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7La Explicación social del conocimiento (edited book)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. 1985.
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44Conocimiento, sociedad y realidad: problemas del análisis social del conocimiento y del realismo científicoFondo de Cultura Economica USA. 1988.Desarrollo de algunas relaciones conceptuales entre una teor a del conocimiento y una teor a de la sociedad. Para ello, se analizan problemas de historia de la ciencia y conceptos tales como verdad y racionalidad. Finalmente, se argumenta contra la idea de que los enfoques sociol gicos y filos ficos del conocimiento que consideran seriamente la dimensi n social quedan comprometidos con concepciones convencionalistas.
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9Two Conceptions of Truth and their Relationships to Social TheoryPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (3): 313-339. 1987.
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12Fair, Democractic and Plural Knowledge Societies in Latin AmericaPensamiento y Cultura 15 (1): 5-19. 2012.durante el siglo XX, particularmente en la segunda mitad, la sociedad y la cultura a nivel planetario sufrieron importantes transformaciones, en gran medida como resultado del impresionantedesarrollo científico y tecnológico. Las formas de producción económica también se transformaron profundamente, al grado que la mayor riqueza, desde el punto de vista económico, es ahora generada por sistemas de producción que, se dice, están “basados en conocimiento”. Parareferirse a estos fenómenos se ha for…Read more
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50Racionalidad y progreso deI desarrollo científicoTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 7 (1-3): 41-56. 1992.This paper focuses on the conceptual relationship between rationality and progress as applied to scientific development. The concept of methodology is used in the sense of a model of scientific change. It is argued, as against e.g. recent discussion by Larry Laudan, that progress implies rationality. The notion of rationality useful for this conception of scientific development includes instrumental rationality, butalso the idea of rational paradigm-shift, which is analysed in terms of changes o…Read more
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8Representación y resistencia al cambio científicoTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 1 (3): 621-640. 1986.In this paper, some theoretical problems about a relevant conceptualization helpful to understand resistance to scientific and technological change are discussed. An interpretative perspective is developed, and some concepts are elucidated, according to which certain processes become scientific changes because, among other things, but in a fundamental way, they are constituted as changes by members of a community. Certain cognitive processes are typified as “scientific”, “technological” and “sci…Read more
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3Ciencia y TecnologíaTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 2 (2-3): 323-344. 1987.In this paper the role of values in scientific and technological processes of inquiry is discussed. It is argued that a distinction between science and technology cannot any longer be attempted on the basis of being based upon respectively different sets of values and aims. Furthermore, it is argued that usually these attempts have wrongly characterised science and technology in terms of a fixed and immutable set of aims, values and norms. This sort of characterisation has often been put forward…Read more
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88Ciencia Y tecnología: Distinciones externasTheoria 2 (2): 323-344. 1987.In this paper the role of values in scientific and technological processes of inquiry is discussed. It is argued that a distinction between science and technology cannot any longer be attempted on the basis of being based upon respectively different sets of values and aims. Furthermore, it is argued that usually these attempts have wrongly characterised science and technology in terms of a fixed and immutable set of aims, values and norms. This sort of characterisation has often been put forward…Read more
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28Normas y valores en la ciencia bajo un enfoque naturalizadoRevista de Filosofía (Madrid) 29 (2): 43-58. 2004.
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34El marco del mitoSignos Filosóficos 6 (11s): 35-51. 2003.In The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper rejected psicologism, i. e., the doctrine that statements can be justified not only by statements but also by perceptual experience. According to him, this doctrine founders on the problem of induction and of universals. For we can utter no scie..
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13Realismo y antirrealismo en la concepción semántica de las teorías científicasCritica 17 (51): 31-40. 1985.
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Dos concepciones de verdad y sus relaciones con la teoría socialRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 12 (2): 161. 1986.
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Respuesta a "Verdad y Realidad" de Ana Rosa Pérez RansanzRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 19 (2): 339. 1993.
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Pluralismo epistemológico. Más sobre racionalidad, verdad y consensoRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 22 (2): 251-264. 1996.
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29Can Philosophy and Education Still Emancipate Humanity?The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 107-116. 1999.Philosophy has historically played an important role: it has provided individuals and whole societies with conceptions of the world, which have made meaningful their individual and collective lives. But in our contemporary world, that role has been minimized under the impact of science and technology, the global exchange of information, and the transformation of social structures. The possibility of progress in this respect depends on the possibility of recovering the values of respect and love …Read more
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National Autonomous University of MexicoFaculty of Philosophy and Literature
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Social and Political Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
General Philosophy of Science |