Maria Caamano-Alegre

Universidad de Valladolid | UVA · Departamento de Filosofía

Las variaciones en la forma en que los sujetos responden a las descripciones de un mismo asunto enmarcadas positiva o nega-tivamente han sido estudiadas desde las ciencias sociales, donde, sin embargo, una concepción insuficientemente desarrollada de la interpre-tación del discurso ha socavado las diferentes explicaciones ofrecidas. Los efectos mar...

The variations in how subjects respond to positively or negatively framed descriptions of the same issue have received attention from social science research, where, nevertheless, a not fully developed understanding of speech interpretation has undermined the different explanations offered. The present paper explores the semantic-pragmatic side of...

Framing effects have hardly been studied from the philosophy of language. The variations in how subjects respond to positively or negatively framed descriptions of the same issue have received attention from social science research, where, nevertheless, a naïve understanding of speech interpretation has undermined the different explanations offered...

By focusing on the case of survey research in economics, the paper shows how methodological pluralism emerges as a natural consequence from a very common dynamics of feedback between problems and solutions taking place in scientific practice. This continuous feedback between methodological problems and attempts at solving them, being essentially co...

Theoretical laws need to be conjoined with auxiliary assumptions in order to be empirically testable, whether in natural or social science. A particularly heated debate has been developing over the nature and role of these assumptions in economic theories. The so called “F(riedman)-Twist” (“the more significant the theory, the more unrealistic the...

En el presente trabajo es explicitan de forma sistemática las contribuciones más significativas del estructuralismo a la comprensión de las revoluciones científicas, tomando como punto de referencia inicial la caracterización kuhniana de éstas. Se elucidará, con ayuda del caso ilustrativo de la revolución geológica, un segundo sentido kuhniano de r...

This article examines how problems of validity in empirical social research differ from those in natural science. Specifically, we focus on how some ontological peculiarities of the object of study in social science bear on validity requirements. We consider these issues in experimental validity as well as in test validity because, while both field...

This article applies an ontology-based approach to economic experiments, emphasizing their differences with respect to physical science experiments. To contextualize our discussion, a conciliatory Weberian view of the similarities and differences between natural and social sciences is provided. After that, some ontological features of the social sc...

This article focuses on the impact that the recent widening of empirical economics has on the quest for validity in this field. We begin by summarizing the continuous evolution from a primarily deductive economics to a more empirical one, especially emphasizing the broader experimental and survey-based evidence. Although these developments pave the...

En este artículo se propone un criterio de adecuación empírica orientado a la superación de ciertas limitaciones que afectan a las concepciones tradicionales, consecuencialistas del éxito empírico de las teorías. En el criterio propuesto cobran especial importancia los siguientes aspectos: a) la resolución de anomalías no refutatorias, b) la superi...

Your article is available as 'Online First': http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-018-9409-0 Abstract As emphasized by Larry Laudan in developing the notion of non-refuting anomalies (Laudan 1977; Nola and Sankey 2000), traditional analyses of empirical adequacy have not paid enough attention to the fact that the latter does not only d...

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the semantic relation between continental drift and plate tectonics. The numerous attempts to account for this case in either Kuhnian or Lakatosian terms have been convincingly dismissed by Rachel Laudan (PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Symposia and Invited...

En el presente estudio crítico se revisan las contribuciones que conforman la obra compilatoria de Sergio Martínez, Xiang Huang y Godfrey Guillaumin (2011), Historia, prácticas y estilos en la filosofía de la ciencia. Hacia una epistemología plural, México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Se objeta que tras muchos de los tratamientos recogidos...

The purpose of this work is twofold: to explain some of the limitations a�ecting traditional approaches to theory success, and to outline a criterion for the comparative evaluation of a theory's empirical success. A special emphasis will be placed on the following issues: a) the superiority of prediction over accommodation, b) the resolution of non...

The present work constitutes an attempt to make explicit those pragmatic norms successfully operating in empirical science. I will first comment on the initial presuppositions of the discussion, in particular, on those concerning the instrumental character of scientific practice and the nature of scientific goals. Then I will depict the moderately...

The present work constitutes an attempt at identifying those pragmatic aspects of empirical science that contribute to its continuity. The source of scientific continuity has remained unclear after the incommensurability thesis dramatically challenged the truth-cumulative view of science (which was developed within the traditional view of empirical...

Davidson's argument for the principle of charity;Davidson's philosophical framework, interpretation on translation;Davidson, and principle of charity, not just as a semantic rule;thoughts with a propositional content, logical properties;principle of charity and learning perceptual sentences;maximization of agreement, interpreter's language and mean...

Putnam's argument against cultural imperialism;Putnam, context of criticizing different attempts to naturalize reason;reason, balance between immanence to culture and traditions;cultural imperialism;Putnam, formulating his argument against cultural imperialism;argument, following a reductio ad absurdum strategy;modern European and American culture,...

The incommensurability thesis, as introduced by T.S. Kuhn and P.K. Feyerabend, states that incommensurable theories are conceptually incompatible theories which share a common domain of application. Such claim has often been regarded as incoherent, since it has been understood that the determination of a common domain of application at least requir...

The purpose of this paper is to show how the degree of experimental validity of scientific procedures is crucially involved in determining two typical pragmatic modes in science, namely, the preservation of useful procedures and the disposal of useless ideas. The term ‘pragmatic’ will here be used following Schurz’s characterisation of being intern...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the differences between the notions of incommensurability and inconsistency. The concept of incommensurability taken into account is restricted to the one of non-trivial incommensurability, which, in turn, will be associated with local untranslatability. Logical, ontological, and epistemological differences betwe...

Preliminary remarks The pragmatic project of developing a richer notion of experience Classical pragmatists made a sustained effort to develop a new con-ception of experience, free from some simplistic assumptions shared by both traditional rationalists and empiricists, like the idea that experi-enceresults from a combination of simple sensations....