GESTAS DE ARENA

Necesariamente diferente del manuscrito, el texto que construye el editor con vistas a adaptarlo a las convenciones de sus contemporáneos debe recoger fielmente la preciosa huella medieval dejada por la obra. Si el editor no puede ir más allá del (único) manuscrito en la restitución moderna de la gesta, y si la primera función y razón de ser del mismo editor es la de difundir una versión del manuscrito legible por sus contemporáneos, también tiene el deber de reproducir el texto manuscrito y no otra cosa. Ésta me parece ser, aunque paradójica, la única función útil del editor de la gesta : la de mediar entre dos textos -sólo dos-, el manuscrito existente y la edición proyectada

Fine’s McTaggart: Reloaded

In this paper I will present three arguments (based on the notions of constitution, metaphysical reality, and truth, respectively) with the aim of shedding some new light on the structure of Fine’s (2005, 2006) ‘McTaggartian’ arguments against the reality of tense. Along the way, I will also (i) draw a novel map of the main realist positions about tense, (ii) unearth a previously unnoticed but potentially interesting form of external relativism (which I will label ‘hyper-presentism’) and (iii) sketch a novel interpretation of Fine’s fragmentalism (which I contrast with Lipman’s 2015, 2016b, forthcoming)

Epistemic Immodesty and Embodied Rationality

Based on Pritchard’s distinction (2012, 2016) between favoring and discriminating epistemic grounds, and on how those grounds bear on the elimination of skeptical possibilities, I present the dream argument as a moderate skeptical possibility that can be reasonably motivated. In order to block the dream argument skeptical conclusion, I present a version of phenomenological disjunctivism based on Noë’s actionist account of perceptual consciousness (2012). This suggests that perceptual knowledge is rationally grounded because it is a form of embodied achievement – what I call embodied rationality –, which offers a way of dissolving the pseudo-problem of epistemic immodesty, namely, the seemingly counterintuitive thesis that one can acquire rationally grounded knowledge that one is not in a radical skeptical scenario

What Is Time?

In this paper, I answer the question of what time is. First, however, I consider why one might ask this question and what exactly it is asking. The latter consideration reveals that in order to answer the question, one must first engage in a more basic investigation of what a thing, anything at all, is. Such radical investigation requires a special methodology. After briefly characterizing this methodology, I show how it can be employed to answer the titular question. This answer is significant not merely because it illuminates something of perennial interest, but because it is essential to a comprehensive and fully satisfactory metaphysics of time and, hence, to a view of the full structure in reality

Analytical modeling of reinforced concrete columns subjected to bidirectional shear

Under general seismic loading, reinforced concrete columns may be subjected to lateral loads in more than one direction. Available experimental data on columns subjected to bidirectional forces indicate that higher levels of damage and a higher loss of ductility and strength have been observed compared to similar tests under unidirectional shear forces. In this study, an experimental program was conducted in which six lightly reinforced concrete columns were subjected to unidirectional and bidirectional cyclic shear forces. This observation was used to identify the mechanisms and parameters governing the behavior of columns subjected to cyclic bidirectional lateral loads. Hence, a new conceptual model was developed to obtain the capacity of member. The shear forces were analyzed and an analytical formulation was derived to account for the effects in the concrete stress-strain relationship, the moment-curvature diagram and the plastic hinge length. These equations were used along with a structural model with concentrated plastic hinges to obtain the capacity curve of the column. The results of the formulations developed were verified using the results of the experiments performed on columns subjected to unidirectional and bidirectional cyclic lateral forces.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Space, mass and ornament in the Gothic-Renaissance transition in Spain

La introducción en España de las nuevas formas y sintaxis renacentistas a lo largo del siglo xvi no se produjo con un abandono radical e inmediato de los viejos usos góticos, de validez comprobada en trascendentales cuestiones del diseño arquitectónico. La renovación de la producción fue heterogénea y en cierto modo particular de cada artífice, según su formación previa y el grado de contacto, coherencia y compromiso con las novedades italianas, generando un panorama híbrido y plural en la arquitectura del quinientos hispano. Atendiendo a significativos textos y documentos gráficos de la época, se pretende rastrear los cambios, e inercias, en el proceso de diseño arquitectónico durante esta larga etapa de transición, estructurando el análisis a partir de tres categorías sustanciales, interdependientes y autónomas a la vez: espacio, masa y ornato.During the sixteenth century the new Renaissance forms were introduced in Spain, but the Gothic procedures continued to be used due to their proven validity for the architectural design. The renovation of the architecture was heterogeneous and different for each master, according to his previous training and his knowledge of the new Italian forms. This involved a hybrid and plural context in the Spanish architecture of the 16th century. The changes and continuities of the architectural design process during this transitory stage are investigated in this paper, based on significant texts and graphic documents of this period. The analysis is structured based on three substantial architectural categories, which are simultaneously interdependent and autonomous: space, mass and ornamen

Hacia una edición crítica del manuscrito Lazarraga

En este artículo ofrecemos un primer acercamiento a la edición del manuscrito Lazarraga (c. 1564) que un equipo de filólogos de la UPV/EHU estamos llevando a cabo. Tras resumir las principales características del manuscrito, explicamos el método de trabajo empleado hasta la fecha y abordamos, a modo de ejemplo, algunas de las dificultades que el manuscrito presenta

Hacia una edición crítica del manuscrito Lazarraga

En este artículo ofrecemos un primer acercamiento a la edición del manuscrito Lazarraga (c. 1564) que un equipo de filólogos de la UPV/EHU estamos llevando a cabo. Tras resumir las principales características del manuscrito, explicamos el método de trabajo empleado hasta la fecha y abordamos, a modo de ejemplo, algunas de las dificultades que el manuscrito presenta

Gunky time and indeterminate existence

The paper criticizes an argument recently presented by Ross Cameron. The argument purports to show that, if time is gunky (that is, if there are no time atoms), and if changes in existence are underwritten by events of coming to be, then there are cases of indeterminate existence. The putative reason is that, if time is gunky, then events of coming to be cannot be instantaneous, and hence, changes in existence must be gradual, non-clear-cut. The paper argues that this argument conflates two different readings of \u201cevent of coming to be\u201d. Under one reading, the argument is unsound. Under the other, the argument is valid only if a further, nontrivial premise is added, which concerns the relation between time atoms, instants, and instantaneous events

Astronomía en un tratado de cómputo del siglo XIII

El manuscrito 167 del Museo Episcopal de Vic, (Ausetanus = A), el llamado Liber Regius siue Descn-tio tenrpomm anni, presenta un complejo conjunto de indicaciones sobre astronomia y materias de cómputo con un cierto interés. Habiendo realizado la edición del calendario con que se abren los folios iniciales del manuscrito, en el que hemos encontrado una nueva traducción latina del Calendario de Córdoba, procedemos ahora a la edición de los textos astronómicos con algunos comentarios que pueden ampliar las indicaciones proporcionadas por A. Cordoliani en su descripción del mencionado manuscrito..