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Papers by ANTONIO BLANCO SALGUEIRO

Education and Information Technologies, 2019

Research on learning through serious games has been gaining importance in recent years. We develo... more Research on learning through serious games has been gaining importance in recent years. We develop the serious game Tempoly, concerning the learning of the four arithmetic operations on polynomials. A quasi-experimental study was carried out with 95 students of 8th grade, to evaluate the reactions of the students to the game, the effects of the use of the game in the students' learning, and the use of the game through time. According to data collected through a questionnaire, we may conclude that students liked to play the game, considered that the game helped them learning the polynomial operations and that what they learned in class was useful to play the game. It was concluded that students who played the game simultaneously with the classes improved their results in a pre/post-test more than the students who did not play the game and through a Mann-Whitney test, the results showed statistical differences. The study revealed that the students that had more time to play the game did play more out of the class.

Put simply, the Linguistic Relativity Principle (Whorf, 1956) holds that language affects our tho... more Put simply, the Linguistic Relativity Principle (Whorf, 1956) holds that language affects our thought and behaviour, in predictable ways. As a result, speakers of different languages think and perceive the world differently. For decades, the debate was confined to the realm of educated speculation and reasoned introspection, with scholars taking positions for or against the hypothesis on the basis of conjecture and/or a priori logical assumptions (see e.g. Pinker, 1994; Dennett, 1991). One point of converging criticism, however, was that Whorf's evidence to support the Linguistic Relativity Principle was circular, since most of the data (language typological patterns) was simultaneously the outcome and the cause of the purported cognitive differences between populations. As Pinker put it, "how do we know that [Eskimos, sic] think differently? Just listen to the way they speak" (Pinker, 1994:61).

Actas del III Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, 2000, ISBN 84-600-9579-7, págs. 105-114, 2000

Verdad: lógica, representación y mundo, 1996, ISBN 84-8121-396-9, págs. 275-288, 1996

Análisis Filosófico

La investigación sobre el bromear es central en el estudio de la relación entre lenguaje y humor.... more La investigación sobre el bromear es central en el estudio de la relación entre lenguaje y humor. Se examina, en primer lugar, cómo el bromear puede analizarse usando las herramientas que proporciona la teoría de los actos de habla, en particular las empleadas por versiones neoaustinianas de la teoría. En segundo lugar, se aplican los resultados de la primera parte para formular una hipótesis acerca de la relatividad lingüística del humor, según la cual los hábitos de bromeo propios de una sociedad o de un grupo influyen de modo no trivial en el uso privado o individual del humor.

Przełożył Janusz Maciaszek.I call illocutionary externalism (IE) the approach to the study of ill... more Przełożył Janusz Maciaszek.I call illocutionary externalism (IE) the approach to the study of illocutionary force that I favor. IE is inspired by Austin's seminal ideas on performatives and speech acts. According to IE, in the analysis of a paradigmatic illocutionary force we must essentially mention some aspects of the social and natural environment that cannot be reduced to the (de dicto) speakers' mental states, no matter how these are individuated. A difficult problem for IE derives from the possibility of making explicit the force of an utterance. This fact invites us to focus our attention on the utterer (the person who makes the force explicit) and his mental states (illocutionary intentions), and to support a mentalist approach in the study of forces. In this article I shall argue for the compatibility of IE with the phenomenon of the explicitability of illocutionary force

The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, 2021

Linguistic relativity is often defined by its detractors in ways that make it seem a radical and... more Linguistic relativity is often defined by its detractors in ways that make it seem a
radical and implausible idea. Here, it is taken simply as the claim that linguistic
diversity (the different forms of human language) has a nontrivial impact on
cognitive diversity (the various ways or styles of thinking in humans). Although I
believe that some versions of it are plausible, the aim is not to defend or attack the
hypothesis, but to clarify it and to present some philosophical consequences of its
acceptance.

Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2000

El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar el reciente proyecto de Jeriy Fodor consistente en combina... more El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar el reciente proyecto de Jeriy Fodor consistente en combinar una semántica informacional para el lenguaje del pensamiento y una teoría computacional de los procesos mentales. Examinamos, en primer lugar, una noción central en la obra de Fodor: la noción de "mecanismo". Defendemos entonces que, al menos para los llamados "casos-Frege", la propuesta de Fodor en The Blm and tite Expert (1994) no es satisfactoria.

Pragmatics, 2010

I suggest that promises and threats are similar speech acts and pose analogous problems for Speec... more I suggest that promises and threats are similar speech acts and pose analogous problems for Speech Act Theory. After showing that they share the same formal types, I argue against there being purportedly fundamental differences between them in regard to explicitability, deontics, and illocution/perlocution. I conclude that the joint analysis of promises and threats suggests the propriety of a holistic theory of illocutionary acts.

Lenguaje, Naturaleza y Ciencia, 2009

Revista de Filosofía (Madrid), 2014

Resumen la noción de perlocución ha resultado problemática desde su primera formulación en Austin... more Resumen la noción de perlocución ha resultado problemática desde su primera formulación en Austin (1962). Se exploran dos vías diferentes para su clarificación. la vía reconstructiva examina las ambigüedades incrustadas en la caracterización austiniana y trata de deshacerlas mediante taxonomías basadas en criterios precisos. la vía eliminativa, finalmente adoptada, propone sustituirla por una noción alternativa, la de marco situacional de una emisión, capaz de servir mejor al propósito de estudiar "el acto de habla total en la situación de habla total".

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

Austin introduces the idea of securing the uptake in the context of dealing with the illocution-p... more Austin introduces the idea of securing the uptake in the context of dealing with the illocution-perlocution distinction. In recent times, the notion is employed by some neoaustinian scholars to argue that the uptake is what triggers the deontic effects (rights, duties, obligations, permissions, etc.) associated to an illocution. Here, a distinction is made between two kinds of uptake: uptake-as-understanding and uptake-as-accepting, and the stance that the second is the one needed for a plausible theory of speech action inspired by Austin’s original ideas is defended. When that notion is adopted, some old problems about speech action can be clarified.

I present some distinctions concerning the dependence between properties. Then I apply such disti... more I present some distinctions concerning the dependence between properties. Then I apply such distinctions to the analysis of holism, concluding that there are at least three different kinds of holism that are important for semantic purposes.

La investigacion avanza en el planteamiento y resolucion de diversos problemas semanticos que tie... more La investigacion avanza en el planteamiento y resolucion de diversos problemas semanticos que tienen que ver con la representacion mental, centrandose en las formulaciones que esos problemas adoptan cuando se plantean desde el marco de la Teoria Computacional-Representacional de la Mente. El trabajo proporciona una explicitacion de una marco ontologico materialista con el que abordar la reconstruccion de los problemas mencionados asi como su analisis critico. En concreto, dicho marco ontologico se emplea para caracterizar, presentar con precision y analizar criticamente ciertas cuestiones centrales para la Teoria Computacional-Representacional de la Mente desde la perspectiva de la obra de Fodor y teniendo presente las consideraciones de sus principales interlocutores. Entre tales cuestiones cabe destacar los problemas de la condicion de formalidad, internalismo vs. externalismo, holismo semantico vs. atomismo semantico, naturalizacion de la intencionalidad (de las representaciones ...