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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 ... -
La Paradoja de los gemelos en los textos de Einstein
The classic solution of the twin paradox is based on the idea that there is an asymmetry between accelerated and inertial systems of reference. This traditional solution points out that only the twin on the spaceship ... -
La relevancia de la reconstrucción modelo-teórica para la interpretación de la química cuántica
In the present work, I analyze the structuralist reconstructions of Quantum Mechanics that Hettema provides in the light of the problem of the reduction of Chemistry to quantum mechanics through Quantum Chemistry. The goal ... -
Las explicaciones sobre el comportamiento social: entre la administración y la generación de beneficio
The study of the evolution of social behavior, in terms of cooperation and altruism, has usually been framed in quantitative explanations and mathematical models, which intend to capture the interdependence relationships ... -
Las matemáticas de los siglos XVI y XVII en la historiografía científica contemporánea
This paper analyzes how was studied the role of mathematics in the Scientific Revolu-tion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in contemporary scientific historiography, highlighting the one hand, the limits and scope ... -
Límites de la filosofía natural en la distinción Cualidades Primarias y Secundarias de John Locke
The purpose of this article is to clarify the distinction between primary and secondary qualities in the philosophy of Locke, in the light of the traditions that on the subject had on hand. First, I will contrast his claims ... -
Los artefactos en cuanto posibilitadores de acción. Problemas en torno a la noción de agencia material en el debate contemporáneo
The recovery of materiality as a relevant topic in contemporary thought has derived mainly from theorists of sociology, anthropology and archeology. This impulse gave rise to multiple approaches now commonly grouped under ... -
Los caminos de la filosofía natural en el siglo XVII: especulación, experimentos e historias naturales
The reinterpretation of natural philosophy of the seventeenth century centered exclu-sively from the point of view of the practical, operational and technical, it provides the experimental philosophy developed in the ... -
Los espacios tecnológicos: un acercamiento al malestar cultural de los medios de comunicación en McLuhan
This article aims to approach the sensitive thought of the mass media since Marshall McLuhan. In general, this approximation tries to relate from the technological conso-lidation of the information, the question of the ... -
Los pecados (historiográficos) de los padres
In this paper I present a diagnosis of a problem and a solution proposal (currently in progress). This problem revolves around how we should understand the relationship between history of science and philosophy of science ... -
Los “otros” de la historia. Aproximaciones conceptuales en torno a un posible diálogo Foucault-Benjamin
The article discusses a possible dialog between Foucault and Walter Benjamin in front of the way to approach a story. It indicates some theoretical, methodological and episte-mological aspects that differ or assimilate the ... -
Mecanicismo y causas finales en la naturaleza: una tensión epistémica en la filosofía natural de Robert Boyle
IDespite the mechanistic criticism of Aristotelian-scholastic approach, I believe that -otherwise to the historiographical perspective- the new natural philosophy traditionally assumes the Aristotelian naturalism of the ... -
Metaheurísticas y resolución de problemas complejos
Not every problem is complex. Metaheuristics stand out as the adequate rods for solving complex problems. This entails, from the outset, the capacity to identify the very nature of such problems. This paper presents and ... -
No eres un realista selectivo dialetheísta
In her (2019), Martínez-Ordaz puts forward an argument whose conclusion pretends to be a dilemma for selective realists: either selective realists cannot rule true contradictions out or the usual characterization of selective ...
