Teresa Bejarano- PhD 1986
- Professor at University of Seville
Teresa Bejarano
- PhD 1986
- Professor at University of Seville
Full Professor until my retirement.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0037-549X
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Introduction
Interested in human peculiarities.
* 'Remaining in your shoes when you look at me'.
*"The thinking what others think of us": self-conscious emotions.
* To grasp foreign contents (vs. mere vicarious expectations) ///
*The transition from holophrase to syntax. 'Embedding (and correcting or completing) your message in my message and my intonation': Original (thema/rhema) syntax ///
*Inner speech and self-regulation
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68 publications (59 in Spanish).
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In the origin of syntax, primitive, holophrastic signs had to be weakened (original, drastic ‘bleaching’) and to lose their previous status of whole message. The original syntax was probably thema/rhema syntax. The earliest themas repeat the hearer’s message: the speaker embeds the hearer’s message in his own message. In this way a holophrase could...
Nowadays, we know that numerosity-related abilities are found in some bird and primate species. These abilities, while they are not enough, are nevertheless necessary to give rise to numbers . Let's think about subitisation, which, overcoming the criticism which wanted it substituted by the sense of magnitude, appears today as real (although tinted...
Is there a qualitative difference between apes’ and humans ‘ability to estimate others’ mental states’, a.k.a. ‘Theory-of-Mind’? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles that recognize a particular content when it arrives, I apply the same description to ‘vicarious expectations’—very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vic...
Is there a qualitative difference between apes’ and human ‘ability to estimate others’ mental states’, a.k.a. ‘Theory-of-Mind’? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles that recognize a particular content when it arrives, I apply the same description to ‘vicarious expectations’ –very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vic...
Is there a qualitative difference between apes’ and human Theory-of-Mind (or ability to estimate others’ mental states)? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles that recognize a particular content when it arrives, I apply the same description to ‘vicarious expectations’ –very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vicarious...
Can we nowadays keep a qualitative difference between the primitive and advanced Theory-of-Mind? The old criteria have become blurry. In addition, it is clear that in ‘apes’ lifestyle’ it is not necessary to use the communicative-cognitive basic abilities which became indispensable in ‘the new lifestyle’. Thus, it is usual to conclude that apes wou...
The attempts to make moral and evolution compatible have assimilated moral capacity either with complex self-control in favour of one's own goals or with spontaneous altruism. Those attempts face an easy problem, since those two senses of moral are adaptively advantageous resources. But let us focus on the decisions made in favour of another person...
Varios recursos empleados en la construcción de un grupo de parábolas coinciden con puntos que la ciencia actual enfoca. 1) El hecho de que la situación aje-na es percibida de un modo más objetivo, con menos sesgos, que la situación propia. 2) El “altruismo espontáneo”, que empuja a conductas automáticas de ayuda. 3) La enorme influencia que el len...
La idea de que el ser humano es la meta de la Naturaleza esta claramente fuera de lo comprobable o refutable. Pero podemos preguntarnos si esa idea ‘encaja’ con los descubrimientos cientificos, y, mas concretamente, con la evolucion pluridireccional y ramificada que ha suplantado a la vieja scala naturae y que parece prohibir nociones meramente des...
Se dice que los clásicos son los autores que son capaces de seguir impac-tándonos sea cual sea la distancia que separa nuestra época de la de ellos. Por eso, una afirmación verdaderamente clásica la podemos seguir reformulando en cada siglo. A mí siempre me ha parecido admirable aquella frase en que Pla-tón caracterizaba a los seres humanos como hi...
Este trabajo lo redacté en principio como una colaboración a un 'Foro Conmemorativo del 20 aniversario del descubrimiento de las neuronas de espejo', que finalmente no se celebró. Cuando me lo propusieron, yo acababa de publicar Becoming human, 2011, cuyo primer capítulo (pp. 13-36) está dedicado a las neuronas de espejo. Así pues, no quise repetir...
What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others’ false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental centre within the subject. This redefinition of the simu...
Why is laughter pleasant? Since all laughter attends to an already frustrated expectation, when a child laughs, he or she would be putting into practice a pre-training of a crucial ability-that of thinking contents which the child knows to be merely mental-. In fact, laughter is ideal for that exercise, as (I intend to prove) it involves just those...
Hurford practically identifies nouns and verbs to innate, animal concepts. However, I oppose, not only to innate syntax, but also to innate semantics, since our semantics is indelibly shaped by syntax. In other words, according to my proposal, without syntax, there are perceptions (of ‘things/events’) and mental contents, but there aren’t nouns / v...
Abstract. Having admitted the value, but also the insufficiency, of self-regulation
literature (focused on the delay of gratification, or on the sociometer or psychological
system which detects signs of real or potential rejection), we wonder
how is human freedom possible. Assuming that freedom would have to act
against the motivation which has bee...
According to Pragmatics, the speaker's intention in declarative (or 'predicative') speech is to complete or correct the hearer's belief. But the age at which children begin to produce this type of communication is prior to their success in the ‘false belief’ test. Here, after proposing a solution to the problem's hard version -i.e., to early declar...
Can genuine moral freedom be explained in the light of evolution, without dualism? I think that it will happen. However we must first deal with other preliminary questions. Differences between animal and human desires? The human evocation of absent objects enables the long-term work and the so-called 'willpower', but not moral freedom. That evocati...
Both metarepresentation and cultural learning have an identical origin. The imitation of new and complex motor patterns (also articulatory-phonetic patterns) is a crucial skill not only because it enables cultural transmission but also because its high requisites give rise to the exclusively human mind. The premotor plan at the base of such imitati...
Arteta recurre a “la muerte como el mal nuclear de todo lo compadecible” porque cree que el miedo “sólo puedo sentirlo por mí mismo y de mí mismo” y, en consecuencia, necesita centrarse en un mal que, siendo universal y “la esencia de todos los males”, le pueda asegurar al núcleo de cada mal ajeno la vinculación con “el irrebasable amor propio”. Es...
Los estudios de la Teoría-de-la-Mente han subrayado la falsa creencia ajena, y la falsa creencia propia pasada. Pero esas dos capacidades podrían ser entendidas de modo más amplio. La interrogación interpersonal requiere que el hablante conciba una mente ajena y diferente a la suya, pero no envuelve en absoluto captación alguna de falsa creencia aj...
I ADD NOW (2021) A COMMENT.
This article has the same goal as "Prelinguistic metaphors?", 1998. Both articles seek to defend the proposal that in prelinguistic thought there is no syntax. More concretely, I defend that, while in linguistic reception, each of the meanings receives independent attention before they are integrated into the total meani...
The gap between the prelinguistic and the linguistic levels cannot be bridged as easily as Lakoff's cognitive linguistics suggests. Lakoff's event structure metaphor is reviewed here. Compared with physical movement, the bringing together of separated elements which occurs in predication would not be metaphorical only because it departs from concre...
Ssdeteetable a mi entender un cierto cansancio ante el tema de la con-ciencia. La ya prolongada polémica entre los eliminativistas y los fenomeno-logos no tiene visos dc dar fruto. Los defensores de 'la primera persona' des-criben, pero no explican; los eliminativistas de uno u otro tipo explican algo. pero no lo experiencial prelingúistico, y ento...
How can we be moved by a narrative which we know to be fictitious? (Paradox of Redford). Taking into consideration the symbolic game of children, I reject the solutions connected with metabelief and turn to the evolutionary path of imitation. The ability to latently imitate (to learn) motor sequences that are new for the subject requires two regist...
La capacidad de resolución creativa de problemas se originaria a partir
de otra capacidad exclusivamente humana, la de distinguir entre el sentido, que apunta a una realidad completa pero no la recoge sino parcialmente, y la referencia o realidad en cuestión. Y aunque el pleno lenguaje humano, es decIr, el lenguaje predicativo, y capaz, pues, de en...
Primer vértice, creencia propia; segundo vértice, creencia ajena contradictoria con la propia; resultado, o sea, tercer vértice, la capacidad de interrogarse por la realidad en sí. Así proponemos reformular la triangulación intersubjetiva y lingüística de Davidson y su realismo humanizado. Y así reformulada la ponemos en relación, tanto de semejanz...
The most typical links of a word used metaphorically would be crucial for the resulting poetic metaphor. (Typical links: Some of a word’s particular and specific links are repeated on many of the occasions in which the word is used, and would thus have a special prevalence within the cerebral edifice of meaning.) Therefore, when one invokes only th...
‘Ayer’ es deíctico, centrado en el yo-aquí- ahora del hablante: ‘El día antes (la víspera) de A’ está, en cambio, centrado en A, que, por no estar presente, ha de ser necesariamente explicitado. El segundo, que llamaba en el artículo ‘derivado de deíctico’, es más complejo sintácticamente que el deíctico (en el ejemplo, la preposición que rige a un...
En este artículo vamos a tratar dos asuntos relacionados con la idea, por tantos autores manifestada, de que la predicación más decisiva no es la de la sintaxis convencional-sujetor/verbo-, sino la articulación comunicativo-entonatoria. Así, en primer lugar, nos vamos a preguntar qué son exactamente el tema, o sujeto desde el punto de vista comunic...
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