David Cortés García

Research InterestsEducationExperiencePublications

Personal info

PositionPhD candidate
Emaildavid.cortes@ehu.eus
davidcortesgarcia.dcg@gmail.com
Websitehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Cortes-Garcia
AddressUPV/EHU, Department of Philosophy, Tolosa Hiribidea 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián

Summary

I am a biologist and researcher in the philosophy of biology, specializing in evolution, development, and biological organization. My work explores how reproductive modes evolve and how different notions of individuality, emergence, and interdependence shape biological systems.

Currently, I am completing my PhD in Philosophy of Science at the UPV/EHU, under the supervision of Arantza Etxeberria. My research focuses on the conceptual and theoretical foundations of EvoDevo, the evolution of reproductive strategies, and the role of developmental constraints in shaping evolutionary trajectories.

David Cortés García birdwatching

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Theoretical Biology
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  • Complex Systems
  • Metaphysics of Biology

Education

  • 2020 – 2025: PhD Student in Philosophy, Science and Values, University of the Basque Country.
  • 2018 – 2019: Master in Philosophy, Science and Values, University of the Basque Country.
  • 2014 – 2018: Degree in Biology, University of Salamanca.


Publications

  • Exteberria, A. & Cortés-García, D. (2025, forthcoming) Towards expanded Reproduction: An account based on intra- and inter-organismality. In Semiotic Aspects of Biology: Meaning Making in Living Systems. In K. Kill & D. Favareau (Eds.), The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology.
  • Cortés-García, D. (2025, forthcoming) Reproduction in autonomy theory. In X. Barandiaran & A. Etxeberria (Eds.), Outonomy: fleshing out autonomy beyond the individual. Springer.
  • Cortés-García, D. (2025, forthcoming) ¿Guerra o paz? La evolución de las relaciones gestante-embrión. In A. Etxeberria & L. Nuño de la Rosa (Eds.) Los cuerpos olvidados de las mujeres: feminismo, biología y filosofía. Plaza y Valdés.
  • Etxeberria, A. & Cortés-García, D. (2024) El embarazo en filosofía de la biología: un enfoque organísmico relacional. Ludus Vitalis. Revista de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Vida – eISSN 2810-7098, 30(1), 1-22 http://dx.doi.org/10.22370/lv.2024.30.1.4492
  • Cortés-García, D., Etxeberria, A. & Nuño de la Rosa, L. (2024) The evolution of reproductive characters: an organismal relational approach. Biology and Philosophy, 39(26), 1-23 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-024-09961-1
  • Cortés-García, D. & Etxeberria A. (2023) Ontologies in evolutionary biology: the role of the organism in the two Syntheses. In: José Manuel Viejo & Mariano Sanjuán (Eds.). Life and Mind – New directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_9
  • Etxeberria, A., Cortés-García, D. & Torres, M. (2023). Organisms, life relations, and evolution: inter-dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid. ArtefaCToS Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 12(1), 179–204. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2023121179204
  • Etxeberria, A., & Cortés-García, D. (2022). What is Special about Natural Drift as an Organism-Centered View of Evolution. Constructivist Foundations, 18(1), 107–109. https://constructivist.info/18/1/107
  • Cortés-García, D. & Etxeberria A. (2021). Individualidad biológica y viviparidad: una investigación filosófica desde las transiciones evolutivas y la evo-devo. In A. Cuevas, O. Torres, V. Aranda & A. Moldovan (Eds.), Proceedings of the X Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (pp. 283-287). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihLyoP2-bvRG3i5J7JSHSynkeKQ8AyKt/view?usp=sharing
  • Lopez-Orellana R., Redmond J., and Cortés-García D. (2019) An inferential and dynamic approach to modeling and understanding in biology. Humanities Journal of Valparaíso, 0(14), 315-334. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2019iss14pp315-334
  • Lopez-Orellana R. & Cortés-García D. (2019) On Understanding and Modeling in Evo-Devo. In: Nepomuceno-Fernández Á, Magnani L, Salguero-Lamillar F J, Barés-Gómez C & Fontaine M (Eds.) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (pp. 138–152). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32722-4_9

Conference Papers

  • Cortés-García, D. & Etxeberria A. (2021). Individualidad biológica y viviparidad: una investigación filosófica desde las transiciones evolutivas y la evo-devo. In A. Cuevas, O. Torres, V. Aranda & A. Moldovan (Eds.), Proceedings of the X Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (pp. 283-287). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihLyoP2-bvRG3i5J7JSHSynkeKQ8AyKt/view?usp=sharing