CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

(selected) tALKS AND ABSTRACTS

[1] Making Sense of Defective Information:  Partiality and Big Data in Astrophysics
(with Otávio Bueno) CLMPST 2019, Prague, August 5-10, 2019.

[2] "Is there anything special about the type of defectiveness involved in Big Data?  Some reflections on ignorance and Astrophysics"
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy – Annual Meeting 2019. June 5-7, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.

[3] "Can we have a hierarchical model of Scientific Understanding? A response to Batens"
Understanding Defectiveness in the Sciences, June 3-4, 2019, UNAM, Mexico.

[4] “Inconsistent Reasoning in the Sciences and Strategic-Logical Pluralism”
70th Anual Meeting of the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society, San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 5-6, 2019. Comments by Mary Gwin (San Diego Mesa College).

[5] ​“Contradiction, triviality, inconsistency toleration and other misunderstandings in the empirical sciences” 
​[INVITED]
6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic, Workshop ‘Reflections on Paraconsistency’, June 25, 2018.

[6] “Rational Choice: When and how is it (ir)rational to go-paraconsistent in science?”
Normativity across Disciplines, UNAM, Mexico, October 21-23, 2018.

[7] “Paraconsistent Heuristics, Inconsistent Information and Scientific Practice”
 Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Seventh Biennial Conference, Gent, Belgium, June 30-July 2nd, 2018.

[8] “Classicalists vs. Paraconsistentists: Unfolding the secret similarities”
37th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Holland, September 16, 2017.

[9]“Clasicalistas vs. Paraconsistentistas: Tolerando demasiadas diferencias y casi ninguna diferencia”
​ [INVITED]
Society for Women In Philsophy-Analytic México, evento inaugural, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM, Marzo 28, 2017.                 
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​[10] “Inconsistency and theory choice in the reconstruction of scientific episodes: The case of heterogenesis andbiogenesis”​
Testing Philosophical Theories Against the History of Science, Oulu, Finland. September 21-22, 2015.

[11] “Inconsistencies between Theory and Observation and Chunk and Permeate”
3rd IIFs-UNAM Philosophy Graduate Conference, Mexico, February 8, 2017. 

​​[12] “What is so Bad about Inconsistent Science?” 
(First author, joint work with Luis Estrada-González)
workshop The Place of Inconsistent Science in Scientific Pluralism, UNAM, Mexico. 5-6 September 2016. 

[13] “Functional and Inconsistent Theories: A Classification” 
Paraconsistent Reasoning in Science and Mathematics, Munich, Germany, 11-13 June 2014
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Full conference activity

INVITED TALKS

• Studying disagreement to explain contradictions in the sciences (in Spanish) at the Workshop Disagreement and Epistemic Injustice, University EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, September 22, 2020.
• “A structuralist approach to scientific understanding”, (Online) Workshop Understanding, in Science and Beyond, University of Iceland, Iceland, July 28, 2020.
• (with Moisés Macías-Bustos) "Tails and Contradictions right from the start", VI Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: identity and Individuality, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, December 16-18, 2019.
• [Keynote] “The ignorance behind inconsistency toleration”, CREATIVITY 2019, Workshop “Contradictions in factual science”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 8-13, 2019.
• “The value of historically inaccurate reconstructions for the philosophy of science”, Annual Meeting  UT-Austin-IIF-UNAM 2019, University of Texas, Austin, November  8-9, 2019.
• [Keynote] “Contradiction, triviality, inconsistency toleration and other misunderstandings in the empirical sciences”, 6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic, Workshop ‘Reflections on Paraconsistency’, June 25, 2018.
• “Classicalists vs. Paraconsistentists: Tolerating too many coincidences and almost no difference” (in Spanish), SWIP-Analytic Mexico inaugural event, March 28, 2017.

Papers Presented (PEER REVIEWED)
​2020 (POSTPONED /CANCELLED)
·         (fist author |Joint with Moisés Macías-Bustos) “The challenge of the illusion: Understanding defective theories”, Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding, University of Iceland.
·         (second author |Joint with Moisés Macías-Bustos) “Can we use a contradictions right from the startmethodology?”, 8th Biennial SPSP (Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice) Conference, University of Michigan.
2020
·         (first author | Joint with Moisés Macías-Bustos) “Can we use a contradictions right from the start methodology?”, Online workshop Philosophical issues of Quantum Mechanics, November 28, 2020.
·         “Is there anything special about the ignorance ​involved in Big Data practices?”, Colóquio Virtual SELF - Problemas Filosóficos, June 18, 2020.
2019
·         (first author | Joint with Otávio Bueno) “Making Sense of Defective Information: Partiality and Big Data in Astrophysics”, CLMPST 2019, Prague, August 5-10, 2019.
·         “Is there anything special about the type of defectiveness involved in Big Data?  Some reflections on ignorance and Astrophysics”, International Association for Computing and Philosophy – Annual Meeting 2019Mexico City, Mexico, June 5-7, 2019.
·         “Can we have a hierarchical model of Scientific Understanding? A response to Batens”, Understanding Defectiveness in the Sciences, UNAM, Mexico, June 2-4, 2019.
·         “Inconsistent Reasoning in the Sciences and Strategic-Logical Pluralism”, 70th Anual Meeting of the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society, San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 5-6, 2019.
2018
·         “Rational Choice: When and how is it rational to go-paraconsistent in science?”, Normativity across Disciplines, UNAM, Mexico, October 21-23, 2018.
·         “Understanding inter-theoretic contradictions and the many lives of historical reconstructions”,    XII International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science HOPOS 2018, Groningen, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2018.
·         “Anomalies vs. Inconsistencies between Theory and Observation: Some important distinctions”, V Conference by Women in Philosophy, Amsterdam, Holland, 5-6 July 2018.
·         “Paraconsistent Heuristics, Inconsistent Information, and Scientific Practice”, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Seventh Biennial Conference, Gent, Belgium, June 30-July 2nd, 2018.
2017
·         “Paraconsistent Reasoning Strategies and the Epistemology of the Inconsistency Toleration”, Logic in the Wild, Gent, Belgium, November 9-10, 2017.
·         “(Intertheoretic) Inconsistency toleration: Are we really avoiding explosion?”, Inconsistency and Scientific Pluralism, Gent, Belgium, November 8, 2017.
·         “Classicalists vs. Paraconsistentists: Unfolding the secret similarities”, 37th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Holland, September 16, 2017.
·         “Mixing inconsistent information from different theories: A new challenge for Chunk and Permeate”, 17th Latin American Symposium on Mathematical Logic, Puebla, Mexico, June 26-30, 2017.
·          “Inconsistencies between Theory and Observation and Chunk and Permeate”, 3rd IIFs-UNAM Philosophy Graduate Conference, Mexico, February 8, 2017.
2016
·         “Chunk and Permeate vs. Partial Structures: On how to model inconsistency toleration in empirical sciences” (in Spanish), XIX International Meeting of Didactics of Logic and International Symposium on Research in Logic and Argumentation, UNAM-Mexico, November 15-18, 2016.
·         “What does it mean to tolerate inconsistencies? From logic to philosophy of science” (in Spanish), Workshop Logics of Discovery and Scientific Creativity, October 19, 2016.
·         “Inconsistencies between Theory and Observation and the Limits of Chunk and Permeate”, Conference Trends in Logic XVI: Consistency, Contradiction, Paraconsistency and Reasoning, Campinas, Brazil. September 11-14, 2016.
·         (Second author, joint work with Luis Estrada-González) “On the possibility and fruitfulness of a debate on the PNC”, Conference Trends in Logic XVI: Consistency, Contradiction, Paraconsistency and Reasoning, Campinas, Brazil. September 11-14, 2016.
·         (First author, joint work with Luis Estrada-González) “What is so Bad about Inconsistent Science?”, workshop The Place of Inconsistent Science in Scientific Pluralism, UNAM, Mexico. 5-6 September 2016.
2015
·         (first author |Joint work with Luis Estrada-González) “The importance of being partial” (in Spanish), XVIII International Meeting of Didactics of Logic and International Symposium on Research in Logic and Argumentation, Guadalajara, November 10-13, 2015.
·         “Inconsistency and theory choice in the reconstruction of scientific episodes: The case of heterogenesis and biogenesis”, Testing Philosophical Theories Against the History of Science, Oulu, Finland. September 21-22, 2015.
·         (first author |Joint work with Luis Estrada-González) “Inconsistency toleration in Biology: the case of Spontaneous Generation” (in Spanish), II Conference of the Iberoamerican Association of Philosophy of Biology, Valle de Bravo, Mexico, September 7-11, 2015.
·         (second author |Joint work with Luis Estrada-González) “The (in)consistency of the bernoullian infinitesimals” (in Spanish), Second International Conference of Mathematics and its Applications, August 31-September 4, 2015.
2014
·         “Functional and Inconsistent Theories: A Classification”, Paraconsistent Reasoning in Science and Mathematics, Munich, Germany, 11-13 June 2014
2013
·         “Inconsistent Functional Scientific Theories: How to approach them” (in Spanish) at First Associated Students Workshop, Institute of Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico 2013.
2011
·         (first author |Joint work with M.A. Vanessa Salas) “Teaching Logic to Undergraduates: A Teaching Proposal” (in Spanish), XV International Meeting of Didactics of Logic, Institute of Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico, 2011.
2010
·         “The revolution of ancient philosophy: An analysis of the figures that grounded it” (in Spanish), XV Regional Meeting of Philosophy Students, Tlaxcala, Mexico, February 23-27, 2010.
2009
·         “Medical Logic: A formal system for medical reasoning” (in Spanish), XXVI National Meeting of Philosophy Students, Aguascalientes, Mexico, September 14-19, 2009.
2008
·         “From Myth to Philosophy: A natural step or actual analytical work?” (in Spanish), XXV National Meeting of Philosophy Students, Puebla, Mexico, May 19-24, 2008.
 
COMMENTING
​·         To: “Law & Order: Ecology” by Georgia R. Rainer, 2nd IIFs-UNAM Philosophy Graduate Conference, UNAM- Mexico, March 9-10, 2016.
·         To: “Paraconsistency and the foundation of mathematics” by Cristian Andrés Romero-Ramírez, (in Spanish) First National Conference of History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, February 23-26, 2015.
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