José Díez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Díez |
| GIVEN NAMES | José |
| FAMILY NAME | Díez |
| SIGNATURE | DÍEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1082-6020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unification, T-theoreticity, and Testing: The Case of Fitness in Natural Selection
Theoreticity and unification are two main issues discussed in philosophy of science. The first attempts to clarify the different roles of concepts used in a scientific theory. The second concerns the role of unification in scientific explanation and scientific progress. Both discussions have followed separate, independent paths. In this paper, we examine the interrelatedness of these two notions by focusing on classical particle mechanics and the…
A non-causalist account of the explanatory autonomy in the psychological sciences
It has been often claimed that physicalism challenges the explanatory autonomy of psychological sciences. Most who advocate for such explanatory autonomy and do not want to renounce to physicalism, presuppose a causalist account of explanatoriness and try to demonstrate that, adequately construed, (causal) psychological explanations are compatible with (some sufficient version of) physicalism. In Sect. 1 we summarize the different theses and assu…
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy
According to selective, retentive, scientific realism, past empirical success may be explained only by the parts of past theories that are responsible of their successful predictions being approximately true, and thus theoretically retained, or approximated, by the parts of posterior theories responsible of the same successful predictions. In this article, we present as case study the transit from Ptolemy’s to Kepler’s astronomy, and their succes…
Guiding Principles and Special Laws
We analyse the structuralist notion of a guiding principle in empirical science in order to show its fruitfulness to tackle some central issues belonging both to the general as well as to the special philosophy of science, while also providing some clues to understand recent developments in the philosophy of science. We shall conclude by laying out the core characteristics of guiding principles
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: The case of classical genetics
Love, Reasons, and Replaceability
Lovers typically entertain two sorts of thoughts about their beloveds. On the one hand, they think that the qualities of their beloveds provide reasons for loving them. On the other, they regard their beloveds as irreplaceable. Yet it may be asked how these two sorts of thoughts can coherently coexist. If Romeo loves Juliet in virtue of her qualities, shouldn’t another maiden with the same qualities be equally lovable for him? This paper draws so…
Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations As a Unified Theory-Net
The goal of this article is to show that formal analysis and reconstructions may be useful to discuss and shed light on substantive meta-theoretical issues. We proceed here by exemplification, analysing and reconstructing as a case study a paradigmatic biochemical theory, the Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) theory of allosterism, and applying the reconstruction to the discussion of some issues raised by prominent representatives of the new mechanist p…
Models, theory structure and mechanisms in biochemistry: The case of allosterism
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate
General theories of explanation: Buyer beware
Can we dispense with mimesis in representation: R. Frigg and M. C. Hunter (eds.): Beyond mimesis and convention: Representation in art and science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, xxx + 265pp, €139,95 HB
Falsificationism and the structure of theories: The Popper–Kuhn controversy about the rationality of normal science
A Program For The Individuation Of Scientific Concepts
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate
A Program For The Individuation Of Scientific Concepts
Models, theory structure and mechanisms in biochemistry: The case of allosterism
Falsificationism and the structure of theories: The Popper–Kuhn controversy about the rationality of normal science
General theories of explanation: Buyer beware
A Program For The Individuation Of Scientific Concepts
Falsificationism and the structure of theories: The Popper–Kuhn controversy about the rationality of normal science
Can we dispense with mimesis in representation: R. Frigg and M. C. Hunter (eds.): Beyond mimesis and convention: Representation in art and science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, xxx + 265pp, €139,95 HB
General theories of explanation: Buyer beware
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate
Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations As a Unified Theory-Net
The goal of this article is to show that formal analysis and reconstructions may be useful to discuss and shed light on substantive meta-theoretical issues. We proceed here by exemplification, analysing and reconstructing as a case study a paradigmatic biochemical theory, the Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) theory of allosterism, and applying the reconstruction to the discussion of some issues raised by prominent representatives of the new mechanist p…
Models, theory structure and mechanisms in biochemistry: The case of allosterism
Love, Reasons, and Replaceability
Lovers typically entertain two sorts of thoughts about their beloveds. On the one hand, they think that the qualities of their beloveds provide reasons for loving them. On the other, they regard their beloveds as irreplaceable. Yet it may be asked how these two sorts of thoughts can coherently coexist. If Romeo loves Juliet in virtue of her qualities, shouldn’t another maiden with the same qualities be equally lovable for him? This paper draws so…
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy
According to selective, retentive, scientific realism, past empirical success may be explained only by the parts of past theories that are responsible of their successful predictions being approximately true, and thus theoretically retained, or approximated, by the parts of posterior theories responsible of the same successful predictions. In this article, we present as case study the transit from Ptolemy’s to Kepler’s astronomy, and their succes…
Guiding Principles and Special Laws
We analyse the structuralist notion of a guiding principle in empirical science in order to show its fruitfulness to tackle some central issues belonging both to the general as well as to the special philosophy of science, while also providing some clues to understand recent developments in the philosophy of science. We shall conclude by laying out the core characteristics of guiding principles
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: The case of classical genetics
A non-causalist account of the explanatory autonomy in the psychological sciences
It has been often claimed that physicalism challenges the explanatory autonomy of psychological sciences. Most who advocate for such explanatory autonomy and do not want to renounce to physicalism, presuppose a causalist account of explanatoriness and try to demonstrate that, adequately construed, (causal) psychological explanations are compatible with (some sufficient version of) physicalism. In Sect. 1 we summarize the different theses and assu…
Unification, T-theoreticity, and Testing: The Case of Fitness in Natural Selection
Theoreticity and unification are two main issues discussed in philosophy of science. The first attempts to clarify the different roles of concepts used in a scientific theory. The second concerns the role of unification in scientific explanation and scientific progress. Both discussions have followed separate, independent paths. In this paper, we examine the interrelatedness of these two notions by focusing on classical particle mechanics and the…
Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (11 works) · Philosophy of science (10 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works)