The reality beyond: Synchronicity vs complementarity

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2004

New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science (M. D’Agostino, G. Giorello, F. Laudisa, T. Pievani, C. Sinigaglia, eds.), 2010

Philosophy of Science, 1997

The Routledge companion to the philosophy of science, 2008

A piece that has been through numerous transformations at various conferences, most notably as a keynote address to the 2011 Danish STS conference (DASTS), Aarhus, May. An attempt to come to terms with the experimental tradition in psychology by reinscribing experiments to a different register (i.e. theatre and art). A sort of practical application of the thinking in Psychology Without Foundations.

2015

In this paper we argue for a new role for experiment in science teaching and learning. Our proposition is based on the conception of experiment as an active ingredient of theory construction and not as a mere tool for theory testing. This latter view is based on the classical conception of the mind-world interaction, according to which human action purports to test the validity of a tentative solution to a problem and follows after mental processing. We present the new framework that views the interactions with the environment as active ingredients of the mind’s problem solving activity. We also adduce evidence for this new role of experiment from the history of science. Finally, we discuss the repercussions of this view of cognition, as the activity of a mind-environment inseparable whole for the role of experiment in knowledge

1997

The biological sciences are changing the ways in which we understand ourselves Biological Being is a philosophical exploration of biology, mapping some of the features of the field that make it so important in generating these changes Two central themes are at the heart of this exploration: biology is a science that should be grasped from a realist position, and it is a science that reveals a disunified, pluralistic world of kinds of things. After an introduction of some the issues involved, in three substantial chapters these themes are unpacked and analysed. The first major chapter is about experimentation and biology. In it the experimental realism of Hacking is rejected, whilst the core notion of intervention and manipulation of the world as a vital epistemic tool is retained. Similarities and differences between experiments in the physical and biological science are investigated. This comparison is continued in the second major chapter, which is about natural kinds and biology’...

2017

From: Observation and Experimentation in Science: New methodological perspectives, ed. W. González.