González, Wenceslao J.

Institución: Departamento de Humanidades; Universidad de A Coruña;
Dirección: Calle Dr. Vázquez Cabrera, s/n; 15403-Ferrol (A Coruña)
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Wenceslao J. González es Catedrático de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia de la Universidad de A Coruña. Es Académico de número de la International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences/Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences y líder de equipo en el programa de la European Science Foundation titulado “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective” (mayo de 2008-abril de 2013). Ha sido Vicedecano de la Facultad de Humanidades (2000-2002) y Presidente de la Comisión de Doctorado de la Universidad de A Coruña (2002-2004).

González ha realizado trabajos de investigación en las Universidades de St. Andrews (Escocia), Münster (Alemania) y en la London School of Economics (Inglaterra). Ha sido Visiting Fellow en el Center for Philosophy of Science de la Universidad de Pittsburgh (Estados Unidos) y Visiting Scholar del Departamento de Filosofía de esa Universidad. En 1995 obtuvo el Premio de Investigación en Humanidades de Galicia. En 2009 recibió la “Máxima distinción a la trayectoria investigativa” de la Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos de Lima (Perú).  

Ha sido invitado a dar conferencias en las Universidades de Quebec (Montreal), Stanford, Pittsburgh, Helsinki y Nevada en Reno. Ha participado en Congresos organizados por las Universidades de Uppsala (Suecia), Nueva Gales del Sur (Sidney, Australia), Bolonia (Italia), Canterbury (Nueva Zelanda) y Pekín (China).

Es el autor de La Teoría de la Referencia (1986), La predicción científica: Concepciones filosófico-metodológicas desde H. Reichenbach a N. Rescher (2010) y Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics (2015). Es el editor de 37 volúmenes sobre Filosofía y Metodología de la Ciencia, agrupados en la Colección Gallaecia: Estudios de Filosofía y Metodología de la Ciencia. Es co-editor de la Serie European Studies in the Philosophy of Science de la editorial Springer.

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Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences/International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences. He has been a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective” (2008-2013). He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru).

Gonzalez has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science and Visiting Scholar of the Department of Philosophy (U. Pittsburgh). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec, Helsinki and Nevada at Reno. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), Vienna, and Beijing. He received the Research Award in Humanities given in 1995 by the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain). He was President of the Committee of Doctoral Programs at the University of A Coruña (2002-2004).

His publications include the edition of 37 volumes, among them Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (1998); Lakatos's Philosophy Today (2001); Science, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Perspective (2005); Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy and Methodology of Science (2006); Evolutionism: Present Approaches (2008), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science (2010); Conceptual Revolutions: From Cognitive Science to Medicine (2011); Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher (2011); Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science (2014); and New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics: Theoretical and Practical (2015). He is the editor of the Gallaecia Series: Studies in Contemporary Philosophy and Methodology of Science and co-editor of the European Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

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