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  • marcelinobotin@gmail.com

    Before joining LOGOS and the PhD program at the University of Barcelona, I received a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Philosophy from King's College London and an M-Phil degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, where I defended my master’s thesis: "Consciousness, Awareness and a Dilemma for Overflow theorist ".

    My main interests are in the Philosophy of Mind and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. My current research focuses on the so-called “meta-problem” of consciousness, which is the problem of explaining why we have the intuition that consciousness posses a “hard” problem over and above the “easy” problems of explaining cognitive functions. The premature aim of my PhD thesis, which is supervised by Dr Esa Diaz-Leon and Dr Genoveva Marti and funded by an FPI fellowship within the project Worlds and Truth Values: Challenges to Formal Semantics, is to advance a physicalist solution to the “meta-problem” that it is compatible with our common-sense beliefs about consciousness.

    I am also a big music fan (70's progressive rock!), and I have a toxic relationship with surfing.

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List of Publications

Botin, M. (Forthcoming). “Russellian Physicalists Get Our Phenomenal Concepts Wrong”. Philosophical Studies. 
Botin, M. (2022). “The phenomenal concept strategy cannot explain problem intuitions”. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29(7-8), 7-31.