Vicente González-Prida Díaz is PhD in Industrial Engineering by the University of Seville, and Executive MBA by the Chamber of Commerce. He currently works as Business Development Manager in the company General Dynamics - European Land Systems. He shares his professional performance with the development of research projects in the Department of Industrial Organization and Management at the University of Seville and the Department of History, Logic and Philosophy of Science at UNED in Madrid, Spain. He has written multitude of articles for conferences and publications, national and international-wide. His main interest is related to industrial asset management, specifically the reliability (design specification, data analysis), maintenance (outsourcing, e-maintenance) and sales management (cost analysis, logistics, organization). Recently, he has published a book in Spanish language about the ISO 55000, and also the book “After–sales Service of Engineering Industrial Assets” by the editorial Springer-Verlag.
Jesús Zamora Bonilla graduted in Philosophy (1986) and in Economics (1995) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he also attained a PhD in each of both areas (1993 and 2001). He taught Economic Methodology at Universidad Carlos III (1994-2002) before becoming professor of Philosophy of Science at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), where he currently is the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. His research has focussed around scientific realism and truthlikeness, the rationality of science, philosophy of social sciences, and the application of economic models to social epistemology. He has published papers in most of the top journals in philosophy of science and philosophy of economics and the social sciences (Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Theoria, Episteme, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Journal of Economic Methodology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Economics & Philosophy, etc.) and is also co-editor, with Ian Jarvie, of The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science (2011), besides having also published numerous papers and monographs in Spanish. He has been member of the Executive Board of INEM (2006-2012), is founding member of the steering committee of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, was treasurer of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1999-2007), is full member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, and has served as associate editor of the European Journal of Philosophy of Science (2009-2017).