Docente

 MARÍA JIMÉNEZ-BUEDO

Profesora Contratada Doctora.
mjbuedo (at) fsof.uned.es  

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 96 53 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. I have worked in the fields of Political Economy and Science Policy as a researcher in IESA-CSIC  (2006-2007). 

My current specialization is in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, with an emphasis on methodological issues. I currently serve as Head of the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at UNED. I am also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association 

 TEACHING:

• Filosofía de las Ciencias Sociales
• Filosofía de la Ciencia I
• Topics in the Philosophy of Science
• Cuestiones de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
• Ética e Investigación Científica

 SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND EVENTS:

• MECABIOSOC: Mecanismos en las Ciencias. De lo biológico a lo social  (2018-2021). FFI2017-89639-P. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (IPs: Cristian Saborido y María Jiménez-Buedo)

  The Data Skills for International Development Careers project (ERASMUS+ programmes of the European Union)

  DAAD-IVAC EDELNet+ PhD Training Programme in Research Methods and Skills. Project-ID: 57563814

  Causality and Modelling in the Sciences. Causality in the Sciences Conference Series 

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

   

  XIV Summer School on Economics and Philosophy. Experiments in Economics, Experiments in Philosophy. UPV-Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. 

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

• Normative Inferences and Interferences in Scientific Research (IP: Jesús Zamora; David Teira)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

(an updated list is available in my Google Scholar page)

Jiménez-Buedo, María, and Juan Carlos Squitieri. "What Can Mechanisms Do for You? Mechanisms and the Problem of Confounders in the Social Sciences." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49.3 (2019): 210-231.

Cebolla-Boado, H., Jiménez-Buedo, M., & Salazar, L. (2017). Avoiding selection bias without random assignment? The effect of breastfeeding on cognitive outcomes in China. Social Science & Medicine, 194, 151-159.

María Jiménez-Buedo and Francesco Guala, "Artificiality, Reactivity, and Demand Effects in Experimental Economics (2016). Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 46 (81), 3-23.

Jimenez-Buedo, Maria. "The last dictator game? Dominance, reactivity, and the methodological artefact in experimental economics." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29.3 (2015): 295-310.

Diaz, Alex, María Jíménez-Buedo, and David Teira. "History of Quasi-and Field Experiments" (2015). International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, edited by James D. Wright. 2015.

María Jiménez-Buedo. "The Expert Economist in Times of Uncertainty." Experts and Consensus in Social Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 171-189.

Konow, J., Schwitzgebel, E., Bicchieri, C., Dana, J., & Jiménez-Buedo, M. (2013). Experiments In Economics And Philosophy. Economics and Philosophy, 29(02), 151-153.

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. 2011

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