Pengarang: Javier Pérez-Jara

Gustavo E. Romero is Full Professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the National University of La Plata, and Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. A former President of the Argentine Astronomical Society, he is currently Director of the Argentine Institute for Radio Astronomy (IAR). His work focuses on black hole physics, high-energy astrophysics, cosmology, and scientific philosophy. He has published more than 400 papers on astrophysics, gravitation, the foundations of physics, philosophy, and 12 books, including Introduction to Black Hole Astrophysics (2014, with G. Vila) and Scientific Philosophy (2018), both published by Springer. He is a recipient of the Helmholtz International Award and the Houssay Prize, among other honours. Javier Pérez-Jara is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University”s Center for Cultural Sociology. He has held visiting teaching and research positions across the world, including the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Yale University, Kyoto University, Kyoto Sangyo University, the University of Seville, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Taiwanese Fu Jen Catholic University, and Minzu University of China. He is the author of many publications on philosophy and social theory, and his current teaching and research explore the theoretical and practical bridges between scientific interdisciplinarity and philosophy. Lino Camprubí is Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Department of Philosophy in the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. He obtained his Ph D in History at UCLA and has been a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, as well as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (The MIT Press, 2014) and co-editor of Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History (Palgrave, 2018) and of the special issue Experiencing the Global Environment (in Studies in the History and Philosphy of Science, Part A, 2018). His Los ingenieros de Franco (Crítica, 2017) won the ICOHTEC 2018 Book Prize.