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3Book Review: Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied ApproachCalvoPacoGomilaToniHandbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied ApproachAmsterdam: Elsevier, 2008. 496 pp. $155 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2): 268-272. 2013.
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2Francesco Guala: The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)Theoria 21 (3): 342-343. 2010.
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1Hasok Chang: Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2010.
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2Review of Error in Economics. Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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2Artes de la razón (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 235-236. 2004.
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1Luis Vega Reñón. Si de argumentar se trata (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 236-237. 2010.
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13Gustavo Bueno (1924-2016), David TeiraTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 413-414. 2016.Obituary of Gustavo Bueno
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51Ensayos clínicos e interés generalArbor 184 (730): 207-216. 2008.Este artículo estudia la justificación normativa de la adopción de los ensayos clínicos aleatorizados por parte de las autoridades sanitarias británicas como estándar metodológico en 1946. A partir de un análisis de los distintos intereses de los participantes en el proceso (pacientes, médicos, farmacéuticas y el propio Estado) argumentamos que la aleatorización se adoptó como mecanismo de asignación imparcial de tratamientos, aunque sus propiedades estadísticas no fueran bien comprendidas. Tal …Read more
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116¿Etica o economía? Philippe van Parijs y la renta básicaIsegoría 29 159-171. 2003.La renta básica se nos presenta en la obra de Philippe van Parijs como una propuesta política filosóficamente argumentada, de modo tal que convencerá tanto al teórico de la justicia como al ciudadano que votará su implantación. En este artículo analizamos la argumentación de van Parijs mostrando cómo la efectividad política de sus tesis sólo se sostiene a costa de reducir el debate sobre la renta básica a los términos de su propia concepción de la ética. Ponemos en duda, por nuestra parte, el al…Read more
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1Measurement and value judgments in economics (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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83A Positivist Tradition in Early Demand TheoryJournal of Economic Methodology 13 (1): 25-47. 2006.In this paper I explore a positivist methodological tradition in early demand theory, as exemplified by several common traits that I draw from the works of V. Pareto, H. L. Moore and H. Schultz. Assuming a current approach to explanation in the social sciences, I will discuss the building of their various explanans, showing that the three authors agreed on two distinctive methodological features: the exclusion of any causal commitment to psychology when explaining individual choice and the manda…Read more
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15Speaking of Economics: How to Get into the Conversation, Arjo Klamer. Routledge, 2007, xxii + 199 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (1): 122-125. 2009.
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169Why Friedman's methodology did not generate consensus among economists?Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31 (2): 201-214. 2009.In this paper I study how the theoretical categories of consumption theory were used by Milton Friedman in order to classify empirical data and obtain predictions. Friedman advocated a case by case definition of these categories that traded theoretical coherence for empirical content. I contend that this methodological strategy puts a clear incentive to contest any prediction contrary to our interest: it can always be argued that these predictions rest on a wrong classification of data. My conje…Read more
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123On the normative dimension of the St. Petersburg paradoxStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (2): 210-223. 2006.In this paper I offer an account of the normative dimension implicit in D. Bernoulli’s expected utility functions by means of an analysis of the juridical metaphors upon which the concept of mathematical expectation was moulded. Following a suggestion by the late E. Coumet, I show how this concept incorporated a certain standard of justice which was put in question by the St. Petersburg paradox. I contend that Bernoulli would have solved it by introducing an alternative normative criterion rathe…Read more
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8Inventing temperature: Measurement and scientific progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2006.
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8Mechanisms, continental approaches, trials, and evolutionary medicine: New work in the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (1): 1-4. 2011.
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1"The Logic of Social Research," by A. L. Stinchcombe (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 296-298. 2008.
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1Mathématiques et action politique. Études d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques sociales (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 17 (2): 391-392. 2002.A la vista del catálogo de nuestro Instituto Nacional de Estadística, quién dejará de sorprenderse al descubrir entre las colecciones auspiciadas por el INED francés una dedicada a los Clásicos de la economía y la población, con cuidadísimas ediciones de Condorcet, Süssmilch, Quesnay, Graunt... A esta colección se suma ahora, bajo la dirección de Eric Brian, otra serie de Estudios e investigaciones históricas, cuyo primer volumen comentamos aquí. Matemáticas y acción política, compilado por Thie…Read more
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81Continental Philosophies of the social sciencesIn Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences., Sage Publications. pp. 81-102. 2011.
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6Book Review: Stinchcombe, A. L. (2005). The Logic of Social Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 296-298. 2008.
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2Philosophy of economics [Handbook of the philosophy of science, vol. 13] (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 21 (1): 96-98. 2014.No abstract
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La filosofía de la ciencia de Roberto TorrettiTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 29 (1). 2010.
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5What's new in the philosophy of the social sciences?: Guest editors' introductionPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (3): 311-313. 2008.
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3The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making, Stone. Oxford University Press, 2011, 195 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 29 (1): 139-142. 2013.
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95Milton Friedman, the Statistical MethodologistHistory of Political Economy 39 (3): 511-28. 2007.In this paper I study Milton Friedman’s statistical education, paying special attention to the different methodological approaches (Fisher, Neyman and Savage) to which he was exposed. I contend that these statistical procedures involved different views as to the evaluation of statistical predictions. In this light, the thesis defended in Friedman’s 1953 methodological essay appears substantially ungrounded
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3Catherine Will and Tiago Moreira (eds): Medical proofs, social experiments: Clinical trials in shifting contexts (review)Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33 (5): 383-386. 2012.
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89Choosing expert statistical advice: Practical costs and epistemic justificationEpisteme 12 (1): 117-129. 2015.We discuss the role of practical costs in the epistemic justification of a novice choosing expert advice, taking as a case study the choice of an expert statistician by a lay politician. First, we refine Goldman’s criteria for the assessment of this choice, showing how the costs of not being impartial impinge on the epistemic justification of the different actors involved in the choice. Then, drawing on two case studies, we discuss in which institutional setting the costs of partiality can …Read more
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4Philosophy of Medicine: Causality, Evidence and Explanation (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 456-458. 2013.No abstract
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Philosophy of Medicine |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Economics |
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