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THEORIA
Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia
An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
Editor: Andoni Ibarra Más información / Texto completo (página oficial)
COEDICION: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua / Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco y Centro de Análisis, Lógica e Informática Jurídica (CALIJ)
Volume 26/1, Number 70, January 2011, pp. 1-128 ISSN 0495-4548 / eISSN: 2171-679X
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ARTICLES
UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2011, Vol. 26/1, N° 70, 5-33
Models for Prediction, Explanation and Control: Recursive Bayesian Networks
Lorenzo Casini, Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson
Abstract: The Recursive Bayesian Net (RBN) formalism was originally developed for modelling nested causal relationships. In this paper we argue that the formalism can also be applied to modelling the hierarchical structure of mechanisms. The resulting network contains quantitative information about probabilities, as well as qualitative information about mechanistic structure and causal relations. Since information about probabilities, mechanisms and causal relations is vital for prediction, explanation and control respectively, an RBN can be applied to all these tasks. We show in particular how a simple two-level RBN can be used to model a mechanism in cancer science. The higher level of our model contains variables at the clinical level, while the lower level maps the structure of the cell's mechanism for apoptosis.
Keywords: Bayesian network - causal model - mechanism - explanation - prediction - control.
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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2011, Vol. 26/1, N° 70, 35-50
Singular Causation without Dispositions
María José García-Encinas
Abstract: Is singular causation best understood within a dispositionalist framework? Although a positive answer has not yet been wholly developed, different philosophers have made some positive contributions suggesting that it is. Against these suggestions, I claim that any possible account of singular causation in terms of real, irreducible, dispositions conveys unsolvable flaws in its very metaphysical foundations.
Keywords: causation - dispositions - singularism - humeanism - relation - modality
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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2011, Vol. 26/1, N° 70, 51-68
The Relation between Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics
Mario Bacelar Valente
Abstract: Quantum electrodynamics presents intrinsic limitations in the description of physical processes that make it impossible to recover from it the type of description we have in classical electrodynamics. Hence one cannot consider classical electrodynamics as reducing to quantum electrodynamics and being recovered from it by some sort of limiting procedure. Quantum electrodynamics has to be seen not as an more fundamental theory, but as an upgrade of classical electrodynamics, which permits an extension of classical theory to the description of phenomena that, while being related to the conceptual framework of the classical theory, cannot be addressed from the classical theory.
Keywords: classical electrodynamics - quantum electrodynamics - theory reduction - classical limit
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UPV/EHU. Theoria, 2011, Vol. 26/1, N° 70, 69-80
La centralidad de la Fundación Rockefeller en el desarrollo de la biología molecular revisada: una extensión de la crítica de Abir-Am a la luz del modelo del operón
(The Centrality of the Rockefeller Foundation in the Development of Molecular Biology Revisited: an Extension of Abir Am’s Critique in the Light of the Operon Model)
Vivette García Deister
Resumen: Abir-Am ha criticado la visión estándar de que la Fundación Rockefeller (FR) jugó un papel central en el surgimiento de la biología molecular durante la década de 1960. En su opinión, la FR aceleró la molecularización de las ciencias de la vida, pero no intervino de manera directa en el surgimiento de la biología molecular como disciplina. Aquí sostengo que esta crítica tiene consecuencias mayores a las que sospechó su autora y muestro que la tesis de la centralidad de la FR en el desarrollo de la biología molecular no se puede desmantelar sin alterar también la visión de la biología molecular como una disciplina orientada a la resolución de problemas predefinidos.
Palabras clave: regulación genética; política científica; transferencia tecnológica; resolución de problemas.
Abstract: Abir-Am has critiqued the standard view that the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) played a central role in the development of molecular biology during the 1960s. In her view, the RF accelerated the molecularization of the life sciences, but it did not directly contribute to building molecular biology’s disciplinary identity. Here I argue that Abir-Am’s critique has more consequences than she envisioned, and I show that the thesis of the centrality of the RF cannot be dismantled without also altering the view of molecular biology as a field oriented towards the solution of predefined problems.
Keywords: gene regulation - research policy - technological transfer - problem solving.
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Tom Roberts
90. S. Hartmann, C. Hoefer & L. Bovens, eds. 2008. Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science
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Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña
96. Alfredo Marcos. 2010. Ciencia y acción: una filosofía práctica de la ciencia
Armando Menéndez Viso
99. D.H. Mellor. 2005. Probability: A Philosophical Introduction
Mauricio Suárez
103. Andrés Moya. 2010. Pensar desde la Ciencia
Carlos Castrodeza
106. María M. Portuondo. 2009. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Antonio Sánchez
109. José Luis Rolleri. 2009. Probabilidad, causalidad y explicación
Marc Meléndez
112. Xavier Serra Labrado. 2009. Història social de la filosofia catalana: la lògica (1900-1980)
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115. BOOKS RECEIVED
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THEORIA
Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia
An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
Editor: Andoni Ibarra Más información / Texto completo (página oficial)
COEDICION: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua / Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco y Centro de Análisis, Lógica e Informática Jurídica (CALIJ)
Volume 26/1, Number 70, January 2011, pp. 1-128 ISSN 0495-4548 / eISSN: 2171-679X
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ARTICLES
5. Models for Prediction, Explanation and Control: Recursive Bayesian Networks
Lorenzo Casini, Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson
35. Singular Causation without Dispositions
María José García-Encinas
51. The Relation between Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics
Mario Bacelar Valente
69. La centralidad de la Fundación Rockefeller en el desarrollo de la biología molecular revisada: una extensión de la crítica de Abir-Am a la luz del modelo del operón
Vivette García Deister
BOOK REVIEWS
83. Helen Beebee & Nigel Sabbarton-Leary, eds. 2010. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Luis Fernández Moreno
87. Paco Calvo & John Symons, eds. 2009. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology
Tom Roberts
90. S. Hartmann, C. Hoefer & L. Bovens, eds. 2008. Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science
Sergio F. Martínez
94. José Antonio López Cerezo. 2008. El triunfo de la antisepsia. Un ensayo en filosofía naturalista de la ciencia.
Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña
96. Alfredo Marcos. 2010. Ciencia y acción: una filosofía práctica de la ciencia
Armando Menéndez Viso
99. D.H. Mellor. 2005. Probability: A Philosophical Introduction
Mauricio Suárez
103. Andrés Moya. 2010. Pensar desde la Ciencia
Carlos Castrodeza
106. María M. Portuondo. 2009. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Antonio Sánchez
109. José Luis Rolleri. 2009. Probabilidad, causalidad y explicación
Marc Meléndez
112. Xavier Serra Labrado. 2009. Història social de la filosofia catalana: la lògica (1900-1980)
Gerardo Bolado
115. BOOKS RECEIVED
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