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Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: from the General Philosophy of Science to the Metaphysics of Science

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https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v20i40.3229

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Scientific Realism, Laws of Nature, Metaphysics of Science, Philosophy of Science

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Bruno Borge, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET. Investigador Asistente. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bruno Borge is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a professor of Philosophy of Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires (FFyL-UBA), where he integrates and directs research projects on the philosophy of science and metaphysics. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Logic and Science Methodology at the National University of Lomas de Zamora (UNLZ) and as a teacher of related subjects at other national universities. He is the author of Knowing the structure of the world. Structural Realism in the framework of the Realism vs. Scientific Antirealism (University of Buenos Aires - Teseo Press, 2015), co-editor of Science and the unobservable world. Contemporary discussions around scientific realism (Eudeba, 2019) and has published almost thirty articles in international specialized magazines. He has been Visiting Researcher in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid, and has carried out research in the Department of Philosophy I of the University of Granada, the Department of Philosophy of the University of Malaga and the Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge of the University of Valencia. He is currently developing research on metaphysics of science at the Institute of Philosophy “Dr. Alejandro Korn ”of the FFyL-UBA and in the Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis (Sadaf).

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2020-07-31

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Borge, B. (2020). Editorial: Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: from the General Philosophy of Science to the Metaphysics of Science. Revista Colombiana De Filosofía De La Ciencia, 20(40), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v20i40.3229

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Vol. 20 No. 40 (2020): Realismo científico y leyes de la naturaleza: de la filosofía general de la ciencia a la metafísica de la ciencia

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