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  • I hold a PhD in philosophy of science by the University of Barcelona (02/2020).  Before, I got a MA in Analytic Philosophy and another Ma in Education (philosophy teacher) at the same university. I did a BA in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

    In my dissertation (funded by an FPI scolarship), supervised by professor José A. Díez, I argue for a weak explanatory pluralism in biology, challenging the mechanistic approach in the light of mathematical and covering law models of explanation. 

    I have taught Philosophy of Science and Logic at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Prof. asociado), and English language and philosophy at secondary school. 

    I started working at the UAB (22-24) with professor Thomas Sturm under a Margarita Salas post doctoral position. My research was focused on the philosophy of science of Philip Kitcher, his naturalism and his defense of epistemic values as essential to characterise science and its advancement. Moreover, we were awarded a I+D ministry project (Spain) to investigate the importance of teaching logic and argumentation theory (Critical reasoning) in secondary schools, as a way of training adolescents to deal with the challenges of propaganda, persuasion and populism. 

    I currently host a lecturer position at UAB.

Projects

List of Publications

Roger Deulofeu   |   2024
Explicación estructural en Biología. Poniendo límites a la explicación mecanicista. 

Daimon. Revista internacional de filosofia

Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez   |   2019
Equilibrium explanations as structural non-mechanistic explanations: the case of long-term bacterial persistence in human hosts 

Teorema. Revista internacional de filosofía

Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez   |   2021
Explaining the behavior of random ecological networks. The stability of the microbiome as a case of integrative pluralism. 

Synthese 198.3: 2003-2025.

Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez   |   2018
When mechanisms are not enough. The origin of eukaryotes an mechanistic explanation

In Christian, A., Hommen, D., Retzlaff, N., Schurz, G. (eds.) Philosophy of Science: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. Springer.

Roger Deulofeu, Jordi Deulofeu   |   2017
Pascal. Los fundamentos de la probabilidad

Coleccion grandes matemáticos. RBA

Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez   |   2023
Pluralism and Complexity Without Integration? A Critical Appraisal of Mitchell’s Integrative Pluralism

Deulofeu, R. & Suárez (Forthcoming). Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

Roger Deulofeu   |   2023
Natural selection and the nature of statistical explanations

Crítica. (Forthcoming). Revista hispanoamericana de filosofía