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39Structuralist knowledge representation: paradigmatic examplesIn Joseph D. Sneed, Wolfgang Balzer & C.-U. Moulines (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representation: Paradigmatic Examples, Rodopi. 2000.Contents: Foreword. Wolfgang BALZER and C. ULISES MOULINES: Introduction. José A. DÍEZ CALZADA: Structuralist Analysis of Theories of Fundamental Measurement. Adolfo GARCÍA DE LA SIENRA and Pedro REYES: The Theory of Finite Games in Extensive Form. Hans Joachim BURSCHEID und Horst STRUVE: The Theory of Stochastic Fairness - its Historical Development, Formulation and Justification. Wolfgang BALZER and Richard MATTESSICH: Formalizing the Basis of Accounting. Werner DIEDERICH: A Reconstruction of …Read more
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38Sobre la unidad de las ciencias biológicasSignos Filosóficos 5 121-131. 2001.The objective of this papper is to examine, under the light of some recent works in general philosophy of science as well as in special philosophy of biology, the different forms that assumes the thesis of the unity of science, in order to be able to determine in what sense it can be spoken about the unity of biological sciences.
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37Comentarios a «Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos: un modelo estructuralista», de C. Ulises MoulinesEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 55-59. 2005.In this comment on the work by Ulises Moulines I shall not refer to the interesting analysis of the ontological commitments that depends the treatment of the so-called «data models», nor shall I debate the general metaphysical principles proposed in his approach, adopting an experimentalist, instrumentalist, anti-realistic, positivist or empirical stance. I shall focus on the last part of his article in which he elaborates on the links between Wesley Salmon’s causalist approach and the structura…Read more
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37Leyes fundamentales y leyes de la biologíaScientiae Studia 5 (2): 185-214. 2007.In this paper I discuss the problem of scientific laws in general and laws of biology in particular. After reviewing the debate about the existence of laws in biology, I examine the subject under the light of the structuralist notion of a fundamental law and argue for the law of matching as the fundamental law of genetics.
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32Lo a priori constitutivo en la ciencia y las leyes (y teorías) científicasRevista de Filosofía (Madrid) 33 (2): 21-48. 2008.The aim of the present paper is to contribute to the discussion on the constitutive a priori in science by linking it with the discussion on scientific laws and theories, in such a way to show how the different senses of the notion of constitutive a priori are not incompatible to each other and that they can be precised in a unified, though differentiated, manner.
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30Hacia una reconstrucción estructural de la genética clásica y de sus relaciones con el mendelismoEpisteme 3 (5): 89-117. 1998.The present paper is framed within one of the predominant currents of contemporary philosophy of science, which is based in case studies, in order to construct a solid, non-speculative, metatheory. In this paper classical genetics is formally analized and reconstructed with the instruments, duly modified and extended in accordance with the considered case, of the structuralist view of theories, in such a way that that theory can be characterized as a refinement of an earlier introduced model of …Read more
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30Classical genetics and the theory-net of geneticsIn Joseph D. Sneed, Wolfgang Balzer & C.-Ulises Moulines (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representation: Paradigmatic Examples, Rodopi. pp. 75-251. 2000.This article presents a reconstruction of the so-called classical, formal or Mendelian genetics, which is intended to be more complete and adequate than existing reconstructions. This reconstruction has been carried out with the instruments, duly modified and extended with respect to the case under consideration, of the structuralist conception of theories. The so-called Mendel’s Laws, as well as linkage genetics and gene mapping are formulated in a precise manner while the global structure of g…Read more
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28What would have happened if Darwin had known Mendel (or Mendel's work)?History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33 (1): 3-48. 2011.The question posed by the title is usually answered by saying that the “synthesis” between the theory of evolution by natural selection and classical genetics, which took place in 1930s-40s, would have taken place much earlier if Darwin had been aware of Mendel and his work. What is more, it nearly happened: it would have been enough if Darwin had cut the pages of the offprint of Mendel’s work that was in his library and read them! Or, if Mendel had come across Darwin in London or paid him a vis…Read more
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26Los aspectos erotéticos de la ciencia: el caso de la genéticaRevista de Filosofia Aurora 25 (36): 13-41. 2013.The aim of this paper is to show, in the line suggested by Nickles (1980, 1981) and developed by Sintonen (1985, 1996), not just that the problem-solving approach and the theory approach are not incompatible, but also that the latter, in the version of the semantic conception of theories known as “structuralist view”, can be used to give precision to the problem-solving approach, by a more precise characterization of the theoretical context in which problems arise and, in this way, t…Read more
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24Geschichte und Struktur der klassischen GenetikPeter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. 1995.Der orthodoxen Interpretation zufolge wird die Genetik als eine Disziplin dargestellt, deren Geschichte (von ihrem vermuteten Ursprung mit dem Werk Mendels an über die Werke der sogenannten «Wiederentdecker» de Vries, Correns und Tschermak und des englischen Mendelianers Bateson bis hin zur Arbeit Morgans) kontinuierlich, kumulativ und linear verlaufen sei. Im ersten Teil des Buches wird hingegen die Diskontinuität dieses Prozesses betont. Innerhalb der strukturalistischen Auffassung wissenschaf…Read more
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24Conversaciones con C. Ulises MoulinesMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 11 (1): 1-31. 2020.Born on October 26, 1946, Carlos Ulises Moulines studied Physics, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Barcelona, obtaining a Degree in Philosophy from that same University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Munich, supervised by Wolfgang Stegmüller. He is one of the most outstanding contemporary philosophers of science and one of the most prominent exponents of metascientific structuralism. In this interview he talks about biographical aspects, philosophy of science in gen…Read more
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20Philosophical theorizing about science in the twentieth century (and what has elapsed of the 21st century))Discusiones Filosóficas 12 (19). 2011.Scientific activity produces results of various types. In particular, science produces a special kind of knowledge or knowledges, assumed to be different from knowledge or common sense knowledge, from everyday experience and formulated in ordinary language; a more systematized knowledge, with greater range and accuracy, and intersubjectively controllable. To produce this kind of knowledge (or knowledge), we introduce new concepts, formulate hypotheses and laws and, ultimately, construct …Read more
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19Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: the case of classical geneticsSynthese 200 (6): 1-25. 2022.Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and there is no account that satisfactorily elucidates such explanations. The aim of this article is to analyze the kind of explanations usually given in Classical (Transmission) Genetics (CG) and to present in detail the application of an account of explanation as ampliative, specialized nomological embedding to elucidate the such explanations. First, we present explanations in CG in the classical format of in…Read more
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14Introducción - Introduction - IntroduçãoMetatheoria 1 (2): 1-7. 2011.It is the Introduction to Metatheoria’s Special Issue in homage to Joseph D. Sneed, in the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Sneed’s The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1971, 2nd revised ed. 1979) first edition, which marks the birth of metatheoretical structuralism.
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8Desarrollos actuales de la metateoría estructuralista: problemas y discusiones (edited book)Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. 2002.This book -which initiates the collection "Philosophy and Science" of the National University of Quilmes Publishing House- contains almost all the papers presented at the I International Meeting "Current Perspectives of Metatheoretical Structuralism", which, with the purpose of gathering a small group of distinguished Spanish-speaking philosophers interested in discussing the epistemological and methodological problems of science from the perspective of the structuralist view, was held in Zacate…Read more
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2Origin’s Chapter VIII: Darwin for and Against HybridismIn Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking, Springer. pp. 307-320. 2023.The chapter about hybridism written by Darwin falls in the cluster of The Origin of Species which deals with the main difficulties of the theory of descent with modification through natural selection. Darwin’s goal in analyzing the phenomenon of hybridism was to debate the validity of the existence of a fundamental distinction between species and varieties; thus, this discussion addresses an integral part of the so-called species problem, which includes a set of questions about the definition of…Read more
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2Correction to: Origin’s Chapter VIII: Darwin for and Against HybridismIn Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking, Springer. 2023.
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1Filosofía e historia de la ciencia en el Cono Sur (edited book)Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Ediciones. 2002.Dans les années suivantes, ces rencontres semblent s'être dotées du statut de personne morale (association) Associação de Filosofia e História da Ciência do Cone Sul (AFHIC)
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Universidad Nacional de QuilmesCenter of Studies In Philosophy and History of Science (CEFHIC)Professor
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CONICETCenter of Studies In Philosophy and History of Science (CEFHIC)/Universidad Nacional de QuilmesMain Researcher
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |