Varying the Explanatory Span: Scientific Explanation for Computer Simulations

This article aims to develop a new account of scientific explanation for computer simulations. To this end, two questions are answered: what is the explanatory relation for computer simulations? And what kind of epistemic gain should be expected? For several reasons tailored to the benefits and needs of computer simulations, these questions are better answered within the unificationist model of scientific explanation. Unlike previous efforts in the literature, I submit that the explanatory relation is between the simulation model and the results of the simulation. I also argue that our epistemic gain goes beyond the unificationist account, encompassing a practical dimension as well

Sexualidad, producción y trabajo en el discurso higienista y eugenésico en Chile y Argentina, 1860-1930

The positivist medical discourse considereds sexuality as an “energy” to be channeled productively. To prevent disease pathological and moral overflow, it established a “sexual science” in the areas of labor and education production. The medical of the passions was used as device of order, in categories of kind and class. The article discusses the models of gender imposed from the scientific and th liberal discourse, one as part of the processes of medical and “issues question” in Chile and Argentina (1860-1930). Analyzing the sexual, labor and educational models in the hygienists and eugenic discourse, as part of the debate concerning the construction of the “national-state” and the modernity.El discurso médico consideraba la sexualidad como una “energía” que debía encauzarse productivamente para evitar el desborde patológico y moral, estableciendo una “ciencia sexual” en los ámbitos de producción laboral y educacional. La medicalización de las pasiones fue utilizada como dispositivo de orden, en categorías de género y clase. El artículo aborda los modelos de género impuestos desde el discurso cientificista y liberal como parte de los procesos de medicalización y “cuestión social” en Chile y Argentina (1860- 1930). Analizando los modelos sexuales, laborales y educacionales en los discursos higienistas y eugenésicos, como parte del debate en torno a la construcción Estado-Nación y la modernidad