Mauricio Suárez

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Professor UCMadrid, educated Edinburgh & LSE, now often @Cambridge. Author of Inference and Representation (Chicago 24): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo207912978.html

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Mauricio Suárez is a Spanish anglophone philosopher who specialises in philosophy and history of the natural sciences. He earned a BSc in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh (1991), and an MSc and a PhD in philosophy of science from the London School of Economics. His doctoral thesis was on "Models of the world, data-models and the practice of science: The semantics of quantum theory". He currently holds a professorship in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense University of Madrid. .. more

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent abstract

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

Ditto Martín!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025g) "Inference and Representation: Reply by the author", Book Forum on Inference and Representation: A Study in Modelling Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 114, December 2025:
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Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025f) "Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics: A Study in Pragmatism" (with Carmen Sánchez-Ovcharov), Chapter 5 in R. Gronda, Jannack, M. and Marchetti, G. Eds., Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge
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Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics | 7 | A Study in Pragmatism |

The nature and representational uses of Feynman diagrams have been much debated in contemporary philosophy of science. The discussion has consequences for the

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025e) "Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons from Clinical Medical Practice" (with Helene Scott-Fordsmand), Chapter 12 in Pietro Gori, Ed. (forth), Mary B. Hesse (1924 - 2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 215-233: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice

Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025d) "The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited", Analysis: Journal of Philosophical Research 12 (1), 47-92.12 (1), 47-92:
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The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited | Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025c), "Probabilistic Empiricism" (with Quentin Ruyant), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS), 15 (23): doi.org/10.1007/s131...
Preprint available at Phil Sci archive (Pittsburgh, March 2025): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24924/

Probabilistic empiricism - European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coa...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025b) "The Possibilities in Propensities: Emergence and Modality", Chapter 4 in Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, and Ylwa Sjolin-Wirling, Eds., Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science, Routledge: London, pp. 82-99:
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The Possibilities in Propensities | 6 | Emergence and Modality | Mauri

The complex nexus of chance (CNC) is a pluralistic account of the application of objective chance to statistical modelling practice. It refrains from reducing

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 11d

(2025a) "Plurality and Identity: On the Educational Relations Between Chemistry and Physics" (with Pedro Sánchez-Gómez), Chemistry Education Research and Practice (Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.), vol. 26, pp. 53-64: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Plurality and identity: on the educational relations between chemistry and physics

We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), I...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 14d

On this weekend's FT cover.

Appealing to the wide readership of upwardly mobile continental philosophers?

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 17d

Gorgeous stuff. Merry Christmas, Martin!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 18d

Of course! DM or email me and I can send you all papers back... Happy Christmas Eve!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 20d

"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 20d

Please let me know if you can't get access. Hearty thanks to all three stellar commentators, including @oscarw.bsky.social!

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 20d

The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 24d

Very grateful to audiences and organisers alike for their encouragement and feedback.

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 24d

And another one to the vienna-Salzburg workshop on analogy: viennaanalogiesworkshop.wordpress.com/about/

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Organizing committee: Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna), Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg), Margarida Hermida (University of Salzburg), Florian Kolowrat (University of Vienna).

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 24d

I gave a talk at the IVC: wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 24d

Deeply grateful to the Institute Vienna Circle and @univie.ac.at for the opportunity to visit again over the last two weeks. It's such a joy to be back in a place and city that never fails to both inspire me and make me happy.

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Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social · 27d

Now out in Studies in HPS! 'Artefactualism and the twofold experience of modelling': authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH3%7E8yu...

Short article building on the phenomenology of modelling experience as discussed in @msuarez.bsky.social's excellent book, Inference and Representation.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 28d

Excellent stuff. Very good to see this finally out!

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 28d

New publication forthcoming: What do Large Language Models Represent? (Synthese)

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Quentin Ruyant, What do Large Language Models Represent? - PhilPapers

If large language models (LLMs) are models, what do they represent exactly? I address this question by applying the various conceptions of epistemic representation that have been entertained by philos...

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Dec 9

“One important implication of model indexicality is that the predictions of models are always conditional.” | https://bit.ly/3JOJeUJ

Tap to read as Quentin Ruyant argues while there are valid reasons to reject the multiverse, the ‘this universe’ objection is not one of them.

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