José Ignacio Murillo is Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Navarra. His research is framed in the field of anthropology and is animated by the interest in integrating the diverse scientific perspectives that study the human being. This concern has also impelled him to dialogue with the natural and social sciences, and also with theology. In recent years he has devoted special attention to the relationship between biology and anthropology, and has studied the subject of life and living beings in various authors. He currently directs the interdisciplinary project “Biology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Philosophy and Neuroscience” at the Institute of Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra.

Javier Vidal has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Navarra and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oviedo (Spain). He is currently Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of the Universidad de Concepción (Chile), where he develops teaching and research in the areas of Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind. He is the author of more than 25 publications in these areas. In recent years, his research has focused on studying the first person as well as the relationship between consciousness and self-consciousness. He is currently a researcher responsible for the Fondecyt project (CONICYT, Government of Chile): “Psychological self-knowledge and immunity to an identification error”.

Belén Mesurado has a degree in Psychology (Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino), and a PhD in Psychology (Universidad Nacional de San Luis). She is a Research Associate of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) based at the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematics and Experimental Psychology (CIIPME). She works on issues related to Positive Psychology, focusing on the study of family and psycho-emotional factors in promoting prosocial behaviors. She developed studies on optimal experience (flow) linked to the promotion of pro-social activities and academic commitment in childhood and adolescence.

Ayelen Sanchez has a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), where she works as an assistant in the courses of Methaphysics, Logic and History of Modern Philosophy. She is currently developing doctoral research in the area of Philosophy of the Mind. The main topic of her research is the atribution and self-atribution of intentionality, from the perspective of the dialogue between philosophy and some of the most relevant outcomes of the cognitive psychology.

Ivana Anton Mlinar has a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Cuyo – UNCuyo (as a grantee from DAAD in the Husserl-Archiv of the Cologne University, Germany). She is a Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and she is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the UNCuyo. She is director of the journals Philosophiaand Revista de Fenomenología y Ciencia Cognitiva (with Jethro Masís). She directs the research project “Fenomenología y neurociencias: estudios en torno al self” (UNCuyo). [Fenomenology and Neuroscience: Studies about the Self].

Ángela Suburo has a PhD in Medicine (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and she specializes in neurosciences. She is a Senior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and she is also Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Universidad Austral. She is member of several associations: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Chairperson of the Retinal Cell Biology section), Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Eye Research, Asociación de Investigación en Visión y Oftalmología, Sociedad Argentina de Neuroquímica and Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica. She leads a group of young researchers dedicated to the study of neurodegenerative diseases in the retina and in the brain. She has written numerous articles. In 2011 her work “Mecanismos de protección de los fotorreceptores: papel de los glucocorticoides” received the Nocetti and Tiscornia Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Medicine (Buenos Aires).

Gonzalo Arrondo Ostíz is a researcher of the Mind-Brain group at the Institute for Culture and Society (University of Navarra, Spain). He has experience in neuropsychology, functional neuroimaging, evidence-based biopsychology and medicine, and more generally in empirical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. His current interests pivot around the study of cognitive decision-making processes, evidence-based psychology and psychiatry, and, on a more theoretical level.

Juan José Sanguineti has a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). He is Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the School of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). He has published fifteen books and nearly a hundred scientific articles on theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind and the neurosciences. He was Director of the Scientific Committee of the Project STOQ III (Rome, 2007-2010, University of the Holy Cross, area of Neurosciences). He regularly delivers graduate courses and seminars at different universities in Latin America. He is ordinary member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Saint Thomas and of the Sociedad Tomista Argentina. He is a member of the scientific committee of the journal Acta Philosophica (University of the Holy Cross).

Mariano Asla has a degree in Philosophy (Universidad Católica Argentina) and a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Navarra). He wrote the book “La gramática moral universal: ¿Una aproximación cognitivista a la ley moral?”[Universal Moral Grammar. A cognitive approach to natural law?] published by EUNSA. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Universidad Austral. He is author of the book “La gramática moral univeral” (Universal Moral Grammar. A cognitive approach to natural law?), published by EUNSA. He is also a member of the Board of Ethics in Medicine (CAEEM) of the National Academy of Medicine. His research focus is philosophical naturalism, especially in areas such as cognitive science of morality and religion, and philosophy of pain, as well as the human universals and innatism.

Ignacio Aguinalde Sáenz has a degree in Philosophy and in Psychology, both from Universidad Católica Argentina. He is author of an introductory study to and an annotated translation into Spanish of Thomas Aquinas’ commentary on Aristotle’s On generation and corruption, The principles of nature, and other cosmological opuscula (Eunsa, 2005), and of the book Psychology(EDUCA 2009). He has collaborated with research projects of the University of Navarra. His areas of interest are the philosophy of nature, epistemology and cognitive psychology. He teaches Philosophical Anthropology and Statistics at the Biomedical School of Austral University. At present, he is at the end stage of his doctoral thesis on John Searle’s philosophy of mind.

Francisco José Soler Gil has studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Granada, and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bremen (Germany). He has worked in the Philosophy of Physics research group of this university, as well as in the particle astrophysics research group of the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany). He is currently a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Seville. He has specialized in philosophy of nature and physics. He has published, among others, the following books: “Aristotle in the Quantum World” (2003), “The Divine and the Human in the Universe of Stephen Hawking” (2008), “Discovery or Construction? Astroparticle Physics and the Search for Physical Reality” (2012), “Materialist Mythology of Science” (2013), “Philosophie der Kosmologie” (2014), and “The Universe to Debate” (2016).

Alexandre de Pomposo has a PhD in Physical Sciences from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, with a thesis directed by Professor Ilya Prigogine (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977). Bachelor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Surgeon by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium as a free researcher. Member of the French Society of Philosophy, of the Xavier Zubiri Foundation of Madrid, of the Ethics and Research Committee for Human Studies of Médica Sur in Mexico City. He participates in the Human Connectome Project as an external collaborator. Research Coordinator and Professor of the Clinical Teaching Secretariat of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. Professor and Researcher Emeritus at the Real World Multiversity Edgar Morin of Mexico City.

Marta Bertolaso ​​is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Engineering and at the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific and Technological Practice of the University Bio-Medical Campus of Rome. Her research projects deal with new epistemological and philosophical challenges in the fields of biological and systemic development (with special emphasis on cancer), scientific progress, silica medicine, modeling and validation processes. She has been a professor of philosophy of science and bioethics at different universities in Italy, Munich and St. Louis (USA). Among her latest publications are Philosophy of Cancer – A Dynamic and Relational View. Springer Series in “History, Philosophy & Theory of Life Sciences”, 2016, and The Future of Scientific Practice: ‘Bio-Techno-Logos’, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London, 2015. She is currently also working for a new Series of Springer, whose title is “Human Perspectives in Bio-Medicine and Technology”.

Leonardo Rufiner holds a degree in bioengineering from the National University of Entre Rios, a master degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (Mexico) and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. He is Researcher at the CONICET and Professor at the National University of Entre Ríos and the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. He directs the Laboratory of Cybernetics (UNER) and is part of the Research Center in Signals, Systems and Computational Intelligence (UNL-CONICET)

María Cristina Richaud has a PhD in Philosophy, with orientation in psychology (UBA). She is a Superior Researcher at CONICET, Director of the Psychology Doctoral Program at UCA, Vice President of the Centro Interamericano de Investigaciones en Psicologia y Ciencias Afines (CIIPCA). She has received the following distinctions: Bernardo Houssay award to scientific and technological research 2005 to the Consolidated Researcher in the area of Human and Social Science; Rubén Ardila International Award for Scientific Research in Psychology 2009; 2013 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology; Award of the Association for the Advancement in Psychological Science Carlo Molinari Marotto, for outstanding contribution to the scientific advancement of psychology in Argentina. November 2014.

She is also Director and Editor of Interdisciplinaria, Revista de psicología y ciencias afines, and represents Argentina in the bi-annual meetings of the International Union of Psychological Sciences (IUPsyS). She has published over two hundred articles and book chapters within her area of expertise. She is also the author of several books.

Dr. Adolfo M. García specializes in Language Neuroscience. He is Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neurosciences (LPEN-INCYT), Researcher of CONICET and Professor of Neurolinguistics at UNCuyo. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of World Languages ​​and the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. He has also served as Visiting Professor at universities in Colombia, Chile, Australia, Germany and China. He has over 70 articles in magazines of international prestige, regarding cognitive neurosciences and linguistics. Among his books are Qué son las neurociencias, in co-authoring with Agustín Ibáñez (Paidós 2015), Mente bilingüe (Comunicarte 2016) and An Introduction to Relational Network Theory (Equinox, in press). In 2013, he received the Most Outstanding Paper Award from the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. In 2015, he was awarded the Young Researcher Award, from the Argentine Association of Behavioral Sciences.

Mariano Asla has a degree in Philosophy (Universidad Católica Argentina) and a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Navarra). He wrote the book “La gramática moral universal: ¿Una aproximación cognitivista a la ley moral?”[Universal Moral Grammar. A cognitive approach to natural law?] published by EUNSA. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Universidad Austral. He is author of the book “La gramática moral univeral” (Universal Moral Grammar. A cognitive approach to natural law?), published by EUNSA. He is also a member of the Board of Ethics in Medicine (CAEEM) of the National Academy of Medicine. His research focus is philosophical naturalism, especially in areas such as cognitive science of morality and religion, and philosophy of pain, as well as the human universals and innatism.

Nathaniel Barrett specializes in philosophical and historical studies of the relationship between science and religion, with special attention to the concepts of nature that arise from the religious and scientific conceptions of the human person. His current research explores how contemporary philosophical and scientific theories of embodiment can be used to understand traditional Confucian and Taoist models of spiritual realization. Dr. Barrett is the coordinator of the “Religious and Psychological Well-Being Project” at the Danielsen Institute, Boston University. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra.

Alfredo F. Marcos Martínez holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Valladolid. He has been a visiting researcher at Cambridge and Rome. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities in Spain, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, France, Argentina and Poland. He lectures on history and philosophy of science, bioethics, science communication. He has published a dozen books and more than sixty articles and chapters on the history and philosophy of science, environmental ethics, bioethics, philosophy of biology, science communication and Aristotelian studies. He coordinates the philosophy of science section of the journal Investigación y Ciencia. He has been director of the department of philosophy at the University of Valladolid. He has been member of the bioethics committees of several hospitals. He currently coordinates the Interuniversity PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science.

José Eduardo Moreno has a degree in Psychology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Universidad del Salvador. He is Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematics and Experimental Psychology “Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi” (CIIPME – CONICET) and Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research. He is also Titular Professor of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina and Ordinary Consulting Professor at the Universidad del Salvador. He is a specialist in developmental psychology (childhood and adolescence). His main research topics: a) psychological theories of social and moral development; b) evaluation of values and ethical positions; c) vocational and occupational motivations; d) self-concept, self-esteem and relationship with peers in adolescence.

Juan José Sanguineti has a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). He is Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). He has published fifteen books and nearly a hundred scientific articles on theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind and the neurosciences. He was Director of the Scientific Committee of the Project STOQ III (Rome, 2007-2010, University of the Holy Cross, area of Neurosciences). He regularly delivers graduate courses and seminars at different universities in Latin America. He is ordinary member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Saint Thomas and of the Sociedad Tomista Argentina. He is a member of the scientific committee of the journal Acta Philosophica (University of the Holy Cross). See more

Ángela Suburo has a PhD in Medicine (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and she specializes in neurosciences. She is a Senior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and she is also Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Universidad Austral. She is member of several associations: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Chairperson of the Retinal Cell Biology section), Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Eye Research, Asociación de Investigación en Visión y Oftalmología, Sociedad Argentina de Neuroquímica and Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica. She leads a group of young researchers dedicated to the study of neurodegenerative diseases in the retina and in the brain. She has written numerous articles. In 2011 her work “Mecanismos de protección de los fotorreceptores: papel de los glucocorticoides” received the Nocetti and Tiscornia Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Medicine (Buenos Aires).

Consuelo Martínez Priego holds a doctorate in Psychology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Navarra. She develops her teaching and research activity at the Villanueva University Center (attached to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Between the years 2013-2015 she has also been a professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana. She is the author of numerous scientific publications. Among her books stand out “Neuroscience and Affectivity. The psychology of Juan Rof Carballo”(Erasmus, 2012) and “The family and its fields” (Porrúa 2016). In her publications she approaches the themes of human freedom, affectivity and emotions, as well as intrafamily bonds, articulating the philosophical, psychological and educational perspectives. She is Member of the Spanish Society of History of Psychology, of the Spanish Association of Personalism and of the Institute of Philosophical Studies Leonardo Polo.

Pascual A. Gargiulo is a doctor in medicine, specialist in psychiatry and legalistic doctor by the National University of Cuyo. He is professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of that university and an independent researcher at CONICET. He is founder and current director of the Laboratory of Neurosciences and Experimental Psychology. He has concentrated his research on epistemological and experimental approaches to psychopathological disorders, including applications of neurosciences in education.

Pablo Brumovsky is Doctor in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidad Austral and holds a PhD in Neurosciences from the Karolinska Institute. He is Associate Researcher of CONICET at the Institute of Research in Traslational Medicine (CONICET-Universidad Austral) and Professor of Anatomy at the University Austral. He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain and directs a research group devoted to the study of chronic pain of visceral or somatic origin.

vana Anton Mlinar has a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Cuyo – UNCuyo (as a grantee from DAAD in the Husserl-Archiv of the Cologne University, Germany). She is a Junior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and she is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the UNCuyo. She is director of the journals Philosophiaand Revista de Fenomenología y Ciencia Cognitiva (with Jethro Masís). She directs the research project “Fenomenología y neurociencias: perspectivas en torno a la empatía” (UNCuyo) [Fenomenology and Neuroscience: Perspectives on Empathy].

Agustina Lombardi is Research Assistant at the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford, and PhD student at the Universidad Católica Argentina, where she got her degree in Philosophy in 2011. In 2014 she obtained a scholarship from the University of Oxford for a Master’s degree in Modern Theology. Her area of interest is the phenomenology of the person, in relation to scientific research on freedom and the personal self. She is Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Austral University.

Francisco O’Reilly (Buenos Aires, 1979) holds a degree in Philosophy from UNSTA – Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (Argentina), and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. He is currently Director of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Montevideo and researcher Level I of SNI-ANII (Uruguay). He has conducted research stays at UNISINOS (Porto Alegre) and at the University of Notre Dame (USA). His researches are within the areas of history of medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion.

José Eduardo Moreno has a degree in Psychology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Universidad del Salvador. He is Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematics and Experimental Psychology “Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi” (CIIPME – CONICET) and Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research. He is also Titular Professor of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina and Ordinary Consulting Professor at the Universidad del Salvador. He is a specialist in developmental psychology (childhood and adolescence). His main research topics: a) psychological theories of social and moral development; b) evaluation of values and ethical positions; c) vocational and occupational motivations; d) self-concept, self-esteem and relationship with peers in adolescence.

Juan Ignacio Blanco Ilari is a Research Professor in the area of Ethics and Modern Philosophy at the National University of General Sarmiento, and Professor of Ethics and Philosophy I at ESEADE. He is an Associate Researcher at CONICET. He co-directs the research project “Language and social link: subjectivation, support and criticism in some currents of contemporary thought” (CONICET) and is a member / researcher on the project “Experience and experimentation in late modernity: the diagnosis of the experience crisis and the rise of the society of experimentation” (UBA

Ángela Suburo has a PhD in Medicine (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and she specializes in neurosciences. She is a Senior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and she is also Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Universidad Austral. She is member of several associations: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Chairperson of the Retinal Cell Biology section), Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Eye Research, Asociación de Investigación en Visión y Oftalmología, Sociedad Argentina de Neuroquímica and Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica. She leads a group of young researchers dedicated to the study of neurodegenerative diseases in the retina and in the brain. She has written numerous articles. In 2011 her work “Mecanismos de protección de los fotorreceptores: papel de los glucocorticoides” received the Nocetti and Tiscornia Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Medicine (Buenos Aires).

Nora Grañana is MD and PhD in Neuroscience. She is staff Doctor at Durand Hospital in Buenos Aires. She specializes in child neurology, particularly in autism. She participates in campaigns to promote awareness about autism at different levels of society, including public authorities in the field of health. She coordinates PROTECTEA autism programs and early intervention RENACER, from the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires.

Juan José Sanguineti has a PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). He is Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). He has published fifteen books and nearly a hundred scientific articles on theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind and the neurosciences. He was Director of the Scientific Committee of the Project STOQ III (Rome, 2007-2010, University of the Holy Cross, area of Neurosciences). He regularly delivers graduate courses and seminars at different universities in Latin America. He is ordinary member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Saint Thomas and of the Sociedad Tomista Argentina. He is a member of the scientific committee of the journal Acta Philosophica (University of the Holy Cross.See more.

Juan F. Franck has a PhD in philosophy (Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Liechtenstein) and has done post-doctoral research in the US, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. He has published “From the Nature of the Mind to Personal Dignity” (CUA Press 2006) and a number of specialized articles. Between 2005 and 2010 he held a research position at Universidad Católica Argentina, where he focused on the problem of embodiment and on topics of the Theory of Knowledge. He joined the Institute of Philosophy in 2012 and focused on the Philosophy of Neurosciences. In his presentations and writings he tries to integrate different viewpoints (classical, modern, phenomenological, analytic) in order to approach the philosophical problems raised by the neurosciences. He also teaches Modern Philosophy at Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino

This text is a collection of Gabriel Zanotti’s main articles on philosophy of science from 1996 to the present. The manuscript is divided into three sections: philosophy of sciences (16 essays), philosophy of social sciences (7 essays) and political epistemology (3 essays).

Although the essays do not revolve directly around Popper, none of them would have been possible without the great Viennese thinker’s influence. Undoubtedly, what is now called “the historic turn of the philosophy of science” (Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend) had in Popper its turning point, despite the differences among them.

Eleonore Stump is the professor of the Robert H. Henle chair at the University of Saint Louis (USA), where she teaches since 1992. She has an extense list of publications in the areas of Philosophy of Religion, in Contemporary Metaphysics, and Medieval philosophy. She is a former President of the Society of Christian Philosophers of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, of the American Philosophical Association (central division); and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been a lecturer at the prestigious Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), Wilde lectures (Oxford , 2006) , and Stewart lectures (Princeton , 2009).