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These days, Africa is seen as an underdeveloped or developing continent. (...) What is meant by this is that Africa as a whole lags behind other areas in terms of measurable economic output and general "quality of life" indices for its inhabitants. An evident paradox in the attempts made to solve the problem of underdevelopment in Africa is that the vast majority of the research into the cause of Africa's present condition emanates from research centres and universities located in the West. And what is evident about the majority of such theories is that they tend to focus narrowly on strictly economic issues geared towards "alleviating poverty" and creating piecemeal conditions for "sustainable development". The collection of essays in this issue approach the problem of development from a broader, more holistic perspective which analyses that explore Africa's present status theoretically, from the standpoint of all the social sciences, not just economics. (Afr Dev/DÜI)

Quiero ante todo expresar la profunda satisfacción que este Doctorado Honoris Causa me produce, pues constituye para mí un motivo de orgullo recibir esta distinción tan relevante por parte de la decana, en antigüedad y prestigio, de todas las universidades hispanoamericanas, esta hermosa y casi legendaria Universidad de San Marcos que en el día de hoy me acoge como formando parte de su comunidad universitaria. Esta distinción de la que me siento tan honrado, ha permitido que por vez primera pudiera conocer este querido país, que desde mi infancia y mi juventud había deseado visitar, ya que me unen a él vínculos personales y hasta familiares. Como he podido relatarlo en un libro reciente de memorias y confesiones que se titula El árbol de la vida, en el que hablo de mis primeros treinta y tres años, y que concluye con la fecha del cambio de régimen en España y del inicio de la transición democrática, toda mi infancia estuvo tutelada y guiada por una abuela materna, Ana Puig-Mir de Sagnier, que había nacido en Guayaquil, donde vivió hasta casi los veinte años; mujer muy culta, amante de todas las artes. Mi abuela siempre consideraba que Lima era su ciudad predilecta; la había conocido en su infancia, y volvió a visitarla siempre que pudo. Era una mujer ecuatoriana enamorada de Lima y de Perú. Y ciertamente me comunicó a mí esos sentimientos, que sin embargo, por diferentes infortunios, me impidieron visitar este querido país en diferentes ocasiones. ; First, I would like to express my deep satisfaction with this Honorary Doctorate, as it is a source of pride for me to receive such a relevant distinction from the dean, in terms of seniority and prestige, of all the Spanish-American universities, this beautiful and almost legendary University of San Marcos, which today welcomes me as part of its university community. This distinction, of which I feel so honoured, has allowed me to get to know this beloved country for the first time, which I had wanted to visit since my childhood and youth, since I have personal and even family ties to it. As I have been able to relate in a recent book of memoirs and confessions entitled El árbol de la vida (The Tree of Life), in which I talk about my first thirty-three years, and which concludes with the date of the change of regime in Spain and the beginning of the democratic transition, my entire childhood was tutored and guided by a maternal grandmother, Ana Puig-Mir de Sagnier, who was born in Guayaquil, where she lived until she was almost twenty; a very cultured woman, a lover of all the arts. My grandmother always considered Lima to be her favourite city; she had known it in her childhood, and she returned to visit it whenever she could. She was an Ecuadorian woman in love with Lima and Peru. And she certainly communicated those feelings to me, which however, through different misfortunes, prevented me from visiting this beloved country on different occasions.

This paper outlines the theory of knowledge John Maynard Keynes had developed in his writings. It sheds a light on a different understanding of his central notions like intuition, individual judgment, convention and logic, which is compatible with his view of uncertainty. The reconsideration of his philosophy rejects current attempts to anchor his theory of knowledge against infinite regresses of reason. The movement from categories of truth to categories of knowledge underlines the relativity of the Cambridge Philosophy, of idealisms as well as of empiricism, he already had presented in his philosophical papers. Keynes transformed orthodox categories, which enabled him to analyse economic decision- making in the light of ignorance and uncertainty.