Juana Suárez
Biographic Data
| ID | 204395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juana Suárez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juana |
| FAMILY NAME | Suárez |
| SIGNATURE | SUÁREZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5851-2277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology
This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism . Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite. First, we show how mereological perspectivism is used in several debates in philosophy of biology (biological individuality, ecosystem…
Levels and Hierarchies in Evolution
I analyse the main characteristics of the hierarchy of levels of selection as manifestors of adaptation (i.e., hierarchy of levels of evolutionary organization) and show that, while ranked, this hierarchy is non-nested. Secondly, I consider a potential objection to my approach derived from Eronen and Ramsey’s (2022) claim that levels of organization should be teased apart from levels of selection . I argue that their approach rests on a failure t…
The accidental archive: Mujer es audiovisual/Cine en Femenino and the recent history of Colombian women filmmakers1
Since 2009, Cine en Femenino has been the most important showcase of the work of women filmmakers in Colombia. The festival was created by Mujer es audiovisual, a production and distribution collective spearheaded by the filmmaker Jimena Prieto. This article is an account on how submission in optical media and other materials became an accidental archive that documents the participation of women, their setbacks and achievements in the audiovisual…
Deep Learning Application for Biodiversity Conservation and Educational Tourism in Natural Reserves
Natural reserves, such as the Santurbán Moor in Colombia, are ecologically important but face significant threats from activities like mining and agriculture. Preserving biodiversity in these ecosystems is essential for maintaining ecological balance and promoting sustainable tourism practices. Identifying plant species in these reserves accurately is challenging due to environmental variability and species similarities, complicating conservation…
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: Why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded
This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the microbiome, and I show evidence that both types of claims are present in the contemporary literature. First, the idea that the host genetics determines the composition of the microbiome which I call "host-microbiome determinism". Second, the idea that the genetics of the holobiont (the individual unit compos…
Pluralism and complexity without integration? A critical appraisal of Mitchell’s integrative pluralism
This paper critically examines Mitchell’s integrative pluralism. Integrative pluralism is the view that scientific explanations should primarily aim to integrate descriptions from different ontological levels. We contend that, while integrative pluralism is a fundamental strategy in contemporary science, there are specific reasons why one should not expect integration in the sense developed by Mitchell to be the optimal strategy and the one that …
Rethinking hereditary relations: The reconstitutor as the evolutionary unit of heredity
This paper introduces the reconstitutor as a comprehensive unit of heredity within the context of evolutionary research. A reconstitutor is the structure resulting from a set of relationships between different elements or processes that are actively involved in the recreation of a specific phenotypic variant in each generation regardless of the biomolecular basis of the elements or whether they stand in a continuous line of ancestry. Firstly, we …
Technology-driven surrogates and the perils of epistemic misalignment: An analysis in contemporary microbiome science
A general view in philosophy of science says that the appropriateness of an object to act as a surrogate depends on the user’s decision to utilize it as such. This paper challenges this claim by examining the role of surrogative reasoning in high-throughput sequencing technologies (technology-driven surrogates) as they are used in contemporary microbiome science. Drawing on this, we argue that, in technology-driven surrogates, knowledge about the…
El holobionte/hologenoma como nivel de selección: Una aproximación a la evolución de los consorcios de múltiples especies
The units or levels of selection debate concerns the question of what kind of biological systems are stable enough that part of their evolution is a result of the process of natural selection acting at their level. Traditionally, the debate has concerned at least two different, though related, questions: the question of the level at which interaction with the environment occurs (which entity acts as an interactor), and the question of the level a…
Descriptive understanding and prediction in Covid-19 modelling
COVID-19 has substantially affected our lives during 2020. Since its beginning, several epidemiological models have been developed to investigate the specific dynamics of the disease. Early COVID-19 epidemiological models were purely statistical, based on a curve-fitting approach, and did not include causal knowledge about the disease. Yet, these models had predictive capacity; thus they were used to ground important political decisions, in virtu…
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021
Explaining the behaviour of random ecological networks: The stability of the microbiome as a case of integrative pluralism
Holobionts: Ecological communities, hybrids, or biological individuals? A metaphysical perspective on multispecies systems
Constructive and structural analysis of a Baroque dome in Spain. The encamonada dome
The stability of traits conception of the hologenome: An evolutionary account of holobiont individuality
Dislocations of the National: Colombian Cinema and Intercultural Spaces
The importance of the global co-production market had a considerable impact on Colombia with a significant number of filmmakers working transnationally or residing in other countries. This paper analyses the challenges to the concept of “national cinema” implicit in the work of three filmmakers producing in those conditions: Laura Huertas Millán, Felipe Guerrero, and Camilo Restrepo. Such challenges are translated into their modes of production a…
Cine “nacional”/Circulación transnacional: La experiencia fílmica colombiana en el extranjero en años recientes
Esta ponencia aborda el trabajo de cineastas colombianos que producen cine desde diferentes países europeos para entender sus condiciones de producción y circulación. A la luz de teorías sobre cine diaspórico, cine “acentuado” (término acuñado por Hamid Nacify) y cine del exilio, se dilucida si estos paradigmas se ajustan a la experiencia fílmica colombiana en el extranjero o si, por el contrario, tanto para Colombia, como para otros cines latino…
El decline del melodrama. Cineastas contemporáneas latinoamericanas y la transformación del género
Aunque responde a características particulares en cada país, el melodrama es un género fuertemente enraizado en los cines de América Latina y ha sido recurrente en particular en la industria de la telenovela. A pesar de especificidades nacionales, los temas dominantes han sido los dramas domésticos y la épica nacional que replica problemas nacionales en el microcosmos familiar. En su desarrollo histórico, el melodrama ha servido para representar …
Le déclin du mélodrame: Les cinéastes contemporaines et la transformation du genre
Quoiqu’il réponde à des caractéristiques particulières dans chaque pays, le mélodrame est un genre fortement enraciné dans les cinémas d’Amérique latine et il a été récurrent en particulier dans l’industrie du feuilleton télévisé. Malgré des spécificités nationales, les sujets dominants ont été les drames domestiques et l’épopée nationale dont les problèmes trouvent un écho dans le microcosme familial. Dans son développement historique, le mélodr…
Una muda conspiración contra Roosevelt: Garras de oro (The dawn of Justice)
El artículo revela datos inéditos de la historia que hay detrás de la película Garras de Oro, producida por la Compañía Cali Film en 1.926. Se hace un análisis de la crítica que la película lanza al gobierno de Theodore Roosevelt con ocasión de la separación de Panamá, en el contexto de las relaciones USA-Latinoamérica, y una lectura de las signifcaciones políticas y culturales que hacen a Garras de Oro un flm diferente de sus contemporáneos en e…
Transitions towards the new museum: Themise-en-scèneof the bicentenary in Colombia
This article discusses and analyses three exhibitions that focus on the Colombian bicentennial celebrations housed in the Museo Nacional, the Museo de la Independencia-Casa del Florero and the Iglesia Museo Santa Clara (all in Bogotá). In all three cases the occasion elicited generational enquiries and actual changes in cultural policy, signaling a transition towards the concept of the new museum, characterized by different conceptions of the vie…
The Measure of Induced Abortion Levels in Mexico Using Random Response Technique
The authors used the random response technique (RRT) to measure frequency of induced abortion in Mexico, where its practice is illegal under most circumstances. They applied RRT to a national, multistage probabilistic sample of 1,792 women ages 15 to 55. The distribution of women who reported having had an induced abortion was analyzed by sociodemographic characteristics. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to ident…
La primera noche
La desazón suprema: Retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo
The Measure of Induced Abortion Levels in Mexico Using Random Response Technique
The authors used the random response technique (RRT) to measure frequency of induced abortion in Mexico, where its practice is illegal under most circumstances. They applied RRT to a national, multistage probabilistic sample of 1,792 women ages 15 to 55. The distribution of women who reported having had an induced abortion was analyzed by sociodemographic characteristics. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to ident…
Explaining the behaviour of random ecological networks: The stability of the microbiome as a case of integrative pluralism
The stability of traits conception of the hologenome: An evolutionary account of holobiont individuality
Rethinking hereditary relations: The reconstitutor as the evolutionary unit of heredity
This paper introduces the reconstitutor as a comprehensive unit of heredity within the context of evolutionary research. A reconstitutor is the structure resulting from a set of relationships between different elements or processes that are actively involved in the recreation of a specific phenotypic variant in each generation regardless of the biomolecular basis of the elements or whether they stand in a continuous line of ancestry. Firstly, we …
Descriptive understanding and prediction in Covid-19 modelling
COVID-19 has substantially affected our lives during 2020. Since its beginning, several epidemiological models have been developed to investigate the specific dynamics of the disease. Early COVID-19 epidemiological models were purely statistical, based on a curve-fitting approach, and did not include causal knowledge about the disease. Yet, these models had predictive capacity; thus they were used to ground important political decisions, in virtu…
Holobionts: Ecological communities, hybrids, or biological individuals? A metaphysical perspective on multispecies systems
Dislocations of the National: Colombian Cinema and Intercultural Spaces
The importance of the global co-production market had a considerable impact on Colombia with a significant number of filmmakers working transnationally or residing in other countries. This paper analyses the challenges to the concept of “national cinema” implicit in the work of three filmmakers producing in those conditions: Laura Huertas Millán, Felipe Guerrero, and Camilo Restrepo. Such challenges are translated into their modes of production a…
La primera noche
La desazón suprema: Retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo
The Measure of Induced Abortion Levels in Mexico Using Random Response Technique
The authors used the random response technique (RRT) to measure frequency of induced abortion in Mexico, where its practice is illegal under most circumstances. They applied RRT to a national, multistage probabilistic sample of 1,792 women ages 15 to 55. The distribution of women who reported having had an induced abortion was analyzed by sociodemographic characteristics. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to ident…
Una muda conspiración contra Roosevelt: Garras de oro (The dawn of Justice)
El artículo revela datos inéditos de la historia que hay detrás de la película Garras de Oro, producida por la Compañía Cali Film en 1.926. Se hace un análisis de la crítica que la película lanza al gobierno de Theodore Roosevelt con ocasión de la separación de Panamá, en el contexto de las relaciones USA-Latinoamérica, y una lectura de las signifcaciones políticas y culturales que hacen a Garras de Oro un flm diferente de sus contemporáneos en e…
Transitions towards the new museum: Themise-en-scèneof the bicentenary in Colombia
This article discusses and analyses three exhibitions that focus on the Colombian bicentennial celebrations housed in the Museo Nacional, the Museo de la Independencia-Casa del Florero and the Iglesia Museo Santa Clara (all in Bogotá). In all three cases the occasion elicited generational enquiries and actual changes in cultural policy, signaling a transition towards the concept of the new museum, characterized by different conceptions of the vie…
El decline del melodrama. Cineastas contemporáneas latinoamericanas y la transformación del género
Aunque responde a características particulares en cada país, el melodrama es un género fuertemente enraizado en los cines de América Latina y ha sido recurrente en particular en la industria de la telenovela. A pesar de especificidades nacionales, los temas dominantes han sido los dramas domésticos y la épica nacional que replica problemas nacionales en el microcosmos familiar. En su desarrollo histórico, el melodrama ha servido para representar …
Le déclin du mélodrame: Les cinéastes contemporaines et la transformation du genre
Quoiqu’il réponde à des caractéristiques particulières dans chaque pays, le mélodrame est un genre fortement enraciné dans les cinémas d’Amérique latine et il a été récurrent en particulier dans l’industrie du feuilleton télévisé. Malgré des spécificités nationales, les sujets dominants ont été les drames domestiques et l’épopée nationale dont les problèmes trouvent un écho dans le microcosme familial. Dans son développement historique, le mélodr…
Cine “nacional”/Circulación transnacional: La experiencia fílmica colombiana en el extranjero en años recientes
Esta ponencia aborda el trabajo de cineastas colombianos que producen cine desde diferentes países europeos para entender sus condiciones de producción y circulación. A la luz de teorías sobre cine diaspórico, cine “acentuado” (término acuñado por Hamid Nacify) y cine del exilio, se dilucida si estos paradigmas se ajustan a la experiencia fílmica colombiana en el extranjero o si, por el contrario, tanto para Colombia, como para otros cines latino…
Dislocations of the National: Colombian Cinema and Intercultural Spaces
The importance of the global co-production market had a considerable impact on Colombia with a significant number of filmmakers working transnationally or residing in other countries. This paper analyses the challenges to the concept of “national cinema” implicit in the work of three filmmakers producing in those conditions: Laura Huertas Millán, Felipe Guerrero, and Camilo Restrepo. Such challenges are translated into their modes of production a…
Holobionts: Ecological communities, hybrids, or biological individuals? A metaphysical perspective on multispecies systems
Constructive and structural analysis of a Baroque dome in Spain. The encamonada dome
The stability of traits conception of the hologenome: An evolutionary account of holobiont individuality
El holobionte/hologenoma como nivel de selección: Una aproximación a la evolución de los consorcios de múltiples especies
The units or levels of selection debate concerns the question of what kind of biological systems are stable enough that part of their evolution is a result of the process of natural selection acting at their level. Traditionally, the debate has concerned at least two different, though related, questions: the question of the level at which interaction with the environment occurs (which entity acts as an interactor), and the question of the level a…
Descriptive understanding and prediction in Covid-19 modelling
COVID-19 has substantially affected our lives during 2020. Since its beginning, several epidemiological models have been developed to investigate the specific dynamics of the disease. Early COVID-19 epidemiological models were purely statistical, based on a curve-fitting approach, and did not include causal knowledge about the disease. Yet, these models had predictive capacity; thus they were used to ground important political decisions, in virtu…
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021
Explaining the behaviour of random ecological networks: The stability of the microbiome as a case of integrative pluralism
Rethinking hereditary relations: The reconstitutor as the evolutionary unit of heredity
This paper introduces the reconstitutor as a comprehensive unit of heredity within the context of evolutionary research. A reconstitutor is the structure resulting from a set of relationships between different elements or processes that are actively involved in the recreation of a specific phenotypic variant in each generation regardless of the biomolecular basis of the elements or whether they stand in a continuous line of ancestry. Firstly, we …
Technology-driven surrogates and the perils of epistemic misalignment: An analysis in contemporary microbiome science
A general view in philosophy of science says that the appropriateness of an object to act as a surrogate depends on the user’s decision to utilize it as such. This paper challenges this claim by examining the role of surrogative reasoning in high-throughput sequencing technologies (technology-driven surrogates) as they are used in contemporary microbiome science. Drawing on this, we argue that, in technology-driven surrogates, knowledge about the…
Pluralism and complexity without integration? A critical appraisal of Mitchell’s integrative pluralism
This paper critically examines Mitchell’s integrative pluralism. Integrative pluralism is the view that scientific explanations should primarily aim to integrate descriptions from different ontological levels. We contend that, while integrative pluralism is a fundamental strategy in contemporary science, there are specific reasons why one should not expect integration in the sense developed by Mitchell to be the optimal strategy and the one that …
Deep Learning Application for Biodiversity Conservation and Educational Tourism in Natural Reserves
Natural reserves, such as the Santurbán Moor in Colombia, are ecologically important but face significant threats from activities like mining and agriculture. Preserving biodiversity in these ecosystems is essential for maintaining ecological balance and promoting sustainable tourism practices. Identifying plant species in these reserves accurately is challenging due to environmental variability and species similarities, complicating conservation…
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: Why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded
This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the microbiome, and I show evidence that both types of claims are present in the contemporary literature. First, the idea that the host genetics determines the composition of the microbiome which I call "host-microbiome determinism". Second, the idea that the genetics of the holobiont (the individual unit compos…
The accidental archive: Mujer es audiovisual/Cine en Femenino and the recent history of Colombian women filmmakers1
Since 2009, Cine en Femenino has been the most important showcase of the work of women filmmakers in Colombia. The festival was created by Mujer es audiovisual, a production and distribution collective spearheaded by the filmmaker Jimena Prieto. This article is an account on how submission in optical media and other materials became an accidental archive that documents the participation of women, their setbacks and achievements in the audiovisual…
Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology
This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism . Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite. First, we show how mereological perspectivism is used in several debates in philosophy of biology (biological individuality, ecosystem…
Levels and Hierarchies in Evolution
I analyse the main characteristics of the hierarchy of levels of selection as manifestors of adaptation (i.e., hierarchy of levels of evolutionary organization) and show that, while ranked, this hierarchy is non-nested. Secondly, I consider a potential objection to my approach derived from Eronen and Ramsey’s (2022) claim that levels of organization should be teased apart from levels of selection . I argue that their approach rests on a failure t…
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