Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
José Antonio Díez
Departmen of Philosophy
University of Barcelona
Contact
jose.diez@ub.edu
Departament de Filosofia
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta
08001 Barcelona
Phone: +34 934 037 874
Fax: +34 934 037 980
Curriculum Vitae
Barcelona 1961. I studied Philosophy at the U. of Barcelona (BA 1984), where I did my PhD (1992) with a dissertation on Measurement Theories. I have been professor at the U. Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, 1986-2006) and at U. Barcelona (since 2006); Visiting Scholar at U. München, NYU, LSE and U. Pittsburgh; and Visiting Professor at several universities in Mexico and Argentina. My main research area is philosophy of science, in particular measurement theories, structuralism, scientific explanation and representation, and semantics of scientific concepts; but I am also interested in epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Selection of Publications
José Antonio Díez, D. Pineda. 2024
A Non-Causalist Account of the Explanatory Autonomy in the Psychological Sciences
Sunthese (forthcoming)José Antonio Díez. 2024
Representational Modeling as Ensemble-Plus-Standig-For. A (Weakly) Pragmatist Account
submittedJosé Antonio Díez, Ariel Roffe. 2024
Is It Possible to Empirically Test a Metatheory?
Foundations of Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-024-09938-zJosé Antonio Díez. 2024
Ciència I Pseudociència
Compas d'Amalgama https://doi.org/10.1344/Compas.2024.10.10José Antonio Díez, S. Ginnobili, P. Lorenzano. 2024
Unification, T-Theoreticity, and Testing: The Case of Fitness in Natural Selection
Erkenntnis https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00826-3José Antonio Díez, Javier Suárez. 2023
How do network explanations explain? A neo-Hempelian approach to network explanations of the ecology of the microbiome
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 13:44, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-023-00549-2José Antonio Díez. 2023
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: New developments
C. Abreu (ed.), Philosophy of Science in the 21st Century: Contributions of Metatheoretical Structuralism, UFSC, Brasil, 112-130.
José Antonio Díez, Albert Sole. 2022
On the Elusive Formalisation of the Risky Condition for Hypothesis Testing
International Studies in Philosophy of Science, July 2022 https://doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1080/02698595.2022.2084705José Antonio Díez, Pablo Lorenzano. 2022
Scientific Explanation as Ampliative, Specialized Embedding: The Case of Clasical Genetics
Synthese 200-510, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03983-6
José Antonio Díez, C. Ulises Moulines. 2022
Guiding Principles and Special Laws
Theoria (Sweden), vol 88, issue 4, 782-794
José Antonio Díez, Gonzalo Recio, Christian Carman. 2022
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case Of Ptolemaic Astronomy
Journal for General Filosofy of Science, July 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-021-09589-9José Antonio Díez. 2021
Modeling Nature. Review of Frigg and Nguyen "Modeling Nture: An Opinionated Introduction of Scientific Representation"
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Review of BooksJosé Antonio Díez, Andrea Iacona. 2021
Laws, Reasons and Replaceability
Crítica 53/158, 3-21
José Antonio Díez, A. Iacona. 2020
Fallacies of Love. A Short Philosophical Guide
Bloomsbury P.José Antonio Díez. 2020
Modeling as Ensemble-Plus-Standing-For: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
A. Cassini and J. Redmond: Models and Idealizations in Science: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches, Springer
José Antonio Díez. 2020
Siete tesis metaestructuralistasralistas
J. Díez (ed.), Exploraciones Pluralistas. Las Filosofías de C. Ulises Moulines, UNAM/TecnosJosé Antonio Díez. 2019
An Ensemble-Plus-Standing-For Account of Scientific Modeling: No (Strong) Need for Abstract Objects
X. Donato, C. Martínez and J. L. Falguera (eds.), Abstract Objects in Scientific Practice, Synthese Lybrary
José Antonio Díez, Nuria S. Miras. 2019
Recensión de "Las Mentiras de la Ciencia"
Crítica 51/151, pp 117-128José Antonio Díez, Karina Alleva, Lucía Federico. 2017
Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations As a Unified Theory-Net
Crítica, 49.146, pp 5-36José Antonio Díez. 2017
A (Fatal) Trilemma for Best Theory Realism
European Journal for Philosophy of Science , https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-017-0185-1José Antonio Díez, Karina Alleva, Lucia Federico. 2017
Models, Theory Structure and Mechanisms in Biochmestry: The Case of Allosterism
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and
Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, 2017, 63, 1-14José Antonio Díez. 2016
Siete tesis metaestructuralistas
in J. Díez (ed.) Exploraciones Pluralistas. Las filosofías de C. Ulises Moulines, UNAM, México 2016José Antonio Díez, Andrea Iacona. 2016
Del amor y otros engaños. Breve tratado filosófico sobre razones y pasiones
AlfaDecay, BarcelonaJosé Antonio Díez, Pablo Lorenzano. 2015
Are Natural Selection Explanatory Models A Priori?
Biology and Philosophy 30 (6), 887-809José Antonio Díez, Andrea Iacona. 2015
Amore a altri inganni. Tratello filosofico su ragioni e passioni
Indiana, TorinoJosé Antonio Díez, C. Carman. 2015
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching geocentrism to the scientific realism debate
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 52, 20-34José Antonio Díez. 2015
Counterfactuals, the Discrimination Problem and the Limit Assumption
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 23/1, 85-110José Antonio Díez. 2014
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: a neo-Hempelian account
Erkenntnis 79/8, 1413-1443José Antonio Díez, Kareem Kahlifa, Bert Leuridan. 2013
General theories of explanation: buyers beware
Synthese 190/3, 379-396.José Antonio Díez, Pablo Lorenzano. 2013
Who Got What Wrong? Fodor and Piattelli on Darwin: Guiding Principles and Explanatory Models in Natural Selection
Erkenntnis 78/5, 1143-1175.José Antonio Díez. 2011
Can we dispense with mimesis in representation? Essay review of R. Frigg and C. Hunter (eds.) Beyond mimesis and convention. Representation in art and science
Metascience 21/1, 105-110José Antonio Díez. 2010
On Popper's Strong Inductivism
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42, 105-116José Antonio Díez. 2009
History of Measurement Theory
in Gallez, C., Lorenzano, P., Ortiz, E. y Rheinberger, H (eds.), History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS-UNESCO), Oxford 2009, [electronic edition: http://www.eolss.net]
José Antonio Díez. 2007
Rationality in Normal Science and the Structure of Theories
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38, 2007 pp. 543 -554.
José Antonio Díez. 2006
Rivalry and Comparability. Looking Outside the Theories
G. Ernst and K-G Niebergall (eds.), Philosophie der Wissenschaft- Wissenschaft der Philosophie, Mentis, Berlin 2006, 31-50José Antonio Díez. 2005
The Ramsey Sentence and Theoretical Content
in M. J. Frapolli (ed.), Belief, Truth and
Probability. Essays to Mark the Centenary of Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Birth, Continuum, London 2005 pp. 70-103.
José Antonio Díez. 2004
La explicación científica: causalidad, unificación y subsunción teórica
L. E. Hoyos (ed.), Relativismo y racionalidad, UNC 2004, Bogotá, pp. 283-414José Antonio Díez. 2002
Explicación, unificación y subsunción
W. J. González (ed.), Pluralidad de la explicación científica, Ariel, Barcelona 2002, pp. 73-93José Antonio Díez. 2002
A Program for the Individuation of Scientific Concepts
Synthese 130, 2002, pp. 13-48José Antonio Díez. 2002
Possession Conditions for Scientific Concepts
in C. U. Moulines and K. Niebergall (eds.),
Argument und Analyse, Mentis, Berlin 2002, pp. 83-108.
José Antonio Díez. 2002
Iniciación a la Lógica
Ariel, BarcelonaJosé Antonio Díez. 2002
Measurement Theory
Geneza, 2002, Kiev, pp. 24-41José Antonio Díez. 2000
Watermelonsand RedWatermelons. A Case Against Compositionality?
Theoria, 15/2, San Sebastián, pp 281-285José Antonio Díez. 2000
Structuralist Analysis of Fundamental Measurement Theories
in W. Balzer, C. U. Moulines and J. Sneed (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representations. Paradigmatic Examples,
Poznan Studies 75, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 19-49.José Antonio Díez. 1999
A General Representation for Internal Proportional Comparison-combiantorial Systems When the Operation is Not Necessarily Closed
Theoria 14/1, 1999, pp. 157-178José Antonio Díez. 1998
Hacia una teoría general de la representación científica
Theoria, 13/1, San Sebastián, pp. 157-178José Antonio Díez. 1998
Descripción, prescripción e interpretación
C. Solís (ed.), Alta tensión: filosofía, sociología e historia de la ciencia, Paidos, Barcelona 1998, pp. 235-258José Antonio Díez, C. U. Moulines. 1998
Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Ciencia
Ariel, BarcelonaJosé Antonio Díez. 1997
The Theory-Net of Interval Measurement Theory
in A. Ibarra y T. Mormann (eds.),
Representations of Scientific Rationality, Poznan Studies 61, Rodopi, Amsterdam 1997, pp. 135- 164José Antonio Díez. 1997
A Hundred Years of Numbers. An Historical Introduction to Measurement Theory. Part II: Suppes and the Mature Theory
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 22, 2, 1997 pp. 237-265.
José Antonio Díez. 1997
A Hundred Years of Numbers. An Historical Introduction to Measurement Theory. Part I: The Formation Period
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 21, 1, 1997, pp. 167-181.José Antonio Díez, C. U. Moulines. 1994
Theories as Nets: Combinatorial Measurement Theory
in P. Humphreys (ed.), Patrick Suppes, Mathematical Philosopher, Kluwer Ac. P., Dordrecht 1994, pp. 275-297.
