Month: March 2025

What Is This Thing Called Propaganda?

On By BIAP Research & Outreach ManagerIn Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Propaganda, Social Epistemology
Image attribution: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

This is a post by Constant Bonard (University of Bern), Filippo Contesi (University of Cagliari) and Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona).

Propaganda is so ubiquitous a phenomenon in contemporary societies of all types that there would seem to be no problem in us understanding what it is. Still, we apparently continue to fall for it so often that perhaps we are not very good at recognizing it. It may be because we don’t really understand what propaganda is. Can the philosophical debate about how to define propaganda provide any help?

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Francesc Pereña, 1947 – 2025

On By BIAP Research & Outreach ManagerIn Uncategorized
This photo was taken in July 2006. Francesc (sitting at the head of the table) is surrounded by friends and colleagues from LOGOS.

This is a post by Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona).

Francesc Pereña, a founding member of LOGOS and key contributor to its success, died on February 16 after a long and cruel illness.

Francesc got his PhD at the University of Barcelona in 1987 under the supervision of Emilio Lledó, with a dissertation on Schelling’s views on freedom that he had conceived during a four-year stay in Heidelberg, mentored by H. G. Gadamer. He worked mostly on the philosophy of the 19th-century German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, and on the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger.

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