María Cerezo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Complutense University of Madrid

In this paper, we address the question whether the persistence of biological species raises some difficulty for the thesis of the metaphysical equivalence between three-dimensionalism (3D) and four-dimensionalism (4D). We argue that even if one assumes that ‘species’ is a homonymous term that refers to two entities (evolverons or synchronic species...

Causal dispositionalism developed in metaphysics of science offers a useful tool to conceptualize shallow causes in behaviour genetics, in a way such that (a) it accounts for complex aetiology and heterogeneity of effects, and (b) genetic causal contribution can be considered to be explanatory. Genes are thus causal powers that make a difference.

Crisis, refinamiento o cambio del paradigma Genético en la era Post-Genómica

This paper examines the analysis of judgements of belief that Wittgenstein offers in 5.54–5.5423 of the Tractatus. We offer an interpretation of these paragraphs wich also pays attention to 5.5423, usually forgotten. In our opinion, this interpretation fits with Wittgenstein’s doctrines, and makes clear that such non-genuine propositions are nonsen...

In this paper, I develop some reflections on the interpretation of the notion of Sachverhalt in the Tractatus, with a view to show the complexity of the tractarian view and to point out some tensions. I intend to elucidate this notion in the context of its relation to the notions of Tatsache and Sachlage, and in its relation to the two main theorie...

I revise Zalabardo’s solution to the Tractarian problem of unity and raise some difficulties concerning the notion of logical instantiation, his understanding of the notion of expression (Ausdruck) and his rejection of the compositional account of facts. I sketch an alternative reading of the picture theory and suggest that two ideas provide a solu...

Resumen En estos momentos nos encontramos en el ámbito de la biología molecular en una nueva etapa, denominada Post-Genómica, que se caracteriza desde un punto de vista epistémico y metodológico por la incorporación de nuevos métodos de secuenciación tanto de ADN como de ARN, y por el desarrollo de genomas que permiten referenciar de una forma prec...

En estos momentos nos encontramos en el ámbito de la biología molecular en una nueva etapa, denominada Post-Genómica, que se caracteriza desde un punto de vista epistémico y metodológico por la incorporación de nuevos métodos de secuenciación tanto de ADN como de ARN, y por el desarrollo de genomas que permiten referenciar de una forma precisa los...

This paper offers an interpretation of Anselm of Canterbury's semantic doctrines in De Grammatico, paying special attention to five distinctions present in the dialogue: dicitur in eo quod quale/dicitur in eo quod quid, esse ut in subiecto/esse non ut in subiecto, significare/appellare, significare ut unum/significare non ut unum and significare pe...

I discuss the interest-relative account of vagueness and argue for a distinction between relational vague predicates and non-relational vague predicates depending on the kind of properties expressed by them. The strategy rests on three arguments arising from the existence of clear cases of a vague predicate, from contexts in which a different answe...

This paper discusses some recent work on the notion of possibility in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus assessed by means of an interpretation of the notion put forward in Cerezo 20052. Cerezo, M. (2005) The Possibility of Language. Exploring Internal Tensions in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Stanford: CSLI. View all references. It argues that the proper way to...

This chapter theorizes that an adequate conception of the living organism must account for it in dynamic terms, and that epigenetics provides some crucial elements for doing so. It shows that there is sufficient empirical evidence for advancing the hypothesis that, on the assumption that a living organism is a self-developing being, it is possible...

The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic. Information shapes biological organization in fundamental ways and at every organizational level. Because organisms use information—including DNA codes, gene expression, and chemical signaling—to construct, maintain, repai...

In this paper, I develop some reflections on the interpretation of the notion of Sachverhalt in the Tractatus, with a view to show the complexity of the tractarian view and to point out some tensions. I intend to elucidate this notion in the context of its relation to the notions of Tatsache and Sachlage, and in its relation to the two main theorie...

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Raymond Bradley has put forward an essentialist interpretation of the ontology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and aims to develop the model dimension that is implicit therein. Among other theses, Bradley maintains that tractarian names can be interpreted as Kripkean rigid designators; this idea enables him to approach the Tractus...

This paper examines the analysis of judgements of belief that Wittgenstein offers in 5.54–5.5423 of the Tractatus. We offer an interpretation of these paragraphs wich also pays attention to 5.5423, usually forgotten. In our opinion, this interpretation fits with Wittgenstein’s doctrines, and makes clear that such non-genuine propositions are nonsen...

Este volumen recoge artículos sobre la filosofía de Ludwig Wittgenstein que fueron escritos con ocasión de los cincuenta años de su muerte. Los textos son versiones revisadas de las ponencias que fueron presentadas en el encuentro internacional «Wittgenst si