EVOLUTION, EMPIRICISM AND PURPOSENESS. A CRITICISM OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

This is my presentation at the AIPS symposium 'Evolutionism and Religion', Firenze, november 2009. It's a criticism of Intelligent Design theory, from the point of view of philosophy of science.
Part I: on the mistaken notion of 'explanation' underlying Dembski's 'explanatory filter'
Part II: on 'No free lunch theorems' and the connection between theories and data
Part III: Intelligent design vs. real scientific research.

Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 1. A criticism of Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 2. A criticism of Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 3

NO FREE LUNCH

PAPERS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Download here my papers in philosophy of science (from 1992 to 2009), published in journals like Synthese, Erkenntnis, Philosophy of Science, Theoria, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Economic Methodology, Perspectives on Science, Episteme...

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The abstracts can be read here.

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Topics cover rational-choice models of scientific knowledge production ('economics of scientific knowledge'), approximation to the truth (verisimilitude or truthlikeness), semantics of scientific concepts, philosophy of social science, and more.

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Any comments or criticisms are welcomed.

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LA DIVULGACION CIENTIFICA EN ESPAÑA

THE BIG BANG TRUE STORY

NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The 2007 Nobel prize in economics has acknoweledged the development of 'mechanism design theory'. This was a radically new way of conceiving social realities: as systems of rules that govern a small section of society, and that often can be manipulated in search of a better result. I have intended to apply that approach to understand how science works in its epistemic aspects (see, e.g., my papers on scientific inference, scientific rhetoric -both published in Philosophy of Science- and on a game theoretic approach to science studies -in Perspectives on Science-; a less technical introduction appeared in Episteme).
If you are a young philosopher or sociologist of science looking for a promising and radically new research field, combining the insights of social constructionist, and of rationalist approaches, why don't try to build a mechanism design view of science?

WELCOME ON BOARD

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