14 articles in this issue
María José Frapolli,Jesús Vega Encabo
This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July... see more
Philip Kitcher
This article attempts to describe new directions for the general philosophy of science. In the opening section, I take stock of the current situation. The second and third parts explore science as a social enterprise, conceived first as the co... see more
Francisco Vázquez García
The first Spanish reception of Gaston Bachelard’s epistemological work took place in 1940s and 1950s decades. José Pemartín and particularly Carlos París and Roberto Saumells were the most important Spanish philosophers who read and make use of the histor... see more
Arnon Keren
What should the goals of scientific inquiry be? What questions should scientists investigate, and how should our resources be distributed between different lines of investigation? Philip Kitcher has suggested that we should answer these questions by appea... see more
Maxence Gaillard
In two important books, Science, Truth and Democracy and Science in a Democratic Society, Philip Kitcher has proposed a model of “well-ordered science”. The well-ordered science aims to match at the same time the requirements of democracy and those of the... see more
Bence Nanay
The recent focus of Philip Kitcher’s research has been, somewhat surprisingly in the light of his earlier work, the philosophical analyses of literary works and operas. The aim of this paper is to show that there is no discontinuity between this new ... see more
Alex Peter Malpass
This paper establishes two facts. The first is that a recently presented problem for supervaluationism (found in Delia Fara’s ‘Scope Confusions and Unsatisfiable Disjuncts’, in Cuts and Clouds, [2010]) applies equally to the branching-time cousin of the t... see more
Stephen R Palmquist
Quantum indeterminism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy. The Copenhagen interpretation also takes quantum theory as evidence for anti-realism. This first article of a two-part series argues that the law of causality... see more
Roberto Torretti
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Gustavo Caponi
María Jiménez Buedo
Foad Dizadji-Bahmani
Ricardo Campos
Claudio Fuentes