the same way, the STS validity is defended to monitor any techno-scientific innovation and, simultaneously, to glimpse the authenticity or unreliability of present sociocultural narratives.; Aquest article pretén defensar la tesi de la ignorància en cadena. Per a aquest propòsit se centra en el mite de la Terra plana, buscant les motivacions d’índole històrica, filosòfica, social i psicològica. El marc que es fa servir està format pels Science studies (STS) com l’agnotologia i la Teoria de l’actor-xarxa (ANT), pels estudis psicològics amb base científica, per les aproximacions a la teoria de la conspiració de Karl Popper i Brian L. Keeley i pels estudis sobre postveritat i desinformació de Harry G. Frankfurt. Aquest article argumenta que a la societat de la hiperconnexió actual, on s’ha perdut la noció de veracitat, es produeix una agnotologia en cadena que provoca que l’individu connecti diferents relats mitjançant correlacions espúries segons la magnificència i l’abast; donant explicacions aparentment senzilles i racionals a fets imprevisibles i incontrolables. De la mateixa manera, es defensa la validesa dels STS per fiscalitzar qualsevol innovació tecnocientífica i, simultàniament, per entreveure l’autenticitat o la falsedat dels relats socioculturals del present Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27033 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26680 Some Reflections on the Goal-Directed Theory of Emotion Pineda Oliva, David In this paper, I discuss the goal-directed theory of emotion as advanced and defended by psychologist Agnes Moors. I give some reasons for supporting one of its main tenets, namely, that emotional episodes involve decision-making processes. I will however object that the theory has trouble to account for some aspects of positive emotions and in general to accommodate some instances of extremely positive and extremely negative emotions. I will also argue that, in order to account for the irrationality involved in emotional recalcitrance, some sort of duality of emotional mechanisms is also required Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26680 2025-03-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26665 A Deflationary view of Moods as Self-Sustained Emotional Residues Pineda Oliva, David Philosophers discussing moods have been struggling with finding a principled way to distinguish moods from emotions. This paper places itself distinctly against this mainstream. Its crucial upshot is that we do not need to postulate moods as a distinctive type of mental state, different from emotions. I will argue that alleged differences between moods and emotions that one can repeatedly find in the literature can be explained away simply in terms of certain features of emotions themselves. These features stem from the inertia found in some emotional episodes. Two key such features are, first, the residual character of such episodes, according to which they tend to remain, or at least retain some of their characteristics, even after the emotional response as such is in principle over. The second key feature is that such emotional residues take the slightest opportunity to reactivate and develop as a new full-fledged emotional episode of the same kind as the one it originates from. I will also argue that my deflationary view on moods is as a matter of fact consistent with the scientific, or empirical, literature on moods and can also easily accommodate commonsense thinking about moods Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26665 2025-03-22T00:00:00Z