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  • Departament de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona

    m.garciacarpintero at ub.edu

    Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
    Universitat de Barcelona
    Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta
    08001 Barcelona

    Phone: +34 934 037 983
    Fax: +34 934 037 980

    Manuel García-Carpintero was born in Daimiel (Ciudad Real, Spain) in 1957. He got his "Licenciatura" ( ≈ BA) at the University of Barcelona (1979) and his PhD also at the University of Barcelona (1988), where he has taught since 1984, after teaching at secondary schools between 1979 and 1984. He visited the CSLI, Stanford University, for one academic year (1990-91), and for three-month periods the philosophy departments at MIT (1992), NYU (1997), Oxford (1998) and Lisbon (2011, 2012). He was a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh, 2001), and he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (2013-2016, 2016-2020, 2021-24), where he is a member of LanCog, CFUL. His main interests are in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and related epistemological and metaphysical issues. He was awarded a "Distinció de Recerca" for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2008 (2009-2013), 2013 (2014-2018) and 2018 (2019-24) the prize “ICREA Acadèmia” for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is completing a book on the nature of assertion under contract with OUP, entitled Tell Me What You Know.

     

List of Publications

Is Conscious Thought Immune to Error through Misidentification?

Philosophical Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2024.2351535

Fictional Narrators and Normative Fiction-Making

Patrik Engisch & Julia Langkau (eds.), The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, Routledge, London 2023, 99-119

Manuel García-Carpintero, Michele Palmira   |   2022
What Do Propositions Explain? Inflationary vs. Deflationary Perspectives and The Case of Singular Propositions

Synthese, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03467-7

The Philosophical Significance of the De Se

Inquiry, vol. 60(3), 253-276, doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1262003

Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)

P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: CUP, Cambridge: CUP, 2021, 401-418.

Relatar lo ocurrido como invención: una introducción a la filosofía de la ficción contemporánea

Editorial Cátedra, Madrid

Referencia y Ficción

Perspectivas en Filosofía del Lenguaje, David Pérez-Chico (coord.), Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza.

Editorial Introduction: the History of the Philosophy of Language

García-Carpintero, M. & Kölbel, M. (eds.), The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Continuum, London, London, 2012, 1-1.

Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel Pérez Otero   |   1999
The Ontological Commitments of Logical Theories

European Review of Philosophy 4, 157-182.

Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel Pérez Otero   |   1998
Davidson, Correspondence Truth, and the Frege-Gödel-Church Argument

History and Philosophy of Logic, pp. 63-81.

A Paradox of Truth-Minimalism

C. Martínez, U. Rivas & L. Villegas-Forero (eds.), Truth in Perspective, Ashgate, Aldershott (UK), pp. 37-63.

Gricean Rational Reconstructions and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction

Synthese, 97, 93-131.