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152La injusticia epistémica en el proceso penalMilan Law Review 4 (2): 114-136. 2023.Cada día es más evidente que existen muchas formas sutiles de exclusión y parcialidad que afectan el correcto funcionamiento de los sistemas jurídicos. El concepto de injusticia epistémica, introducido por la filósofa Miranda Fricker, ofrece una herramienta conceptual útil para comprender estas formas de exclusión y parcialidad judicial que a menudo pasan desapercibidas. En este artículo presentamos la teoría original de Fricker y algunas de las aplicaciones del concepto de injusticia epistémica…Read more
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147Artificial explanations: the epistemological interpretation of explanation in AISynthese 170 (1): 131-146. 2009.In this paper I critically examine the notion of explanation used in Artificial Intelligence in general, and in the theory of belief revision in particular. I focus on two of the best known accounts in the literature: Pagnucco’s abductive expansion functions and Gärdenfors’ counterfactual analysis. I argue that both accounts are at odds with the way in which this notion has historically been understood in philosophy. They are also at odds with the explanatory strategies used in actual scientific…Read more
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115Axe the X in XAI: A Plea for Understandable AIIn Juan Manuel Durán & Giorgia Pozzi (eds.), Philosophy of science for machine learning: Core issues and new perspectives, Springer. forthcoming.In a recent paper, Erasmus et al. (2021) defend the idea that the ambiguity of the term “explanation” in explainable AI (XAI) can be solved by adopting any of four different extant accounts of explanation in the philosophy of science: the Deductive Nomological, Inductive Statistical, Causal Mechanical, and New Mechanist models. In this chapter, I show that the authors’ claim that these accounts can be applied to deep neural networks as they would to any natural phenomenon is mistaken. I also pro…Read more
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100Introducción a la lógica modernaEdiciones Uniandes. 2007.Introducción a la lógica moderna es un libro de texto dedicado al estudio de la lógica simbólica elemental. No presupone familiaridad alguna con la lógica, las matemáticas o la filosofía, y se ha hecho un esfuerzo deliberado por adaptarlo a los intereses de estudiantes provenientes de las más diversas disciplinas. Al mismo tiempo, los conceptos centrales son expuestos de una manera precisa y rigurosa, sin ocultar los detalles y problemas técnicos y filosóficos que hacen de la lógica un área de e…Read more
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76The Pragmatic Turn in Explainable Artificial IntelligenceMinds and Machines 29 (3): 441-459. 2019.In this paper I argue that the search for explainable models and interpretable decisions in AI must be reformulated in terms of the broader project of offering a pragmatic and naturalistic account of understanding in AI. Intuitively, the purpose of providing an explanation of a model or a decision is to make it understandable to its stakeholders. But without a previous grasp of what it means to say that an agent understands a model or a decision, the explanatory strategies will lack a well-defin…Read more
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41Reputation and Group DispositionsReview of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (3): 469-484. 2018.In many contexts, such as business, science and law, it is essential to determine whether a company, a product or a person in fact has the reputation attributed to it, regardless of whether that reputation has been rightly earned. In this paper I offer two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for the attribution of a reputation to a subject within a social group. The first one concerns the way in which reputational information is spread among the members of the relevant social group; the …Read more
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34Explanations in K: An Analysis of Explanation as a Belief Revision OperationAthena Verlag. 2006.Explanation and understanding are intimately connected notions, but the nature of that connection has generally not been considered a topic worthy of serious philosophical investigation. Most authors have avoided making reference to the notion of understanding in their accounts of explanation because they fear that any mention of the epistemic states of the individuals involved compromises the objectivity of explanation. Understanding is a pragmatic notion, they argue, and pragmatics should be k…Read more
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30Umbrales y prototipos: Introducción a la discusión en torno a los estándares de pruebaDiscusiones 18 (2): 7-21. 2016.There are several approaches to the way in which standards of proof in law should be understood. In the central article in this issue, Rodrigo Coloma suggests that they should be conceived either as thresholds either as prototypes. He also offers a taxonomy of the different uses of standards of proof, which transcends their function as error distributors. In their comments on the paper, Raymundo Gama and Claudio Agüero clarify and challenge this way of understanding standards of proof. Some of t…Read more
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16La reputación en el derecho: una aproximación epistemológicaIn Rocío Villanueva, Betsabé Marciani & Pamela Lastres (eds.), Ensayos sobre prueba, argumentación y justicia, Fondo Editorial De La Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú. pp. 185-210. 2016.El concepto de reputación ocupa un lugar central en muchas esferas de la vida humana, incluyendo el derecho, pero no existen muchos análisis filosóficos del mismo. En este ensayo presento un análisis de la reputación desde la perspectiva de la epistemología social, en particular, haciendo uso de las teorías contemporáneas sobre actitudes epistémicas grupales. El ensayo comienza examinando las interpretaciones del concepto de reputación que se encuentran en la literatura jurídica. En particular, …Read more
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Introducción a la lógica moderna, 2a ediciónEdiciones Uniandes. 2010.The book is an undergraduate-level introduction to first-order logic and propositional modal logic. The book presents symbolic logic in a way that is pedagogically attractive and formally rigorous. The main concepts are formally defined, informally explained, and illustrated with several examples. The book is aimed at philosophy majors and it includes discussions of several problems in the philosophy of logic.
Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Law |
Philosophy of Probability |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Law |
General Philosophy of Science |