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The eleatic and the indispensabilist
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
The debate over whether we should believe that mathematical objects exist quickly leads to the question of how to determine what we should believe. Indispensabilists claim that we should believe in the existence of ...
On the social nature of objectivity: Helen Longino and Justin Biddle
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
According to Helen Longino, objectivity is necessarily social as it depends on critical interactions in community. Justin Biddle argues that Longino’s account presupposes individuals that are completely open to any criticism; ...
On the Essence and Identity of Numbers
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
Taking as premises some intuitions about the essences of natural numbers, pluralities and sets, the paper offers an argument that the natural numbers could not be the “Zermelo numbers”, the “Von Neumann numbers”, the “Kripke ...
Essence without fundamentality
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment argues that a single notion of essence can be used to play two distinct theoretical roles. He thinks there is an important connec- tion between essence and metaphysical ...
Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ebro River Basin: From Theory to Facts
(MDPI, 2015)
In this article, we analyze how successful the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Ebro river catchment (in Spain) has been. Our main aim is to show some gaps between theory and practice. ...
Lima COP20: Another small step on the long road to Paris
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-01)
The Lima summit was not expected to achieve specific agreements on the reduction of emissions, but to establish the bases of a legal document to be agreed on at the next meeting in Paris (December 2015) and of the Intended ...
Modelling ecosystem services trade-offs in agricultural systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-02)
*Agriculture is a source of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services, and depends on them to function. *Reducing negative trade-offs and identifying potential synergies between ecosystem services demands a ...
Development of hydrometallurgical processes for zinc recovery from steelmaking waste
(2015-03-26)
La tesis defendida estudia el diseño y desarrollo de dos procesoshidrometalúrgicos para el tratamiento de los residuos producidos por laindustria del acero con el fin de obtener nuevos producto de zinc. Por lotanto, se ha ...
Under what conditions is the bioethanol and biodiesel produced entirely in the Basque Country sustainable?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-05)
*The process of agricultural production, and especially anything related to the management of fertilisation, largely determines the uncertainty in the estimation of the different environmental impact of biofuel production. ...
Environmental justice: instrumental for conserving natural resources
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-07)
Environmental justice constitutes an instrumental element for conservation. - Environmental justice is based on the principles of equity, recognition of different values and inclusive decision processes. - Social equity ...