Wenceslao Gonzalez
Department of Philosophy
University of of A Coruña, Spain

9 July 2007
Books
GONZALEZ, W. J. (ed), Science, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Perspective, Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2005.

GONZALEZ, W. J. y ALCOLEA, J. (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2006.

Papers
GONZALEZ, W. J., "The Philosophical Approach to Science, Technology and Society", in GONZALEZ, W. J. (ed), Science, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Perspective, Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2005, pp. 3-49.

GONZALEZ, W. J., "Sobre la predicción en Ciencias Sociales: Análisis de la propuesta de Merrilee Salmon", Enrahonar, v. 37, (2005), pp. 181-202. (Monographic issue on Explanation and Causality: Homage to Wesley Salmon).

GONZALEZ, W. J., "Novelty and Continuity in Philosophy and Methodology of Science", in GONZALEZ, W. J. and ALCOLEA, J. (eds), Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2006, pp. 1-28.

GONZALEZ, W. J., "Prediction as Scientific Test of Economics", en GONZALEZ, W. J. and ALCOLEA, J. (eds), Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2006, pp. 83-112.

GONZALEZ, W. J., "The Role of Experiments in the Social Sciences: The Case of Economics", in KUIPERS, T. (ed), General Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 299-325.

GONZALEZ, W. J., "Rationality and Prediction in the Sciences of the Artificial: Economics as a Design Science", in GALAVOTTI, M. C., SCAZZIERI, R. and SUPPES, P. (eds), Reasoning, Rationality and Probability, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2007, pp. 165-187.

Research Project
"Bounded Rationality and the Sciences of Design: The Role of Prediction and Prescription". Three years project. Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (HUM2004-06846).

Subject: This project has a main aim: to clarify the role of prediction and prescription when the "designs" are made in the sciences of artificial. The models of those sciences -especially, if they are applied sciences- require prediction about its viability and prescription about what should be done to resolve the concrete problem. In both cases -prediction and prescription- there is a need of deepening in the epistemological-methodological base of bounded rationality, instead of focusing towards a maximizing rationality (like it is done in the mainstream in applied sciences).

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