Alberto Cordero
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Cordero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Cordero |
| SIGNATURE | CORDERO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0000-7109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La Menopausia Precoz Es Un Factor De Riesgo De Aparición De Hipertensión
Selecting the Next Generation
Pathological ankle–brachial index is equivalent of advanced age in acute coronary syndromes
Elderly patients represent a relevant collective of patients with ACS and are treated less optimally. ABI predicts 1-year mortality after an ACS in elderly patients.
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy
Using the optical ether as a case study, this article advances four lines of consideration to show why synchronic versions of the divide et impera strategy of scientific realism are unlikely to work. The considerations draw from ( a ) the nineteenth-century theories of light, ( b ) the rise of surprising implication as an epistemic value from the time of Fresnel on, ( c ) assessments of the ether in end-of-century reports around 1900, and ( d ) t…
Contemporary Nativism, Scientific Texture, and the Moral Limits of Free Inquiry
Some thinkers distrust Darwinist explorations of complex human behaviors, particularly investigations into possible differences in valued skills between genders, races or classes. Such projects, it is claimed, tend to have adverse effects on people who are already disadvantaged. A recent argument by Philip Kitcher both clarifies and generalizes this charge to cover a wider genre of scientific projects. In this paper I try to spell out and analyze…
Realism and Underdetermination
Recent attempts to turn Standard Quantum Theory into a coherent representational system have improved markedly over previous offerings. Important questions about the nature of material systems remain open, however, as current theorizing effectively resolves into a multiplicity of incompatible statements about the nature of physical systems. Specifically, the most cogent proposals to date land in effective empirical equivalence, reviving old anti-…
Are GRW Tails as Bad as They Say
GRW models of the physical world are criticized in the literature for involving wave function “tails” that allegedly create fatal interpretive problems and even compromise standard arithmetic. I find such objections both unfair and misguided. But not all is well with the GRW approach. One complaint I articulate in this paper does not have to do with tails as such but with the specific way in which past physical structures linger forever in the to…
Observation in Constructive Empiricism
EI empirismo constructivo se halla inapropiadamente motivado por la doctrina empirista general. Sin embargo, sostenemos que es posible encontrar una motivacion para dicho empirismo en la peculiar mezcla entre la teoría de la decisión y algunos hechos específicos acerca de la especie humana anticipados por Van Fraassen en The Scientific Image. Lamentablemente, una filosofia de la ciencia motivada de esa manera es incapaz de evitar su propio hundim…
Las ciencias naturales y los valores
Cordero reconsiders —from the post-Kuhnian view of Natural Science— the fact/value dicotomy. His analysis involves: (1) inquiring about the limits of objectivity, and (2) challenging the empiricist tradition in the areas of value theory and objectivity. The author examines Putnam’s position, according the which, a fact always depend upon a value and every value materializes itself in a fact. Putnam also claims that predicative control is fundamen…
Are GRW Tails as Bad as They Say
GRW models of the physical world are criticized in the literature for involving wave function “tails” that allegedly create fatal interpretive problems and even compromise standard arithmetic. I find such objections both unfair and misguided. But not all is well with the GRW approach. One complaint I articulate in this paper does not have to do with tails as such but with the specific way in which past physical structures linger forever in the to…
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy
Using the optical ether as a case study, this article advances four lines of consideration to show why synchronic versions of the divide et impera strategy of scientific realism are unlikely to work. The considerations draw from ( a ) the nineteenth-century theories of light, ( b ) the rise of surprising implication as an epistemic value from the time of Fresnel on, ( c ) assessments of the ether in end-of-century reports around 1900, and ( d ) t…
Realism and Underdetermination
Recent attempts to turn Standard Quantum Theory into a coherent representational system have improved markedly over previous offerings. Important questions about the nature of material systems remain open, however, as current theorizing effectively resolves into a multiplicity of incompatible statements about the nature of physical systems. Specifically, the most cogent proposals to date land in effective empirical equivalence, reviving old anti-…
Las ciencias naturales y los valores
Cordero reconsiders —from the post-Kuhnian view of Natural Science— the fact/value dicotomy. His analysis involves: (1) inquiring about the limits of objectivity, and (2) challenging the empiricist tradition in the areas of value theory and objectivity. The author examines Putnam’s position, according the which, a fact always depend upon a value and every value materializes itself in a fact. Putnam also claims that predicative control is fundamen…
Observation in Constructive Empiricism
EI empirismo constructivo se halla inapropiadamente motivado por la doctrina empirista general. Sin embargo, sostenemos que es posible encontrar una motivacion para dicho empirismo en la peculiar mezcla entre la teoría de la decisión y algunos hechos específicos acerca de la especie humana anticipados por Van Fraassen en The Scientific Image. Lamentablemente, una filosofia de la ciencia motivada de esa manera es incapaz de evitar su propio hundim…
Are GRW Tails as Bad as They Say
GRW models of the physical world are criticized in the literature for involving wave function “tails” that allegedly create fatal interpretive problems and even compromise standard arithmetic. I find such objections both unfair and misguided. But not all is well with the GRW approach. One complaint I articulate in this paper does not have to do with tails as such but with the specific way in which past physical structures linger forever in the to…
Realism and Underdetermination
Recent attempts to turn Standard Quantum Theory into a coherent representational system have improved markedly over previous offerings. Important questions about the nature of material systems remain open, however, as current theorizing effectively resolves into a multiplicity of incompatible statements about the nature of physical systems. Specifically, the most cogent proposals to date land in effective empirical equivalence, reviving old anti-…
Contemporary Nativism, Scientific Texture, and the Moral Limits of Free Inquiry
Some thinkers distrust Darwinist explorations of complex human behaviors, particularly investigations into possible differences in valued skills between genders, races or classes. Such projects, it is claimed, tend to have adverse effects on people who are already disadvantaged. A recent argument by Philip Kitcher both clarifies and generalizes this charge to cover a wider genre of scientific projects. In this paper I try to spell out and analyze…
Pathological ankle–brachial index is equivalent of advanced age in acute coronary syndromes
Elderly patients represent a relevant collective of patients with ACS and are treated less optimally. ABI predicts 1-year mortality after an ACS in elderly patients.
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy
Using the optical ether as a case study, this article advances four lines of consideration to show why synchronic versions of the divide et impera strategy of scientific realism are unlikely to work. The considerations draw from ( a ) the nineteenth-century theories of light, ( b ) the rise of surprising implication as an epistemic value from the time of Fresnel on, ( c ) assessments of the ether in end-of-century reports around 1900, and ( d ) t…
Selecting the Next Generation
La Menopausia Precoz Es Un Factor De Riesgo De Aparición De Hipertensión
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Scientific realism (3 works) · Biofield Effects and Biophysics (2 works) · Empiricism (2 works)