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David Teira

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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  • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
    Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
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University College London
PhD
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0000-0002-4551-2371
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Medicine
Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of Economics
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability
  • All publications (68)
  •  78
    EPSA17: Selected papers from the biannual conference in Exeter
    with Thomas A. C. Reydon and Adam Toon
    European Journal for Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 1. 2018.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  68
    Rationality, a bowl of molasses
    History of the Human Sciences 31 (3): 127-130. 2018.
    Decision TheoryRationalityRational Choice TheoryHistory of Science, Misc
  •  116
    Book Review: Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2): 268-272. 2013.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  •  45
    Francesco Guala: The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)
    Theoria 21 (3): 342-343. 2010.
  •  58
    Hasok Chang: Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress (review)
    Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2010.
  •  27
    Si de argumentar se trata (review)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 236-237. 2004.
  •  70
    Artes de la razón (review)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (2): 235-236. 2004.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  125
    Gustavo Bueno (1924-2016), David Teira
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 413-414. 2016.
    Obituary of Gustavo Bueno
  •  402
    Ensayos clínicos e interés general
    Arbor 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
    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 justificación permanece aún vigente
    Medical Ethics
  •  73
    Francesco Guala: The Methodology of Experimental Economics
    Experimental Economics
  •  85
    Hasok Chang: Inventing Temperature. Measurement and Scientific Progress
    Scientific Progress
  •  925
    ¿Etica o economía? Philippe van Parijs y la renta básica
    Isegoría 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
    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 alcance de esta reducción sobre un doble plano: diluye por completo la dimensión prudencial de toda argumentación política, y no deja más alternativa que la educación sentimental para quienes no se dejen convencer por el equilibrio reflexivo
    Political ViewsEconomics and Ethics
  •  98
    Review of An Engine, not a Camera (review)
    Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (4): 429-433. 2008.
    Realism about Economics
  •  119
    Measurement and value judgments in economics (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
    Philosophy of EconomicsIssues in the Philosophy of Economics
  •  754
    A Positivist Tradition in Early Demand Theory
    Journal 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
    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 mandate to test the truth of demand theory on aggregate data by statistical means. However, I also contend, from an epistemological point of view, that the truth of demand theory was conceived of in three different ways by our authors. Inspired by Poincaré, Pareto assumed that many different theories could account for the same data on individual choice, coming close to a kind of conventionalism -though I prefer to refer to this position as theoreticism. Moore was himself akin to Pearson's approach, which could be named descriptivist insofar as it resolved scientific laws into statistical descriptions of the data. Finally, Schultz tried to reconcile both approaches in an adequationist stance with no success, as we shall see.
    Empirical Testing in EconomicsPositivism about EconomicsThe Status of Economics, Misc
  •  138
    Speaking of Economics: How to Get into the Conversation, Arjo Klamer. Routledge, 2007, xxii + 199 pages (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 25 (1): 122-125. 2009.
    The Status of EconomicsIssues in the Philosophy of Economics
  •  1215
    On the normative dimension of the St. Petersburg paradox
    Studies 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
    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 rather than a positive model of decision making processes
    Rational Choice TheoryValues in EconomicsSt. Petersburg Paradox
  •  129
    Inventing temperature: Measurement and scientific progress (review)
    Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2006.
    Scientific Progress
  •  226
    Mechanisms, continental approaches, trials, and evolutionary medicine: New work in the philosophy of medicine
    with Julian Reiss and Miriam Solomon
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (1): 1-4. 2011.
    Biomedical Ethics
  •  73
    The 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.
  •  58
    Mathématiques 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
    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 Thierry Martin, es, además, una excelente representación de los trabajos que en Francia se desarrollan en torno a la matemática social desde múltiples enfoques.
  •  998
    Continental Philosophies of the social sciences
    In Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences., Sage Publications. pp. 81-102. 2011.
    20th Century German PhilosophyPhilosophy of Social Science
  •  103
    Book 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.
    Philosophy of Sociology, MiscPhilosophy of History
  •  80
    Philosophy of economics [Handbook of the philosophy of science, vol. 13] (review)
    Journal of Economic Methodology 21 (1): 96-98. 2014.
    No abstract
  • La filosofía de la ciencia de Roberto Torretti
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 29 (1). 2010.
  •  101
    What's new in the philosophy of the social sciences?: Guest editors' introduction
    with Julian Reiss and Jesús Zamora Bonilla
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (3): 311-313. 2008.
    Philosophy of Social Science, General Works
  •  90
    The Methodology of Experimental Economics (review)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 21 (3): 342-343. 2006.
    Experimental Economics
  •  882
    Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist
    History 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
    Empirical Testing in EconomicsPositivism about EconomicsInstrumentalism about Economics
  •  131
    Catherine Will and Tiago Moreira (eds): Medical proofs, social experiments: Clinical trials in shifting contexts (review)
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33 (5): 383-386. 2012.
    Biomedical EthicsMedical Ethics
  •  779
    Choosing expert statistical advice: Practical costs and epistemic justification
    with Javier González De Prado Salas
    Episteme 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
    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 play an epistemic role. This way we intend to show how the sociological explanation of the choice of experts can incorporate its epistemic justification.
    Social Epistemology
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