Research Interests – Education – Experience – Publications

Personal info

Position	PhD student
Email	david.cortes@ehu.eus davidcortesgarcia.dcg@gmail.com
Website	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Cortes-Garcia
Address	UPV/EHU, Department of Philosophy, Tolosa Hiribidea 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián

Summary

Research interests

• Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophy of Science
• Theoretical Biology
• Philosophy of Evo-Devo
• Reproductive Biology
• Metaphysics of Biology
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Bioethics

Education

• 2021 – 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.

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Publications

• 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

• Cortés-García, D. (2023). Homología y convergencia en la evolución de la viviparidad: Consecuencias para un análisis relacional de la ontología de la reproducción. In M. Caamaño & A. Sus (Eds.), Vol. Especial V Conferencia de Graduados (pp. 12–15). Revista de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. https://solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Revista-de-la-Sociedad-de-Logica-Metodologia-y-Filosofia-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espana-Especial-V-Conferencia-de-Graduados-febrero-2023.pdf

• 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

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