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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 More about me: https://sites.google.com/ucm.es/mauriciosuarez .. more

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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 · Aug 20

My 33 year old LSE MSc Dissertation on quantum logic was published last month together with a new introduction. Thanks @jalejandrofdezc.bsky.social for encouraging me to revisit this material.

papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 16d

Las Meninas still the most absorbing and enigmatic painting 370 years after www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 19d

New paper out jointly with the formidable @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social in a volume edited by Pietro Gori honouring Mary Hesse: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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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Daian Bica @daianbica.bsky.social · 24d

On the second day, we continued in full swing with a long, thoughtful lecture about inferential conceptions of representation given by @msuarez.bsky.social

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 9

Indeed, that's quite a connection...

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good in that way and female representation, but a really striking under-representation of southern Europe. The omnipotent north-south divide finally caught up with us? See you in a bit :-)!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 4

You're welcome :-). Good luck!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yes, please. I never learnt how to do that! DM if you'd like to explain, hearty thanks

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have the volume. I'm looking for the separate offprint / pdf of my chapter only.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Sep 2

Asking for a favour from the community of scholars. My university seems to give me no access to my own chapter in EPSA13: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1.... Could someone with access please email or DM it to me? I should be grateful!

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Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities

I critically review RIG Hughes’ Denotation-Demonstration-Interpretation account of scientific representation, focusing in particular on the representation of fictional entities in science. I fin...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Aug 31

I got "distinction" overall but can't recall what the specific mark of the dissertation was. I recall my strongest mark was in Donald Gillies' probability module - and we kept in touch ever since...

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Aug 31

And I am really quite amazed how well the stuff has aged. It is essentially apt in the context of today's debates around the "adoption problem".

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yes, the pages had taken a yellowish / cartoonish tone which was hilariously apposite, but all the material was intact and clearly readable. @jalejandrofdezc.bsky.social was critically helpful with the editorial work (besides being a wonderful source of encouragement) and deserves enourmous thanks.

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · Aug 30

That's me, delivering my keynote lecture during #EPSA25, introducing the idea of the functional atlas of theories. The conference was a blast! (Photo courtesy @bartoszradomski.bsky.social)

Marcin Miłkowski in a very fancy university hall

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Aug 20

@lastpositivist.bsky.social the people's demand has been heeded.

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Aug 10

Wow, so interesting... Looking forward to reading this

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J. Alejandro F. Cuesta @jalejandrofdezc.bsky.social · Aug 5

New paper out! 👀

And it is a special one: we recover @msuarez.bsky.social's 1990s MSc dissertation –with a new prologue.

Featuring my take on what I called “Suárez's Paradox” and its role in today's philosophy of quantum logic:

https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/analisis/article/view/11863

https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/analisis/article/view/11864

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thanks for the acknowledgement in that final footnote. It's rare that people are so careful with their intellectual debts (I always try to be).

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jun 20

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jun 17

New from BJPS Review of Books:

No Shadow of a Doubt
– Daniel Kennefick

Reviewed by Mauricio Suárez

Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

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Daniel Kennefick, No Shadow of a Doubt | BJPS Review of Books

Mauricio Suárez reviews No Shadow of a Doubt, by Daniel Kennefick

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jun 13

A lovely session on my book tonight with absolutely outstanding commentators. Thanks RCC @harvard.edu for organizing it.

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Inference and Representation A Study in Modeling Science | Real Colegio Complutense

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm interested and writing on Cassirer right now... Can I have a copy?

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jun 5

yes, although the final published title is "Experimental Realism reconsidered" 😆. I felt "defended" was too strong!

The last chapter in my book is my most considerate view on ER though - I go even more deflationary there, which probably agrees with your instinct...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jun 5

This sounds like something I could live with. Have you seen my paper on experimental realism? There's also a discussion in the last chapter of my book...

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 25

This is exactly what I hoped for with the new book. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Inference and Representation

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that deli...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 25

A case study in architectural engineering design with my inferential conception at its heart, and putting it to very good use.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats on your un-appointment!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 14

So many Viennese places also dear to my heart in this wonderful report...

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 8

Oops sorry, perhaps that comment was meant for Matthew Brown instead. Would love to see that talk!

Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · May 8

Yes it is pragmatist, and inspired by both Peirce and Dewey. I do discuss both in the book.

I'm a quietist about the metaphysics of causation but not about modeling and representation. There I'm a deflationary pragmatist.

(Plus there's an argument that metaphysical quietism is pragmatist too!).

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