Biologist (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1992). I have conducted doctoral research on the trophic ecology of the South American grey fox (Pseudalopex griseus GRAY 1837) in the Argentinean Monte desert.
From 1999 on my main academic interests have been related to the philosophy of science, a subject I have taught at university level since 1998.
I was recently awarded a fellowship of the Fundación Carolina (Spain) to pursue doctoral studies in philosophy at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
I begun my education in the philosophy of science as a self-taught student, but further development would not have been possible without the generous support of Luis Marone (in particular in problems related to the epistemology and methodology of Ecology) and Mario Bunge. Luis discovered to me an exciting way of looking at ecology and its philosophical problems. Prof. Bunge was kind and patient enough to have me a semester at McGill.
I am interested in all the philosophical questions posed by scientific inquiry and the technological application of scientific knowledge. Currently I am mainly focused on the study of epistemological and methodological issues arising from ecological research, especially those related to explanation. Questions such as what kinds of explanation are offered by ecologists, whether the formal models provided by the philosophers of science fit ecological explanations, and what the role explanation and prediction are in ecological research, are the central themes of my current investigations. Other interesting problems naturally connected to those already mentioned are the goal or goals of ecological science, the possibility of ecological laws, the role of reduction in explaining ecological phenomena, the importance of theory development, and the connections between ecology and the ideas belonging in its conceptual framework (e.g. evolutionary theory).
Other philosophical issues that attract me are those related to the debate over scientific realism (the relation between truth and justification, the role of rationality in knowledge and action, the transformation of knowledge about the world in knowledge for changing the world and the relation between scientific knowledge and other types of knowledge) and the grounding and designing of the more desirable ways of relation among science, technology and other subsystems belonging to democratic societies.
At Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona I entered the Grup d’Estudis Humanístics sobre Ciència y Tecnologia (GEHUCT; Group for Research on Humanistic Studies on Science and Technology), an interdisciplinary team approaching the production, communication, and moral consequences of scientific and technological knowledge integrating views from the philosophy of science, education science, and moral philosophy. In addition, I am involved in the project Cognición y Entornos Tecnológicos (Cognition and Technological Environments), under the direction of Prof. Anna Estany Profitós, at the Philosophy Department.
Apart from my research and teaching activities, I devote a portion of my time to translations of books on the philosophy of science and other kinds of documents from English to Spanish.
Apart from academic activities, I am a passionate Aikido student.
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