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Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group

José Antonio Díez

Departmen of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science

University of Barcelona

José Antonio Díez

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

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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, P. Lorenzano. 2012

    Who Got What Wrong? Sober and F&PP on Darwin: Guide Principles and Explanatory Models in Natural Selection

    Erkenntnis (forthcoming)

  • José Antonio Díez, Karina Alleva, Lucia Federico. 2012

    The unified nomological explanatory structure of MWC Allosteric Theory

    submited

  • José Antonio Díez. 2012

    Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: a neo-Hempelian account

    Erkenntnis (forthcoming)

  • José Antonio Díez, Harem Kahlifa, Bert Leuridan. 2011

    General theories of represenation: buyers beware

    Synthese (forthcoming)

  • 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

  • José Antonio Díez. 2010

    Counterfactuals, the Discrimination Problem and the Limit Assumption

    submited

  • José Antonio Díez. 2010

    On Popper's Strong Inductivism 

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

  • 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. 2007

    Rationality in Normal Science and the Structure of Theories

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 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, 31-50

  • 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. 2002

    Iniciación a la Lógica

    Ariel, Barcelona

  • 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. 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. 2002

    'Measurement Theory'

    Geneza, 2002, Kiev, pp. 24-41

  • José Antonio Díez. 2000

    'Watermelonsand RedWatermelons. A Case Against Compositionality?'

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

  • 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. 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. 1998

    'Hacia una teoría general de la representación científica'

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

  • 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, 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.