Docente

MARÍA JIMÉNEZ BUEDO

CONTACTO:

Dpto. de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
UNED
Paseo de senda del rey, 7
28040 Madrid
España | Spain
Tel.  +34  91 398 83 92 Fax. +34 91 398 76 93

I hold a PhD in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence and an MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics. I am a doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute and a research associate at the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.

I have worked in the fields of Political Economy and Science Policy as a researcher in IESA-CSIC  (2006-2007) and my current specialization is in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, with an emphasis on methodological issues.

TEACHING:

• Filosofía de las Ciencias Sociales

• Temas de Ontología Social: Convenciones, Normas e Instituciones en la Filosofía de las Ciencias Sociales  

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND EVENTS:

• XIV Summer School on Economics and Philosophy. Experiments in Economics, Experiments in Philosophy

• Análisis filosófico de la Nueva Experimentación en Ciencias Sociales: "Los efectos del experimentador" (IP: María Jiménez-Buedo)

• Hacia una nueva fundamentación filosófica de las ciencias sociales (IP: Jesús Zamora).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• María Jiménez-Buedo. Conceptual Tools for Assessing Experiments: Some well-entrenched confusions regarding the internal/external validity distinction. Journal of Economic Methodology. Volume 3, issue 18. 2011.

• María Jiménez-Buedo, Luis M. Miller.  Why a trade-off? The relationship between the external and internal validity of experiments. Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. 2010

• María Jiménez-Buedo. The Political Uses of some Economic Ideas: the Trade-Off between Efficiency and Equality. American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Forthcoming

• María Jiménez-Buedo, Jesús Zamora Bonilla. Expert Judgement.  Sage Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 2011.

• Héctor Cebolla Boado, María Jiménez- Buedo. Immigration and the vote for the left: measuring the effect of ethnic diversity on electoral outcomes at the district level. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. February 2011