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86What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the Prix BréantJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 2023.This article analyses how the French Academy of Sciences assessed Jaime Ferrán’s cholera vaccine submitted for the Prix Bréant in the 1880s. Ferrán, a Spanish independent physician, discovered the treatment in 1884 and tried it on thousands of patients during the cholera outbreak in Valencia the following year. His evaluation sparked a controversy in Spain and abroad on the vaccine’s efficacy. The Bréant jury did not see any evidence for it in Ferrán’s submission, a decision usually interpreted …Read more
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82Inventing temperature: Measurement and scientific progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2006.
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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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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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50Review of An Engine, not a Camera (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (4): 429-433. 2008.
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49Gustavo 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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48What'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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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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44Philosophy 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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42Speaking 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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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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34The rule in the knowledge machine: Michael Strevens: The knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science. New York: Liveright, 2020, 350 pp, $30 HB (review)Metascience 30 (3): 345-347. 2021.
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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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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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29EPSA17: Selected papers from the biannual conference in ExeterEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 1. 2018.
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24Review of Error in Economics. Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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24Are animal breeds social kinds?Synthese 201 (1): 1-15. 2022.Breeds are classifications of domestic animals that share, to a certain degree, a set of conventional phenotypic traits. We are going to defend that, despite classifying biological entities, animal breeds are social kinds. We will adopt Godman’s view of social kinds, classifications with predictive power based on social learning processes. We will show that, although the folk concept of animal breed refers to a biological kind, there is no way to define it. The expert definitions of breeds are i…Read more
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20The Trade-off between Impartiality and Freedom in the 21st Century Cures ActPhilosophy of Medicine 2 (1). 2021.Randomized controlled trials test new drugs using various debiasing devices to prevent participants from manipulating the trials. But participants often dislike controls, arguing that they impose a paternalist constraint on their legitimate preferences. The 21st Century Cures Act, passed by US Congress in 2016, encourages the Food and Drug Administration to use alternative testing methods, incorporating participants’ preferences, for regulatory purposes. We discuss, from a historical perspective…Read more
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17Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to RandomizeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.Experimental balance is usually understood as the control for the value of the conditions, other than the one under study, which are liable to affect the result of a test. We discuss three different approaches to balance. ‘Millean balance’ requires identifying and equalizing ex ante the value of these conditions in order to conduct solid causal inferences. ‘Fisherian balance’ measures ex post the influence of uncontrolled conditions through the analysis of variance. In ‘efficiency balance’ the v…Read more
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16Measurement and value judgments in economics (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 199-202. 2009.
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16Statistical evidence and the reliability of medical researchIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.Statistical evidence is pervasive in medicine. In this chapter we will focus on the reliability of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) conducted to test the safety and efficacy of medical treatments. RCTs are scientific experiments and, as such, we expect them to be replicable: if we repeat the same experiment time and again, we should obtain the same outcome (Norton 2015). The statistical design of the test should guarantee that the observed outcome is not a random event, but rather a real effect…Read more
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14The epistemic status of reproducibility in political fact-checkingEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (1): 1-18. 2024.Fact-checking agencies assess and score the truthfulness of politicians’ claims to foster their electoral accountability. Fact-checking is sometimes presented as a quasi-scientific activity, based on reproducible verification protocols that would guarantee an unbiased assessment. We will study these verification protocols and discuss under which conditions fact-checking could achieve effective reproducibility. Through an analysis of the methodological norms in verification protocols, we will arg…Read more
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14Book 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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14Model-Based Knowledge and Credible Policy AnalysisIn Hsiang-Ke Chao & Julian Reiss (eds.), Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning., Springer International Publishing. 2016.
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12Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra (2019). A Structuralist Theory of Economics (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 36 (2): 287-289. 2021.
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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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Philosophy of Medicine |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Economics |
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