Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group

My name is Manolo Martínez, and I am a philosopher. Since November 2007, I am a Graduate Teaching Assistant (Ayudante no doctor) at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universitat de Barcelona. Before that, and since September 2005, I was a Part-Time Instructor (Profesor Asociado) at the DAFITS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

 I am mainly interested in the philosophy of mind. On the one hand, on naturalistic accounts of mental content and their relation with our faculty of modalising. (Believe me, there is a relation.) On the other hand, I have done some work in representationalist accounts of phenomenal consciousness, and of the characteristic unpleasantness of pain in particular.

I received my doctorate from the Universitat de Barcelona in September 2010. My PhD thesis was on A Naturalistic Account of Content and an Application to Modal Epistemology. and was written under the supervision of David Pineda. The viva took place on the 17th of September 2010 and I obtained an excel·lent cum laude. My examiners were Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard U.), David Papineau (King’s College London) and Sven Rosenkranz (U. Barcelona).