Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Appearances, Singular Content and Fiction
Duration: 2023 - 2026
Code: PID2022-136544NB-I00
Principal Investigator
All researchers
Manuel Pérez Otero (U. Barcelona)Diana Couto (U. Barcelona)
Mireia López (U. Girona)
Olga Fernández Prat (UAB)
Ignacio Vicario (UAM)
Sergio Cermeño
Ainhoa Fernández (UPV)
Summary
The main general thematic areas of the project are epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of cognitive sciences and philosophy of values. The project incorporates four specific objectives:
1. To study perceptual appearances, addressing various thematic axes: (a) epistemic dependence relations between perceptual propositions and sense data; (b) cognitive penetrability and modularity of the mind; (c) phenomenal character of experience; (d) relativity of epistemic perspectives.
2. Analysis of certain non-perceptive appearances, intuitions, from a double perspective: (a) critical examination of its record by surveys carried out by demoscopic philosophy; (b) a specific case study, which will entail reconstructing Moore’s argument against the “naturalistic fallacy”.
3. Two tasks that involve the notion of singular content: (a) to characterize the very distinction between singular and general thoughts; (b) to investigate how the singularization of a character affects the semantics of fictional narratives.
4. Various tasks concerning the philosophy of art: (a) to contribute to a characterization of the fiction/nonfiction distinction; (b) to define the concept of type, compatibly with identifying some artistic works with types; (c) to identify a specific modality of comic effect present in certain fictional works.
Total budget: € 46.875
Publications
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2025
“El universo de Matrix. Externismo ético, externismo semántico y escepticismo epistemológico”
M. Crespín Perales y M. I. Méndez Lloret (eds.), Cine y filosofía: miradas oblicuas, Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, pp. 191-214
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2025
"Survey-Inspired Philosophy and Judging about Counterfactual Reference"
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 33/1, pp. 24-35.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2024.2444966Manuel Pérez Otero. 2025
“Abstracción, meta-ficción y tiempo en el cine de Sergio Leone”
En David Pérez Chico (ed.), Cine y filosofía. Perspectivas filosóficas, Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, pp. 331-357.
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2025
"En torno al concepto de obra artística perfecta: una definición y sus implicaciones"
Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 59/167, pp. 5-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2025.1645
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2024
La filosofía demoscópica ante la objeción de la capacidad experta
Patricia Hernando y Carlota G. Llorente (eds.), Actas del Congreso Internacional Linguistic Relativity and Experimental Philosophy, Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, pp. 46-53. ISBN: 978-84-09-58351-5.
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2024
Experimentos, encuestas y filosofía
Eidos 42, pp. 288-319.
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2024
Propuestas para caracterizar la noción de razonamiento convincente
Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación 4, pp. 20-32. DOI: 10.15366/ria2024.m4.002
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2024
“La objeción de Moore a la falacia naturalista: dos reinterpretaciones”
B. Laspra y J. Suárez (eds.), Proceedings of the XI Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Oviedo, pp. 231-233. (Publicación electrónica).
Manuel Pérez Otero. 2023
Definición tripartita, casos lotería y coherentismo sobre la justificación epistémica
Sergi Rosell y Pablo Rychter (editores), Conocimiento, lenguaje y acción, Valencia: Pre-Textos, pp. 35-54.
