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  • Departmen of Philosophy, University of Barcelona

    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

    Barcelona 1961. Full Professor on Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona. 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 Europe and Latin America. My main research area is philosophy of science, in particular measurement theories, structuralism, scientific explanation and representation, semantics of scientific concepts and scientific realism; but I am also interested in epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Projects

List of Publications

José Antonio Díez, Marta Campdelacreu and Sergi Oms   |   2025
Change, Time and Tense: A Parsimonialist Analysis of the Tensed Logical Space of Persisting Through Time

Submitted

José Antonio Díez, Carl Hoefer, Adan Sus
A Non-Causal Account of the Explanatorines og General Relativity

Submitted

José 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 Books

José 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, Andrea Iacona   |   2021
Laws, Reasons and Replaceability

Crítica 53/158, 3-21

José Antonio Díez   |   2020
Siete tesis metaestructuralistasralistas

J. Díez (ed.), Exploraciones Pluralistas. Las Filosofías de  C. Ulises Moulines, UNAM/Tecnos

José Antonio Díez, A. Iacona   |   2020
Fallacies of Love. A Short Philosophical Guide

Bloomsbury P.

José Antonio Díez   |   2025
Representational Modeling as Ensemble-Plus-Standig-For. A (Weakly) Pragmatist Account

submitted

José Antonio Díez, C. Ulises Moulines   |   2022
Guiding Principles and Special Laws

Theoria (Sweden), vol 88, issue 4, 782-794

José Antonio Díez   |   2021
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
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 117-128

José Antonio Díez, Karina Alleva, Lucía Federico   |   2017
Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations As a Unified Theory-Net 

Crítica, 49.146, pp 5-36

José Antonio Díez   |   2017
A (Fatal) Trilemma for Best Theory Realism

European Journal for Philosophy of Science , https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-017-0185-1

José Antonio Díez   |   2016
Siete tesis metaestructuralistas

in J. Díez (ed.) Exploraciones Pluralistas. Las filosofías de C. Ulises Moulines, UNAM, México 2016

José Antonio Díez, Andrea Iacona   |   2015
Amore a altri inganni. Tratello filosofico su ragioni e passioni

Indiana, Torino

José Antonio Díez, Andrea Iacona   |   2016
Del amor y otros engaños. Breve tratado filosófico sobre razones y pasiones

AlfaDecay, Barcelona

José 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, 20-34

José Antonio Díez   |   2015
Counterfactuals, the Discrimination Problem and the Limit Assumption 

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 23/1, 85-110

José Antonio Díez, Pablo Lorenzano   |   2015
Are Natural Selection Explanatory Models A Priori?

Biology and Philosophy 30 (6), 887-809

José Antonio Díez, Kareem Kahlifa, Bert Leuridan   |   2013
General theories of explanation: buyers beware

Synthese 190/3, 379-396.

José Antonio Díez   |   2014
Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: a neo-Hempelian account

Erkenntnis 79/8, 1413-1443

José 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, 1-14 

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, 105-110

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   |   2004
La explicación científica: causalidad, unificación y subsunción teórica

L. E. Hoyos (ed.), Relativismo y racionalidad, UNC 2004, Bogotá, pp. 283-414

José Antonio Díez   |   2002
Explicación, unificación y subsunción

W. J. González (ed.), Pluralidad de la explicación científica, Ariel, Barcelona 2002, pp. 73-93

José Antonio Díez   |   1998
Descripción, prescripción e interpretación

C. Solís (ed.), Alta tensión: filosofía, sociología e historia de la ciencia, Paidos, Barcelona 1998, pp. 235-258

José Antonio Díez   |   1998
Hacia una teoría general de la representación científica

Theoria, 13/1, San Sebastián, pp. 157-178

José Antonio Díez   |   2000
Watermelonsand RedWatermelons. A Case Against Compositionality?

Theoria, 15/2, San Sebastián, pp 281-285

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, 31-50

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. 157-178

José Antonio Díez, C. U. Moulines   |   1998
Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Ciencia

Ariel, Barcelona

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.

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   |   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- 164

José 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   |   2002
A Program for the Individuation of Scientific Concepts

Synthese 130, 2002, pp. 13-48

José 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   |   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   |   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   |   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   |   2010
On Popper's Strong Inductivism 

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42, 105-116