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Una evaluación de la explicación kripkeana de la ilusión de Contingencia

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Kripke argued for the existence of necessary a posteriori truths and offered different accounts of why certain necessary truths seem to be contingent. One of these accounts was used by Kripke in an argument against the psychophysical identity thesis.
Manuel Pérez Otero
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Causality and Indeterminism in Human Action. Reflections on Causes and Reasons

open access: yesArtefactos, 2020
When explaining the origin of human action, one of the thematic axes is the study of “causality” and its compatibility with indeterminism. The existence of regularities in the field of social sciences can only be explainable by acknowledging the ...
Rafaela GARCÍA ELSKAMP
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Contextos de descubrimiento causal

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2012
Se distinguen dos acepciones del término “contexto de descubrimiento”: La acepción tradicional, que lo contrasta con el contexto de la justificación, y otra, más reciente, que lo relaciona con la metodología de inferencia causal.
Mauricio Suárez
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Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Lung Evolution in Extant Squamata

open access: yesJournal of Zoology, EarlyView.
The Squamata group exhibits remarkable diversity in lung structure. However, a comprehensive understanding of how this variation evolved within the clade is still lacking. To reconstruct the evolutionary history of lungs of living squamates, we conducted comparative phylogenetic analyses using categorized lung traits, such as lung type, respiratory ...
Barbara de Godoi Champini   +2 more
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The Semantic View, Empirical Adequacy, and Application

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
It is widely accepted in contemporary philosophy of science that the domain of application of a theory is typically larger than its explanatory covering power: theories can be applied to phenomena that they do not explain.
Mauricio Suárez
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Las Ciencias de la Comunicación desde el realismo científico: El problema de la complejidad y las noticias falsas (fake news)

open access: yesArtefactos, 2020
El estudio de las Ciencias de la Comunicación desde el realismo científico pone de relieve el carácter dual de estas disciplinas. Son Ciencias Sociales y también Ciencias de lo Artificial.
María José ARROJO
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Under Shannon’s Bandwagon. Rethinking the Reception of Information Theory in Thermal Physics, 1948-1957

open access: yesHoST, 2023
In this paper I analyze the historical case of how Shannon’s theory of information, among other alternative theories, began to be applied rapidly and systematically within thermal physics in the 1950s.
Anta Javier
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La astucia de la razón en la técnica

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2000
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Jesús Vega Encabo
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

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