Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía

En torno al concepto de obra artística perfecta: una definición y sus implicaciones

Manuel Pérez Otero — 2025-04-01

Two facts are formulated concerning our appreciations of artworks. I then propose a definition of perfect artworks, which is in line with these facts. I imagine a potential objection to the definition and I conjecture a necessary condition for something to be artistic, which allows the objection to be avoided. Finally, we note that this condition establishes certain limits to minimalism in art.

El problema de la fundamentalidad para el panpsiquismo

Esteban Ortiz Medina — 2025-04-01

In this article I elaborate in detail the problem of fundamentality for panpsychism. I argue that, in light of three typical and recurring problems raised for panpsychism in the literature, the notion of fundamentality, essential to the formulation of the theory, becomes highly problematic. I then examine two problems of undecidability that derive from that notion: first, the inability to differentiate internally between different versions of panpsychism, and second, the difficulty to distinguish panpsychism externally from dualism and physicalism. I conclude with a comment on the modal status of panpsychism, raising questions about its viability and coherence.

Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction. An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

Luis A. Canela Morales — 2025-04-01

Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction. An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2023, 424pp., ISBN 978–1–108–47722–2424

Peter Fritz and Nicholas K. Jones (eds.), Higher-Order Metaphysics

Felipe Carrasco Figueroa — 2025-04-01

Peter Fritz and Nicholas K. Jones (eds.), Higher-Order Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2024, vii + 547pp., ISBN 978–0–19–289488–5

Formas, figuras y espacios: los fundamentos de la(s) geometría(s)

Melisa Vivanco — 2025-04-01

José Ferreirós, y María de Paz (comps.), La génesis de la geometría, Plaza y Valdés Editores, Madrid, 2023, 362pp., ISBN 978–84–17121–70–9

¿Cómo explicar el paso del tiempo? Una solución fragmentalista. Nota crítica sobre Fragmenting Reality

Angélica María Pena-Martínez — 2025-04-01

Samuele Iaquinto y Giuliano Torrengo, Fragmenting Reality. An Essay on Passage, Causality and Time Travel, Bloomsbury Academic, Londres, 2022, 256pp., ISBN(s) 1350235326, 9781350235328

Entre utilitarismo y derechos: el pensamiento de Alejandro Herrera en la bioética animal y ambiental. Nota crítica sobre Bioética animal, humana y ambiental. Escritos

Gustavo Ortiz Millán — 2025-04-01

Alejandro Herrera Ibáñez, Bioética animal, humana y ambiental. Escritos, Programa Universitario de Bioética, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 2024, 320pp., ISBN 978–607–30–8380–5