Deulofeu Batllori, Roger (Date of defense: 2020-02-24)
Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of science. Given that explaining is one of the most important tasks that scientists aim at and given the high ...
Anta Pulido, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically evolved from the late 1940s ...
Suárez Díaz, Javier (Date of defense: 2020-05-20)
Symbiosis research is a growing field in contemporary biology. Current advances in modelling and experimental techniques have made possible to develop new ways of studying some multispecies symbiotic ...
García Lapeña, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Truthlikeness is a property of a theory or a proposition that represents its closeness, similarity or likeness to the truth. The notion allows to defend a middle position between infallibilism and ...
Zuppone, Romina (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
The goal of this thesis is to show, against Harry Collins, that there are scientific and internal grounds for the resolution of controversies in experimental practice. The approach I take is twofold: ...