Mauricio Suarez


Mauricio Suárez is a Spanish anglophone philosopher who specialises in philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. He earned a BSc in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc and a PhD in philosophy of science from the London School of Economics. He currently holds a professorship in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense University of Madrid.
His previous appointments include:
In addition he was Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford ; a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, and at Harvard University ; a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London University, where he also held a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship ; and the first UNA-Europa visiting professor in philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne through December 2018. He was one of the founders of the European Philosophy of Science Association and served as its Vicepresident from 2009 to 2011. He has published on models, representation, causal inference, propensities, and the philosophy of quantum mechanics. He edited Fictions in Science , Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics , and coedited EPSA07: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association, vol. I and II. He is also the author of Filosofía de la Ciencia: Historia y Práctica, an advanced textbook in the philosophy of science for the Spanish speaking world.