Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

I am a PhD candidate under the supervision of Manolo Martínez and José Díez. Before joining the Cognitive Sciences and Language (CCiL) Doctoral Programme at the UB (Universitat de Barcelona) I earned a BA in Philosophy from the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and the CCiL MA from the UB. My doctoral research is funded by a grant (CEX2021-001169-M-20-1) associated to the  "Evidence in Science" branch of the BIAP María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, and I develop my current research activities within the LOGOS project Reassessing Scientific Objectivity (code PID2020-115114GB-I00).

My doctoral project, "So, what is real in the Real Patterns framework? Exploring its boundaries and applications for the life sciences", mainly pivots around the dificulties that arise when trying to understand the nature of the special sciences, and the complex abstractions and modelling activities these fields develop—with a special focus on cognitive and biological systems. Based on the information-theoretic notion of pattern recognition, Daniel Dennett proposed Real Patterns as a framework for understanding the special sciences that presumably would avoid the downsides associated with reductionism and emergentism, while respecting key scientific and/or metaphysical desiderata—i.e., realism, objectivity, and general physicalism. While ideas framed in similar terms to Real Patterns are very often indirectly appealed to in order to justify scientific or practical decisions—specially when it comes to fields that work with complex systems, big data, and statistical methods—, this framework offers only a general, vague sketch of its philosophical basis. I take Dennett's proposal at face value, and try to identify and analyze its weak and strong points; ultimately aiming at i) develping a deeper understanding of the commitment to "patterny" philosphical approaches, ii) helping in the possible generalization and possible systematic application of such a framework, and iii) assessing whether Real Patterns can have the merits for configuring a genuine (non eliminativist) alternative framework for accounting for "emergent" behaviours in the special sciences—as it was originally proposed for. 

More broadly, I am interested in causal models and causal inference, information and computation, the philosophy of biology/of mind/of medicine, as well as some aspects of semantics—all along with interests in some of the ethical, social, and practical derivations of all the latter topics. Besides, I part-time study a BE in Mathematics for Data Science at the UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 

When I am not sitting on a chair, I love adventures and playing music.