History & Philosophy of Science

Bosco Garcia

PhD candidate in Philosophy at UC San Diego, working in the history and philosophy of science and the philosophy of social science.

Bosco Garcia
About

Overview

Areas of Specialization

History and philosophy of science · Philosophy of social science

Areas of Competence

History of philosophy (medieval, early modern, continental) · Data ethics · Philosophy of physics · Philosophy of neuroscience

Research

Publications & Work in Progress

Peer-reviewed publications
The Problem of Atypicality in LLM-Powered Psychiatry
Journal of Medical Ethics (2025) · with Eugene Chua and Harman Brah · doi:10.1136/jme-2025-110972
Going Humean on the Flow of Time
Timing & Time Perception (2023) · with Craig Callender · doi:10.1163/22134468-bja10085
Works in progress
A Silent Laborer in Medieval Iberian Science
The function of paper in scientific production in preparation
Large-N Qualitative Analysis as an Explanatory Approach to the Medieval Islamic Paper Revolution
in preparation
The Andalusi Dome
Medieval global science from the perspective of Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī in preparation
Selected talks
Iberian Globalities through Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī’s Ṭabaqāt al-Umam
HSS / ESHS Joint Meeting, University of Edinburgh, UK — Jul 2026
A Silent Laborer in Medieval Iberian Science
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Seattle, US — Sep 2025 · ESHS 11th Meeting, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain — Sep 2024
Neural Entropy: Between Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Graduate Conference on Philosophy of Mathematics, Physics & Logic, University of Western Ontario, Canada — May 2025
The Problem of Atypicality in LLM-Powered Psychiatry
TechneCon Conference, Northeastern University, US — Jul 2024
Least Action-Based Selection of Neuronal Populations
Workshop on the Philosophy of Biophysics, University of Bristol, UK — Sep 2023
Teaching

Teaching

Instructor of record — Department of Philosophy, UCSD
PHIL 10 — Introduction to Logic
Summer 2026
PHIL 32 — Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science
Spring 2027
Teaching assistant — selected
PHIL 12 · Scientific Reasoning  —  PHIL 27 · Ethics and Society  —  PHIL 10 · Introduction to Logic  —  PHIL 16 · Science Fiction and Philosophy  —  PHIL 146 · Philosophy of Physics (Reader)  —  CAT 1–3 · Culture, Art and Technology, at UC San Diego (2021–2026).
Contact

Get in touch

Email

jgarca@ucsd.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Philosophy

University of California, San Diego
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0119

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