Roberto Torretti
Curriculum Vitæ

Education

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of mathematics, especially 19th century geometry

Professional Experience

• Professor of Philosophy,
  Universidad de Chile (1999 -- present)
• Professor of Philosophy,
  University of Puerto Rico (1970 -- 1995)
• Editor, Dialogos (1971 -- 1995)
• Professor of Philosophy,
  Universidad de Chile (1964 -- 1970)
• Director, Centro de Estudios Humanisticos,
  Faculty of Physics and Mathematics,
  Universidad de Chile (1964 -- 1970)
• Professor of Philosophy,
  Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (1961-- 1964)
• Chairman, Department of Philosophy,
  Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (1961 -- 1964)
• Lecturer, Faculty of General Studies,
  University of Puerto Rico (1958 -- 1961)
• Translator, Secretariat,
  United Nations, New York City(1955 -- 1958)

Academic Awards:

• Fellow, Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science, 1983-1984
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1980-1981
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1975-1976
• Alexander-von-Humboldt Dozentenstipendiat,
  Kant-Archiv, Bonn, 1964-1965

Learned Societies

• Institut International de Philosophie
• Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
• British Society for the Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Science Association

Publications

• Manuel Kant. Estudio sobre los fundamentos de la filosofia critica. Santiago: Ediciones de la Universidad de Chile, 1967. 603 pp. Seco fia de la Naturaleza. Textos Antiguos y Modernos. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1971. 178 pp. Second, enlarged edition, Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1998. 170 pp.
• (With Luis O. Gomez) Problemas de la Filosofia. Textos filosoficos clasicos y contemporaneos. Rio Piedras: Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1975. 768 pp. Reprinted several times with minor corrections.
• Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincare. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1978. xiii + 458 pp. Corrected reprint. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984. xiii+458 pp.
• Relativity and Geometry. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1983. xi + 395 pp. Corrected reprint. New York: Dover, 1996. xiv + 395 pp.
• Creative Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Physics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. xvi + 369 pp.
• (With Carla Cordua) Variedad en la Razon: Ensayos sobre Kant. Rio Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1992. x + 248 pp.
• La geometria del universo y otros ensayos de filosofia natural. Merida: Consejo de Publicaciones de la Universidad de los Andes, 1994. x + 296 pp.
• Sophocles' Philoctetes. Text and Commentary. Bryn Mawr, PA: Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1997. 94 pp. (Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries).
• El Paraiso de Cantor: La tradicion conjuntista en la filosofia matematica. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1998. xiv + 589 pp.
• The Philosophy of Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv + 512 pp.

EncyclopediaArticles:

• "Geometry". In Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith, eds., Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991.
• "El metodo axiomatico". In Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofia, Vol. 4. Madrid: Trotta, 1993, pp. 89-110.
• "Spazio". In Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1995. Vol. 5, pp. 427-433.
• "Space". In The Routledge Encyclopedia London: Routledge. 1998.
• "Spacetime". In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. 1998.

Other Articles:

• "Aspectos de la doctrina de Kelsen". Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 100: 85-108 (1955).
• "Medio geografico y medio de la conducta en la psicologia moderna". Atenea, 361-362: 105-119 (1955).
• "Ha habido progreso de la filosofia en su historia?" Revista de Filosofia (Chile), iv.1: 49-56 (1957).
• "Causalidad y evolucion. Consideraciones sobre el presunto dilema que estas ideas plantearian a la ciencia". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), iv.2-3: 38-51 (1957).
• "Socialidad del individuo". Revista de Ciencias Sociales(Puerto Rico), v.1: 21-29 (1961).
• "Kant, filosofo del mas aca". La Torre, 34: 161-179 (1961).
• "Reflexiones sugeridas por el Tractatus de Wittgenstein". Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico), V.4: 479-490 (1961).
• Hume y la religion. Concepcion: Ediciones Atenea, n.d. (1962), 36 pp.
• "Poder politico y opresion". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), IX.1-2: 35-48 (1962).
• "Lecciones sobre el empirismo ingles". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), IX.3: 113-155 (1962).
• "Para introducir a Heidegger". La Torre, 39: 87-102 (1962).
• "Sobre el significado del imperativo categorico". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), X.1: 45-66 (1963).
• "Finitud del hombre y limites del conocimiento en Descartes y Leibniz". Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 128: 33-58 (1963).
• "Contrato social y economia dirigida en el pensamiento politico de Fichte". Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico), VIII.4: 357-375 (1964).
• "Unamuno, pensador cristiano". In: Unamuno, Santiago: Ediciones de la Universidad de Chile, 1964, pp. 95-112.
• "Introduccion a un estudio de la deduccion trascendental de las categorias en la primera Critica de Kant". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), xii: 19-61 (1965).
• "Las contrapartidas incongruentes en la gestacion de la f Kant". Dialogos, 3: 7-24 (1965).
• "Las Investigaciones de Wittgenstein y la posibilidad de la filosofia". Dialogos, 10: 35-59 (1968). Reprinted in Jorge J.E. Gracia, Eduardo Rabossi, Enrique Villanueva and Marcelo Dascal, eds. El analisis filosofico en America Latina, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1985, pp. 536-556.
• "Tercer Congreso Internacional de Kant". Dialogos, 17: 113-117 (1969).
• "Die Frage nach der Einheit der Welt bei Kant". Kantstudien, 62: 77-97 (1972).
• "On the subjectivity of objective space". In: L. W. Beck, ed., Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1972, pp. 535-540. Reprinted in L. W. Beck, ed., Kant's Theory of Knowledge, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974, pp. 111-116.
• "Remarks on Salmon's Paradox of Primes". Philosophy of Science, 39: 260-262 (1972).
• "La filosofia de la aritmetica de Husserl". Studi internazionali di Filosofia,4: 183-206 (1972).
• "Logica formal y forma logica". In: Ueberlieferung und Auftrag. Festschrift fuer Michael de Ferdinandy, Wiesbaden: Pressler, 1972, pp. 624-633.
• "Juicios sinteticos a priori". Cuadernos de Filosofia (Buenos Aires), xi,20: 297-320 (1973).
• "On Mr. Kielkopf's not so sober understanding of standard elementary logic". Mind, 83: 575-577 (1974).
• "La geometria en el pensamiento de Kant". Anales del Seminario de Metafisica (Madrid), 9: 9-60 (1974).
• "El debate sobre el individualismo metodologico". Dialogos, 26: 95-117 (1974).
• "Problemas filosoficos del espacio y el tiempo. A proposito de la nueva edicion de la obra de Adolf Gruenbaum". Dialogos, 27: 89-117 (1974).
• "Espacio y tiempo: algunos libros recientes". Dialogos, 29-30: 255-294 (1977).
• "Bedingtes und Unbedingtes in der Mathematik". In: Transzendenz und Immanenz, Philosophie und Theologie in der veraenderten Welt, hrsg. von D. Papenfuss und J. Soering, Stuttgart: Kohl 1977, pp. 303-308.
• "Tres filosofos de la geometria". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 3: 3-21 (1977).
• "Hugo Dingler's philosophy of geometry". Dialogos,32: 85-128 (1978).
• "Presencia e idea del mundo". Cuadernos de la Facultad de Humanidades, 1: 3-21 (1978).
• "Jackson and Pargetter's criterion of distant simultaneity". Philosophy of Science, 46: 302-306 (1979).
• "Indole y funcion de los principios de la Teoria General de la Relatividad". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 5: 209-233 (1979).
• "Mathematical theories and philosophical insights in cosmology". In: H. Nelkowski et al., eds., Einstein Symposion Berlin, Berlin: Springer, 1979, pp. 320-335 (Springer lecture notes in physics, 100).
• "Three kinds of mathematical fictionalism". In: J. Agassi and R. S. Cohen, eds., Scientific Philosophy Today, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 399-414.
• (With John Stachel) "Einstein's first derivation of mass-energy equivalence", American Journal of Physics, 50: 760-763 (1982).
• "'Lo que hay'", Dialogos, 41: 89-93 (1983).
• "Causality and spacetime structure in Relativity". In: R. S. Cohen and L. Laudan, eds., Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1983, pp. 273-293.
• "Kosmologie als ein Zweig der Physik". In: Bernulf Kanitscheider, ed., Moderne Naturphilosophie, Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 1984, pp. 183-200.
• "La critica de conceptos en las revoluciones de la fisica basica". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 10: 25-41 (1984).
• "Spacetime physics and the philosophy of science". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 35: 280-292 (1984).
• "Observation".British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37: 1-23 (1986).
• "Conceptual reform in scientific revolutions". In: Ruth Barcan Marcus et al., eds., Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986, pp. 413 183-212 (1986); Part II, Dialogos, 49: 147-188 (1987).
• "La determinacion omnimoda de las cosas y el fenomenismo de Kant". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 13: 132-141 (1987).
• "Do conjunctive forks always point to a common cause?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 38: 384-387 (1987).
• "Probabilidad y determinismo". Congreso Internacional Extraordinario de Filosofia del 20 al 26 de Setiembre de 1987. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Republica Argentina. Tomo III, pp. 1201-1207.
• "Extractos de una correspondencia" (with C. Ulises Moulines). Dialogos, 53: 123-137 (1989).
• "The geometric structure of the universe". In: Evandro Agazzi and Alberto Cordero, eds., Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 53-73.
• "'Y se hizo la luz...': Newton y la Ilustracion". La Torre n.e., 5 [num. ext.]: 169-178 (1991).
• "Mathematical structures and physical necessity". In: Javier Echeverria, Andoni Ibarra y Thomas Mormann, eds., The Space of Mathematics: Philosophical, Epistemological, and Historical Explorations. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992, pp. 132-140.
• "La tradicion semantica". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 18, 2: 333-340 (1993).
• "Una idea feliz". Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 19: 289-301 (1993).
• "Kitcher on the advancement of science". Dialogos, 64: 201-215 (1994).
• "El 'observador' en la fisica del siglo XX". In: Francisco Jose Ramos, ed., Hacer: Pensar. Coleccion de escritos filosoficos, Rio Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1994, pp. 581-610.
• "Einstein's luckiest thought". In: Jarrett Leplin, ed. The Creation of Ideas in Physics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 89-96.
• "Realismo cientifico y ciencia real". Theoria, XI.26: 29-43 (1996).
• "Las analogias de la experiencia de Kant y la filosofia de la fisica". Anales de la Universidad de Chile, Sexta Serie, 4: 77-96 (1996).
• " continuidad en la historia de la fisica". Revista de Filosofia (Chile), 49/50: 29-44 (1997).
• "From Physics to Metaphysics". Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 28: 291-298 (1997).

Book Reviews:

• Bogumil Jasinowski, Saber y dialectica, Santiago 1957 (La Torre, 21: 197-201 (1958)).
• Georg Lukacz, El asalto a la razon, trad. por Wenceslao Roces, Mexico 1959 (Revista de Ciencias Sociales, iv.2: 390-395 (1960)).
• Hans Freyer, Teoria de la epoca actual, trad. por Luis Villoro, Mexico 1959 (Revista de Ciencias Sociales, v.1: 85-87 (1961)).
• Willard van Orman Quine, From a logical point of view, 2nd ed., Cambridge MA 1961 (RF, ix.1-2: 151-154 (1962)).
• Alfred J. Ayer, ed., Logical positivism, Glencoe IL 1959 (RF, ix.3: 157-164 (1962)).
• Jornadas de Filosofia: Posibilidad de la metafisica, Tucuman 1961 (IRB, xiii.1: 82-83 (1963)).
• Maine de Biran, De l'apperception immediate, Paris 1963 (Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 128: 202-207 (1963)).
• Richard B. Braithwaite, La explicacion cientifica, trad. por V. Sanchez de Zavala, Madrid 1965 (Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 137: 228-236 (1966)).
• Mario Bunge, The myth of simplicity, Englewood Cliffs 1963 (Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 138: 250-256 (1966)).
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago 1962 (Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 139: 257-261 (1966)).
• Mario Bunge, Scientific research, 2 vols., Berlin 1967 (Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 141-144: 346-350 (1967)).
• The collected papers of Gerhard Gentzen, Amsterdam 1969 (Dialogos, 21: 104-108 (1970)).
• Jaakko Hintikka, ed., The philosophy of mathematics, New York 1969 (Dialogos, 21: 109-114 (1970)).
• Robert G. Colodny, ed., The Na contemporary science and philosophy, Pittsburgh 1970 (Dialogos, 21: 115-121 (1970)).
• Historisches W�örterbuch der Philosophie, Band I, hrsg. von Joachim Ritter, Basel 1971 (Dialogos, 22: 171-175 (1972)).
• Giorgio Tonelli, A Short-title list of subject dictionaries of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries as aids to the history of ideas, London 1971 (Dialogos, 22: 175-176 (1972)).
• Henry E. Kyburg Jr., Probability and inductive logic, New York 1970 (Dialogos, 22: 180-184 (1972)).
• Nicholas Rescher, Scientific Explanation, New York 1970 (Dialogos, 22: 184-188 (1972)).
• Wesley Salmon, Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance, Pittsburgh 1971 (Dialogos, 22: 188-192 (1972)).
• John R. Searle, ed., The Philosophy of Language, New York 1971; Leonard Linsky, ed., Reference and Modality, New York 1971 (Dialogos, 22: 213-214 (1972)).
• Patrick Suppes, A Probabilistic Theory of Causality, Amsterdam 1970 (Dialogos, 22: 215-216 (1972)).
• S. W. P. Steen, Mathematical Logic with Special Reference to the Natural Numbers, Cambridge 1972 (Dialogos, 23: 219-221 (1972)).
• Karel Lambert and Bas C. van Fraassen, Derivation and Counterexample, an introduction to philosophical logic, Encino 1972 (Dialogos, 23: 221-224 (1972)).
• Robert Rogers, Mathematical Logic and Formalized Theories, a survey of basic concepts and results, Amsterdam 1971 (Dialogos, 23: 224-227 (1972)).
• Peter Achinstein, Law and Explanation, an essay in the philosophy of science, Oxford 1971 (Dialogos, 23: 227-229 (1972)).
• Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress, ed. by L.W. Beck, Dordrecht 1972 (Dialogos, 23: 229-236 (1972)).
• Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Logic, New York 1971; Norwood Russell Hanson, Observation and Interpretation, a guide to the philosophy of science, New York 1971; Norman Malcolm, Problems to Wittgenstein, New York 1971 (Dialogos, 23: 236-239 (1972)).
• Bas C. van Fraassen, Formal Semantics and Logic, New York 1971 (Dialogos, 23: 240 (1972)).
• M. Bunge, F. Halbwachs, T.S. Kuhn, J. Piaget et L. Rosenfed, Les Theories de la Causalite, Paris 1971 (Dialogos, 23: 241-242 (1972)).
• Carlo Borromeo Giannoni, Conventionalism in Logic, a study in the linguistic foundation of logical reasoning, The Hague 1971 (Dialogos, 24: 167-174 (1973)).
• Georg Henrik von Wright, Explanation and Understanding, Ithaca 1971 (Dialogos, 24: 174-179 (1973)).
• Robert G. Colodny, ed., Paradigms and Paradoxes: The Philosophical Challenge of the Quantum Domain, Pittsburgh 1972 (Dialogos, 24: 196-199, (1973)).
• Robert Borger and Frank Cioffi, eds., Explanation in the Behavioural Sciences, Cambridge 1970 (Dialogos, 24: 200-203 (1973)).
• Herbert Meschkowski, ed., Grundlagen der modernen Mathematik, Darmstadt 1972; Karl Strubecker, ed., Geometrie, Darmstadt 1972 (Dialogos, 24: 205-207 (1973)).
• Mario Bunge, Method, Model and Matter, Dordrecht 1973; Teoria y realidad, Barcelona 1972 (Dialogos, 25: 156-167 (1973)).
• Karl R. Popper, Objective Knowledge, an evolutionary approach, Oxford 1972 (Dialogos, 25: 168-174 (1973)).
• J.M. Jauch, Are Quanta Real? A Galilean dialogue, Bloomington 1973 (Dialogos, 25: 179-181 (1973)).
• Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Physics, Dordrecht 1973 (Dialogos, 26: 176-181 (1974)).
• Ulises Moulines, La estructura del mundo sensible (sistemas fenomenalistas), Barcelona 1973 (Dialogos, 26: 181-183 (1974)).
• Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars and Keith Lehrer, eds., New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, New York 1972 (Dialogos, 26: 183-186 (1974)).
• Juergen Kluever, Operationalismus: Kritik und Geschichte einer Philosophie der exakten Wissenschaften, Stuttgart-Bad Canns (1974)).
• William A. Wallace, Causality and Scientific Explanation, 2 vols., Ann Arbor 1972-1974 (Dialogos, 27: 179-181 (1973)).
• Fernando Montero Moliner, El empirismo kantiano, Valencia 1973 (Dialogos, 27: 177-178 (1974)).
• Jose Ferrater Mora, Cambio de marcha en filosofia, Madrid 1974 (Dialogos, 28: 153-157 (1975)).
• Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations, the logic of mathematical discovery, Cambridge 1976 (Dialogos, 31: 182-186 (1978)).
• Jane Bridge, Beginning Model Theory, the Completeness Theorem and some consequences, Oxford 1977 (Dialogos, 31: 188-192 (1978)).
• Farhang Zabeeh, E.D. Klemke and Arthur Jacobson, eds., Readings in Semantics, Urbana 1974 (Dialogos, 31: 192-193 (1978)).
• Bernulf Kanitscheider, Vom absoluten Raum zur dynamischen Geometrie, Mannheim 1976 (Dialogos, 31: 193-195 (1978)).
• Roberto Escobar, La filosofia en Chile, Santiago 1976 (International Review of Bibliography, 28: 93-94 (1978)).
• Karl R. Popper and John C. Eccles, The Self and its Brain, Berlin 1977 (Dialogos, 32: 202-206 (1978)).
• John Winnie, ed., Symposium on Space and Time[special issue of Nous, vol. XI, n�º3, September 1977], (Dialogos, 32: 207-211 (1978)).
• Stephen P. Schwartz, ed., Naming, Necessity and Natural Kinds, Ithaca 1977 (Dialogos, 32: 211-212 (1978)).
• Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, Indianapolis 1978 (Dialogos, 33: 173-174 (1979)).
• Arthur W. Burks, Chance, Cause and Reason, an Inquiry into the Nature of Scientific Evidence, Chicago 1977 (Dialogos, 33: 174-175 (1979)).
• George S. Pappas and Marshall Swain, eds., Essays on Knowledge and Justification, Ithaca 1978 (Dialogos, 33: 175-176 (1979)).
• Mario Bunge, Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Volume 3, Ontology I: The Furniture of the Universe, Dordrecht 1977 (Dialogos, 33: 151-156 (1979)).
• John S. Ear and John J. Stachel, eds., Foundations of Space-Time Theories, Minneapolis 1977 [Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, VIII] (Dialogos, 33: 165-171 (1979)).
• Robert Geroch, General Relativity from A to B, Chicago 1978 (Dialogos, 33: 171-173 (1979)).
• Wladyslaw Krajewski, Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science, Dordrecht 1977 (Dialogos, 34: 182-186 (1979)).
• George Boolos, The Unprovability of Consistency, an Essay in Modal Logic, Cambridge 1979 (Dialogos, 35: 183-184 (1980)).
• Angel Jorge Casares, Sobre la esencia del hombre, Rio Piedras 1979 (Dialogos, 35: 208-209 (1980)).
• Jose Ferrater Mora, Diccionario de filosofia, Sexta Edicion, Madrid 1979, 4 vols. (Dialogos, 38: 151-152 (1981)).
• Ricardo J. Gomez, Las teorias cientificas - desarrollo - estructura - fundamentacion, Tomo I, Buenos Aires 1977 (Nous, 15: 244-246 (1981)). In English.
• Nicholas Rescher, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Nature, a group of essays, Dordrecht 1981 (Dialogos, 39: 160-163 (1982)).
• Jill Vance Buroker, Space and Incongruence: The Origin of Kant's Idealism, Dordrecht 1981 (Dialogos, 39: 163-167 (1982)).
• Hartry Field, Science without Numbers, a Defence of Nominalism, Princeton 1980 (Dialogos, 40: 159-162 (1982)).
• Jerzy Giedymin, Science and Convention, essays on Henri Poincare's philosophy of science and the conventionalist tradition, Oxford 1981 (Dialogos, 40: 162-167 (1982)).
• Richard Swinburne, ed., Space, Time and Causality, Dordrecht 1983; D. Mayr and G. Suessmann, eds., Space, Time and Mechanics: Basic Structures of a Physical Theory, Dordrecht 1983 (Dialogos, 43: 131-136 (1984)).
• John R. Searle, Intentionality, an essay in the philosophy of mind, Cambridge 1983 (Dialogos, 44: 194-200 (1984)).
• Dudley Shapere, Reason and the Search for Knowledge, Investigations in the Philosophy of Science Dordrecht 1984 (Dialogos, 45: 166-171 (1985)).
• Andrew Pickering, Constructing Quarks, a Sociological History of Particle Physics, Chicago 1984 (Dialogos, 47: 177-183 (1986)).
• Isaac Levi, Decisions and Revisions: Philosophical Essays on Knowledge and Value, Cambridge 1984 (Dialogos, 49: 189-196 (1987)).
• Wolfgang Balzer, David A. Pearce and Heinz-Juergen Schmidt, eds., Reduction in Science: Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems, Dordrecht 1984 (Dialogos, 49: 207-213 (1987)).
• Arthur Fine, The Shaky Game. Einstein Realism and the Quantum Theory, Chicago 1986 (Dialogos, 50: 155-160 (1987)).
• Joseph Agassi, Science and Society. Studies in the Sociology of Science, Dordrecht 1981 (Philosophia, 17: 223-223 (1987)). Reviewed in English.
• Asim O. Barut, Alwyn van der Merwe and Jean-Pierre Vigier, eds., Quantum, Space and Time-The Quest Continues. Studies and Essays in Honour of Louis de Broglie, Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner, Cambridge 1984. (Nous, 21: 442-444 (1987)). Reviewed in English.
• Nicanor Ursua Lezaun, Filosofia de la ciencia y metodologia critica, Bilbao 1981. (Nous, 22: 327-329 (1988)). Reviewed in English.
• Los filosofos presocraticos. I. Introduccion general por Conrado Eggers Lan. Introducciones, traducciones y notas por Conrado Eggers Lan y Victoria E. Julia. II. Introducciones, traducciones y notas por Nestor Luis Cordero, Francisco Jose Olivieri, Ernesto La Croce y Conrado Eggers Lan. III. Introducciones, traducciones y notas por Armando Poratti, Conrado Eggers Lan, Maria Isabel Santa Cruz de Prunes y Nestor Luis Cordero. Madrid 1978-1980. (Dialogos, 51: 221-225 (1988)).
• Giovanni Reale, A History of Ancient Philosophy. I. From the Origins to Socrates. III. The Systems of the Hellenistic Age. Edited and translated [by] John R. Catan. Albany 1985-1987. (Dialogos, 51: 226-229 (1988)).
• G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Pres Selection of Texts. Second edition. Cambridge 1983. (Dialogos, 51: 230-232 (1988)).
• Peter Galison, How Experiments End. Chicago 1987. (Dialogos, 52: 155-163 (1988)).
• J. V. Field, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology. Chicago 1988. (Dialogos, 53: 155-163 (1988))
• B. A. Rosenfeld, A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry: Evolution of the Concept of a Geometric Space. Translated [from the Russian] by Abe Shenitzer. New York 1988. (Dialogos, 54: 250-254 (1989)).
• Igal Kvart, A Theory of Counterfactuals. Indianapolis 1986. (Dialogos, 54: 254-260 (1989)).
• Pietro Redondi, Galileo Heretic (Galileo Eretico). English translation by Raymond Rosenthal. Princeton 1987. (Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 15: 359-361 (1989)).
• Ronald Giere, Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago 1988. (Dialogos, 55: 199-203 (1990)).
• Raul Fornet Betancourt, Introduccion a Sartre. Mexico 1989. (Dialogos, 55: 211 (1990)).
• Aristoteles, Las Categorias. Edicion, introduccion, traduccion y notas de Humberto Giannini y Maria Isabel Flisfisch. Santiago de Chile 1988. (Dialogos, 55: 212-213 (1990)).
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Investigaciones Generales sobre el analisis de las nociones y las verdades. Introduccion, traduccion y notas de Mauricio Beuchot y Alejandro Herrera-Ibanez. Mexico 1986. (Dialogos, 55: 213 (1990)).
• Immanuel Kant, Pensamientos sobre la verdadera estimacion de las fuerzas vivas. Traduccion y comentario de Juan Arana Canedo-Argueelles. Berna 1988. (Dialogos, 55: 213-214 (1990)).
• F. W. J. Schelling, Sistema del idealismo trascendental. Traduccion, prologo y notas de Jacinto Rivera Rosales y Virginia Lopez Dominguez. Barcelona 1988. (Dialogos, 55: 214 (1990)).
• Kurt Goedel, Obras completas. Introduccion y traduccion de Jesus Mosterin. Segunda edicion. Madrid 1989. (Dialogos, 55: 214-216 (1990)).
• Ian Hacking 1990. (Dialogos, 58: 185-187 (1991)).
• Lawrence Sklar, Philosophy and Spacetime Physics. Berkeley, 1985. (Nous, 25: 574-578 (1991)). Reviewed in English.
• L. T. F. Gamut, Logic, Language, and Meaning. Chicago 1991. (Dialogos, 59: 191-193 (1992)).
• Hans Joachim Kr�ämer, Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics: A Work on the Theory of the Principles and Unwritten Doctrines of Plato with a Collection of the Fundamental Documents. Albany 1990. (Dialogos, 59: 194-200 (1992)).
• John Bigelow y Robert Pargetter, Science and Necessity. Cambridge 1990. (Dialogos, 60: 219-227 (1992)). Reviewed in English.
• John Earman, World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time. Cambridge, MA, 1989, (Philosophical Review, 101: 723-725 (1992)). Reviewed in English.
• Jon Barwise y John Etchemendy. The Language of First Order Logic. Chicago 1991. (Dialogos, 61: 195-200 (1993)).
• Ana Maria Vicuna N., Filosofia, poesia y mito a la luz de Eros en el Symposio de Platon. [Santiago de Chile]: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 1993. (Dialogos, 65: 221-224 (1995)).
• Lawrence Sklar. Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge 1993. (Dialogos, 65: 243-249 (1995)).
• Kurt Goedel, Ensayos ineditos. Edicion a cargo de Francisco Rodriguez Consuegra. Prologo de W. V. Quine. Barcelona: Mondadori, 1994. (Dialogos, 66; 185-190 (1995)).

Translations

• Cinco escritos de Leibniz. Introduccion, version castellana y notas de Roberto Torretti. Revista de Filosofia (Chile), IX.3: 51-81 (1962).
  (Spanish translation of five Latin texts published by Couturat in Opuscules et fragments inedits de Leibniz, Paris 1903, pp. 533-535, 11-16, 518-523, 401-403, 16-24.)

• Immanuel Kant, La falsa sutileza de las cuatro figuras del silogismo. Dialogos, 19: 7-22 (1970).
  (Spanish translation of Die falsche Spitzfindigkeit der vier syllogistischen Figuren erwiesen von M. Immanuel Kant, Koenigsberg 1762.)

• Immanuel Kant, Sobre el fundamento primero de la diferencia entre las regiones del espacio. Traduccion de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 22: 139-146 (1972).
  (Spanish translation of "Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume", published in Wochentliche K�önigsbergsche Frag- und Anzeigungsnachrichten, on February 6th, 13th and 20th, 1768.)

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ensayos filosoficos alemanes. Version castellana de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 23: 139-159 (1972).
  (Spanish translation of four German texts published by Guhrauer in Deutsche Schriften, Berlin 1838-40, vol. II, pp. 48-55, vol. I, pp. 410-413, 420-426, 414-419.)

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Principios metafisicos de las matematicas. Traduccion de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 24: 131-149 (1973).
  (Spanish translation of Initia rerum mathematicarum metaphysica, published by Gerhardt in G. W. Leibniz, Mathematische Schriften, Berlin and Halle 1849-63, t. VII, pp. 17-29.)

• Immanuel Kant, Sobre la nitidez de los principios de la teologia natural y de la moral. Traduccion y notas de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 27: 57-87 (1974).
  (Spanish translation of Untersuchung ueber die Deutlichkeit der Grunds�ätze der natuerlichen Theologie und der Moral. Berlin 1764.)

• Bernhard Riemann, Sobre las hipotesis que estan en la base de la geometria. Traduccion de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 31: 151-168 (1978).
  (Spanish translation of Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zugrunde liegen, posthumously published in 1867 by Dedekind in Abhandlungen der K�öniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu G�öttingen vol.13.)

• Immanuel Kant, Monadologia fisica. Traduccion del latin por Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 32: 173-190 (1978).
  (Spanish translation of Metaphysicae cum geometria junctae usus in philosophia naturalis cuius Specimen I continet Monadologiam Physicam, Koenigsberg 1756.)

• George Berkeley, Sobre el movimiento o sobre el principio y la naturaleza del movimiento y sobre al causa de la trasmision de los movimientos. Traduccion del latin por Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 34: 119-141 (1979).
  (Spanish translation of De Motu, London 1721.)

• Immanuel Kant, Nuevo concepto del movimiento y el reposo. Traduccion del aleman por Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 34: 143-152 (1979).
  (Spanish translation of Neuer Lehrbegriff der Bewegung und Ruhe und der damit verknuepften Folgerungen in den ersten Gruenden der Naturwissenschaft, Koenigsberg 1758.)

• Ludwig Lange, Sobre la ley de la inercia. Traduccion del aleman por Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 34: 153-170 (1979).
  (Spanish translation of "Ueber das Beharrungsgesetz", Leipziger Berichte, 37: 333-351 (1885).)

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Seis escritos de logica. Traduccion y notas de Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 51 (1988), 163-215.
  (Spanish translation of six Latin texts published by Couturat in Opuscules et fragments inedits de Leibniz, Paris 1903, pp. 49-57, 77-84, 232-237, 421-423, 193-202, 410-416.)

• Hilary Putnam, "Los modelos y la realidad". Traducido del ingles por Francisco Rodriguez Consuegra y Roberto Torretti. Dialogos, 63: 7-45 (1994).
  (Annotated translation of "Models and Reality", originally published in Journal of Symbolic Logic, 45: 464-482 (1980). The translation includes "Afterthoughts on 'Models and Reality'", written by Putnam for this issue of Dialogos and printed,