Academic archivos - Paola Romero

No me siento más humilde frente a la vastedad de los cielos. Las estrellas pueden ser grandes, pero no pueden pensar ni amar; y estas son las cualidades que me impresionan mucho más que la magnitud de las estrellas.
Foundations of Mathematics — F. P. Ramsey

Sería bueno para todos recordar que, aunque exista una gran diferencia entre las cosas que sabemos, somos iguales en nuestra infinita ignorancia.
Conjectures and Refutations — Karl Popper

Si la ceguera de Galileo significa que su universo no se extendía más allá de su propia piel, debe haber sentido que, con el telescopio, su ser se expandía y llenaba el universo entero.
Galileo. Watcher of the skies — David Wootton

If Galileo’s blindness meant that the universe now extended no further than his own skin, with the telescope he must have felt that he had been able to expand himself to fill the universe.
Galileo. Watcher of the skies — David Wootton

It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Conjectures and Refutations — Karl Popper

Academic Publications

The Revolutionary ‘Deception’: Kant on the Illusion of a Politics of Happiness

Aitor Muñoz 30/07/2021 23/12/2022

Could an ideal of happiness ever serve as a legitimate principle of public legislation? According to Kant, grounding public legislation on…

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Why Carl Schmitt (and others) got Kant wrong

Aitor Muñoz 30/06/2021 23/12/2022

This essay traces the influence of Carl Schmitt on an interpretative tendency found in a number of contemporary readings of Kant’s…

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Are moral values facts? (Philosophy: A Visual Encyclopedia)

Aitor Muñoz 30/11/2020 23/12/2022

Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: “What is real?”, “What is everything made of?”…

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Kant and Political Willing (PhD. Tesis)

Aitor Muñoz 30/09/2019 23/12/2022

This thesis makes two claims: first, that conflict is constitutive of human agency, and second, that this understanding of agency in terms of…

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Kant and Hegel: Revolution and the Politics of Fear

Aitor Muñoz 30/05/2017 23/12/2022

In this paper I argue that the political thought of Kant and Hegel contains a critique of revolution, based on their interpretation of the French case…