Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 Coll. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 186

An anthology of contemporary philosophy of science in Spain. Essays on 19th Century physics, the new cosmology, philosophy of biology, scientific rationality, philosophy of mathematics, phenomenology's account of scientific progress, science and ethics, philosophy of economics, methodology, and the philosophy of technology.

The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy.- Empirical Methods in Mathematics. A Case Study: Goldbach’s Conjecture.- Philosophy and Cosmology.- The Incompleteness of Technics.- Bayesian Induction and Statistical Inference.- The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation.- Biological and Moral Altruism.- The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception.- The Present Concept of the Gene.- The Philosophy of Technology Assessment.- The Biologization of our Culture: The Challenge of New Technologies.- Four Instrumental Proposals.- Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology.- The Role of Methodology in Models of Scientific Change.- Prediction and Mathematics: The Wittgensteinian Approach.- Scientific Progress: From the Point of View of Phenomenological Intentionality.