Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Genoveva Martí
Contact
E-mail: gmarti@ub.edu
Departament de Filosofia
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta
08001 Barcelona
Curriculum Vitae
I was born in Barcelona and I obtained my "Licenciatura" (BA) at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1981. In 1982 I joined the PhD program at Stanford University, where my PhD was awarded in January 1989. I have been Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Reader at the London School of Economics. In 2014-15 I was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). I have been coordinator of the research group LOGOS (http://www.ub.es/grc_logos). I was awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2012. I am an elected member of the Academia Europaea (since 2009) and from January 2013 till July 2014 I was the Academic Director of the Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub in Barcelona.
Research topics: I am primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. A traditional explanation of the relation of reference is the view that reference is mediated by our cognitive perspective on things. On this view, which objects we talk about is determined by the concepts we associate with the expressions we use. Against this view I defend an approach according to which what we refer to is not determined by our internal mental states nor by the concepts we entertain; it rather depends on social and causal factors that are external to our mind. This area of research is connected to other research areas, especially in Linguistics and Psychology. I also have worked on the explanation of legal disputes from the point of view of different theories of reference, on the role of the theory of reference in the defense of scientific realism and on the impact of experimental data on semantics.
Keywords: Theory of Reference; Direct Reference; Names and Definite Descriptions; Semantics of General terms; Modality; Carnap and Quine on Modality; Experimental Philosophy and Semantics.
Selection of Publications
Genoveva Martí. 2023
The semantics of natural kind terms. A critical reflection on experimental and theoretical issues.
Acta Philosophica Fennica, 100: 153-172Genoveva Martí. 2022
Reference and theories of reference
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-265.Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2021
Tolerance, Flexibility and the application of kind terms.
Synthese,198: 2973-2986
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01898-9Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2021
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
Semiotica 2021(240): 145-163Genoveva Martí, Carl Hoefer. 2020
Realism, reference and perspective
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(3) 38Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2020
On whales and fish. Two models of interpretation.
Jurisprudence, 11 (1): 63-75.
Genoveva Martí. 2020
Names, Descriptions and Causal Descriptions. Is the Magic Gone?
Topoi 39: 357-365
DOI. 10.1007/s11245-017-9525-1
Genoveva Martí, Carl Hoefer. 2019
Water has a microstructural essence after all
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9, 1 UNSP 12
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0236-2
Genoveva Martí. 2017
Names, predicates and the object-property distinction.
M. de Ponte and K. Korta (eds.): Reference and Representation in Thought and Language. Oxford University Press, pp. 14-19.
Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2016
Legal Disagreements and Theories of Reference
Francesca Poggi (ed.): Pragmatics and Law. Philosophical Perspectives. Springer: 121-139.Genoveva Martí. 2015
Reference without cognition
A. Bianchi (ed.) On Reference. Oxford University PressGenoveva Martí. 2012
On Modality and Reference. Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012). Obituary
Teorema, 31 (2102), pp. 203-212Genoveva Martí. 2012
Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference
Kabasenche, W.; O'Rourke, M.; Slater, M. (eds.): Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Reference and Referring. MIT Press: 63-82Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2011
General Terms, Rigidity and the Trivialization Problem
Synthese 181, 2 (2011), pp. 277-293; doi:10.1007/s11229-010-9802-7Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2010
General Terms as Designators: A Defence of the View
H. Beebee & N. Sabbarton-Leary: The Semantics and Metaphysics of Kinds. Routledge, pp. 46-63Genoveva Martí. 2009
Against Semantic Multiculturalism
Analysis, 69:42-49Genoveva Martí. 2008
Direct Reference and Definite Descriptions
Dialectica, 62: 43-57Genoveva Martí. 2004
Rigidity and General Terms
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 104: 129-146Genoveva Martí. 2003
The Question of Rigidity in New Theories of Reference
Nous, 37: 161-179Genoveva Martí. 1998
Rigidity and the Description of Counterfactual Situations
Theoria, vol 13: 3, pp.477-490Genoveva Martí. 1997
Rethinking Quine’s Argument on the Collapse of Modal Distinctions
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol 38:2, pp. 276-294Genoveva Martí. 1995
The Essence of Genuine Reference
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 24, pp. 275-289Genoveva Martí. 1994
Do Modal Distinctions Collapse in Carnap's System?
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 23, pp. 575-593Genoveva Martí. 1993
The Source of Intensionality
Philosophical Perspectives, vol 7 (1993). pp. 197-206Genoveva Martí. 1989
Aboutness and Substitutivity
Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Vol. XIV (1989). pp. 127-139
Links
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