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    A Mathematical Characterization of Quantum Gaussian Stochastic Evolution Schemes
    with D. Salgado and M. Ferrero
    Foundations of Physics 36 (4): 526-540. 2006.
    We give a common mathematical characterization of relevant stochastic evolution schemes built up in the literatute to attack the quantum measurement problem. This characterization is based on two hypotheses, namely, (i) the trace conservation with probability one and (ii) the existence of a complex phase determining a linear support for the stochastic process driving the random evolution
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    A Further Review of the Incompatibility between Classical Principles and Quantum Postulates
    with M. Ferrero, V. Gómez Pin, and D. Salgado
    Foundations of Science 18 (1): 125-138. 2013.
    The traditional “realist” conception of physics, according to which human concepts, laws and theories can grasp the essence of a reality in our absence , seems incompatible with quantum formalism and it most fruitful interpretation. The proof rests on the violation by quantum mechanical formalism of some fundamental principles of the classical ontology. We discuss if the conception behind Einstein’s idea of a reality in our absence, could be still maintained and at which price. We conclude that …Read more
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    Is the Epistemic View of Quantum Mechanics Incomplete?
    with M. Ferrero and D. Salgado
    Foundations of Physics 34 (12): 1993-2003. 2004.
    One of the most tantalizing questions about the interpretation of Quantum Theory is the objective vs. subjective meaning of quantum states. Here, by focusing on a typical EPR experiment upon which a selection procedure is performed on one side, we will confront the fully epistemic view of quantum states with its results. Our statement is that such a view cannot be considered complete, although the opposite attitude would also pose well-known problems of interpretation
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    Coming From Material Reality
    with Miguel Ferrero
    Foundations of Science 20 (2): 199-212. 2015.
    In a previous essay we demonstrated that quantum mechanical formalism is incompatible with some necessary principles of the mechanism conception still dominant in the physicist’s community. In this paper we show, based on recent empirical evidence in quantum physics, the inevitability of abandoning the old mechanism conception and to construct a new one in which physical reality is seen as a representation which refers to relations established through operations made by us in a world that we are…Read more
  •  19
    En camino hacia el olvido: Vanitas als Erscheinungsweise der Kontingenz urbanen Lebens bei Javier Marías
    Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 27 (2): 269-288. 2018.
    Marías’ Romane setzen die kontingente Verfasstheit großstädtischen Lebens in Szene, indem sie das Zeitbewusstsein der Figuren in ein Spannungsverhältnis zur Unausweichlichkeit des – oft plötzlichen – Todes setzen, und dabei die Ambivalenz von Ordnung und Chaos, von Freiheit und Emanzipation in Indifferenz und Beliebigkeit überführen. Sie spiegeln heutige Formen ausgeprägter Individualität in der Großstadt, für die Vanitas zur Erscheinungsweise der als kontingent erfahrenen Selbst- und Welterfahr…Read more
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    En camino hacia el olvido: Vanitas als Erscheinungsweise der Kontingenz urbanen Lebens bei Javier Marías
    Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 27 (2): 269-288. 2019.
    Marías’ Romane setzen die kontingente Verfasstheit großstädtischen Lebens in Szene, indem sie das Zeitbewusstsein der Figuren in ein Spannungsverhältnis zur Unausweichlichkeit des – oft plötzlichen – Todes setzen, und dabei die Ambivalenz von Ordnung und Chaos, von Freiheit und Emanzipation in Indifferenz und Beliebigkeit überführen. Sie spiegeln heutige Formen ausgeprägter Individualität in der Großstadt, für die Vanitas zur Erscheinungsweise der als kontingent erfahrenen Selbst- und Welterfahr…Read more
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    La comunicación pública de ámbitos científicos y tecnológicos emergentes. Problemas y retos en el caso de la nanotecnología
    with José Manuel De Cózar Escalante and Ramón Llopis-Goig
    Arbor 190 (766). 2014.
  •  11
    On the Emergence of Islands in Complex Networks
    with R. E. Balderas-Navarro, P. D. Arjona-Villicaña, P. Castillo-Castillo, O. Rico-Trejo, and J. Acosta-Elias
    Complexity 2017 1-10. 2017.
    Most growth models for complex networks consider networks comprising a single connected block or island, which contains all the nodes in the network. However, it has been demonstrated that some large complex networks have more than one island, with an island size distribution obeying a power-law function Is~s-α. This paper introduces a growth model that considers the emergence of islands as the network grows. The proposed model addresses the following two features: the probability that a new isl…Read more
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    El objeto de este análisis es examinar —naturalmente, de un modo introductorio— cuál puede ser la repercusión de los eventuales avances en los objetivos transhumanistas en el terreno de la responsabilidad criminal. A mi juicio, el análisis de las posibles consecuencias del transhumanismo en el dominio del Derecho penal afecta a dos ámbitos distintos: (i) en primer lugar, puede incidir en los factores que, hoy en día, vertebran la imputación de responsabilidad penal; (ii) por otro lado, es precis…Read more
  •  6
    Cultura científica comunitaria para una pandemia. La COVID persistente
    with José Manuel de Cózar Escalante
    Arbor 198 (806). 2022.
    A pesar de algunos antecedentes dispersos y excepciones, existe una manifiesta laguna en la literatura sobre el concepto de cultura científica comunitaria. Con esa expresión nos referimos a situaciones en las cuales unos ciudadanos perciben un problema, se agrupan, organizan, comunican y ponen en común sus recursos para buscar, evaluar y producir conocimiento científico con el fin de encarar dicho problema. En este trabajo realizamos una propuesta de caracterización de la cultura científica comu…Read more
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    Smita A. Rahman, Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency, Routledge, New York, 2015. 128 páginas (review)
    Foro Interno. Anuario de Teoría Política 15 250-253. 2015.
  • Democratic Institutions and Practices. Contributions to Political Science. (edited book)
    with J. Abdelnour-Nocera and E. Anchústegui Igartua
  • Daniel Innerarity, El futuro y sus enemigos. Una defensa de la esperanza política, Paidós, Barcelona, 2009 (review)
    Foro Interno. Anuario de Teoría Política 10 211-214. 2010.