Mauricio Suárez
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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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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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On the second day, we continued in full swing with a long, thoughtful lecture about inferential conceptions of representation given by @msuarez.bsky.social
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 :-)!
Yes, please. I never learnt how to do that! DM if you'd like to explain, hearty thanks
I have the volume. I'm looking for the separate offprint / pdf of my chapter only.
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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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...
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".
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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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)
@lastpositivist.bsky.social the people's demand has been heeded.
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.
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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:
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:
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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New from BJPS Review of Books:
No Shadow of a Doubt
– Daniel Kennefick
Reviewed by Mauricio Suárez
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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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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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I'm interested and writing on Cassirer right now... Can I have a copy?
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...
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...
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...
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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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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So many Viennese places also dear to my heart in this wonderful report...
Oops sorry, perhaps that comment was meant for Matthew Brown instead. Would love to see that talk!
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!).
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!).