Projects
Paradoxes as Philosophical Tools
1 Sep 2024 / 31 Aug 2028 |Worlds and Truth Values: Challenges to Formal Semantics (MUNVAL)
1 Jun 2020 / 1 Jun 2024 |Localism and globalism in logic and semantics
1 Jan 2016 / 31 Dec 2020 |DIAPHORA
1 Jan 2016 / 31 Dec 2019 |Reference, Self-Reference and Empirical Data
1 Jan 2012 / 31 Dec 2015 |PETAF – Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
1 Jan 2010 / 31 Dec 2013 |PERSP – Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
17 Dec 2009 / 15 Dec 2015 |Foundations of Semantics: Non Truth-Conditional Aspects of Meaning
30 Nov 2002 / 30 Nov 2004 |Foundations of Semantics: non-factual and non-representational aspects of meaning
30 Nov 2004 / 30 Nov 2007 |C-project: Truth, Semantic Confusion and Embodiment
1 Oct 2006 / 30 Sep 2011 |The Determination of Reference
1 Jan 2009 / 31 Dec 2011 |List of Publications
The problem of taste to the experimental test.
Analysis 84(2): 239-248.
The semantics of natural kind terms. A critical reflection on experimental and theoretical issues.
Acta Philosophica Fennica, 100: 153-172
Reference and theories of reference
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-265.
Gödel and Schmidt
Helen de Cruz (ed.): Philosophy Illustrated. 42 thought experiments to broaden your mind. Oxford University Press
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
Semiotica 2021(240): 145-163
Experimental semantics, descriptivism and anti-descriptivism. Should we endorse referential pluralism?
A. Bianchi (ed.): Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective. Springer Verlag, pp. 329-341.
Natural kind terms and rigidity
S. Biggs & H. Giersson (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. Routledge: 283-294.
Realism, reference and perspective
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(3) 38
On whales and fish. Two models of interpretation.
Jurisprudence, 11 (1): 63-75.
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
Tolerance, Flexibility and the application of kind terms.
Synthese,198: 2973-2986
Reference and Experimental Semantics
Edouard Machery and Elizabeth O’Neill (eds.): Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy. New York. Routledge, pp. 17-26
Names, Descriptions and Causal Descriptions. Is the Magic Gone?
Topoi 39: 357-365
DOI. 10.1007/s11245-017-9525-1
Editors' introduction. Special issue of Teorema on Experimental Philosophy
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.
Legal Disagreements and Theories of Reference
Francesca Poggi (ed.): Pragmatics and Law. Philosophical Perspectives. Springer: 121-139.
Aboutness and Substitutivity
Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Vol. XIV (1989). pp. 127-139
General terms, hybrid theories and ambiguitiy. A discussion of some experimental results
Jussi Haukioja (ed.). Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language. London. Bloomsbury, pp. 157-172
General Terms and Non-Trivial Rigid Designation
C. Martínez (ed.): Current Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, pp.103-116.
Rigidity and the Description of Counterfactual Situations
Theoria, vol 13: 3, pp.477-490
The Significance of the Distinction between Concept Mastery and Concept Possession. Response to James Higginbotham
Philosophical Issues, vol 9, pp. 163-167
Rethinking Quine’s Argument on the Collapse of Modal Distinctions
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol 38:2, pp. 276-294
The Essence of Genuine Reference
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 24, pp. 275-289
Do Modal Distinctions Collapse in Carnap's System?
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 23, pp. 575-593
The Source of Intensionality
Philosophical Perspectives, vol 7 (1993). pp. 197-206
Reference without cognition
A. Bianchi (ed.) On Reference. Oxford University Press
For the Disunity of Semantics
Mind & Language, 29/4: 485-489
Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference
Kabasenche, W.; O'Rourke, M.; Slater, M. (eds.): Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Reference and Referring. MIT Press: 63-82
On Modality and Reference. Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012). Obituary
Teorema, 31 (2102), pp. 203-212
Reference
García-Carpintero, M. and Kölbel, M.: Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language. London. The Continuum International Publishing Group (2012), pp. 106-124.
Review of Lecturas Filosóficas de Ciencia Cognitiva (edited by Luis A. Pérez Miranda)
Investigación y Ciencia, Febrero 2011: 93
General Terms, Rigidity and the Trivialization Problem
Synthese 181, 2 (2011), pp. 277-293; doi:10.1007/s11229-010-9802-7
General Terms as Designators: A Defence of the View
H. Beebee & N. Sabbarton-Leary: The Semantics and Metaphysics of Kinds. Routledge, pp. 46-63
Rigidity and General Terms
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 104: 129-146
Direct Reference and Definite Descriptions
Dialectica, 62: 43-57
The Question of Rigidity in New Theories of Reference
Nous, 37: 161-179
Weak and Strong Directness: Reference and Thought
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXXIV: 730-737
General Terms and Non-Trivial Rigid Designation
C. Martínez, J.L. Falguera & J.M. Sagüillo: Current Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: 103-116
Against Semantic Multiculturalism
Analysis, 69:42-49
