Research Group in Analytic Philosophy

LOGOS is an international group of researchers who work on core issues in a variety of central areas of philosophy. Their research is unified by a common methodological approach properly characterized as analytic.

LOGOS is recognized by the Catalan government as a consolidated research group. It is a founding member of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, a María Maeztu Unit of Excellence.

News

LOGOS Senior member Fernando Broncano-Berrocal has been promoted to associate professor (professor agregat) at the UB. Congratulations, Fernando!

November 6, 2025

Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

November 3, 2025

The Spanish State Agency for Research (AEI) has published the 2025 call for Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowships. These fellowships are for three years and aim to promote the incorporation of early-career researchers into Spanish R&D centres in order to help complete their postdoctoral training.

Dario Mortini, LOGOS senior member, has been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship as part of ZEGRa (Epistemology Group on Rationality) at the University of Zurich. Congratulations, Dario!

October 29, 2025

We grieve the passing of Juan José Acero.

October 18, 2025

After a stay in Helsinki with Jaakko Hintikka in the early 1970s, Acero taught a few years at the University of Barcelona, where he provided early LOGOS members Genoveva Martí

LOGOS student Giovanni Dusi was awarded his PhD on 16 September 2025. Congratulations, Giovanni!

September 16, 2025

[September 2025] LOGOS senior member Víctor Verdejo has been awarded one of the 59 individual Leonardo Grants in 2025. Congratulations, Víctor!

September 10, 2025


Activities

LOGOS regularly organizes colloquia with invited speakers from Spain and abroad, internal research seminars, reading groups, as well as international workshops and conferences. Its predoctoral fellows run their own Graduate Research Seminar to discuss work-in-progress.

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29 Oct 25    
15:00 - 17:00
Seminari de Filosofia, Faculty of Philosophy (4th floor), University of Barcelona
In grammatical gender languages (cfr. Stahlberg 2007), like Spanish and Italian, the grammatical gender of personal nouns typically corresponds to their referent’s gender. This correspondence,...
TERCER CONGRESO DE LA RED ESPAÑOLA DE FILOSOFIA DE LA CIENCIA THIRD FICIRED CONFEENCE Barcelona October 30-31, 2025 Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Seminari de Filosofía,...
30 Oct 25    
14:00 - 16:00
Seminari Ramon Llull (Faculty of Philosophy, UB)
Knoll, Viktoria (2024). The Normativity of Gender Discourse: A Pragmatic Approach. The Philosophical Quarterly.
-  Nicolás Lo Guercio (CONICET/UBA) (joint work with Matías Verdecchia (CONICET-UBA))
5 Nov 25    
15:00 - 17:00
Seminari de Filosofia (Faculty of Philosophy, UB, Barcelona)
Abstract This presentation analyses the semantico-pragmatic behavior of Spanish predicates creerse ‘to believe’ and pensarse ‘to think’ (formed from the propositional attitude verbs creer and pensar with the clitic...
6 Nov 25 - 7 Nov 25    
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26 Nov 25    
15:00 - 17:00
Seminari de Filosofia (UB, Faculty of Philosophy, 4th floor)
There’s an under-explored problem of "dimensional variability" at the intersection of first-order value theory and the semantics of evaluative language. Value monists and value pluralists...
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Seminari de Filosofia (Faculty of Philosophy, UB, Barcelona)
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26 Nov

Monism and Pluralism in Axiology and the Semantics of Evaluative Language

26 Nov 25    
15:00 - 17:00
Seminari de Filosofia (UB, Faculty of Philosophy, 4th floor)
03 Dec

TBA

3 Dec 25    
15:00 - 17:00
Seminari de Filosofia (Faculty of Philosophy, UB, Barcelona)
04 Dec

Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk

4 Dec 25 - 5 Dec 25    
All Day
Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
04 Dec

TBA

4 Dec 25    
11:00 - 13:00
Seminari de Filosofia (UB, Faculty of Philosophy, 4th floor)

Based at the University of Barcelona, LOGOS is composed of permanent faculty and postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows, affiliated with the Universities of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra and Girona, as well as the Autonomous University of Barcelona. It regularly hosts researchers and doctoral students visiting from institutions abroad.

LOGOS senior members regularly lead research projects on important philosophical topics across a variety of fields. These projects are part of highly competitive funding schemes and allow the group to finance its activities. They often come with fellowships for early stage researchers.

LOGOS members regularly publish their research with internationally renowned, peer-reviewed journals and publishing houses. They provide services to the profession as editors, members of editorial boards, and academic referees for top-tier publications.

LOGOS engages in a variety of activities of outreach to the interested public, making philosophical issues more readily accessible and providing insights into the research done by its members. LOGOS regularly contributes to the University of Barcelona’s BCN Pensa outreach festival and lecture series for secondary school teachers organized by the Catalan Society for Philosophy.