Lucía Lewowicz

Universidad de la República (Uruguay), Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Faculty Member

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I am a Professor of History and Philosophy of Sciences since 1987. Now I concentrate myself in History and Philosophy of Chemistry.

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Lucía Lewowicz

Lucia Pittaluga Fonseca

Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Atilio Deana

Sebastián Rivero Scirgalea

Consejo de Formación en Educación

Armando Olveira Ramos

Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Cecilia G. Salinas

University of Oslo

Rossana Campodonico

CATHERINE ROSAS

Universidad Arturo Prat

Alejandro Gortázar Belvis

Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Santiago Medero

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Workshop: Science, Technology and Industrialization: Interactions Between Europe and Latin America after the Independence Movements (1840–1940

by Helge Wendt, Lucía Lewowicz, and Patricia Andrea Dosio

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Papers by Lucía Lewowicz

Laboratorios científicos e Industria cárnica en el Uruguay Independiente (1865 -1924): El laboratorio químico de la LEMCO.: Reseña de proyecto de Investigación, INAC

Encuentros Latinoamericanos (segunda época), Nov 18, 2019

Laboratorios científicos e Industria cárnica en el Uruguay Independiente (1865 -1924): El laborat... more

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CARRASCO, Eduardo (2006): En el cielo sólo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti. Santiago: Universidad Diego Portales

Theoria Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia, 2007

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Carrasco, En el cielo s๓lo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2009

Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales en colaboración con Roberto Torretti, viene publicando y ree... more

Conceptos de Gen

Revista latinoamericana de filosofía, 2010

Pensar la ciencia: Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

84-309-4091-X. Compilación de 39 ensayos en los que se comentan libros de diversos intelectuales ... more

Justus von Liebig in Uruguay? His Last ten years of research

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Justus von Liebig and Max von Pettenkofer in Uruguay

Quantum mechanics, strong emergence and ontological non-reducibility

by Lucía Lewowicz and Rodolfo Gambini

We show that a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which the notion of event is defined w... more We show that a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which the notion of event is defined without reference to measurement or observers, allows to construct a quantum general ontology based on systems, states and events. Unlike the Copenhagen interpretation, it does not resort to elements of a classical ontology. The quantum ontology in turn allows us to recognize that a typical behavior of quantum systems exhibits strong emergence and ontological non-reducibility. Such phenomena are not exceptional but natural, and are rooted in the basic mathematical structure of quantum mechanics.

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Espinoza, Miguel, y Torretti, Roberto (2004): Pensar la ciencia. Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto

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The term phlogiston and the notion of" failure to refer

Finding out which terms – scientific or otherwise— fail to refer is an extremely complex business... more Finding out which terms – scientific or otherwise— fail to refer is an extremely complex business since both felicitous reference and failure to refer must be negotiated (Eco, 1997). Causal theories of reference –even so-called hybrid theories (Enc, 1967; Nola, 1980, Kitcher, 1978-93) – posit that in order to refer to something, we need the regulative idea of an ontological reference, which operates even when we refer to impossibilia or inconceivable objects. Evidently, this is not the case of the referent of phlogiston, which is neither inconceivable nor impossible, nor, alas, does it exist. In the antipodes, from a representational-physicalist point of departure (Devitt and Sterelny, 1987), a term fails to refer if it has no actual ontological grounds: phlogiston fails to refer because it has no physical existence. Phlogiston can even be considered to be a fictional entity, and referring to a fictional entity is not the same as a reference in a fiction or a fictional reference Salmon (1998): a fictional entity is an object in the same sense as an abstract object, and therefore we can genuinely refer to it. The question is: who claims that phlogiston does not exist? Nowadays, everyone does, fundamentally and primarily because science has established it as a fact. The process that led to this result is extremely complex, lengthy and multi-dimensional. It involved factors of several kinds: cognitive, social, political, historical, as well as ontological, and this last factor has been neglected. I do not claim that phlogiston (like dinosaurs) once existed and then ceased to exist -- science only allows us a sneak-peek into what exists and what, sometimes mistakenly, is supposed to exist. Paraphrasing Latour (1985), this inquiry is about following the journey of the referents, even when they do not end up being physical-existent or existing objects. I believe with Bach (1999, 2004) that the notion of reference is essentially pragmatic; that the difference between alluding to something and referring to or denoting something must be established; that to achieve this the semantic properties of terms are not sufficient, and finally that references are not semantic but cognitive properties that relate thoughts and objects of any kind. My assumption is that to refer to something one must be capable of having thoughts about it and that the propositions one attempts to communicate in the course of referring to it are singular with respect to it. Being in a position to have a thought about a particular thing requires being connected to that thing, via perception, memory, communication and/ or education. Therefore, only in an exceedingly narrow realist theory of reference does phlogiston fail to refer. Unless a theory of reference of scientific terms is based on the study of the actual linguistic communicative practices among scientists, it will inevitably pose serious epistemological difficulties.

Espinoza, Miguel, y Torretti, Roberto (2004): Pensar la ciencia. Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2006

Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto

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Carrasco, En el cielo s๓lo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2009

Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales en colaboración con Roberto Torretti, viene publicando y ree... more

Filosofia e História da Ciência no Cone Sul. Seleção de Trabalhos do 6o Encontro

by Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins, Lucía Lewowicz, and Cibelle Celestino Silva

LEMCO : un coloso de la industria cárnica en Fray Bentos, Uruguay. The meat industry's colossus in Fray Bentos, Uruguay

Here is an intriguing piece of Liebigiana. Uruguay is the only country in the world that portrays... more

LEMCO : ein Koloss der Fleischindustrie in Fray Bentos, Uruguay. The meat industry's colossus in Fray Bentos, Uruguay

The Purloined Referent: Lavoisier and the Disappearance of Phlogiston

In this paper, I challenge the long-established view that the term phlogiston fails to refer. Aft... more In this paper, I challenge the long-established view that the term phlogiston fails to refer. After a close examination of the reference of phlogiston during Lavoisier’s Chemical Revolution, I show that it referred throughout to a natural substance, fire matter. I state that Lavoisier eliminated the term but not its referent, which he renamed caloric, and I claim that it is in the historical and cultural context of the Chemical Revolution that the Lavoisier’s intentions can be understood.

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Sobre una teoría de la referencia en y desde la filosofía de la ciencia

Materialismo, simetría y eliminativismo en el Latour reciente

El Carácter No Universal Del Lenguaje en Las Últimas Obras De Kuhn

Análisis Filosófico, 2004

This paper draws attention to one of the theses of the Later Kuhn, which has been ignored: the no... more This paper draws attention to one of the theses of the Later Kuhn, which has been ignored: the non-universal character of language. After locating the thesis in the texts and theoretical contexts in which it appears, it is attempted to be clarified in view of some of his later texts. In regard of this, the paper firstly shows, how some of the philosophical proposals attributed to the Early Kuhn must be modified in order to understand it. Secondly, a very brief account for certain philosophical innovations in the Later Kuhn is attempted to be given. In addition, some of Kuhn’s new theses are compared with his most likely, even if never explicit, interlocutors, namely N. Chomsky and J. Fodor.

Workshop: Science, Technology and Industrialization: Interactions Between Europe and Latin America after the Independence Movements (1840–1940

by Helge Wendt, Lucía Lewowicz, and Patricia Andrea Dosio

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Laboratorios científicos e Industria cárnica en el Uruguay Independiente (1865 -1924): El laboratorio químico de la LEMCO.: Reseña de proyecto de Investigación, INAC

Encuentros Latinoamericanos (segunda época), Nov 18, 2019

Laboratorios científicos e Industria cárnica en el Uruguay Independiente (1865 -1924): El laborat... more

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CARRASCO, Eduardo (2006): En el cielo sólo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti. Santiago: Universidad Diego Portales

Theoria Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia, 2007

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Carrasco, En el cielo s๓lo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2009

Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales en colaboración con Roberto Torretti, viene publicando y ree... more

Conceptos de Gen

Revista latinoamericana de filosofía, 2010

Pensar la ciencia: Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

84-309-4091-X. Compilación de 39 ensayos en los que se comentan libros de diversos intelectuales ... more

Justus von Liebig in Uruguay? His Last ten years of research

It is an abstract for Conference presentation

Justus von Liebig and Max von Pettenkofer in Uruguay

Quantum mechanics, strong emergence and ontological non-reducibility

by Lucía Lewowicz and Rodolfo Gambini

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Espinoza, Miguel, y Torretti, Roberto (2004): Pensar la ciencia. Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto

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The term phlogiston and the notion of" failure to refer

Espinoza, Miguel, y Torretti, Roberto (2004): Pensar la ciencia. Estudios críticos sobre obras filosóficas (1950-2000)

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2006

Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto

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Carrasco, En el cielo s๓lo las estrellas. Conversaciones con Roberto Torretti

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History …, 2009

Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales en colaboración con Roberto Torretti, viene publicando y ree... more

Filosofia e História da Ciência no Cone Sul. Seleção de Trabalhos do 6o Encontro

by Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins, Lucía Lewowicz, and Cibelle Celestino Silva

LEMCO : un coloso de la industria cárnica en Fray Bentos, Uruguay. The meat industry's colossus in Fray Bentos, Uruguay

Here is an intriguing piece of Liebigiana. Uruguay is the only country in the world that portrays... more

LEMCO : ein Koloss der Fleischindustrie in Fray Bentos, Uruguay. The meat industry's colossus in Fray Bentos, Uruguay

The Purloined Referent: Lavoisier and the Disappearance of Phlogiston

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Sobre una teoría de la referencia en y desde la filosofía de la ciencia

Materialismo, simetría y eliminativismo en el Latour reciente

El Carácter No Universal Del Lenguaje en Las Últimas Obras De Kuhn

Análisis Filosófico, 2004

Precisión e imaginación, claridad y rigor

Page 1. PRECISIÓN E IMAGINACIÓN, CLARIDAD Y RIGOR LUCÍA LEWOWICZ ... el sabio, el hombre de cienc... more

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