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714Placebo trials without mechanisms: How far can they go?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 77 (C): 101177. 2019.In this paper, Isuggest that placebo effects, as we know them today, should be understood as experimental phenomena, low-level regularities whose causal structure is grasped through particular experimental designs with little theoretical guidance. Focusing on placebo interventions with needles for pain reduction -one of the few placebo regularities that seems to arise in meta-analytical studies- I discuss the extent to which it is possible to decompose the different factors at play through …Read more
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648Probabilidad y contratos. Sobre el pragmatismo de Roberto TorrettiRevista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 8 251-268. 2016.I want to expand the pragmatist view of probability advocated by Roberto Torretti, drawing on the propensity approach. In the first part, I will show how the concept of mathematical expectation originally formalized an Aristotelian principle of justice. In the second half, I will present the game-theoretic approach to probability developed by Shafer and Vovk, showing how it allows us to interpret the original normativity of mathematical expectations. I will finally discuss how this latter view c…Read more
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581¿Cómo mide el riesgo el observador imparcial?Critica 47 (139): 47-65. 2015.Exploramos aquí la conexión entre los conceptos de riesgo e igualdad en el argumento del observador imparcial. La concepción de la justicia que elegiría un observador imparcial se justifica por la pureza del procedimiento de elección. Sin embargo, si modelizamos esta decisión utilizando medidas del riesgo habituales en matemática financiera, veremos cómo el criterio de elección del observador bajo el velo de la ignorancia contiene una preferencia implícita por el grado de desigualdad resultante.…Read more
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83EPSA17: Selected papers from the biannual conference in ExeterEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 1. 2018.
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118Book Review: Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied ApproachPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2): 268-272. 2013.
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46Francesco Guala: The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)Theoria 21 (3): 342-343. 2010.
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61Hasok Chang: Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2010.
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31Si de argumentar se trata (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 236-237. 2004.
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71Artes de la razón (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 235-236. 2004.
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135Gustavo 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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423Ensayos 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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961¿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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1241On 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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134Inventing temperature: Measurement and scientific progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2006.
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252Mechanisms, 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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75The 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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60Mathématiques 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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1033Continental 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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104Book 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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83Philosophy 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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105What'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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91The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 21 (3): 342-343. 2006.
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901Milton 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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134Catherine 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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816Choosing 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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105Philosophy of Medicine: Causality, Evidence and Explanation (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 456-458. 2013.No abstract
Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Medicine |
| Philosophy of Social Science |
| Philosophy of Economics |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Probability |