Author archives: Jesús Zamora Bonilla

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Jesús Zamora holds PhDs in Philosophy (1993) and Economics (2001). Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the master's program on Science Communication and Journalism at UNED. Prolific author.

Wittgensteining the continuum (& 2):  Is the continuum petrified?

Wittgensteining the continuum (& 2): Is the continuum petrified?

MathematicsPhilosophy of science

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

I finished my last entry expressing my perplexity by the ‘solution’ mathematicians offered six decades ago to the problem of the continuum : Cohen’s theorem according to which both the assumption that there is some set (say, C) larger than the set of natural numbers but smaller than the set of real numbers, and the […]

Closer to the truth (5):  Reconstructing ‘the scientific method’

Closer to the truth (5): Reconstructing ‘the scientific method’

EpistemologyPhilosophy of science

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

I shall end this series on the problem of verisimilitude by sketching the main methodological norms that can be derived from our favorite definition of “empirical truthlikeness” –remember: the verisimilitude of a hypothesis H on the light of the empirical data E, or Vs(H,E ), would be equivalent to p(H,E)/p(HvE). Remember as well that by […]

Closer to the truth (3):  Verisimilitude, seeming, and simulation.

Closer to the truth (3): Verisimilitude, seeming, and simulation.

EpistemologyPhilosophy of science

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

For the problem of scientific realism, the most consequential implication of the ‘ugly duckling theorem’ we met in our last entry was that judgments of similarity seem to be not reducible to any kind of algorithmic definition that might tell in an objective way how much ‘similar’ is one thing to another, for these judgments […]