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Born 1961. PhD in Philosophy, 1992 University of Barcelona, with a dissertation on Measurement Theories. Professor of Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language at the University of Barcelona. Member of the board of the Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Sience in Spain.

Interests

Main interests: Philosophy of Science (semantic approaches, structuralism, scientific concepts, measurement, explanation, scientific representaction), Epistemology (justification, realism), Philosophy of Language and of Mind (natural kind terms, mental content, individuation of concepts, mental causation, explanatory gap) and Metaphysics (laws, causation, properties, universals). I am working now on a project for developing a theory of scientific concepts. The main idea is that the identity of scientific concepts is made up by five different kinds of components (formal, applicative, observational, operational and ancestral), that we can put them together using a specific possesion condition theory of concepts, and that some dificulties can be faced using a net-like model-theoretic approach to scientific theories.

Selection of Publications

Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Ciencia, Ariel, Barcelona 1997 (in collaboration with C. U. Moulines)
Iniciación a la Lógica, Ariel, Barcelona 2002
'Theories as Nets: Combinatorial Measurement Theory', in P. Humphreys (ed.), Patrick Suppes, Mathematical Philosopher, Kluwer Ac. P., Dordrecht 1994, pp. 275-297 (in collaboraton with C. U. Moulines).
'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
'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.
'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.
'Hacia una Teoría General de la Representación Científica', Theoria 13/31, 1998, pp. 113 -139.
'A general representation for internal proportional comparison-combiantorial systems when the operation is not necessary closed', Theoria 14/1, 1999, pp. 157-178.
'Structuralist Analysis of Fundamental Measurement Theories' en W. Balzer y C. U. Moulines (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representations. Paradigmatic Examples, Poznan Studies 75, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 19-49
'Explicación, unificación y subsunción teórica', en W. González (ed.), Pluralidad de la explicación científica, Ariel, Barcelona 2002, pp. 73-93.
'A Program for the Individuation of Scientific Concepts', Synthese 130, 2002, pp. 13-48.
'Possession Conditions and Scientific Concepts', en C. U. Moulines (ed.), Argument und Analyse, Mentis, Berlin 2002, pp 83-108
'Measurement Theories: a Structuralist Approach', Genezza, Kiev 2003
'The significance of Ramsey's Sentence', in M. J. Frápoli (ed.), Belief, Truth and Probability. Essays to Mark the Centenerary of Frank Plumton Ramsey, Rodopi, Amsterdam (in press).

Curriculum Vitae

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On-line papers

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.

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.

Hacia una Teoría General de la Representación Científica Theoria 13/1, 1998, pp. 113-139

Structuralist Analysis of Fundamental Measurement Theories W. Balzer, C. MOulines and J. D. Sneed (eds.), Structuralist Knowledge Representations. Paradigmatic Examples, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 19-49.

Explicación, unificación y subsunción teórica W. González (ed.), Pluralidad de la explicación científica, Ariel, Barcelona 2002, pp. 73-93.

A Program for the Individuation of Scientific Concepts Synthese , 2002

Contact

e-mail.  jose.diez AT urv.net