Mariana Córdoba

National Scientific and Technical Research Council | conicet · Instituto de Filosofía Dr. Alejandro Korn

The purpose of this work is to discuss which relation can be established between molecular chemistry, on the one hand, and macrochemistry and nanochemistry, on the other hand. In order to do this, we will consider molecular chemistry as an underlying level, and macrochemistry and nanochemistry as emergent levels. Emergence is characterized in very...

Como resultado de las luchas de las disidencias sexogenéricas se han aprobado leyes en todo el mundo que garantizan el reconocimiento de las identidades generizadas. La Ley de Identidad de Género argentina (2012) ofrece una definición de “identidad de género” opuesta a los enfoques biológicos y a la patologización y que respeta la voluntad individu...

The philosophical problem of personal identity –the issue of finding the necessary and sufficient conditions for a past or future being to be a certain present being– has been treated by analytical metaphysics mostly. In this framework, plenty of references to thought experiments can be found, but they exhibit no connection to practical problems an...

The philosophical problem of personal identity has been widely discussed in contemporary analytic philosophy. The disputes over identity throughout time abound in references to thought experiments, excluding any connection to practical problems or to scientific knowledge and biotechnological practices. Nevertheless, some real cases challenge the pu...

En este artículo argumentaré que la violencia de género perpetrada por la dictadura argentina (1976-1983) y en los actuales femicidios en el país, presenta una doble dimensión. Por un lado, una de carácter represivo y particular, pues por medio de dicha violencia se procura el arrasamiento identitario de las víctimas; y, por otro, una dimensión pro...

Las dificultades encontradas para pensar la química a partir de categorías que la filosofía había articulado tradicionalmente para la física tuvo como consecuencia la emergencia de un fértil campo de problemas específicos –la filosofía de la química–. Recientemente, nuevos desafíos surgen al analizar el nanomundo desde una perspectiva filosófica. E...

Academics and activists are witnessing a rewrite of significant issues about and around gender identity. Related to its history, such notion displays itself as a struggle arena. While different meanings are in tension, worldwide legal advances intervene, leaving marks on the debate. In this paper, I will focus on the Argentinian Gender Identity Law...

In this paper we will argue that the categories of physical individuals and chemical stuff are not sufficient to face the chemical ontology if nanomaterials are taken into account. From a perspective that considers ontological questions and wonders which the items involved in science are, we will argue that the domain of nanoscience must be conside...

Our purpose is to subvert the traditional analysis of the problem of natural kinds in philosophy of science, which will be analyzed from a synchronic perspective and focusing on chemistry. Three problems of essentialist microstructuralism in chemistry will be considered: (1) the atomic number is insufficient as an essential property and criterion,...

El análisis del concepto de orbital permite argumentar –en oposición a una propuesta reciente en filosofía de la ciencia– que no es posible defender la autonomía ontológica de la realidad química respecto de la física, sobre la base de una ruptura conceptual entre una interpretación química del concepto y otra propia de la mecánica cuántica. Esto e...

p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"> En el presente trabajo presentaremos el problema filosófico de la identidad personal y analizaremos el enfoque genético de la misma. Este enfoque constituye una perspectiva generalizada actualmente en nuestra sociedad, a partir de la divulgación científica y la educación formal. Esto...

En este trabajo analizaré algunos aspectos filosóficamente relevantes en la disolución del problema de la identificación de los números naturales de Benacerraf por parte del estructuralismo de Shapiro. El propósito fundamental consiste en ofrecer tres críticas a la posición de Shapiro –a su concepción sobre el lenguaje, a la caracterización de las...

In the present article we approach the issue of ontological determinism in physics. We propose a clarification of the concept of possibility that is useful for addressing this issue. By means of this clarification, the concept of probability can be given an interpretation that is meaningful for the practice of theoretical physics. Finally, these cl...

In this paper I will analyze some philosophically relevant aspects involved in the dissolution of Benacerraf's problem of fixing the identity of natural numbers by Shapiro's structuralism. My fundamental aim is to present three criticisms to Shapiro's position-to his conception of language, to his characterization of structures as ante rem, and to...

En la filosofía de la ciencia del siglo XX tuvo lugar un aguerrido debate entre realistas científicos y antirrealistas, en el que se ha prestado especial atención a la cuestión del cambio teórico. En el presente trabajo argumentaremos que la imagen lineal de cambio teórico, como sucesión por reemplazo de teorías, sobre la cual se monta aquel debate...

O propósito deste trabalho consiste em analisar criticamente urna recente proposta formulada por Needham no ámbito da Filosofia da Química. Este autor toma como essencialmente apropriado o modelo clássico de redução Nageliano. O objetivo fundamental deste trabalho consiste em avahar certas implicaçoes ontológicas desta tese neorreducionista. Em par...

In this chapter, we argue that both the problem of quantum indistinguishability in the philosophy of physics and the problem of identity in structures in the philosophy of mathematics are identical in a certain relevant sense; i.e., that they are two instances of the same general problem. This favors the idea that certain ontological questions are...

In this paper I argue for the idea that, throughout the history of science, there are some cases of theory change that would show how science develops with no referential continuity. For this purpose, I analyze Psillos’ proposal of a theory of reference used to account for referential continuity in conceptual transitions. This kind of continuity is...