BackBrowsing (2015) Volumen 30. Número 2 by Issue Date
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Validating Animal Models
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)Este artículo responde a un reto reciente: la validez de extrapolar el conocimiento neurobiológico del laboratorio animal a los humanos. Según esta objeción la neurobiología experimental, y por ende la neurociencia, está ... -
Editors’ Introduction
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Replicability of experiment
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)The replicability of experiment is routinely offered as the gold standard of evidence. I argue that it is not supported by a universal principle of replicability in inductive logic. A failure of replication may not impugn ... -
Crucial stem cell experiments? Stem cells, uncertainty, and single-cell experiments
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)I have previously argued that stem cell experiments cannot in principle demonstrate that a single cell is a stem cell ([reference omitted for anonymous review]). Laplane and others dispute this claim, citing experiments ... -
Burge on perception and the Disjunction Problem
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)The Disjunction Problem states that teleological theories of perception cannot explain why a subject represents an F when an F causes the perception and not the disjunction F v G, given that the subject has mistaken G’s ... -
Normative characterization in biological and cognitive explanations
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)Normative characterization is a commonplace feature of biological and cognitive explanation. Such language seems to commit the biological and cognitive sciences to the existence of natural norms, but it is also difficult ... -
Symbolic versus modelistic elements in scientific modeling
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)En este artículo argumentaremos que los símbolos son vehículos convencionales cuya función principal es la denotación, mientras que los modelos son vehículos epistémicos cuya función primordial es mostrar que lo modelado ... -
David Pérez Chico (coord.) 2013. Perspectivas en la filosofía del lenguaje
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Judging quality and coordination in biomarker diagnostic development
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)What makes a high-quality biomarker experiment? The success of personalized medicine hinges on the answer to this question. Unfortunately, as many commentators have now emphasized, the quality of most biomarker experiments ...