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2Correction to: Origin’s Chapter VIII: Darwin for and Against HybridismIn Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking, Springer. 2023.
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4Origin’s Chapter VIII: Darwin for and Against HybridismIn Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking, Springer. pp. 307-320. 2023.The chapter about hybridism written by Darwin falls in the cluster of The Origin of Species which deals with the main difficulties of the theory of descent with modification through natural selection. Darwin’s goal in analyzing the phenomenon of hybridism was to debate the validity of the existence of a fundamental distinction between species and varieties; thus, this discussion addresses an integral part of the so-called species problem, which includes a set of questions about the definition of…Read more
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229Leyes, modelos y teorías en biologíaPerspectivas 3 (2): 55-88. 2019.Tres conceptos metacientíficos objeto de análisis filosófico son los de ley, modelo y teoría. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar la elucidación de estos conceptos, y de sus relaciones, hecha dentro del marco del Estructuralismo Metateórico o Sneediano (BALZER; MOULINES & SNEED, 1987), y de su aplicación a un caso del ámbito de la Biología: la Genética Clásica. El análisis realizado posibilitará fundamentar, en contra de lo que sostienen algunos filósofos de la ciencia en general y de la b…Read more
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11Desarrollos actuales de la metateoría estructuralista: problemas y discusiones (edited book)Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. 2002.This book -which initiates the collection "Philosophy and Science" of the National University of Quilmes Publishing House- contains almost all the papers presented at the I International Meeting "Current Perspectives of Metatheoretical Structuralism", which, with the purpose of gathering a small group of distinguished Spanish-speaking philosophers interested in discussing the epistemological and methodological problems of science from the perspective of the structuralist view, was held in Zacate…Read more
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2Filosofía e historia de la ciencia en el Cono Sur (edited book)Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Ediciones. 2002.Dans les années suivantes, ces rencontres semblent s'être dotées du statut de personne morale (association) Associação de Filosofia e História da Ciência do Cone Sul (AFHIC)
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157El camino desde Kuhn: la inconmensurabilidad hoy (edited book)Biblioteca Nueva. 2012.This is a collective work of philosophy of science on a topic, even though it could already be considered a classic, of great academic actuality in the field: change and incommensurability in science. The contributors are researchers from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.
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37Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: the case of classical geneticsSynthese 200 (6): 1-25. 2022.Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and there is no account that satisfactorily elucidates such explanations. The aim of this article is to analyze the kind of explanations usually given in Classical (Transmission) Genetics (CG) and to present in detail the application of an account of explanation as ampliative, specialized nomological embedding to elucidate the such explanations. First, we present explanations in CG in the classical format of in…Read more
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43Structuralist knowledge representation: paradigmatic examplesIn Joseph D. Sneed, Wolfgang Balzer & C.-U. Moulines (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representation: Paradigmatic Examples, Rodopi. 2000.Contents: Foreword. Wolfgang BALZER and C. ULISES MOULINES: Introduction. José A. DÍEZ CALZADA: Structuralist Analysis of Theories of Fundamental Measurement. Adolfo GARCÍA DE LA SIENRA and Pedro REYES: The Theory of Finite Games in Extensive Form. Hans Joachim BURSCHEID und Horst STRUVE: The Theory of Stochastic Fairness - its Historical Development, Formulation and Justification. Wolfgang BALZER and Richard MATTESSICH: Formalizing the Basis of Accounting. Werner DIEDERICH: A Reconstruction of …Read more
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37Conversaciones con C. Ulises MoulinesMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 11 (1): 1-31. 2020.Born on October 26, 1946, Carlos Ulises Moulines studied Physics, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Barcelona, obtaining a Degree in Philosophy from that same University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Munich, supervised by Wolfgang Stegmüller. He is one of the most outstanding contemporary philosophers of science and one of the most prominent exponents of metascientific structuralism. In this interview he talks about biographical aspects, philosophy of science in gen…Read more
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568Laws, Models, and Theories in Biology: A Unifying InterpretationIn Lorenzo Baravalle & Luciana Zaterka (eds.), Life and Evolution, History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, . pp. 163-207. 2020.Three metascientific concepts that have been object of philosophical analysis are the concepts oflaw, model and theory. The aim ofthis article is to present the explication of these concepts, and of their relationships, made within the framework of Sneedean or Metatheoretical Structuralism (Balzer et al. 1987), and of their application to a case from the realm of biology: Population Dynamics. The analysis carried out will make it possible to support, contrary to what some philosophers of science…Read more
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156PrefacioMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 5 1--4. 2015.Preface to the thematic volume Metatheoretical Structuralism: Some Recent Developments and Applications
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152PrefacioMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 6 1--2. 2016.Preface to the Thematic Volume: Models and Theories in Biology.
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168¿Son a priori los modelos explicativos de la selección natural?Metatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 8 31--42. 2017.The epistemic status of Natural Selection has intrigued to biologists and philosophers since the very beginning of the theory to our present times. One prominent contemporary example is Elliott Sober, who claims that Natural Selection, and some other theories in biology, and maybe in economics, are peculiar in including explanatory models/conditionals that are a priori in a sense in which explanatory models/conditionals in Classical Mechanics and most other standard theories are not. In this pa…Read more
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161Bibliography of Structuralism IIIMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 3 1--36. 2013.In two occasions a Bibliography of Structuralism has been published in Erkenntnis (1989, 1994). Since then a lot of water has flowed under the bridge and the structuralist program has shown a continuous development. The aim of the present bibliography is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of An Architectonic for Science –structuralism’s main reference work– and of its recent translation into Spanish by updating the previous bibliographies with titles which have appeared since 1…Read more
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669Introducción: Modelos y teorías en biologíaMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 6 5--46. 2016.Two metascientific concepts that have been ― and still are ― object of philosophical analysis are the concepts of model and theory. But while the concept of scientific theory was one of the concepts to which philosophers of science devoted most attention during the 20th century, it is only in recent decades that the concept of scientific model has come to occupy a central position in philosophical reflection. However, it has done so in such a way that, at present, as Jim Bogen states in the back…Read more
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245La estructura de la bioquímica metabólicaMetatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 7 49--72. 2016.The structuralist reconstruction of the metabolic biochemistry here presented is a more complete and revised version than the one presented in Donolo, Federico & Lorenzano (2006). This version, as the previous one, continues with the reconstructive task initiated by César Lorenzano (2002), but advances further on those elements which remained pendent of reconstruction: applications subsequent to the paradigmatic one, for being these “too diversified and numerous” (p. 210).In line with which is s…Read more
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758La red teórica de la dinámica de poblacionesScientiae Studia 15 (2): 307. 2017.The general aim of this article is to carry out a reconstruction of the theory of Population Dynamics (DP) in Ecology, according to Castle’s (2001) general stance with regard to the semantic view of theories, but doing it within the framework of metatheoretical structuralism. Thus, we will first identify Population Dynamics’ basic theory-element: its core K(DP) – with the class of potential models, the class of models (through the identification of its fundamental law) and the class of parti…Read more
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304This is the introduction to the special issue of the Spanish journal Ágora-Papeles de Filosofía (31/2, 2012) devoted to new Ibero-American contributions to metatheoretical structuralism.
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208La capacidad unificadora de las teorías científicas. Una propuesta alternativa desde el estructuralismo metateórico al enfoque kitchereano de patrones explicativos.Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 34 (1): 111-131. 2019.Resumen: La capacidad unificadora de una teoría científica es un rasgo usualmente contemplado a la hora de evaluar su adecuación. Kitcher ha elucidado satisfactoriamente tal noción mediante su enfoque de los patrones explicativos. Sin embargo, su perspectiva adolece de ciertas carencias. Concretamente, sostendremos que el requisito de rigurosidad de los patrones para evaluar la capacidad unificadora debe ser repensado, pues atenta contra la heterogeneidad característica de las diferentes aplicac…Read more
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205Comentarios a «Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos: un modelo estructuralista», de C. Ulises MoulinesEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 55-59. 2005.In this comment on the work by Ulises Moulines I shall not refer to the interesting analysis of the ontological commitments that depends the treatment of the so-called «data models», nor shall I debate the general metaphysical principles proposed in his approach, adopting an experimentalist, instrumentalist, anti-realistic, positivist or empirical stance. I shall focus on the last part of his article in which he elaborates on the links between Wesley Salmon's causalist approach and the structura…Read more
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55Meta-Theoretical Contributions to the Constitution of a Model-Based Didactics of ScienceScience & Education 25 (7-8): 747-773. 2016.There is nowadays consensus in the community of didactics of science regarding the need to include the philosophy of science in didactical research, science teacher education, curriculum design, and the practice of science education in all educational levels. Some authors have identified an ever-increasing use of the concept of ‘theoretical model’, stemming from the so-called semantic view of scientific theories. However, it can be recognised that, in didactics of science, there are over-simplif…Read more
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38Leyes fundamentales y leyes de la biologíaScientiae Studia 5 (2): 185-214. 2007.In this paper I discuss the problem of scientific laws in general and laws of biology in particular. After reviewing the debate about the existence of laws in biology, I examine the subject under the light of the structuralist notion of a fundamental law and argue for the law of matching as the fundamental law of genetics.
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91Fundamental laws and laws of biologyIn Gerhard Ernst & Karl-Georg Niebergall (eds.), Philosophie der Wissenschaft – Wissenschaft der Philosophie. Festschrift für C.Ulises Moulines zum 60. Geburstag, Mentis. pp. 129-155. 2006.In this paper, I discuss the problem of scientific laws in general and laws of biology in particular. After reviewing the debate around the existence of laws in biology, I examine the subject in the light of the structuralist notion of a fundamental law and argue for the law of matching as the fundamental law of genetics.
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14Introducción - Introduction - IntroduçãoMetatheoria 1 (2): 1-7. 2011.It is the Introduction to Metatheoria’s Special Issue in homage to Joseph D. Sneed, in the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Sneed’s The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1971, 2nd revised ed. 1979) first edition, which marks the birth of metatheoretical structuralism.
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39Sobre la unidad de las ciencias biológicasSignos Filosóficos 5 121-131. 2001.The objective of this papper is to examine, under the light of some recent works in general philosophy of science as well as in special philosophy of biology, the different forms that assumes the thesis of the unity of science, in order to be able to determine in what sense it can be spoken about the unity of biological sciences.
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30Los aspectos erotéticos de la ciencia: el caso de la genéticaRevista de Filosofia Aurora 25 (36): 13-41. 2013.The aim of this paper is to show, in the line suggested by Nickles (1980, 1981) and developed by Sintonen (1985, 1996), not just that the problem-solving approach and the theory approach are not incompatible, but also that the latter, in the version of the semantic conception of theories known as “structuralist view”, can be used to give precision to the problem-solving approach, by a more precise characterization of the theoretical context in which problems arise and, in this way, t…Read more
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31Classical genetics and the theory-net of geneticsIn Joseph D. Sneed, Wolfgang Balzer & C.-U. Moulines (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representation: Paradigmatic Examples, Rodopi. pp. 75-251. 2000.This article presents a reconstruction of the so-called classical, formal or Mendelian genetics, which is intended to be more complete and adequate than existing reconstructions. This reconstruction has been carried out with the instruments, duly modified and extended with respect to the case under consideration, of the structuralist conception of theories. The so-called Mendel’s Laws, as well as linkage genetics and gene mapping are formulated in a precise manner while the global structure of g…Read more
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52Reconstrucción estructuralista de la teoría del movimiento circular de la sangre, de William HarveyScientiae Studia 10 (2): 219-241. 2012.En las investigaciones sobre fisiología cardiovascular desarrolladas por William Harvey es posible distinguir entre dos teorías que responden a preguntas diferentes. La primera de ellas, que denominamos teoría del movimiento circular de la sangre, intenta dar una respuesta al problema sobre la cantidad de sangre que se mueve dentro del sistema. La segunda pretende dar cuenta de las causas de que la sangre se mueva y la denominamos teoría de las causas del movimiento de la sangre. En este trabajo…Read more
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70La teorización filosófica sobre la ciencia en el siglo xx (y lo que va del xxi)Discusiones Filosóficas 12 (19). 2011.Scientific activity produces results of various types. In particular, science produces a special kind of knowledge or knowledges, assumed to be different from knowledge or common sense knowledge, from everyday experience and formulated in ordinary language; a more systematized knowledge, with greater range and accuracy, and intersubjectively controllable. To produce this kind of knowledge (or knowledge), we introduce new concepts, formulate hypotheses and laws and, ultimately, construct t…Read more
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26Geschichte und Struktur der klassischen GenetikPeter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. 1995.Der orthodoxen Interpretation zufolge wird die Genetik als eine Disziplin dargestellt, deren Geschichte (von ihrem vermuteten Ursprung mit dem Werk Mendels an über die Werke der sogenannten «Wiederentdecker» de Vries, Correns und Tschermak und des englischen Mendelianers Bateson bis hin zur Arbeit Morgans) kontinuierlich, kumulativ und linear verlaufen sei. Im ersten Teil des Buches wird hingegen die Diskontinuität dieses Prozesses betont. Innerhalb der strukturalistischen Auffassung wissenschaf…Read more
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Universidad Nacional de QuilmesCenter of Studies In Philosophy and History of Science (CEFHIC)Professor
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CONICETCenter of Studies In Philosophy and History of Science (CEFHIC)/Universidad Nacional de QuilmesMain Researcher
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |