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ICREA Researcher

Universitat de Barcelona 

Arché-The AHRC Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics

University of St Andrews

I am an ICREA Researcher at LOGOS (Barcelona) and associate fellow at Arché (St Andrews). Before I was GenCat-Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Department of Philosophy (2006-07), Vagueness Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Arché (2004-06), Professor Associat (2002-04) and PhD Research Fellow (1998-01) at the Universitat de Barcelona, where I got my PhD with the thesis Response-Dependencies: Colors and Values (2003), and a Visiting Student for a short while in 2001 at the RSSS Philosophy Program in ANU..

Interests

I am currently working on vagueness, and more specifically dealing with the connection between the view of vagueness as semantic indecision and metaphysical issues. I am also working on metametaphysics, on issues in contextulalism/relativism, on response-dependent properties and the debate about realism, on the notion of rigidity for predicates, and on truthmakers. I also have interests in other issues in metaphysics, metaethics, the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.

Selection of Publications

'‘Is the Problem of the Many a Problem in Metaphysics?’, forthcoming in Noûs

‘Disjunctions, Conjunctions, and their Truthmakers’, forthcoming in Mind

‘Rigidity for Predicates and the Trivialization Problem’, forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint

‘The Over-Generalization Problem’, forthcoming in Synthèse

 ‘Truthmakers, Knowledge, and Paradox’ (with Elia Zardini), Analysis 67 (2007), 242–50

 ‘Rigidity, General Terms, and Trivialization’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107 (2007), 117–23

‘How to Respond to Borderline Cases’, forthcoming in R Dietz & S Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds, OUP

‘Presuppositions of Commonality’, forthcoming in M García-Carpintero & M Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, OUP

‘The Many Relativisms and the Question of Disagreement’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (2007), 339–48    

‘Does This Sentence Have No Truthmaker?’ (with Elia Zardini), Analysis 66 (2006), 154–57

‘Flexible Property Designators’, Grazer Philosophische Studien 73 (2006), 221–230

‘Is ‘Everything’ Precise?’, Dialectica 60 (2006), 397–409

Curriculum Vitae

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On-line papers

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Contact

E-mail.  dlds AT nyu.edu

Other personal homepages

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Links

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