CV

Area of Specialisation: Philosophy of science.

Areas of Competence: History of Science, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Science and Technology Studies.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of Sevilla (Spain), Talent Postdoctoral Researcher, Junta de Andalucía. Philosophy Faculty, Area of Logic and Philosophy of Science, 2022-2025.

Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin, Postdoctoral Fellow, project 'Models', 2022-2024.

Technical University of Berlin (TU), Institute of Philosophy – Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2022.

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Smithsonian Institution, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation – National Museum for American History, Washington D.C. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship. July – September 2023.

University of Vienna – Philosophy Department. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Project “Possible Life”). April – July 2022.

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Dept. III – Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, March – August 2020.

EDUCATION

PhD   –   History and Philosophy of Science. University College London (UCL), Science and Technology Studies (2019).

 PhD Thesis: Scientific Representation in Practice: Models and Creative Similarity. 

MA     –   National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Philosophy of Science (2013)

MA Dissertation: La ciencia representada.

BA      –   University of Seville (Spain). Media Studies (2008)

      Hochschule der Medien (Stuttgart, Germany).  Visiting student (2007-2008)

PUBLICATIONS

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (forth. in 2024) (with AMBROSIO, Chiara) (Eds.) Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge. Book here.

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (forth. in 2024) "The novel naturalness of abstract space". In Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge. Pre-print here. Book here. 

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (forth. in 2024) "Representation". Entry for The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling. Knuuttila, T., Carrillo, N. & Koskinen, R. (Eds.). Pre-print here. Book here.

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (forth. in 2024) "Abstraction as strategy for worldmaking". In Making and Breaking Models. ICI Press.

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (2023) "Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 100, 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.05.003 

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (2022) Review of The Aesthetics of Science. Beauty, imagination and understanding. Milena Ivanova and Steven French (eds.). Routledge, 2020. British Journal of Aesthetics. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab039  

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, CARUSI, A., SANCHEZ-DORADO, J., SÖZÜDOĞRU, E. (2022) Adverse outcome pathway: study report, Whelan, M. (editor), Wittwehr, C. (editor), Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/476003 

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia & CRISTALLI, Claudia (2021) “Colligation in modelling practices: from Whewell’s tides to the San Francisco Bay Model”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 85, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.11.001

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (2020) "Novel & worthy: Creativity as a thick epistemic concept". European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10, 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00303-y 

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (2018) “Methodological lessons for the integration of philosophy and aesthetics: The case of representation”. In BUENO, Otávio, et al. Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Science Together. New York: Routledge, p. 10-26. (Book here. Paper online here)

SÁNCHEZ-DORADO, Julia (2018) "Semejanza creativa en la práctica representacional de la ciencia". In PÉREZ RANSANZ, A., and PONCE, A. Creatividad e Innovación en Ciencia y Tecnología. UNAM, 2018. 

In preparation

(under review; with S. Sterrett) "The meandering epistemic status of scale models in American hydraulics (1922-1949)"

(under review) "The Earth in the Model". For special issue Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling. 

"'A few barrels of sand shipped from the river to the model': Revisiting the model materiality debate"

SELECTED RECENT TALKS (*Invited)

2023: "Abstract representation as strategy for worldmaking". Workshop Making and Breaking Models. ICI Berlin, October 2023.

2023: * "Exploration through concrete Earth models". Workshop Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June 2023.

2023: * "'More an art than a science': prácticas artesanales en los primeros laboratorios hidráulicos en EE.UU. (1923-1949)". Seminario IBEROT@C, online, April 2023.

2023: "'A few barrels of sand shipped from the river to the model': An HPS approach to the materiality of modelling". The 9th Conference of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. University of South Carolina, March 2023.

2022: * "An HPS approach to the epistemology of hydraulic physical modelling". Seminar at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management. Technical University of Vienna, September 2022.

2022: "Judgments of similarity and a pragmatic account of representation". Conference German Society for Philosophy of Science. Berlin, August 2022.

2022: "The drifting epistemic status of scale models in American hydraulics (1922-1949)". Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Technical University Berlin, April 2022.

2021: "Pursuitworthiness, creativity, and epistemic tradition". Online Workshop Pursuitworthiness in Scientific Inquiry. March 2021.

2019: * "Novel and worthy: creativity in model studies". Workshop Exploratory Modelling and Exploratory Models in Science. Technical University Berlin, Germany, November 2019.

2019: * "Not only size matters: Judgments of similarity and distortion in scale modelling". Center for Space and Habitability and Institute of Philosophy. University of Bern, August 2019.

2019: “The creative similarity account of representation”. Creativity across the Arts and Sciences Workshop. Bristol University, UK, April 2019.

TEACHING

"Philosophy of Science", Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sevilla (Spain), Year 2022-23, 2023-24.

"Argumentation Theory". Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sevilla (Spain), Year 2022-23, 2023-24

"Models in the Engineering and Geosciences", Institute of Philosophy, Technical University Berlin (WiSe 2021-2022).

“Reasons of art and aesthetics of science", Institute of Philosophy, Technical University Berlin (SoSe 2021).

"Science, Art and Philosophy”, Department of Science and Technology Studies UCL, PGTA (2016-2017).

"Knowledge and Reality (Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics)", Philosophy Department UCL, PGTA (2015).

“Philosophy of Science”, Department of Science and Technology Studies UCL, PGTA (2014).

“Making Value Judgements: Qualitative Thinking”, BASc in Arts and Sciences UCL, PGTA (2014).