Papers by Alger Sans Pinillos
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Monitoring technologies initially developed for individuals with disabilities carry inherent dual... more Monitoring technologies initially developed for individuals with disabilities carry inherent dual-use risks, especially evident in conflict or emergency scenarios. This article examines the dual-use dilemma posed by technologies whose civilian design objectives can unintentionally facilitate harmful applications in defense contexts. Specifically, we analyze the ethical risks associated with using civilian-generated data and systems, originally intended to enhance care and assistance, for military purposes without adequate safeguards. We argue that effective and ethically sound technological infrastructures require optimized and ethically-informed prompting strategies. These strategies must clearly define how data and system prompts are structured, reducing deployment biases, particularly against vulnerable populations.
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Euphyía, Dec 14, 2023
Foundations of Science, Sep 11, 2023
Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Aug 31, 2023
Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 España (texto legal): se... more Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 España (texto legal): se pueden copiar, usar, difundir, transmitir y exponer públicamente, siempre que: i) se cite la autoría y la fuente original de su publicación (revista, editorial y URL de la obra); ii) no se usen para fines comerciales; iii) se mencione la existencia y especificaciones de esta licencia de uso (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) Más allá de los datos: la transformación digital del museo tradicional *
La distribución abductiva de valores en los catálogos digitales
Mosaic, Jul 2, 2023

This paper aims to show that it is better to consider Ronald Giere's approach separately from... more This paper aims to show that it is better to consider Ronald Giere's approach separately from what has been called the semanticist family in the philosophy of science. Mainly because he rejects the dyadic relations of isomorphic representation and truth for scientific representation, we will show that, especially from his notion of similarity, a pragmatic interpretation of his approach is better, which would be in better relation to scientific practice with models itself and the contemporary debate on representation. For this purpose, we will resort to a brief example of DIBs models in biology.El objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar las ventajas de considerar al enfoque de Ronald Giere separado de lo que se ha llamado la familia semanticista en filosofía de la ciencia. Principalmente porque rechaza las relaciones diádicas de representación isomórfica y de verdad para la representación científica. Mostraremos aquí que, especialmente a partir de su noción de similitud, los ben...

Foundations of Science , 2023
This article presents silence as a cognitive tool to comprehend the environment. Two dimensions o... more This article presents silence as a cognitive tool to comprehend the environment. Two dimensions of silence are addressed: a natural mechanism and human beings' social and cultural construction. There is a link between these two dimensions because, on the one hand, agents' cognitive strategies based on silence influence how meanings and uses of silence have been constructed. The meanings of silence we use are contextual shapers of silence-based cognitive strategies. Silence is analyzed as a resource for coping with ambiguity: situations perceived as uncertain provoke doubt and confusion because they can be understood differently or suggest different interpretations. These situations can occur in the face of epistemic disruption. The consequence is a transfer of the ambiguity property of these situations to the usual ways of relating to the world and people. The cognitive approach is based here on a semiotic-hermeneutic interpretation of silence from a phenomenological perspective. This accounts for a paradox: even if silence does not exist (the world is acoustic), it is real. The silence experience is a non-inferential cognitive capacity located at the base of perception: a stimulus that suggests a particular gesture as an action different from the usual one to deal with the environment.

Enrahonar. Quaderns de filosofia, 2016
Mirar enrere per entendre'ns. Sobre el III Congrés Català de Filosofia A principis d'any, els die... more Mirar enrere per entendre'ns. Sobre el III Congrés Català de Filosofia A principis d'any, els dies 21, 22 i 23 de gener, va tenir lloc, a Palma de Mallorca, el III Congrés Català de Filosofia. La seu escollida va ser l'edifici Sa Riera, situat al carrer de Miquel dels Sants Oliver, número 2. Aquest edifici ha esdevingut un indret cultural que, entre altres coses, acull espais per a exposicions, a més de sales destinades a l'estudi i, per descomptat, per fer-hi actes com el que ens ocupa en aquest escrit. Per a qui no hagi estat mai a Palma o, en concret, per la zona de què parlo, simplement esmento quatre detalls que em semblen rellevants. Si es continua el carrer de Miquel dels Sants Oliver, passant per l'avinguda de Portugal, aquest enllaça amb el passeig de Mallorca, un camí que segueix per tots dos costats la riera que desemboca al mar. Si s'hi camina, sobretot de nit, es pot tenir una vista impressionat de la catedral de Mallorca. A més, aquest passeig encabeix algun dels llocs més interessants de la ciutat, entre ells, Es Baluard, a saber, el Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma. Val a dir que els dies en què es va celebrar el congrés va fer un temps plujós i fred. Un clima que poques vegades es veu, si no es viu a l'illa. Un clima que va permetre celebrar el congrés amb una intimitat molt especial. Després d'aquesta introducció, segurament un pèl nostàlgica, entro de cap al tema que ens ocupa. El congrés, com ja s'ha dit, es va celebrar al llarg de tres dies. El primer dia, després de les acreditacions, com és costum, es va fer l'acte d'inauguració, seguit d'un concert de violí a càrrec de Laura Àlvarez. Seguint amb la forma comuna d'aquests esdeveniments, es va pronunciar la conferència inaugural, titulada «Un retour au passé en Métaphysique?: Hypothèse sur l'histoire de la mystique philosophique andalouse», a càrrec de Dr. Mokdad Arfa,

Foundations of Science, Sep 6, 2021
Many parts of the contemporary philosophical debate have been built on the radicalization of conc... more Many parts of the contemporary philosophical debate have been built on the radicalization of conclusions derived from the acceptance of a certain set of classical dichotomies. It also discusses how pragmatism and abduction are currently presented to solve the problems arising from these dichotomies. For this reason, the efforts of this article have been directed to analyze the impact of this fact on the philosophy of science and logic. The starting point is that accepting abduction implies, in many ways, accepting the foundations of pragmatism. Also, that the analysis of such problems from pragmatism and the particular use of abduction dissolve the dichotomies and, with it, also modify the philosophical problems related to them. Therefore, I propose to understand abduction as the right conceptual device to review the problems and debates of the twentieth century’s epistemology from a pragmatic perspective. In doing so, the aim is to propose that the current use of abduction in contemporary debates may imply a change of the philosophical perspective.
ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios de la ciencia y la tecnología, 2021
This paper aims to show that it is better to consider Ronald Giere’s approach separately from wha... more This paper aims to show that it is better to consider Ronald Giere’s approach separately from what has been called the semanticist family in the philosophy of science. Mainly because he rejects the dyadic relations of isomorphic representation and truth for scientific representation, we will show that, especially from his notion of similarity, a pragmatic interpretation of his approach is better, which would be in better relation to scientific practice with models itself and the contemporaryvdebate on representation. For this purpose, we will resort to a brief example of DIBs models in biology.

Topoi, Mar 25, 2021
What role does language play in the process of building worldviews? To address this question, in ... more What role does language play in the process of building worldviews? To address this question, in the first section of this paper we will clarify what we mean by worldviews and how they differ, in our perspective, from cosmovisions. In a nutshell, we define worldviews as the biological interpretations agents create of the world around them and cosmovision the more general cultural-based reflections on it (which, of course, include also agents' worldviews). After presenting our definition for worldview, we will also present the multi-shaped viewpoint that frames our analysis, adopting three concepts that can help us explain how agents construct and develop their worldviews: saliences, pregnances, and abduction. While the notions of saliences and pregnances will explain how agents recognize anomalies in their worldview, the concept of abduction will help us discuss how they can learn to approach, explain, and use these anomalies to get new skills and abilities. This other point will lead us to discuss the role of language in this process, which will be describe as an artifact that permits the agent to use abduction to "normalize" and exploit anomalies, being now the ultimate artifact (for human agents) to build, develop, and update their worldviews.

Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia, 2020
In the following text I defend the falsity of IB(A)E / abductive reasoning equivalence theory. I ... more In the following text I defend the falsity of IB(A)E / abductive reasoning equivalence theory. I do it through 3 points. First, I offer a theoretical explanation about the first and second abductive reasoning research generation, in which I characterize and remark its most important topics, as it is known, fill-up problem and cutdown-problem. At the second point, I present the classic debate in which, supposedly, there is the relation between IB(A)E and abduction. My intention is to show that the real topic in this debate is not about abduction’s topics, but induction ones. In the third point, I present and analyze the solution of «availability» concept, offered to refute logic and epistemological critics about «best» concept. Here, I present two arguments, which show the difficult increases of their validity because, in the end, from a cognitive point of view, IB(A)E is a pipedream.

Audens. Revista estudiantil d'anàlisi interdisciplinària, 2020
Resum: En aquest escrit s'ofereix una anàlisi de la situació de pandèmia que estem vivint, aproxi... more Resum: En aquest escrit s'ofereix una anàlisi de la situació de pandèmia que estem vivint, aproximant-hi des de la filosofia de la ciència i l'epistemologia. La idea central rau en mostrar que l'epidemiologia, igual que la resta de pràctiques científiques, és una activitat humana i social. Per això, s'ha volgut presentar una dimensió més complerta de la recerca. Ens referim a la que contempla al científic dins d'una societat, d'un llenguatge compartit, junt amb els seus prejudicis i creences. Des d'aquest punt de vista, es pot entendre a l'agent com algú que s'enfronta, a incerteses que intenta acomodar esdeveniments mutables a la seva arquitectònica epistèmica, la qual trontolla davant la novetat. Finalment, en tant que filòsofs, hem cregut pertinent oferir una crítica a certes reaccions per part de col·legues de professió, els qui, a causa d'una mirada vaga i senzilla de la ciència, moltes vegades provinent d'una concepció congelada de fa dos segles, han barrejat qüestions fonamentals per l'epidemiologia amb tot l'entrellat de retallades de llibertats que estem patint des d'abans de la pandèmia.

Mediaevalia. Textos e Estudos, 35, 2016
Robert Grosseteste represents one of the key moments in the development of scientific thinking. H... more Robert Grosseteste represents one of the key moments in the development of scientific thinking. His study about Aristotle opens the possibility to understand the experience data as true. That is, the induction. However, the quid is in the conformation of the argumentative framework that allows us get to configure this knowledge. The idea is defended in this paper is that one of the most important factors was the study of the abduction (ἀπαγωγή), treated in Analytica Posteriora, since it is the only type of syllogism that tries to show the acquisition of new information. In other words, the results cannot be extracted from the premises with a monotonic inference, since the relation is not necessary nor probable. The attempt to solve this problem without breaking the relationship with God, that is, the guarantee of truth, opened the door to the new science. This was made possible by abductive reasoning.
Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, n. 35 (2), 2019
Rigor Mortis: Què passa quan una teoria nega allò que no li pertany o què passa quan un coneixeme... more Rigor Mortis: Què passa quan una teoria nega allò que no li pertany o què passa quan un coneixement es veu obligat a adaptarse al que no pot. Comentari crític de «Construir en la foscor. Teoria i observació en ciència i en psicoanàlisi», de R. Caper Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, Vol. XXXV/2 1. Investigador predoctoral (Programa FPU), dins el grup d'investigació «MICINN: Innovación epistemológica: el caso de las ciencias biomédicas» (FFI201785711P), 20182021.
Daimon, 2023
Este trabajo se centra en el museo virtual entendido como la transformación digital del museo tra... more Este trabajo se centra en el museo virtual entendido como la transformación digital del museo tradicional. En primer lugar, se revisan las principales conceptualizaciones del museo virtual en la literatura especializada y, a partir de las mismas, se propone una definición básica. Asimismo, se presentan argumentos que muestran la insuficiencia de la perspectiva dataísta en el estudio de la injusticia epistémica relativa al museo virtual. Finalmente, se analiza la exclusión relativa a la participación y la interacción entre las visitantes de un museo (tanto virtual como físico) y la propia institución.

Philosophies, 2023
Design has usually been linked to art and applied in scenarios related to everyday life. Even whe... more Design has usually been linked to art and applied in scenarios related to everyday life. Even when design has, on occasion, made its way into the world of academia, it has always been closely linked to art and scenarios related everyday life. At last, however, the idea of design has reached the field of epistemology: an area within the very heart of philosophy that has always focused, in theory, on the foundations of knowledge. Consequently, design is being studied from different approaches interested in the foundation of knowledge, theoretical and practical. This is one of the reasons why abduction and pragmatism have been considered relevant from a design perspective. This paper first shows the main features of abduction and pragmatism, describes their evolution and considers their mutual implications. Second, the epistemology of design is analysed considering its most relevant characteristics. Third, the connection between abduction and, on the one hand, pragmatism and, on the other, design epistemology is addressed. Finally, the role of abductive inference in grounding a real epistemology for design theory from the naturalised cognitive perspective of abduction is outlined. The central proposition is that this approach is essential as a methodological innovation, as it allows us to analyse both the inquiry process and the design process as interdependent when dealing with practical problems of a social and cultural nature. This approach allows us to analyse how human actions determine changes in the theoretical framework from which we make our inquiry. In short, the world is an open-ended project that humans design through our daily inquiry.
Introduction to Abduction in Education and Human Sciences
Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2022
Ronald Giere, ¿semanticista? Una pregunta provocativa para el debate contemporáneo sobre la representación científica
ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología
El objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar las ventajas de considerar al enfoque de Ronald Giere... more El objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar las ventajas de considerar al enfoque de Ronald Giere separado de lo que se ha llamado la familia semanticista en filosofía de la ciencia. Principalmente porque rechaza las relaciones diádicas de representación isomórfica y de verdad para la representación científica. Mostraremos aquí que, especialmente a partir de su noción de similitud, los beneficios de una interpretación pragmática de su enfoque, que estaría en mejor relación con la propia práctica científica con modelos, así como con el debate contemporáneo sobre la representación. Para ello, recurriremos a un breve ejemplo de modelos DIBs en biología.

Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência
Una comprensión adecuada de la explicación (y de la argumentación) científica escolar requiere in... more Una comprensión adecuada de la explicación (y de la argumentación) científica escolar requiere introducir consistentemente en la enseñanza de las ciencias naturales aportaciones de distintas disciplinas metacientíficas (tales como la filosofía, la historia y la sociología de la ciencia). Una manera de trabajar en esta línea con gran tradición en la didáctica de las ciencias es el análisis epistemológico crítico de narraciones de casos de históricos. Los casos pueden ser herramientas eficaces para ejemplificar los contenidos de naturaleza de la ciencia que deberían impartirse en las clases. En este trabajo, narraciones de algunos “epítomes” (o ejemplos paradigmáticos) de descubrimiento científico se analizan epistemológicamente utilizando como marco conceptual la teorización sobre la inferencia abductiva. El propósito es ayudar al profesorado de ciencias a entender en contexto algunos aspectos metodológicos centrales de la indagación científica.
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