Suchergebnisse

Este artículo es una invitación a reflexionar nuestro futuro económico, desde un escenario al mismo tiempo mundial y nacional, persuadidos de que los problemas mundiales son problemas nacionales. Por ello, hacemos referencias breves al funcionamiento de la globalización, que parece andar cabizbaja, al mercado y al comercio mundial en que estamos inmersos, al Consenso de Washington y al Fondo Monetario Internacional, a lo que hacían nuestros economistas de los años 1960 y 1970, a los problemas que hoy presenta la economía de los noventa, sugiriendo algunas propuestas que no pretenden ser recetas económicas. El deseo es que nos dejemos guiar por la realidad, la racionalidad y la autocrítica.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 58, No. 656, 2003: 541-561.

The author argues that the concept of justification is viewed best through elucidation of the processes of ethical and epistemic justification, with specific attention paid to what has been dubbed the "internalist/externalist" distinction in such justification. The first part of the argument clarifies the nature of the distinction as it occurs in ethics and then epistemic justification, noting that there is a parallel between the uses of the distinction, but that it is the way in which the uses are not parallel that is most salient for conceptual purposes. The author then claims that there is an analogous distinction, frequently made in ethical justification, and that is the alleged normative/descriptive distinction. A look at the intersection of that distinction with the internalist/externalist juncture yields the notion that epistemic justification, in particular, could benefit from an externalist/ descriptive approach. Finally, the author argues that we would do well to apply some of the work of the social sciences to epistemic justification theory. The author concludes that the concept of justification includes all four components (internalist, externalist, nor mative, and descriptive) and that clarification of justification simpliciter involves an examination of justification in its various modes.