No. 50 (2026): N. 50 (2026) July-December. Lógoi. Revista de Filosofía

Volume No. 50 of Lógoi. Revista de Filosofía presents a critical examination of the conceptual tensions within modern rationality, its epistemological frontiers, and its reconfigurations in contemporary social praxis. Structured around an interdisciplinary core, this anniversary issue provides teachers, researchers, and students with a rigorous itinerary that ranges from metaphysics and classical political economy to the philosophy of language and the experiences of community psychology within the Hispanic American horizon.

The compendium of research opens with a review of political economy and civic affectivity in early modernity. Through cross-readings of John Locke, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx, the essays analyze the ontological implications of labor and private property, complemented by Francis Hutcheson’s ethical-political proposal regarding the so-called "moral sense" in the consolidation of commercial society.

On the gnoseological and metaphysical level, the volume delves into the limits of empiricism and the dilemmas of idealist systems. It addresses David Hume’s critiques of the unintelligibility of substance, the argumentative inconsistencies of the "Refutation of Idealism" in Immanuel Kant, and the dialectic between essence and existence in the late thought of Friedrich Schelling. These discussions connect directly with contemporary philosophy of mind and analytic semantics through a logical deconstruction of the self as a formal function of linguistic indexing and deixis.

Furthermore, this issue incorporates an examination of the paradoxes of the Enlightenment in the face of racial alterity through the polemic between Hume and James Beattie, while also dissecting the psychophysical dualism in the objections to Cartesian anthropology. Within the political margins of the seventeenth century, the work of Margaret Cavendish is analyzed in contrast to Thomas Hobbes, demonstrating how her utopia operates an aestheticization of politics through the imagination to safeguard individual liberty.

The decentering of the Eurocentric canon is articulated through two investigations into the history of ideas and science in nineteenth-century Venezuela. On the one hand, Simón Bolívar’s legislative and institutional labor regarding ecology and mining is reconstructed under the lens of enlightened utilitarianism; on the other, a hermeneutic bridge is proposed between Simón Rodríguez’s orthographic reforms and the linguistic utopia of Eugenio Montejo’s literary character Blas Coll.

Finally, the volume closes with an examination of the epistemology of social praxis, analyzing team sports under the theories of Jean Piaget and George H. Mead as a laboratory for cognitive empathy and relational resilience, empirically validated through the social intervention case of the Alcatraz Project.

Lógoi No. 50 establishes itself as a leading forum for the rigorous examination of traditional exegetical debates, providing essential interpretive tools that connect conceptual abstractions with the urgent social, institutional, and political demands of our time.