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History, Technology, and Politics: the political uses of railways in Portugal (1850-1900)
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
In the nineteenth century, Portugal undertook a public works programme, spearheaded by railways, seeking the modernisation of the country. In this paper, I use the approach of technopolitics to study how the implementation ...
Bi-directionality and time in causal relationships
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper aims to provide an answer to James Woodward’s article “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”. It will be conjectured that, when causal directionality depends on the experimental design, it is ...
How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, Their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by aristophanes. ...
Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes: a response to Woodward on causal and explanatory asymmetries
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of ...
The machine-like repair of aging. Disentangling the key assumptions of the SENS agenda
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
The possibility of curing aging is currently generating hopes and concerns among entrepreneurs, experts, and the general public. This article aims to clarify some of the key assumptions of the Strategies for Engineered ...
Kripke’s Gödel case: descriptive ambiguity and its experimental interpretation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
Kripke toma el caso Gödel como un contraejemplo a las teorías descriptivistas de la referencia. Ma-chery et al. cuestionan la validez del caso presentado por Kripke, y han llevado a cabo estudios empíricos para mos-trar ...
Conceptual recombination and stimulus-independence in non-human animals
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
Camp (2009) distinguishes two varieties of conceptual recombination. One of them is full-blown or (as I prefer to call it) spontaneous recombination. The other is causal-counterfactual recombination. She sug-gests that ...
The cooperative identity is a key competitive advantage
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
The cooperative identity is a key competitive advantage.
Research trends in technology in the context of smart destinations: a bibliometric analysis and network visualization
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2022-02-10)
[EN] Information and communication technologies play a critical role in tourism, providing benefits such as improvement in tourism experiences, co-creation of value, and promotion of the marketing of relationships and ...