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Mauricio Suárez
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Professor UCMadrid, educated Edinburgh & LSE, now often @Cambridge. Author of Inference and Representation (Chicago 24): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo207912978.html

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Mauricio Suárez is a Spanish anglophone philosopher who specialises in philosophy and history of the natural sciences. He earned a BSc in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh (1991), and an MSc and a PhD in philosophy of science from the London School of Economics. His doctoral thesis was on "Models of the world, data-models and the practice of science: The semantics of quantum theory". He currently holds a professorship in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense University of Madrid. .. more

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 8d
I don't, although on my deflationist view there turns out to be no difference in kind between mathematical and scientific representation...

I do discuss mathematical models in science though...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10d
"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)
guicogsci.bsky.social Gui Sanches de Oliveira @guicogsci.bsky.social · Oct 28
My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 10d
Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Welcome to Bluesky, Gui!

#philsci #hps #philsky #sts #philtech #metascience
guicogsci.bsky.social Gui Sanches de Oliveira @guicogsci.bsky.social · Oct 28
My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 19d
Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous
Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prizes are bestowed by the Royal ...
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 23d
Truly historic, for Latin America, Europe, and the world: youtu.be/9XRaHzTEOXs?...
Von der Leyen Hails 25-Year Mercosur-EU Trade Breakthrough in Paraguay | DRM News | AC1F
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 26d
Wonderful. Congratulations. Is it coming out in the special issue in honour of Paul (Humphreys)?

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Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social · 26d
New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky
Client Challenge
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 28d
new bi-weekly podcast where logic, mathematics, philosophy, and computer science meet #philsky
aboutlogic
aboutlogic features bi-weekly conversations on all topics around logic: From foundations of computer science, set theory, critical thinking, riddles to the questions how it is to be an academic resear...
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · Jan 9
Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below.

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Teaching Associates / Administrative Assistant in existential risk (predoc/postdoc - up to 3
Teaching Associates / Administrative Assistant in existential risk (predoc/postdoc - up to 3
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Jan 9
Excellent abstract

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
Ditto Martín!

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025g) "Inference and Representation: Reply by the author", Book Forum on Inference and Representation: A Study in Modelling Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 114, December 2025:
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Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025f) "Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics: A Study in Pragmatism" (with Carmen Sánchez-Ovcharov), Chapter 5 in R. Gronda, Jannack, M. and Marchetti, G. Eds., Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics | 7 | A Study in Pragmatism |
The nature and representational uses of Feynman diagrams have been much debated in contemporary philosophy of science. The discussion has consequences for the
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025e) "Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons from Clinical Medical Practice" (with Helene Scott-Fordsmand), Chapter 12 in Pietro Gori, Ed. (forth), Mary B. Hesse (1924 - 2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 215-233: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025d) "The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited", Analysis: Journal of Philosophical Research 12 (1), 47-92.12 (1), 47-92:
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The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited | Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025c), "Probabilistic Empiricism" (with Quentin Ruyant), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS), 15 (23): doi.org/10.1007/s131...
Preprint available at Phil Sci archive (Pittsburgh, March 2025): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24924/
Probabilistic empiricism - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coa...
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025b) "The Possibilities in Propensities: Emergence and Modality", Chapter 4 in Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, and Ylwa Sjolin-Wirling, Eds., Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science, Routledge: London, pp. 82-99:
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
The Possibilities in Propensities | 6 | Emergence and Modality | Mauri
The complex nexus of chance (CNC) is a pluralistic account of the application of objective chance to statistical modelling practice. It refrains from reducing
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 31
(2025a) "Plurality and Identity: On the Educational Relations Between Chemistry and Physics" (with Pedro Sánchez-Gómez), Chemistry Education Research and Practice (Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.), vol. 26, pp. 53-64: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Plurality and identity: on the educational relations between chemistry and physics
We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), I...
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 28
On this weekend's FT cover.

Appealing to the wide readership of upwardly mobile continental philosophers?

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 25
Gorgeous stuff. Merry Christmas, Martin!

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 24
Of course! DM or email me and I can send you all papers back... Happy Christmas Eve!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Dec 22
"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research. #PhilSci

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 22
Please let me know if you can't get access. Hearty thanks to all three stellar commentators, including @oscarw.bsky.social!

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 22
The full SHPS book forum on Inference and Representation is now out, with contributions by Chiara Ambrosio, Alexander Bird and Oscar Westerblad: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I respond here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#philsci #philsky #hps #histsci #philtech #sts #metascience
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 18
Very grateful to audiences and organisers alike for their encouragement and feedback.

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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 18
And another one to the vienna-Salzburg workshop on analogy: viennaanalogiesworkshop.wordpress.com/about/
About
Organizing committee: Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna), Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg), Margarida Hermida (University of Salzburg), Florian Kolowrat (University of Vienna).
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · Dec 18
I gave a talk at the IVC: wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
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