CV (2025): CV ENG (Alfonso García Lapeña)_2025

 

I am a "professor lector" at Universitat de Barcelona (UB), working in the philosophy of science department, and a senior member of the LOGOS research group.

I completed my PhD at UB (2021) with a thesis on how to define truthlikeness (similarity or closeness to the truth) for deterministic and probabilistic scientific laws, under the supervision of Professor José Antonio Díez. Prior to this, I graduated in BBA at ESADE (2012) and in Philosophy at UB (2015). I also got a MSc in International Management at ESADE (2013) and half of an MA in Analytic Philosophy at UB (2016). I also completed two years of Physics at UB (2014-2016).

Following the completion of my PhD, I was awarded a "Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Research Grant" (2021), followed by a "Juan de la Cierva Fellowship" (2023) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a "Rannís Postdoctoral Fellowship" (2025) at the University of Iceland.

I have taught logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Barcelona and the philosophy of video games at the University of Girona. I have also taught several courses on science, politics, ethics and other philosophical issues at Casa Elizalde.

My main research has focused on the concept of “truthlikeness” or “closeness to the truth”, particularly on how to define and estimate closeness to the truth for scientific laws. At present, I am working on how to define truthlikeness for scientific theories formulated in different languages, on the Humean approach to the nature of scientific laws, and on the topic of modal modeling. At the same time, my research also covers the philosophy of video games and game studies.

I am interested in a wide range of topics within the general philosophy of science, including scientific realism, induction, scientific progress, and the nature of scientific laws. I am also interested in the philosophy of video games and game studies.