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Pluralidad científica y evaluación de riesgos
Sciences exhibit a multiplicity and plurality of interests, values, languages, methodologies, representations, theories and ontologies. This recognition has given rise to the monism vs. pluralism debate in Philosophy of ... -
Propuesta de una Metodología con base en la Lógica Difusa para Explicar los Razonamientos de Tipo Sorites
The sorites paradox is widely known for showing the contradictory consequences that reasoning with vague terms might have. Important analytic philosophers like Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege strongly ... -
Protoideas de termodinámica y evolución en la obra biológica de Aristóteles
The ideas developed in Ancient Greece are a sea of contrasts. While many of them eventually led to the development of science and philosophy, some others were true epistemological obstacles that delayed and hindered their ... -
Realismo científico y nominalismo. Respuesta a Stathis Psillos
In this paper I reject Psillos’ (2012) pleas against moderate nominalism (NM). NM is a brand of realism which proposes to restrict the rational belief to the purely nominalistic contents of scientific theories. Psillos ... -
Reconstrucción de una teoría politológica, el Sufragio Activo Meritocrático
A non-formal reconstruction of the theory of the meritocratic active suffrage is presented, which proposes the plural vote in local communities based on political merit, according to the prosociality of local ... -
Representar e intervenir el comportamiento humano en la era de la tecnobiología: un aporte desde la filosofía de la biología
In the technobiological era, biological knowledge is often taken to be a safety and effi-cient pathway to modifying pathological or undesirable behaviour by technological means. This conception is intensely expressed in ... -
Robert Boyle y John Locke: mecanicismo, percepción y teoría de las ideas
The aim of this paper is to discuss the assumptions and implications of the new mechanistic ontology of two philosophers representatives of natural philosophy of the seventeenth century, John Locke and Robert Boyle. Three ... -
Sobre el concepto de leyes de la naturaleza en Isaac Newton
The purpose of this article is double, to clarify the uses by Newton's concept of Natural Law (LN), in the light of the problems and traditions available to him, mainly Cartesian, the English experimental philosophies and ... -
Sobre el estatus ontológico del espaciotiempo. Una respuesta al realismo estructural.
The problem of realism about spacetime revolves around whether it is a substance or a relationship between substances. For the ontic structural realism: "spacetime is a real structure embodied in the world", where the ... -
Sobre el uso y significado de la Historia en Filosofía de la Ciencia
The paper explores some of the meanings and uses of history in the philosophy of science. I argue that the absence (or presence) of history in the philosophical reflections of science does not depend from the lack of ... -
Sobre la noción de información y algunas implicaciones en el ámbito psicosocial
The concept of information is essential for the individuation theory of Gilbert Simondon. This author takes distance from traditional notions because these think information as a measurable and manageable thing. Also, a ... -
¿Son válidos los argumentos evolutivos desacrcreditadores en contra de la ciencia cognitiva crcreacionista de la religión?
According to Plantinga, identifying the cognitive mechanisms (postulated by the cognitive science of religion (SCR) to explain the belief in God) with the sensus divinitatis allows us to build a case for the rationality ... -
Suposiciones aléticas en la obra de Sigmund Freud
This work links some contemporary theorizings about the problem of truth in philo-sophy (correspondence, coherentism and pragmatism) with the theoretical proposals of Sigmund Freud. The main assumptions of some philosophers ... -
Teoría de las cantidades conservadas: una tensión interna
In its attempt to answer the question about what a causal relation is, Phil Dowe’s Theory of Conserved Quantities defines ‘causal process’ as ‘worldline of an object that possesses a conserved quantity’. However, when Dowe ... -
Una crítica al pluralismo ontológico: el caso de la mecánica cuántica
Scientifically speaking, quantum mechanics (QM) is the most successful theory ever made. Philosophically speaking, however, it is the most controversial theory. Its basic principles seem to contravene our deepest intuitions ... -
Una defensa del realismo científico nominalista. Respuesta a Joseph Melia
Nominalistic scientific realism restricts to the field of spatio-temporal entities the belief in the unobservable underpinned by the success of science. This claim requires giving criteria to decouple from the realistic ...
