M.J. García Encinas
Interests: I am full time professor in Philosophy at the University of Granada, in Spain. My main research interests are in Metaphysics: causation, laws, properties, identity, and personal identity, but I also enjoy studying the history of philosophy, especially medieval philosophy. I am a trope theorist, a singularist concerning causation, and I try to defend a sort of narrative approach to personal identity. However, what I enjoy most is being with my family and reading 19th century novels under a river bridge in a very hot summer --no point trying.
Main papers
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2012) “On Categories and A Posteriori Necessity: a phenomenological echo” Metaphilosophy 43(1-2): 147-164.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2011) “Singular Causation without Dispositions” Theoria 70: 35-50.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2009) “Tropes for Causation” Metaphysica 10: 157-174.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2008) “Los tropos son naturalezas individuales” Revista de filosofía 33(1): 97-116.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2006) “¿Metafísica analítica?”Límite: Revista de filosofía y psicología 1(14): 87-107.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2005) “La crítica de Pedro Abelardo a otros nominalismos” Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 12: 179-190.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2005) “Medieval Concepts and the Problem of Universals” In J.J. Acero & P. Leonardi (eds.) Facets of Concepts Padova: Polígrafo, pp. 17-33.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2004) “Transference,
or Identity Theories of Causation?" Theoria 49(19): 31-47.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2003) “A posteriori Necessity in Singular
Causation and the Humean Argument" Dialectica 57(1): 41-55.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2002) “Acciones causales
temporalmente invertidas” Diálogos 80: 51-74.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2002) “Sullivan on the
Principle that Everything has a Cause”Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical
Review 51(3): 427-438.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2002) “Necessity in Singular Causation”Philosophia:
Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 29 (3-4): 149-172.
Translations into Spanish
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2008) “Las paradojas del
viaje en el tiempo” de David Lewis Praxis Filosófica
22: 269-283.
* Garcia-Encinas, M.J. (2009) “Mundos posibles” de David Lewis Praxis Filosófica 29: 155-164.
Conferences in the last 5 years
* (2011) “Identidad personal y responsabilidad agente” Workshop Granada-Valencia: Creencia y Acción Universidad de Valencia, 14-16 Abril 2011.
* (2010) “Acción, intención y persona en Sellars” Seminario sobre La Filosofía de Wilfrid Sellars Universidad de Granada, 2-3 Diciembre 2010.
* (2010) “Sobre caussalidad y la dirección medios-fines en la acción” 6º Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica La Laguna, 14-16 Octubre 2010.
* (2010) “On the Notion of Action and Agential Responsibility” Workshop on Knowledge, Rationality and Causal Action Universidad de Granada, 17-18 June 2010.
* (2009) “The Non-Being of Dispositions” Meeting on Dispositions Universidad de Granada, 23 November 2009.
* (2009) “What is Singular Causation?” EPSA 09: Second Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association University of Amsterdam, 21-24 October 2009.
* (2009) “Leyes y relaciones causales” XVIII Jornadas de Filosofía. Método y represetación en la ciencia Universidad de Valladolid, 7-9 Octubre 2009.
* (2009) “External but Necessary Causation!” Midsouth Philosophy Conference University of Memphis, 17-18 April 2009.
* (2009) “Causality and the Possibility of External but Necessary Causation” WIP seminar of the Philosophy Department University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 6 April 2009.
* (2009) “Acción versus Causación” Workshop Granada-Valencia sobre Conocimiento, Racionalidad y Acción Causal Universidad de Granada, 23-25 Febrero 2009.
* (2009) “Causality: A Necessary but External Relation? Why Not! Granada Workshop on Science, Powers and Causes Universidad de Granada, 2-3 February 2009.
* (2008) “On Causality: Can Necessary Connections Be Broken?” Eidos Metaphysics Conference Geneve, 15-18 July 2008.
* (2007) “Singular causation without dispositions”
Workshop on Singular Causality, Counterfactuals, and Mental Causation
University of Granada, 8-10 November 2007.
* (2007) “Dispositions: cutting nature at the wrong joints” 3rd
International Workshop: Causality and Relativity Universidad Autónoma
de Barcelona, 12-13 Septiembre 2007.