mconcepcion.martinez [at] usc.es (mconcepcion[dot]martinez[at]usc[dot]es)
I am a Profesora titular at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I got my PhD at the University of Valencia (Supervisor Beneyto, "From Prawitzs Theory of Meaning to searching proofs in an intelligent way: From the Inversion Theorem to Artificial Intelligence.") During that period, I worked for several months with Dag Prawitz in Stockholm.
I have taught different subjects in logic and analytic philosophy. My publications include a manual for teaching logic (with J.L. Falguera) and
various papers, book chapters and reviews. Among them: Is SOL Logic? (Logica Yearbook 1999), El estatuto epistemológico de la Lógica (Técnos 2007), Normativity and its Vindication: The Case of Logic (Theoria 2004), Is Logic Objective? (Cadernos de Filosofía, Lisbon), "Leon Henkin the Reviewer"(with J. P. Úbeda in Manzano et alt. (Eds.) Springer 2014); "Putnam and contemporary fictionalism" (THEORIA 2018) I have systematized arguments for and against abstract objects in different domains (Falguera & Martínez-Vidal, 2020 Preface), and, recent ways of formulating the concrete/ abstract distinction. (Rosen, Falguera, Martínez-Vidal, ms. In assessment).
I have edited several volumes: Truth in perspective (Ashgate 1996, with Villegas & Monroy), Following Putnam's Trail (Rodopi 2004 with Silva & Monroy), Current Topics in logic and Analytic Philosophy (USC 2007, with Falguera & Sagüillo) and Abstract Objects. For and Against (with José L. Falguera, Springer 2020). I have been in charge of several research projects financed by the Spanish Ministries of Education and Science. I am currently one of the two main researchers for the MINECO financed project Abstract Objects For and Against. A Neo-Carnapian Approach".
I have organized conferences and workshops with other members of the group. Among them the VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Santiago de Compostela, July, 2012). In that conference, I was appointed President of the Society (until November 2018). I am currently an assessor for the DLMPST Council 2020-2023. I have also been Chair of the Dept. of Logic and Moral Philosophy, and a member of the scientific committees for various conferences organized by national and international scientific societies. I have participated in assessment committees (ANEP, ANECA, EURIAS Fellowships, etc.) and tutored a "Parga Pondal" Fellow (Javier de Donato-Rodríguez), two Juan de la Cierva Fellows (Matteo Plebani and Victor Verdejo), a predoctoral grant (FPU) and I am currently tutoring two more (FPUs). I have supervised 2 PhDs (one with de Donato-Rodríguez and the other with Mary Leng).
My research interests are related to the philosophy of logic and mathematics: the justification of logic, the role of intuition in mathematics, indispensability arguments, and the metaphysics of numbers as abstract objects. In particular, I have reconsidered Putnam's acknowledged version of the indispensability argument and his philosophical position against contemporary fictionalist views about applied mathematics, to conclude it can be assimilated to them in many aspects due to the ontological compromises that Putnam's favorite reconstruction of mathematics, Hellman's, subscribes to. I continued to work in the latest developments of the debate on the indispensability argument (Martínez-Vidal & Rivas-de-Castro 2020) and in the recent reconstructions of mathematics that argue for deflationary views of abstract objects.
I am currently a "contratado doctor" (similar to associate professor) at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I was formerly a PhD researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), where I got my PhD in Philosophy in July 2005 with a doctoral thesis entitled Idealization and the Growth of Physics: A Contribution to the Methodology of Science (supervisor: C.U. Moulines). I have been postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at the UNAM (Mexico City) and Invited Professor at the UAM-I (Mexico City). From 2009 to 2013, I was a Parga Pondal Researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). I was also visiting scholar at Brown University (Providence, USA). I have delivered talks in many conferences (among them, at the PSA in Pittsburgh 2008, Models and Simulations 6 at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, etc.). I have published articles in Synthese, Erkenntnis, Ratio, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Argumentation, Theoria, Crítica, Diánoia, Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación, and other journals, as well as chapters in books published by Routledge, Springer Synthese Library, Walter de Gruyter, Brill/Rodopi (Poznan Studies), Cambridge Academic Publishers, Siglo XXI, Tecnos, Plaza & Valdés, etc. One of my most quoted articles is Credibility, idealization, and model building: An inferential approach (co-authored with Jesús Zamora Bonilla), published in Erkenntnis (vol. 70, 2009), which, according to Scopus, has received until now 34 citations. My main research areas are philosophy of science, analytic epistemology, philosophy of mind, and argumentation theory. Models, idealization, inferentialism, abstract objects, concepts and scientific understanding are some of my central topics. I have been the co-supervisor of two doctoral theses that were presented at the University of Santiago de Compostela (of Dolores García Arnaldos in 2017, and Christian Manuel Escobar Jiménez in 2018; both received the qualification of outstanding and both generated some publications). Currently, I am the supervisor (and, in some cases, co-supervisor) of six doctoral theses (5 of them will be presented at the University of Santiago de Compostela, one of them at the Programa de Doctorado en Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Salamanca). I have also supervised many degree and master final works and participated in many doctoral thesis committees. I have delivered a great amount of graduate and postgraduate courses at several universities (among them: UNAM, UAM-I, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, UNED, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela). I am a regular reviewer for journals like Erkenntnis, Synthese, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, Theoria, and Crítica, among others. I am a member of the advisory board of the journal Signos Filosóficos. I have been member of several research projects financed by entities such as the CONYCET (Mexico), the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), and the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain). I have been ANECA evaluator for two national research projects. I have two six-year research periods (sexenios de investigación), from 2006 to 2017, recognized by ANECA. I am currently working on a book, that I expect to publish in 2021 or 2022.
joseluis.falguera [at] usc.es (joseluis[dot]falguera[at]usc[dot]es)
José L. Falguera (nacido en 1959). DNI 36029196H. Es Profesor Titular de Universidad de la Universidad de Santiago Compostela (USC). ORCID: 0000-0003-2631-1563; ResearcherID: AAA-7515-2020; ScopusID56454398300.
* Licenciado en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación (Sección Filosofía) en la USC el 30/08/1983.
* Tesis doctoral: (23/07/1992, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela) "Problemas ontosemánticos de los términos teóricos conforme a la metateoría estructuralista", bajo la dirección del Prof. Dr. C. Ulises Moulines.
* Docente en la USC (Fac. de Filosofía) desde noviembre de 1983; Profesor Titular de la USC desde 12/12/94 a la actualidad. Docencia en materias de Lógica, Filosofía de la Ciencia y Filosofía Analítica. Con docencia en Univ. de Salamanca (Máster, 5 días por curso, 2006- 2015); Univewersytetu Lódzkiego (Polonia; Posgrado, 15 días, 2017); Univ. Nacional del Litoral (Argentina; Postgrado, 3 días, 2011); Univ. Nacional Tres de Febrero (Argentina; Postgrado, 4 días, 2011); Univ. de Montevideo (Uruguay; Postgrado, 6 días, 2011); Univ. del País Vasco (Doctorado, 4 días por curso, 2002, 2003, 2004); Univ. de Córdoba (Argentina, 20 días, 2000).
* Sexenios: 4 (último hasta 31/12/2018) * IP de Proyectos de investigación: (a) [1998/PD048] "Cambio de teorías: Variación semántica y relaciones interteóricas"; (b) [FFI2013-41415-P] (como PI2) The Explanatory Function of Abstract Objects: Nature and Cognoscibility / "La función explicativa de los objetos abstractos: naturaleza y cognoscibilidad"; [FFI2017-82534-P] (como PI2) ) Abstract Objects: For and Against: A Neo-Carnapian Way Out. / Objetos abstractos: propuestas a favor y en contra. Una solución neo-carnapiana. Además participación en grupos de investigación desde 1993 a la actualidad.)
*Libros publicados destacados:
- (co-editor, con C. Martínez-Vidal ) (2020): Abstract Objects: For and Against. Synthese Library, Springer, con Preface, Springer. Cham, Switzerland.
- (co-autor, con C. Martínez-Vidal ) (1999): Lógica Clásica de Primer Orden: Estrategias de deducción, formalización y evaluación semántica (Trotta, Madrid, 1999)
* Artículos en los últimos 10 años (en revistas y como capítulos de libros):
- de Donato-Rodríguez, Xavier and Falguera, José L. (2020) The Nature of Scientific Models:
Abstract Artifacts that Determine Fictional Systems, in: Falguera, J. L. and Martínez-Vidal, C. (eds.) (2020) Abstract Objects: For and Against. Springer. Cham, Switzerland, pp. 151-171.
- Falguera, José. L. (2019) El papel constitutive de los principios-guía, en: Díez, J. (Coord.) Exploraciones Pluralistas. UNAM, U.A. Metropolitana, Tecnos, México-Madrid, pp. 126-136.
- Falguera, José L. and Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez. (2017) Metatheoretical structuralism: empirical theories as abstract objects, in: M. de Paz & J. Príncipe (eds.) Évora Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Volume Two. From Ontology to Structure (DOI: 10.19262/978-989-658-482-5), pp. 51-70.
- Falguera, José L. and Santiago Peleteiro.(2016) The approximate representational charácter of perceptual experiences. Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing. International Online Journal, Open Access. Issue 1/2016, pp. 1-20.
- Falguera, José L. y Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez. (2016) Flogisto versus oxígeno: una nueva reconstrucción y su fundamentación histórica. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía. 48 - 142, pp. 87 - 116.
- Falguera, José L. and Xavier Donato-Rodríguez. (2016) Incommensurability, Comparability, and Non-reductive Ontological Relations. Journal for General Philosophy of Science (DOI: 10.1007/s10838-014-9275-3). 47, pp. 37 - 58.
- de Donato-Rodríguez, Xavier and José L. Falguera. (2016) On Fictions, Theoretical Entities, and Ideal Objects: Appliyng Zalta's Abstract Objects Theory to Scientific Theories. In: Borbone, G. - Brzechzyn, K. (eds.) Idealization XIV: Models in Science. (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 108. Idealization). Brill-Rodopi, pp. 13 - 42.
- Peleteiro, Santiago y José L. Falguera. (2014) Experiencia perceptual y sustento epistémico. Revista de Filosofía. 39 - 2, pp. 7 - 32.
- Falguera, José L. (2012) Comparación epistémica de teorías inconmensurables, sin fundamentismo. Lorenzano, P. y Nudler, O. (eds.) El camino desde Kuhn. La inconmensurabilidad hoy. pp. 119 - 170. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
- Falguera, José L. (2012) De lo que tratan en común teorías inconmensurables. Peris-Viñe, L. M. Filosofía de la Ciencia en Iberoamérica: Metateoría estructural. pp. 448 - 468. Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid(España): Tecnos, 2012.
- Falguera, José L., Leyes fundamentales, a priori relativizados y géneros. Stoa. 3, pp. 65 - 85. (México): 2012.
- Falguera, José L. (2011) Consideraciones de índole ontoepistemosemántica, en : Metateheoria, 1, 39-63.
- Falguera, José L. (2011) Representaciones no-conceptuales y lo dado: revisando a Fodor, en. Miguens, S. et al. (eds.) Aspectos do Juízo Aspects of Jugement, Univ. de Porto, pp107-134.
* Estancias en: Universidad de Oxford (UK); Universidades Nacional Tres de Febrero y Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) (07/02/2011 a 08/05/2011); University of Bristol (UK) (15/05/2011 a 15/08/2011).
* Cargos: Asesor de Comunicación y Proyección Exterior de la USC (01/10/2003 a 04/05/2004); Responsable de Comunicación y del Gabinete del Rector de la USC (05/05/2004 a 30/06/2006); Coordinador de Postgrado y Formación Continua de la USC (01/07/2006 a 31/08/2006); Director del Centro de Postgrado, Tercer ciclo y Formación Continua de la USC (01/09/2006 a 17(06/2009); Director del Departamento de Lógíca y Filosofía Moral de la USC (06/02/2013 a 14/06/2016); Director del Departamento de Filosofía y Antropología de la USC (04/10/2016 a la actualidad)
martin.pereira [at] usc.es (martin[dot]pereira[at]usc[dot]es)
Dr. Martín Pereira-Fariña scientific career is characterised by an interdisciplinary and highly internationalised profile, both in training and research activity. My researcher career began in the area of logic with an FPU programme grant from the Ministry of Education (2007 call) after obtaining a degree in Philosophy. My doctoral thesis addressed the development of a theoretical model for syllogistic reasoning with vague sentences and its computational implementation. Four publications from this research turned out in international journals, three of them in journals of the first quartile of the JCR ranking, and nine communications in another nine conferences, including national and international (five of them indexed in the CORE-ERA ranking) in the fields of philosophy and computing science.
After obtaining my PhD degree (2014), I continued my research activity with a contract from the competitive postdoctoral training programme funded by the autonomous government of Xunta de Galicia (2016). During the first two years I stayed at the Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech) of the University of Dundee (Scotland, UK), an international reference centre in argumentation technologies, and under the supervision of its director, Prof. Chris Reed. During this period, I specialised in theory of argumentation and the development of computational tools for its analysis. As a result of this stage, I participated as co-author in five papers at international conferences in the fields of argumentation theory and computational models for its study. I also participated in the transfer project between the ARG-tech and the BBC as coordinator of the annotators team. This is, so far, the biggest case of application of argumentation technologies in a real case and for general audience (cf. bbc.arg. tech).
During the last year of my contract on this programme, I joined the Department of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Subsequently, I was the beneficiary of a grant from the Juan de la Cierva- Incorporation programme (2018) at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and under the supervision of Dr. César González. We started a line of work, also in collaboration with Prof. Patricia Martin-Rodilla (Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña), dedicated to the argumentative analysis of the discourse on cultural heritage and the development of the necessary computer tools for this study. The preliminary results of this research have been presented in two editions of the Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, the most widely disseminated conference in the field of computer science applied to the study of heritage, and in a national conference on digital humanities.
With regard to my internationalization, in addition to the two-year stay at the University of Dundee, I carried out two pre-doctoral stays of three months each, the first one at the European Centre for Soft Computing (Mieres, Asturias), under the supervision of Dr. Gracián Triviño (resulting in a joint publication in a journal of the JCR ranking); and the second one at the Vienna Technical University (Vienna, Austria) under the supervision of Prof. Chris Fermüeller. Already as a postdoctoral researcher, I visited the Universidad del Bío-Bío (Chile) to collaborate with Prof. Clemente Rubio (three months), and financed by the competitive programme Becas Iberoamérica, Jóvenes Profesores e Investigadores del Santander Universidades (2015) funded by Santander Bank. As a result of this collaboration, we published a research paper in a journal indexed in the JCR ranking, a book chapter and three papers presented in national and international conferences (CORE/ERA A ranking).
In addition to the above-mentioned related collaborations, it is worth mentioning the line of work with Prof. Katarzyna Budzynska and Prof. Marcin Koszowy (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), in the study of ethos and its role in argumentative discourse (we have already presented five papers in three international conferences and have submitted a research paper to a JCR journal that is under review); with Prof. Jean Wagemans, from Amsterdam University (Netherlands), expert in argumentation as well, on types and classification of propositions (with a contribution accepted for presentation in an international workshop); with Prof. Pablo Gamallo (Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), a specialist in natural language processing, we addressed the study of semantic similarity between sentences in the elaboration of arguments (one publication in a scientific journal and two communications in international workshops).
Finally, with respect to my participation in R&D activities, I am currently a MC Substitute of COST Action APPLY (COST Action CA17132), focused on the application of argumentation theory to society, which allows me to have contacts with the largest European network of researchers dedicated to the study of argumentation. Previously, I have participated in 11 research projects, both in calls competitive as well as non-competitive, with more than 2,000,000 of funds; and I have been a member of the organizing committee in 11 national and international scientific events, among which we can highlight a session of the 2019 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CM 2019), the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2018), the 7th Congress of the Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Spain (2012) or the summer course of the University of Santiago de Compostela Artificial Intelligence: science, technology, fiction or marketing? (2012).
During this time, I have also developed a teaching activity, giving classes in the Computer Science and Philosophy degrees of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and in the Master of Data Engineering of the University of Dundee (courses 2016/2017, 2017/2018).
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and I teach the subjects of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Philosophy of Language and Semiotics of the degree in Philosophy and in the EMLex - European Master in Lexicography of the Erasmus Mundus programme.
In the last 10 years I have published and presented more than 40 research papers, 30% of which have been published in national and international journals (most of them indexed in the WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar rankings) and 40% in international congresses and scientific meetings, collaborating with more than 15 different researchers, both from Spain and abroad.
Summary table with the citations received in the last 5 years 2015-2020 h-index
WoS 45 3
Scopus 55 4
Google Scholar 112 5
Summary table with the volume of publications 2010-2020 Publications in journals 15
Publications in magazines Q1 7 Contributions to international conferences 15 Contributions in international workshops 7 Contributions to national conferences 13
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