La edición 2014 del reconocimiento Carl Gustav Hempel Award fue otorgado al filósofo Elliott Sober por una trayectoria llena de logros académicos en la filosofía de la ciencia. A continuación reproducimos un extracto de la nota sobre el profesor Sober:
Professor Sober has played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and has also made essential contributions to the topics of causality and confirmation. He has brought standards of philosophical rigor, clarity, and deep knowledge of evolutionary theory to his philosophical practice, which inspired many younger philosophers to enter the field of philosophy of biology. His books include the ground-breaking The Nature of Selection (1984), Reconstructing the Past– Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Evidence and Evolution – the Logic Behind the Science (2008), and, with David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others – the Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1997). Each of these books has initiated philosophical literature exploring and developing the issues articulated in them. Professor Sober publishes in scientific as well as philosophical publications, establishing the relevance of philosophy of biology to biologists, and the relevance of philosophy of science to scientists more generally. His forthcoming book Ockham’s Razors extends the treatment of the concerns of his first book, Simplicity (1975).
Previamente este reconocimiento fue otorgado a Bas van Fraassen en 2012.
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Publicado el 10 de Octubre de 2014 a las 10:40
