Conocimiento, vida y virtud moral

Macintyre ha dividido su última obra Dependent Rational Animals en dos partes. Enla primera analiza las habilidades que los animales racionales tienen en común con losirracionales, mientras que en la segunda parte expone el concepto de 'autonomía moral'. El artículo expone las ideas del último libro de MacIntyre relacionándolas con sus trabajos anteriores. El artículo fue presentado en las jornadas sobre 'El pensamiento filosófico-moral de Alasdair Machtyre' que se realizaron el pasado año en Madrid organizadas por Facultad de CC. Jundicas y de la Administración, de la Universidad San Pablo-CEU.

Ètica a través de la literatura. La reflexió moral a través del text literari.

La tradició que relaciona l"Ètica amb la Literatura remunta als textos grecs més clàssics on els herois, ben dibuixats per l"autor, presentaven el perfil de l"ideal a seguir per tal que generacions d"homes i dones s"hi emmirallessin tot tractant d"imitar en les seves vides, si no les gestes, les actituds i les virtuts que els herois llegendaris encarnaven. Només cal parar esment en el pes que en la vida d"Alexandre el Gran tingué la presentació que Homer fa d"Aquileu, un heroi que preferí la glòria immortal a un envelliment plàcid a la vora del foc.

Observational methodology in football: Development of an instrument to study the offensiva game in football.

The following paper introduces a new approach to the analysis of offensive game in football. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to create an instrument for collecting information for the analysis of offensive action and interactions game. The observation instrument that was used to accomplish the main objective of this work consists of a combination of format fields (FC) and systems of categories (SC). This methodology is a particular strategy of the scientific method that has as an objective to analyse the perceptible behaviour that occurs in habitual contexts, allowing them to be formally recorded and quantified and using an ad hoc instrument in order to obtain a behaviour systematic registration that, since they have been transformed in quantitative data with the necessary reliability and validity determined level, will allow analysis of the relations between these behaviours. The codifications undertaken to date in various games of football have shown that it serves the purposes for which it was developed, allowing more research into the offensive game methods in football.

Desarrollo de la personalidad moral y competencia emocional

Podeu consultar les jornades completes a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/46286

Desarrollo de la personalidad moral y competencia emocional

Podeu consultar les jornades completes a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/46286

Buenos libros, malas lectoras: la enfermedad moral de las mujeres del siglo XIX

El seu article parteix de l'afirmació que el destí de les dones al segle XIX està marcat, en la ficció, pel "bovarysme", malaltia que proposa que les dones s'emmalalteixen i moren perquè llegeixen malament. El treball analitza aquest problema de la "mala lectura" traçant un recorregut que va des de Fernán Caballero fins a Freud i es comenten alguns episodis de lectura que apareixen en la "Autobiografía" de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clemencia, Amalia, Madame Bovary, María, La regenta i El caso Dora. Her article departs from the statement that the destiny of women in the 19th century is determined, in fiction, by "bovarysm", an illness which proposes that women get sick and die because they read incorrectly. The work analyzes this problem of "bad reading" tracing a journey from Fernán Caballero to Freud, and comments on several episodes about the act of reading, from Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's "Autobiography", Clemencia, Amalia, Madame Bovary, María, La Regenta and Dora's Case.

A Petri Nets-based Scheduling Methodology forMultipurpose Batch Plants.

This article presents an optimization methodology of batch production processes assembled by shared resources which rely on a mapping of state-events into time-events allowing in this way the straightforward use of a well consolidated scheduling policies developed for manufacturing systems. A technique to generate the timed Petri net representation from a continuous dynamic representation (Differential-Algebraic Equations systems (DAEs)) of the production system is presented together with the main characteristics of a Petri nets-based tool implemented for optimization purposes. This paper describes also how the implemented tool generates the coverability tree and how it can be pruned by a general purpose heuristic. An example of a distillation process with two shared batch resources is used to illustrate the optimization methodology proposed.

Description of a robotics-oriented relational positioning methodology

This paper presents a relational positioning methodology for flexibly and intuitively specifying offline programmed robot tasks, as well as for assisting the execution of teleoperated tasks demanding precise movements.In relational positioning, the movements of an object can be restricted totally or partially by specifying its allowed positions in terms of a set of geometric constraints. These allowed positions are found by means of a 3D sequential geometric constraint solver called PMF – Positioning Mobile with respect to Fixed. PMF exploits the fact that in a set of geometric constraints, the rotational component can often be separated from the translational one and solved independently.

Vicio, delito y psicopatología: los límites de la responsabilidad moral

A continuació, pretenem valorar en quina mesura l’home és responsable a la malaltia mental, sabent que és una pregunta de difícil solució i, en certa manera, incontestable. La normalitat serà el nostre punt de partida. Amb aquest objectiu, analitzarem el terme, l’essència, els tipus i les limitacions de la llibertat així com la seva utilització. Donarem espai també a l’exposició de la consciència moral ja que és objecte d’estudi en afers de responsabilitat moral. En aquest cas, volem apropar-nos als fonaments antropològics i ètics de l’home amb la voluntat d’entendre, tot el que sigui possible, el significat de la responsabilitat moral i la voluntarietat de l’acció humana.

Moral Hazard in Repeated Procurement of Services

This paper analyzes repeated procurement of services as a four-stage game divided into two periods. In each period there is (1) a contest stage à la Tullock in which the principal selects an agent and (2) a service stage in which the selected agent provides a service. Since this service effort is non-verifiable, the principal faces a moral hazard problem at the service stages. This work considers how the principal should design the period-two contest to mitigate the moral hazard problem in the period-one service stage and to maximize total service and contest efforts. It is shown that the principal must take account of the agent's past service effort in the period-two contest success function. The results indicate that the optimal way to introduce this `bias' is to choose a certain degree of complementarity between past service and current contest efforts. This result shows that contests with `additive bias' (`multiplicative bias') are optimal in incentive problems when effort cost is low (high). Furthermore, it is shown that the severity of the moral hazard problem increases with the cost of service effort (compared to the cost of contest effort) and the number of agents. Finally, the results are extended to more general contest success functions. JEL classification: C72; D82 Key words: Biased contests; Moral Hazard; Repeated Game; Incentives.

Educació moral: la via (no només) aristotèlica

Quin és el plantejament essencial que Aristòtil fa de l"educació moral? Podem dir que manté la seva eventual vigència històrica, si més no com a proposta? Es tracta d"un plantejament isolat, o podem trobar-ne epígons (més enllà de la inspiració més o menys aristotèlica que aquests tinguin)? El text que segueix pretén donar una resposta esquemàtica a les anteriors preguntes, i, de retruc, plantejar un repte conceptual (i, al capdavall, també pràctic) a tots aquells que puguin desqualificar la proposta aristotèlica per considerar-la corruptora dels principis liberals.