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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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221Leyes, 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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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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10Desarrollos 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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155El 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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36Scientific 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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35Conversaciones 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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564Laws, 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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155PrefacioMetatheoria – 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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149PrefacioMetatheoria – 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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164¿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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156Bibliography 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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662Introducción: 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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241La 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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752La 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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300This 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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207La 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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198Comentarios 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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34Lo a priori constitutivo en la ciencia y las leyes (y teorías) científicasRevista de Filosofía (Madrid) 33 (2): 21-48. 2008.The aim of the present paper is to contribute to the discussion on the constitutive a priori in science by linking it with the discussion on scientific laws and theories, in such a way to show how the different senses of the notion of constitutive a priori are not incompatible to each other and that they can be precised in a unified, though differentiated, manner.
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45Exemplars, models and principles in classical geneticsIn José Luis Falguera, Concha Martínez & José Miguel Sagüillo (eds.), Current Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy/Temas actuales de Lógica y Filosofía Analítica, University of Santiago De Compostela. pp. 89-102. 2005.Taking as starting point Kuhn’s analysis of science textbooks and its application to Sinnott and Dunn’s (1925), it will be discussed the problem of the existence of laws in biology. In particular, it will be showed, in accordance with the proposals of Darden (1991) and Schaffner (1980, 1986, 1993), the relevance of the exemplars, diagrammatically or graphically represented, in the way in which is carried out the teaching and learning process of classical genetics, inasmuch as the information con…Read more
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78Are natural selection explanatory models a priori?Biology and Philosophy 30 (6): 787-809. 2015.The epistemic status of Natural Selection has seemed intriguing 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 NS, 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. Sober’s argument f…Read more
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20Philosophical theorizing about science in the twentieth century (and what has elapsed of the 21st century))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 …Read more
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31Hacia una reconstrucción estructural de la genética clásica y de sus relaciones con el mendelismoEpisteme 3 (5): 89-117. 1998.The present paper is framed within one of the predominant currents of contemporary philosophy of science, which is based in case studies, in order to construct a solid, non-speculative, metatheory. In this paper classical genetics is formally analized and reconstructed with the instruments, duly modified and extended in accordance with the considered case, of the structuralist view of theories, in such a way that that theory can be characterized as a refinement of an earlier introduced model of …Read more
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68Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnósticoPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 12 (2): 121-154. 2008.The aim of this article is to discuss and develop the diagnose of the Hardy-Weinberg law made by van Fraassen (1987, p. 110), according to which: 1) that law cannot be considered a law used as an axiom for the classical population genetics as a whole, since it is an equilibrium-law that holds only under certain special conditions; 2) it just determines a subclass of models; 3) its generalization shades off into logical vacuity; and 4) more complex variants of the law can be deduced for more real…Read more
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413Bibliography of Structuralism IIIMetatheoria 3 (2): 01-36. 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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60What is the Status of the Hardy-Weinberg Law within Population Genetics?Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 17 159-172. 2014.The aim of this paper is to further develop van Fraassen’s diagnosis, expanding a previous analysis of the fundamental law of classical genetics and the status of the so-called ‘Mendel’s laws’.6 According to this diagnosis the Hardy-Weinberg law: 1) cannot be considered as axiom (or fundamental law) for classical population genetics, since it is a law that describes an equilibrium that 2) holds only under certain special conditions, and 3) only determines a subclass of models, 4) whose generaliz…Read more
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57La filosofía de la ciencia y el lenguaje: relaciones cambiantes, alcances y límitesArbor 187 (747): 69-80. 2011.This paper consists of three sections. In the first one, some of the main developments in the philosophy of science through the xx century up to the present will be pointed out, and inserted them in the frame of some more general philosophical transformations, such as the so-called “linguistic turn” and “pragmatic turn”, respectively. In the second one, the established connection will be nuanced, from a revision of the work of a “classical” author such as Carnap. Finally, it will be intended a k…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 |