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70Epistemic Groundings of Abstraction and Their Cognitive DimensionPhilosophy of Science 78 (3): 490-511. 2011.In the philosophy of science, abstraction has usually been analyzed in terms of the interface between our experience and the design of our concepts. The often implicit assumption here is that such interface has a definite identifiable and universalizable structure, determining the epistemic correctness of any abstraction. Our claim is that, on the contrary, the epistemic grounding of abstraction should not be reduced to the structural norms of such interface but is also related to the constraint…Read more
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THE HEURISTIC STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC PRACTICESChinese Studies in the Philosophy of Science 53 (2): 1-23. 2006.
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14Historia y combinatoria de las representaciones científicas. Comentarios a la propuesta de Ibarra y MormannCritica 33 (99): 75-95. 2001.En este texto se examina críticamente la teoría combinatoria de las representaciones científicas de Andoni Ibarra y Thomas Mormann. El núcleo de la crítica va dirigido a mostrar que una serie de estudios sobre la ciencia, que ellos mismos mencionan, sugiere que la clasificación en tipos de representaciones propuesta es problemática. Es más, esos mismos estudios muestran que por lo menos muchas representaciones tienen una dimensión histórica que parece imposible capturar por medio del tipo de for…Read more
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74“Scaffolding” and “affordance” as integrative concepts in the cognitive sciencesPhilosophical Psychology 27 (1): 1-14. 2014.There are (at least) two ways to think of the differences in basic concepts and typologies that one can find in the different scientific practices that constitute a research tradition. One is the fundamentalist view: the fewer the better. The other is a non-fundamentalist view of science whereby the integration of different concepts into the right abstraction grounds an explanation that is not grounded as the sum of the explanations supported by the parts. Integrative concepts are often associat…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
General Philosophy of Science |