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14Practical Reasoning in the Foundations of Quantum TheoryIn Dag Prawitz & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 439--452. 1994.
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10Philosophy of scienceIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Argentina Mexico Brazil Chile and Puerto Rico Peru Other Centers Concluding Remarks References Further Reading.
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10Arguing for Hidden RealitiesPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 55 148-165. 1997.
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9Interpreting State Reduction from the Practices-UpPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 263-275. 1990.This paper examines some physical sources of the concept of objective state reduction in quantum mechanics. Using case studies from nuclear physics and quantum chemistry, the question of whether one can induce a collapse theory from the practices of scientists working on specific problems is considered. A specific proposal is explored, with emphasis on such features as coherence, testability, unifying power and fertility. It is shown that, contrary to recent suggestions by David Albert, collapse…Read more
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9Evolutionary Ideas and Contemporary NaturalismIn Evandro Agazzi & Alberto Cordero (eds.), Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 399--439. 1991.
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5La ciencia y el ideal contemporáneo de excelenciaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 11 (1-2): 773-794. 1999.
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2Sobre el mito de que el realismo científico ha muertoAreté. Revista de Filosofía 21 (2): 363-379. 2009.
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Possibility, actuality, and the growth of imagination: The many-worlds approach to quantum physicsOntology Studies: Cuadernos de Ontología 93-102. 2008.Las interpretaciónes de la física cuántica de Everett-DeWitt hablan de una multiplicidad de mundos físicamente coexistenrtes. Éstas imaginativas reacciones a los problemas conceptuales de la mecánica cuántica estándar forman una família de propuestas de “universos múltiples” que, sin pleno éxito, han sido tachadas de incoherentes.Everett-DeWitt interpretations of quantum physics speak of a multiplicity of physically coexisting worlds. These imaginative reactions to the conceptual problems of sta…Read more
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Realism and the Infinitely Faceted World: Intimations from the 1950sOntology Studies: Cuadernos de Ontología 7-19. 2010.Breaking away from logical-empiricism, in the early 1950s Stephen Toulmin presented empirical theories as maps, thereby opening a fertile line of reflection about background interests and their impact on abstraction in scientific theorizing. A few years later, pointing to the “qualitative infinity of nature,” David Bohm denounced what he regarded as counterproductive constraints on the scientific imagination. In realist circles, these two strands of suggestions would be variously supplemented ov…Read more
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