Abstract Objects: For and Against (Synthese Library, 422)
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- Abstract Objects: For and Against (Synthese Library, 422)
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- 2021
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About the Author
José L. Falguera was born in Vigo (Spain). He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1992 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (with a thesis entitled: Problemas ontosemánticos de los términos teóricos conforme a la concepción estructuralista (Ontosemantic problems of scientific terms from the point of view of the structuralist approach), supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Ulises Moulines.
He is currently Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). His main research interests have to do with the ontosemantics of scientific expressions, scientific models, epistemic problems of natural science, philosophy of perception, and abstract objects.
He is author (with C. Martínez-Vidal) of the book entitled: Lógica Clásica de Primer Orden, Trotta, Madrid, 1999. He has also published several articles in different journals and compilations. Some of them are: (with Donato-Rodríguez, X.) “On Fictions, Theoretical Entities, and Ideal Objects: Applying Zalta’s Abstract Objects Theory to Scientific Theories”, in: Borbone, G. & Brzechczyn, K. (eds.) Idealization XIV: Models in Science, Edition: (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 108), pp., 14-42."Incommensurability, Comparability, and Non-reductive Ontological Relations", in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2015), DOI: 10.1007/s10838-014-9275-3; (with Peleteiro, S.) "Experiencia perceptual y sustento epistémico", en: Revista de Filosofía (2014), 39(2): 7-32, and “The approximate representational character of Perceptual Experiences”; "Comparación epistémica de teorías inconmensurables, sin fundamentismo", in: Lorenzano, P. & Nudler, O. (eds.) (2012) El camino desde Kuhn: La inconmensurabilidad hoy. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, pp. 119 170; “De lo que tratan en común teorías inconmensurables”, in: Peris-Viñe, L. M. (ed.) (2012) Filosofía de la Ciencia en Iberoamérica: Metateoría Estructural.Madrid: Técnos, pp. 448-468; "Representaciones no-conceptuales y lo dado: revisando a Fodor", in: Miguens, S., Pinto, J. A. & Teles, M. (eds.) (2011) Aspectos do Juízo Aspects of Judgement. Porto: Porto, pp. 107-134; "Consideraciones de índole ontoepistemosemántica", Metatheoria (2011), 1, pp. 39 63; "Foundherentist Philosophy of Science", in: Ernst, G. Nieberhall, K. G. (eds.) (2006) Philosophie der Wissenschaft -Wissenschaft der Philosophie. Festschrift für C. Ulises Moulines zum 60, Mentis: Geburstag-Paderborn, pp. 67-86; "Las revoluciones científicas y el problema de la inconmensurabilidad", in: González, W. (ed.) (2004) Análisis de Thomas Kuhn. Madrid: Trotta, pp. 177-223; "Ontosemantic divergence and comparability of theories", Logica Trianguli, 3: 33-53; "Representational semantics for scientific theories", in: Martínez-Vidal, Rivas, U. & Villegas-Forero, L. (eds.) (1998) Truth in Perspective: Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology. Brookfield: Aldershot, pp. 379-397; "A basis for a formal semantics of linguistic formulations of science", in: Ibarra, A. Mormann, T. (eds.) (1997) Representations of scientific rationality. Contemporary formal philosophy of science in Spain, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, pp. 255-276. He has edited compilations and monographs with several colleagues: Díez, J.; Lorenzano, P.; Martínez-Vidal, C., Rivas, U., and Sagüillo, J. M.
He has also organized several conferences and workshops in cooperation with other members of the EPISTEME research group, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela. Besides, he was Chair of the Department of Logic and Moral Philosophy between 2013-february and 2016-june and he is currently the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Anthropology since 2016-october of that University.
His research interests are related to: general philosophy of science, ontosemantics, epistemology, theoretical terms, scientific models, scientific laws, abstract artifacts, formal and informal logic.
Concha Martínez-Vidal is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She graduated at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1985 and got her PhD at the University of Valencia under the supervision of Rafael Beneyto. The title of her PhD was “De la teoría del significado en Prawitz a la búsqueda inteligente de pruebas: una aplicación del teorema de inversión a la inteligencia artificial” (From Prawitzs Theory of Meaning to searching proofs in an intelligent way: From the Inversion Theorem to Artificial Intelligence . During her doctorate student period, she worked for several months with Dag Prawitz in Stockholm.
She has taught different subjects related to logic and analytic philosophy. Among her publications she has a manual for teaching logic entitled "Logica Clásica de Primer Orden: Estrategias de deducción, formalización y evaluación semántica" (Trotta 1999, with J.L. Falguera). She has also published various papers and book-chapters. Among them: Is Second-Order Logic Logic? (The Logica Yearbook 1999), El estatuto epistemológico de la Lógica: verdad y necesidad (Técnos 2007 Filosofía de la Lógica), Normativity and its Vindication: The Case of Logic (Theoria 2004), Is Logic Objective? (Cadernos de Filosofía, Lisboa), "Leon Henkin the Reviewer"(with José Pedro Úbeda Rives in Manzano, M.; Sain, I; Alonso, E (Eds.) The Life and Work of Leon Henkin. Essays on His Contributions (Springer 2014). Etc.
She has edited several volumes such as : Truth in perspective (Ashgate 1996, with Villegas & Monroy), Following Putnams Trail: On Realism and Other Issues (Rodopi 2004 with Silva & Monroy), Current Topics in logic and Analytic Philosophy (Servicio Publicaciones USC 2007, with Falguera & Sagüillo). She has participated and conducted several research projects. She is currently main researcher of the project “The explanatory function of Abstract Objects: Nature and Cognoscibility).
She has also organized many conferences and workshops in cooperation with other members of the group EPISTEME. The last one was the VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Santiago de Compostela, July 18-20, 2012). In that conference, she was appointed as President of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosohy of Science in Spain. She has also been Chair of the Department of Logic and Moral Philosophy, and a member of different Scientific Committees for various conferences.
Her research interests are related to the philosophy of logic and mathematics. In particular issues such as the problem of the justification of logic, the role of intuition in mathematics, indispensability arguments in different versions, and the metaphysics of numbers as abstract objects."About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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