Manuel Vargas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Vargas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargas |
| SIGNATURE | VARGAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8783-710X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents
There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality. As such, their integration into social “nodes,” or places of individual and organizational interaction, make our moral ecology more austere, reducing morally sensitive interactions. In turn, thi…
Optimizing University Admission Processes for Improved Educational Administration Through Feature Selection Algorithms
This study presents an innovative approach to support educational administration, focusing on the optimization of university admission processes using feature selection algorithms. The research addresses the challenges of concept drift, outlier treatment, and the weighting of key factors in admission criteria. The proposed methodology identifies the optimal set of features and assigns weights to the selection criteria that demonstrate the stronge…
Functionalisms and the Philosophy of Action
Focusing on the recent work of Michael Bratman as emblematic of several important developments in the philosophy of action, I raise four questions that engage with a set of interlocking concerns about systemic functionalism in the philosophy of action. These questions are: (i) Are individual and institutional intentions the same kind of thing? (ii) Can the risk of proliferation of systemic functional explanations be managed? (iii) Is there an app…
Counterfactual genealogy, speculative accuracy, & predicative drift
Explicitly fictional armchair reconstructions of the past are sometimes taken to be informative about philosophical issues. What appeal a counterfactual genealogy has depends on its speculative accuracy, that is, its accuracy in identifying relevant causal, functional, or explanatory particulars. However, even when speculatively accurate, counterfactual genealogies rarely secure more than proofs of possibility. For more ambitious deployments of g…
Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions
If no one is morally responsible, how should we respond to wrongdoing? Over the past twenty-five years, Derk Pereboom has grappled with this question with tremendous ingenuity, rigor, and generosity to his interlocutors. That responsibility skepticism is no longer regarded as a merely notional possibility, or the province of a handful of historical figures, is attributable to his efforts. In Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions, Pereboom offers a ne…
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology
Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state of the art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The volume’s 50 chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue…
Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology
Comparative What? Latin American Challenges to Philosophy-as-Worldview
Attention to the details of putatively obvious examples of philosophy-as-worldview within Latin America give us reasons to be skeptical about the taxonomy that gives us the category of philosophy-as-worldview. Among the examples that suggest difficulties for this way of thinking about the philosophical enterprise are 19th century Mexican ethnolinguistics, contemporary efforts to reconstruct historical and contemporary Indigenous thought, and 20th…
National Health Systems and Covid-19 Death Toll Doubling Time
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has placed stress on all National Health Systems (NHSs) worldwide. Recent studies on the disease have evaluated different variables, namely, quarantine models, mitigation efforts, damage to mental health, mortality of the population with chronic diseases, diagnosis, use of masks and social distancing, and mortality based on age. This study focused on the four NHSs recognized by the WHO. These systems are as fol…
The Philosophy of Accidentality
In mid-twentieth-century Mexican philosophy, there was a peculiar nationalist existentialist project focused on the cultural conditions of agency. This article revisits some of those ideas, including the idea that there is an important but underappreciated experience of one's relationship to norms and social meanings. This experience—something called accidentality—casts new light on various forms of social subordination and socially scaffolded ag…
Utilizing open-source platforms to build and deploy interactive patient-reported quality of life tracking tools for monitoring protocol adherence
Reflectivism, Skepticism, and Values
Talking to Our Selves is a gripping challenge to any view according to which reflective selfawareness is at the core of our agency.With enviable flair, Doris explores the philosophical implications of a wide range of findings from the behavioral and cognitive sciences and shows how they impugn the reliability of our reflective, self-aware agency.He argues that individual agency is best understood as a product not of accurate, reflective rationali…
Rational and Social Agency
Building Better Beings
Manuel Vargas presents a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and accountability. He shows how we can justify our responsibility practices, and provides a normatively and naturalistically adequate account of agency, blame, and desert.
Revisionist Accounts of Free Will
This article deals with another kind of free-will theory, revisionism, that is comparatively new and has come into prominence only in the past decade. Rather that denying we have free will, revisionists with incompatibilist intuitions, who come to believe that an incompatibilist free will is impossible, would instead conclude that free will was not exactly what they previously thought it to be (i.e., it is not incompatibilist). They would, in eff…
Internet in the development of future road‐traffic control systems
Purpose Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are defined as new infrastructures that combine people, roads and vehicles over the basis of modern embedded systems with enhanced digital connectivity. ITS is fast becoming a reality, favored in their development by the use of the internet. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of road‐traffic management systems, using the internet as the communication link. Design/methodology/ap…
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and Metametaphilosophy
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and MetametaphilosophyOn the Plight of Latin American Philosophy Manuel Vargas 1. A Spectre Is Haunting Latin American Philosophy My aim here is to argue for the thesis that there are profound barriers to the systematic integration of Latin American philosophy with the mainstream of philosophy as practiced in the English-speaking world. In particular, I am concerned with a set of difficulties rooted in some elemen…
Philosophy and the Folk
Culture, ideology, and dwelling in two Dominican villages
Study of the contrasting response to modernization in 2 Dominican villages. Author demonstrates that this contrast is caused by the intentional use of 2 culturally specific ideologies aimed at achieving and maintaining existential security. He also shows that the constitution of the 2 ideologies was conditioned by the ideosyncratic constitution of cultural-ethnic identity, nationalism, and peasant consciousness
Internet in the development of future road‐traffic control systems
Purpose Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are defined as new infrastructures that combine people, roads and vehicles over the basis of modern embedded systems with enhanced digital connectivity. ITS is fast becoming a reality, favored in their development by the use of the internet. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of road‐traffic management systems, using the internet as the communication link. Design/methodology/ap…
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and Metametaphilosophy
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and MetametaphilosophyOn the Plight of Latin American Philosophy Manuel Vargas 1. A Spectre Is Haunting Latin American Philosophy My aim here is to argue for the thesis that there are profound barriers to the systematic integration of Latin American philosophy with the mainstream of philosophy as practiced in the English-speaking world. In particular, I am concerned with a set of difficulties rooted in some elemen…
Culture, ideology, and dwelling in two Dominican villages
Study of the contrasting response to modernization in 2 Dominican villages. Author demonstrates that this contrast is caused by the intentional use of 2 culturally specific ideologies aimed at achieving and maintaining existential security. He also shows that the constitution of the 2 ideologies was conditioned by the ideosyncratic constitution of cultural-ethnic identity, nationalism, and peasant consciousness
Philosophy and the Folk
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and Metametaphilosophy
Real Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and MetametaphilosophyOn the Plight of Latin American Philosophy Manuel Vargas 1. A Spectre Is Haunting Latin American Philosophy My aim here is to argue for the thesis that there are profound barriers to the systematic integration of Latin American philosophy with the mainstream of philosophy as practiced in the English-speaking world. In particular, I am concerned with a set of difficulties rooted in some elemen…
Internet in the development of future road‐traffic control systems
Purpose Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are defined as new infrastructures that combine people, roads and vehicles over the basis of modern embedded systems with enhanced digital connectivity. ITS is fast becoming a reality, favored in their development by the use of the internet. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of road‐traffic management systems, using the internet as the communication link. Design/methodology/ap…
Revisionist Accounts of Free Will
This article deals with another kind of free-will theory, revisionism, that is comparatively new and has come into prominence only in the past decade. Rather that denying we have free will, revisionists with incompatibilist intuitions, who come to believe that an incompatibilist free will is impossible, would instead conclude that free will was not exactly what they previously thought it to be (i.e., it is not incompatibilist). They would, in eff…
Building Better Beings
Manuel Vargas presents a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and accountability. He shows how we can justify our responsibility practices, and provides a normatively and naturalistically adequate account of agency, blame, and desert.
Rational and Social Agency
Reflectivism, Skepticism, and Values
Talking to Our Selves is a gripping challenge to any view according to which reflective selfawareness is at the core of our agency.With enviable flair, Doris explores the philosophical implications of a wide range of findings from the behavioral and cognitive sciences and shows how they impugn the reliability of our reflective, self-aware agency.He argues that individual agency is best understood as a product not of accurate, reflective rationali…
The Philosophy of Accidentality
In mid-twentieth-century Mexican philosophy, there was a peculiar nationalist existentialist project focused on the cultural conditions of agency. This article revisits some of those ideas, including the idea that there is an important but underappreciated experience of one's relationship to norms and social meanings. This experience—something called accidentality—casts new light on various forms of social subordination and socially scaffolded ag…
Utilizing open-source platforms to build and deploy interactive patient-reported quality of life tracking tools for monitoring protocol adherence
National Health Systems and Covid-19 Death Toll Doubling Time
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has placed stress on all National Health Systems (NHSs) worldwide. Recent studies on the disease have evaluated different variables, namely, quarantine models, mitigation efforts, damage to mental health, mortality of the population with chronic diseases, diagnosis, use of masks and social distancing, and mortality based on age. This study focused on the four NHSs recognized by the WHO. These systems are as fol…
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology
Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state of the art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The volume’s 50 chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue…
Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology
Comparative What? Latin American Challenges to Philosophy-as-Worldview
Attention to the details of putatively obvious examples of philosophy-as-worldview within Latin America give us reasons to be skeptical about the taxonomy that gives us the category of philosophy-as-worldview. Among the examples that suggest difficulties for this way of thinking about the philosophical enterprise are 19th century Mexican ethnolinguistics, contemporary efforts to reconstruct historical and contemporary Indigenous thought, and 20th…
Functionalisms and the Philosophy of Action
Focusing on the recent work of Michael Bratman as emblematic of several important developments in the philosophy of action, I raise four questions that engage with a set of interlocking concerns about systemic functionalism in the philosophy of action. These questions are: (i) Are individual and institutional intentions the same kind of thing? (ii) Can the risk of proliferation of systemic functional explanations be managed? (iii) Is there an app…
Counterfactual genealogy, speculative accuracy, & predicative drift
Explicitly fictional armchair reconstructions of the past are sometimes taken to be informative about philosophical issues. What appeal a counterfactual genealogy has depends on its speculative accuracy, that is, its accuracy in identifying relevant causal, functional, or explanatory particulars. However, even when speculatively accurate, counterfactual genealogies rarely secure more than proofs of possibility. For more ambitious deployments of g…
Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions
If no one is morally responsible, how should we respond to wrongdoing? Over the past twenty-five years, Derk Pereboom has grappled with this question with tremendous ingenuity, rigor, and generosity to his interlocutors. That responsibility skepticism is no longer regarded as a merely notional possibility, or the province of a handful of historical figures, is attributable to his efforts. In Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions, Pereboom offers a ne…
Optimizing University Admission Processes for Improved Educational Administration Through Feature Selection Algorithms
This study presents an innovative approach to support educational administration, focusing on the optimization of university admission processes using feature selection algorithms. The research addresses the challenges of concept drift, outlier treatment, and the weighting of key factors in admission criteria. The proposed methodology identifies the optimal set of features and assigns weights to the selection criteria that demonstrate the stronge…
Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents
There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality. As such, their integration into social “nodes,” or places of individual and organizational interaction, make our moral ecology more austere, reducing morally sensitive interactions. In turn, thi…
Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Moral responsibility (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Agency (philosophy) (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works)