Browsing Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia by Title
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Hacia una epistemología del desconocimiento
The article analyzes the possibilities of the unknown as an essential part of our epis-temological system, beginning with a historical and critical review of the concept of knowledge. This concept is proposed as a social ... -
Heidegger y Einstein: relación en torno al tiempo
This paper aims to identify the relationship around time between the Heidegger’s works El concepto de tiempo en la ciencia histórica (1915), El concepto de tiempo (as the treaty as the conference published in 1924), ... -
Historicismo, historia y filosofía de la ciencia
If we recognize that the objectivity of Scientific Knowledge can not be supported by a priori criteria, then two types of project are presented to characterize this objectivity: the Naturalized Proposals that try to sustain ... -
Historizar la objetividad
This essay aims to contribute to the debate on the relation between history and philosophy of science, by defending a historicist perspective. A fruitful analysis of the problem of objectivity in science, we argue, must ... -
Identidad personal y ciencia
The philosophical problem of personal identity –the issue of finding the necessary and sufficient conditions for a past or future being to be a certain present being– has been treated by analytical metaphysics mostly. In ... -
Identidad, tiempo y cambio: disolviendo el problema de la identidad diacrónica
The aim of this paper is two-fold. For one thing, I shall argue that the problem of the diachronic identity is a subsidiary problem stemmed from commitments to three-dimensionalism, according to which physical objects only ... -
Igualdad, cooperación y territorialidad. De las bandas del Paleolítico superior a las pandillas centroamericanas contemporáneas
Theories focusing on the repression of incest (Freud, Levi-Strauss) or the social contract (Hobbes, Rousseau) have emphasized the importance of the family and the State, respec-tively, but have paid little attention to ... -
Imágenes en la explicación del comportamiento prosocial humano y su evolución
We trace the presupposed images in the explanation of the human prosocial behavior and its evolution that have led more than a century and a half the evolutionary thought and have generated a dramatic influence in the way ... -
Importancia del lenguaje y método filosófico en el segundo Wittgenstein
The article answers the question Why does language matter in philosophy? Formulated more than forty years ago by the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, In doing so, part of the new conception of the philosophical method ... -
Improvisar y deliberar en incertidumbre
This article aims to infer a hypothesis about the evolution of moral decision as an auto-matic response. The automatism in moral decision represents two forms of know-how in nature that have allowed humans to improvise ... -
Integración de analogías en la modelación científica
Discussion of modeling within philosophy of science has focused in how models, understood as finished products, represent the world. This approach has some issues accounting for the value of modeling in situations where ... -
Kitcher y la organización de la investigación científica: un análisis de la ciencia desde los modelos ideales de la economía
This paper shows Kitcher ́s work of Science Research Organization. We argue that copyright purpose is valuable. Scientists to pursue their own interests (not necessarily epistemic) can achieve scientific truth (argument ... -
La agencia técnica animal: hacia una explicación de las conductas de uso y fabricación de herramientas
In this paper I examine the notion of “agency” and its possible application to the animal technique. Although the traditional theory of action considers that non-human animals cannot be agents due to their lacks of language, ... -
La ceguera y el vacío
Since the last third of the 20th century, philosophy of science has been strongly influenced by reflection and debate on the relation it should have with history (or historiography of science). The origin of these debates ... -
La comprensión matemática y el papel de los contraejemplos y las patologías: un estudio de caso del análisis matemático
Pathological objects and counterexamples play an important role in mathematical understanding even though there is no precise definition of them. What is a pathological object? What makes a mathematical object pathological?The ... -
La evolución de los sistemas complejos adaptativos según el “darwinismo cuántico” de Zurek
I argue for a non-reductive integration between physical and biological approaches based on the notion of information as interpretation. Thus I outline a scheme based on Peirce’ semiosis in which the relation between ... -
La norma global y la fractura ecológica
Ecology is one of the disciplines that have been called to solve environmental issues. However, little has been investigated if such issues affected the inherent development of this discipline. In this sense, this work ...
