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61Book 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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4Francesco Guala: The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)Theoria 21 (3): 342-343. 2010.
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4Hasok Chang: Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2010.
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25Review of Error in Economics. Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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3Luis 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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32Artes de la razón (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 235-236. 2004.
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53Gustavo 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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113Ensayos 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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86A Contractarian Solution to the Experimenter’s RegressPhilosophy of Science 80 (5): 709-720. 2013.Debiasing procedures are experimental methods aimed at correcting errors arising from the cognitive biases of the experimenter. We discuss two of these methods, the predesignation rule and randomization, showing to what extent they are open to the experimenter’s regress: there is no metarule to prove that, after implementing the procedure, the experimental data are actually free from biases. We claim that, from a contractarian perspective, these procedures are nonetheless defensible since they p…Read more
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45Bayesian versus frequentist clinical trialsIn Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine, Elsevier. pp. 255-297. 2011.I will open the first part of this paper by trying to elucidate the frequentist foundations of RCTs. I will then present a number of methodological objections against the viability of these inferential principles in the conduct of actual clinical trials. In the following section, I will explore the main ethical issues in frequentist trials, namely those related to randomisation and the use of stopping rules. In the final section of the first part, I will analyse why RCTs were accepted for regula…Read more
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8The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 21 (3): 342-343. 2006.
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259On the impartiality of early British clinical trialsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (3): 412-418. 2013.Did the impartiality of clinical trials play any role in their acceptance as regulatory standards for the safety and efficacy of drugs? According to the standard account of early British trials in the 1930s and 1940s, their impartiality was just rhetorical: the public demanded fair tests and statistical devices such as randomization created an appearance of neutrality. In fact, the design of the experiment was difficult to understand and the British authorities took advantage of it to promote th…Read more
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260Debiasing Methods and the Acceptability of Experimental OutcomesPerspectives on Science 24 (6): 722-743. 2016.Why scientists reach an agreement on new experimental methods when there are conflicts of interest about the evidence they yield? I argue that debiasing methods play a crucial role in this consensus, providing a warrant about the impartiality of the outcome regarding the preferences of different parties involved in the experiment. From a contractarian perspective, I contend that an epistemic pre-requisite for scientists to agree on an experimental method is that this latter is neutral regar…Read more
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124Facts, norms and expected utility functionsHistory of the Human Sciences 21 (2): 45-62. 2008.In this article we explore an argumentative pattern that provides a normative justification for expected utility functions grounded on empirical evidence, showing how it worked in three different episodes of their development. The argument claims that we should prudentially maximize our expected utility since this is the criterion effectively applied by those who are considered wisest in making risky choices (be it gamblers or businessmen). Yet, to justify the adoption of this rule, it should be…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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31Mathématiques 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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