Research Group in Analytic Philosophy
José Antonio Díez
Departmen of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
University of Barcelona
Contact
jose.diez@ub.edu
Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta
08001 Barcelona
Phone: +34 934 037 983
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, Karina Alleva, Lucia Federico. 2015
MWC Allosteric Explanatory Mechanisms as Unified Theory Net
submittedJosé 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, Pablo Lorenzano. 2015
Are Natural Selection Explanatory Models A Priori?
Biology and Philosophy 30 (6), 887-809José Antonio Díez. 2014
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: a neo-Hempelian account
Erkenntnis 79/8, 1413-1443José 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, Kareem Kahlifa, Bert Leuridan. 2013
General theories of explanation: buyers beware
Synthese 190/3, 379-396.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
Iniciación a la Lógica
Ariel, BarcelonaJosé 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
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, C. U. Moulines. 1998
Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Ciencia
Ariel, BarcelonaJosé 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. 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. 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
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, 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.
