Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana

Current position

• Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
• Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, University of Salamanca (ECYT-USAL).
• President of the Chilean Society for the Philosophy of Science.
• President of the Southern Cone Association for the Philosophy and History of Science.
• Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Science, Logic & Epistemology (CEFILOE-UV), Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.

Education

Ph.D. in Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Salamanca, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of La Laguna, University of Valencia (Estudi General), University of Valladolid, and University of A Coruña, Spain. Master in Logic, University of Granada, University of Salamanca, University of Valladolid, University of La Laguna, and Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, for its anachronism in Spanish), Spain. Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.

Selected Publications

• Kiri, B. & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2025). Rankings in relation to mathematical modeling and scientific understanding in economics. In Stephan Puhringer, Jens Maesse & Thierry Rossier, The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organization (pp. 151-165). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032637310. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032637310
• Redmond, J. & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2025). Generation of hypotheses and problematic portions of phenomena. AION. Journal of Philosophy of Science, (2), 121-135. https://doi.org/10.17161/aion.v2i1.24045
• Redmond, J. & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2024). Scientific hypotheses and modeling. En Timothy J. Madigan & Jean-Yves Béziau (eds.), Universal Logic, Ethics, and Truth Essays in Honor of John Corcoran (1937-2021) (pp. 141-150). Studies in Universal Logic Series (SUL). Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-44460-9. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-44461-6 11
• Lopez-Orellana, R., & Redmond, J. (2024). Una concepción inferencial de los sistemas-objetivo en la práctica de modelización científica. Revista de Filosofía, 81, 273-289. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4360.2024.75089
• Redmond, J. & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2023). Lógica Dialógica. Reglas y ejercicios para hacer lógica con diálogos. Serie Cuadernos de lógica, Epistemología y Lenguaje Vol 21. London: College Publications. ISBN 978-1-84890-447-7. https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/cuadernos/?00021
• Redmond, J., & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2024). Dialogic Approach to the Notion of Hypothesis as a Relationship between Two Proofs. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, (27), 83–95. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2024iss27pp83-95
• Redmond, J., & Lopez Orellana, R. (2023). A Dynamic View of Hypothesis Generation in Abduction. ArtefaCToS. Revista de Estudios dobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 1 2(2), 139-153. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2023.31543
• Redmond, J., & Lopez-Orellana, R. (2023). Interactive Hypotheses: Towards a Dialogical Foundation of Surrogate Reasoning. RHV, (22), 105–130. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2023iss22pp105-130
• Redmond, J., Lopez-Orellana, R ., & Cuadrado, G. (2023). Hypotheses and Agreement. For a Pragmatic and Dynamic Approach to Hypotheses as Conditional Syntheses. Palabra y Razón, (24), 86-106. https://doi.org/10.29035/pyr.24.86
• Lopez-Orellana, R. (2022). Definición inferencial de la comprensión científica. Cuadernos Filosóficos / Segunda Época, (19). https://doi.org/10.35305/cf2.vi19.191
• Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo & Suárez-Ruíz, Joaquín (2021). Filosofía posdarwiniana. Enfoques actuales sobre la intersección entre análisis epistemológico y naturalismo filosófico. Serie Cuadernos de lógica, Epistemología y Lenguaje, Volumen 17. London: College Publications. ISBN 967-1-84890-379-1. https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/cuadernos/?00017 
• Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo & Redmond, Juan, (2021). Crítica a la noción de modelo de Patrick Suppes. Revista de Filosofía, 78, 135-155. https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/65672/68895
• Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo, & Sans Pinillos, Alger (2021). Ronald Giere, ¿semanticista? Una pregunta provocativa para el debate contemporáneo sobre la representación científica. Artefactos. Revista de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 10 (1), 89-106. https://doi.org/10.14201/art202110189106
• Lopez-Orellana, R., & Redmond, J. (2021). La aserción dialógica como unidad mínima de conocimiento. Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía, 60, 103-152. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1136
• Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo, & Cortés-García, David (2019). On Understanding and Modeling in Evo-Devo. An Analysis of the Polypterus Model of Phenotypic Plasticity. In A. Nepomuceno Fernández et al. (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation. Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Vol. 49, pp. 138–152. Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-32721-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32722-4_9 
• Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo (2019). El enfoque epistemológico de David Hilbert: el a priori del conocimiento y el papel de la lógica en la fundamentación de la ciencia. Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 23 (2), 279-308. https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2019v23n2p279 

Funded Research Projects

• 2024-2026: FONDECYT REGULAR No. 1241930 "Target systems as a dynamic synthesis of successful hypotheses". Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana. Funded by the National Agency for Research and Development, ANID - Chile.
• 2022-2024: FONDECYT Regular No.1221132 "Inferential hypothesis generation in scientific modelling processes from a dynamic and interactive perspective". Principal Investigator: Juan Redmond. Funded by the National Agency for Research and Development, ANID - Chile.
• 2023-2026: Proyecto Tetra Anual I+D de Investigación CONICET: “La relación entre emociones y razones desde una perspectiva naturalista metodológica: aspectos fisiológicos, psicológicos y sociales", Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la UNLP, Argentina. Principal Investigator: Martín Daguerre (UNLP). Funded by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
• 2022-2023: Proyecto Bienal SECTyP-UNCuyo y CONICET, Argentina: “Lógica del tiempo y cultura transmoderna”. CONICET Code 800202101003 34UN. Principal Investigator: Liliana Mannina de Gamero (UNCuyo). Funded by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
• 2020-2023: “Filosofia da Epidemiologia”, Projeto Pesquisa da Unidade Acadêmica Especial de Ciências Humanas, Regional Goiás, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dra. Renata Maria Santos Arruda. http://lattes.cnpq.br/8381572070775020 

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• 2021-2024: FONDECYT Postdoctoral No. 3210531 "A pragmatic-philosophical approach to target-systems in biological systems modeling". Funded by the National Agency for Research and Development, ANID - Chile.