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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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342¿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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197Continental Philosophies of the social sciencesIn Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences, Routledge. pp. 81-102. 2011.
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16Book 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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11Philosophy 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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49What'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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6The 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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346Milton 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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71Catherine 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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271Choosing 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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46Philosophy 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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41Mentiras a medias. Unas investigaciones sobre el programa de la verosimilitud (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (3): 581-583. 2000.Jesús Zamora Bonilla, profesor de la Universidad Carlos III, es un autor bien conocido para el lector de Theoria por sus publicaciones en filosofía general de las ciencias y en filosofía de la economía. Sólo su distribuidora es culpable de que muchos lectores ignoren aún su primer libro, Mentiras a medias, un amplio estudio de la idea de verosimilitud que incluye una propuesta original, ya discutida en foros internacionales. El trabajo en epistemología general de las ciencias que aquí presentamo…Read more
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356A 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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183Bayesian versus frequentist clinical trialsIn Gifford Fred (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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47The 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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350Facts, 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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54Review of An Engine, not a Camera (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (4): 429-433. 2008.
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16Measurement and value judgments in economics (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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274A 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
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Medicine |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Economics |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability |