Current Debates in Philosophy of Science: In Honor of Roberto Torretti

Dr. Cristián Soto is Associate Professor at the Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Chile, and Newton International Fellow for the British Academy, based at the CPNSS, LSE, UK. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2016), developing a framework for a minimalist metaphysics of science. He has held visiting appointments at the Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, U.S.A.; the CPNSS, LSE, UK; the MCMP, LMU, Munich, Germany; and the Logos Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, he was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., which had to be declined due to the COVID pandemic. He has published extensively on history and philosophy of laws of nature, metaphysics of science, and the scientific realism debate, with his current work at the LSE focusing on the intertwining of laws and the application of mathematics. He is a founding member and first president of the Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía de las Ciencias, and Director of the Grupo de Estudios de Filosofía de las Ciencias at the Universidad de Chile.

Dr. Cristián Soto 是智利大學哲學系的副教授，也是英國學院的牛頓國際研究員，駐於倫敦政治經濟學院的CPNSS。他於澳大利亞墨爾本大學獲得博士學位（2016年），並發展出一個極簡主義的科學形上學框架。他曾在美國邁阿密大學哲學系、英國倫敦政治經濟學院的CPNSS、德國慕尼黑大學的MCMP，以及西班牙巴塞隆納大學的分析哲學Logos研究小組擔任訪問職位。2020年，他獲得美國匹茲堡大學科學哲學中心的訪問獎學金，但因COVID疫情而不得不拒絕。他在自然法則的歷史與哲學、科學的形上學以及科學實在論辯論方面發表了大量著作，目前在倫敦政治經濟學院的研究專注於法則與數學應用的交織。他是智利科學哲學學會的創始成員及首任會長，並擔任智利大學科學哲學研究小組的主任。