José Tomás Alvarado Marambio

Modelo dinámico de crecimiento de la biomasa para Mytilus chilensis en sistemas de cultivo en líneas

A dynamic biomass growth model for the mussel Mytilus chilensis in longline culture systems in proposed. This model determines the biomass by estimating the ...

¿Qué es una ‘religión’? Tres teorías recientes

In this work three recent proposal of analysis of the concept of ‘religion’ are discussed (Stone, 2001; Kapitan, 2008; Schaffalitzky, 2014). There is a strong convergence between these three proposals in several points: all of them maintain that a religion should be the belief of something –a set of propositions, the object of a propositional attitude like a belief–, all of them maintain that the object of the belief should be a theory about the good, and all of them maintain that a religion should have important normative and practical consequences. It is argued here that there are at least two problems with the general conception that results from these analyses. In the first place, attributing to a religion the conditions of identity of an act of belief leads to absurd consequences. In the second place, it seems much better to analyze a religion as a theory about God or some gods.