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Department of philosophy
University of Valladolid

Born 1970. PhD in Philosophy, 1998 University of the Basque Country, with a dissertation on the Causal Exclusion Problem. Postdoc in the University of Barcelona (1999-2001). Teaches now in the Department of Philosophy, Valladolid University.

Interests

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics. Main research on mental causation and the relationships between language and thought.

Some publications

Mental Causation and Physicalism

"Explanatory Exclusion, Overdetermination, and the Mind-Body Problem", (with Jesús Ezquerro) in Proceedings of theTwentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. IX. Philosophy of Mind. Elevitch, B. (ed) Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, (2000).

"Realization, Determination and Mental Causation", Theoria 16: 40, 77-94, monography Mental Causation and Explanatory Exclusion, ed. Josep Corbí (2001).

“The Overdetermination Argument Revisited”, Minds and Machines, 14: 331-347 (2004).

“On the Causal Completeness of Physics”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 20: 149-171(2006).

Dispositions and Causation

“How Dispositions can be Causally Relevant”, Erkenntnis, 56: 329-344 (2002).

“The Localism of the Conserved Quantity Theory”, Theoria, 45: 563-571 (2002).

“The Role of Dispositions in Explanations”, Theoria, 51: 301-311 monography Dispositions, Causes and Propensities in Science, ed. Mauricio Suárez (2004).

Language and Thought

“Overhearing a Sentence: Recanati and the Cognitive View of Language”, (with Fernando Martínez Manrique) Pragmatics and Cognition, 12:2: 219-251 (2004).

“Semantic Underdetermination and the Cognitive Uses of Language”, (with Fernando Martínez Manrique), Mind and Language, 20: 537-558 (2005).

“Thought, Language, and the Argument from Explicitness”, (with Fernando Martínez Manrique), Metaphilosophy (2008).

“Relevance Theory's Atomistic Commitments”, (with Fernando Martínez Manrique),

in, Soria and Romero, eds. Explicit Communication: Essays on Robyn Carston’s Pragmatics, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. London, (2008).

Contact

Departamento de Filosofía

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Pza.  del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid

e-mail: agusvic@fyl.uva.es