Coordinators
Marc Artiga (marc.artiga@uv.es), Sergi Rosell (sergi.rosell@uv.es), Jordi Valor (jordi.valor@uv.es), Marta Cabrera (marta.cabrera@uv.es) and Saúl Pérez (saul.perez@uv.es)
Senior members
MARC ARTIGA – Homepage
Marc Artiga is lecturer at the Universitat de València. After completing his PhD a the Universitat de Girona with the LOGOS group, he was a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and the Universitat de Barcelona. His areas of specialization are philosophy of mind, pilosophy of biology and philosophy of cognitive science, and he is also very interested in philosophy of science, philosophy of language, political philosophy, and metaethics.
JOSEP E. CORBÍ – Homepage
Josep E. Corbí is a professor at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Valencia (Spain). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford (1989-90), Brown University (1995-96), University of Buenos Aires (2006), the University of Sheffield (2008-09), and the University of Fribourg (2009). His publications include Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms. A Case against Physicalism (2000), Un lugar para la moral (2003), Morality, Self-Knowledge, and Human Suffering. An Essay on the Loss of Confidence in the World (2012) as well as a number of papers in epistemology, philosophy of mind and meta-ethics.
JOAN GIMENO-SIMÓ – Homepage
Joan Gimeno-Simó is a Philosopher of Language based at the University of València. He obtained his Ph.D. in January 2021 with a dissertation on the semantics of complex demonstratives. He works on philosophy of language, namely natural language semantics and philosophy of linguistics. His current work focuses on indexicality in general, but he is also interested in topics like compositionality, analyticity, the nature of generative syntax and the interface between syntax and semantics.
TOBIES GRIMALTOS – Homepage
Castelló de la Ribera (València) 1958. Tobies Grimaltos is a professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of València. He studied Philosophy at the University of Valencia, where he did his PhD (1987) with a disertation on Philosophy of Perception. He has been Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham during the academic year 1991-92. His main interests are Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind.
VALERIANO IRANZO – Homepage
Valeriano Iranzo is Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He has been Visiting Fellow at Washington University (USA), University of Sheffield (UK), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands) and University College London. His research interests are focused on philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology.
VÍCTOR J. LUQUE – Homepage
Victor Luque is a Philosopher of Science, specializing in the philosophy of the biological sciences. In 2017 he completed his PhD on the causal structure of evolutionary theory at the University of Valencia (UV), as a member of the Evolutionary Genetics Group (Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology) and the MÉTHODOS Research Group (Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UV). He is also a member of the Research Lab for the Philosophy and Theory of Life Sciences (Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science, UNED). His work is focused on the structure of evolutionary theory, its mathematical models, and the causes of evolution.
CARLOS J. MOYA
Carlos Moya is currently Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. His research focuses on free will and moral responsibility but he is also interested in several other topics in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of mind. He has published many papers in academic journals and edited volumes, and he is the author of the books The Philosophy of Action (Polity Press/Blackwell, 1990), Filosofía de la Mente (PUV, 2004), Moral Responsibility. The Ways of Skepticism (Routledge, 2006) and Libre albedrío (Cátedra, 2017), and co-editor of Agency, Freedom and Moral Responsibility (with A. Buckareff and S. Rosell; Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015).
SAÚL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ – Homepage
Saúl Pérez-González completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Valencia under the supervision of Valeriano Iranzo. His main areas of interest are philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophy of the life sciences. His current work focuses on the new mechanical approaches and their relevance in medicine, social science, and policymaking.
SERGI ROSELL
Sergi Rosell is a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Valencia. He has carried out research stays at the universities of Birmingham, California-San Diego (UCSD), Sheffield and Oxford. His research interests are moral luck, the free will and moral responsibility debate, the role played by the reactive attitudes in blame and punishment, the relation between beliefs and the will, rational control and some experimental challenges upon philosophical questions. In recent years, he has become interested in lying and deception, and the meaning of life and death, as well as in topics of ancient philosophy.
PABLO RYCHTER – Homepage
Pablo is a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Valencia, Spain. Before joining the department, he was a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College (University of Oxford), a visiting postdoc at MIT, and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. Pablo obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona and his first degree in philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. Pablo works mainly in metaphysics and meta-metaphysics. Some of his representative publications on these topics are: ‘Truthmaker Theory without Truthmakers’ (Ratio), ‘Stage Theory and Proper Names’ (Phil Studies), ‘There is no problem of change’ (dialectica).
CHON TEJEDOR – Homepage
Chon Tejedor studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford before completing an MPhil and a PhD in Philosophy at University College London. She was then Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford for 12 years and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire for 4 years, before moving to Universitat de València in 2017. Her publications include papers in journals such as Ratio and Philosophy, as well as two books: The Early Wittgenstein on Metaphysics, Natural Science, Language and Value (Routledge, 2015) and Starting with Wittgenstein (Bloomsbury, 2011). Tejedor works on Wittgenstein, ethics and intercultural epistemology.
JORDI VALOR – Homepage
Jordi Valor Abad is a lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Valencia. He has carried out research stays at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews (Arché), London (King’s College) and Barcelona. His main philosophical interests lie within the areas of philosophy of language and logic, philosophical logic, and theory of knowledge. His current research focuses on the study of the structure and philosophical relevance of paradoxes of self-reference, and on topics such as truth relativism, deflationary conceptions of truth, and the connections existing between normativity, meaning and a priori knowledge.
VICTOR VERDEJO – Homepage
Víctor M. Verdejo received his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) after completing the interdisciplinary CCiL programme (2008). Since then, he has taken up several postdoctoral positions, including a two-year stay at University College London (UCL) supervised by Christopher Peacocke and Michael Martin and a two-year research project with Manuel García-Carpintero at Logos-UB. He has recently joined the Department of Philosophy in Valencia as a lecturer. His work focuses mainly on the nature of thought and concepts and related areas of philosophy of language and cognitive science. His current interests lie in the first person, communication and embodied representation.
Junior members
ANA L. BATALLA
Ana L. Batalla is a PhD candidate and FPU fellow at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Josep Corbí. She holds a BA from that university. Her main areas of interest are anthropological philosophy and specially the memories of survivors of concentracionary systems.
VIRGINIA BALLESTEROS
Virginia Ballesteros is a PhD candidate at the University of Valencia.
MARTA CABRERA – Homepage
Marta Cabrera is a PhD candidate and FPI fellow at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Jordi Valor and Carlos Moya. She holds a BA from that university and a MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the USAL. Her main areas of interest are philosophy of the mind and action theory, and her current research focuses on emotions and reasons, action out of emotion and expressive action.
JAVIER CASTELLOTE LILLO
Javier Castellote is a PhD candidate and “Atracció de Talent” fellow at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Josep E. Corbí. He holds a BA and a MA in Contemporary Philosophy from that University. His main areas of interest are anthropological philosophy, philosophy of language, psychoanalysis and action theory.
CARMEN MARTÍNEZ SÁEZ
Carmen Martínez Sáez is a PhD candidate and FPU fellow at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Josep E. Corbí. She holds a BA from that university and a BS in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her main areas of interest are philosophy of the mind and anthropology, and her current research focuses on body pain.
VICENT PICÓ
Vicent Picó is a PhD candidate at the University of Valencia.
STEPHANIE WEST
Stephanie West is a PhD candidate at the University of Valencia, working under the supervision of Josep Corbí. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of Brighton, and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College London. Her research areas are applied ethics, especially bioethics, and political philosophy.