Born 12-06-1967 in Granada, Spain; Nationality: Spanish
ID Card number: 29.080.237-A; Granada, 17-09-99
Address: Calle Dulcinea Del Toboso, 5, 1C, 18008 Granada, Spain
Phone number: Home (+ 34) 958 - 13 18 01; Office (+ 34) 958 - 24 62 17
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E-mail: manueldpg@hotmail.com; pinedo@ugr.es
1.
Degrees
Doctor
of Philosophy and Cognitive Science awarded
for the dissertation From Representation to Practice. A Critique of
Naturalized Reason, supervised by Margaret Boden and Murali Ramachandran
and examined by Michael Morris (Sussex University) and Manuel García-Carpintero
(Universidad de Barcelona). School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
Sussex University (Inglaterra) (1995-2000).
Master of Arts (Mode B: research only) awarded for the dissertation Functionalist Semantics: A Critique of J.A. Fodor’s Philosophy of Mind, supervised by Markus Wörner and examined by Karsten Harris (University of Yale). 1st class honours. Philosophy Department, University College Galway, National University of Ireland (1991-93).
Licenciado en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación. (BA in Philosophy and Arts). Universidad de Granada (1985-1990).
2. Fellowships
Demonstratorship
from Sussex University for DPhil degree (October 1995 to September 1996
and October 1997 to September 1999).
Erasmus
Grant (European Union)
to travel to the Universidad de Granada (January to July 1995).
Fellowship
from the National University of Ireland
for PhD degree (October 1994 to September 1995).
Fellowship
from the National University of Ireland
for M.A. degree (October 1991 to September 1993).
Erasmus
Grant (Economic European
Community) for University College Galway (January to July 1990).
3.
Publications, Talks and other research activities
A)
Refereed papers
(with
Hilan Bensusan) “Soft Facts:
The World amongst our Concepts”, submitted.
“Anomalous
Monism: Oscillating between Dogmas”, Synthese, in press.
“Thought
and Objectivity: Evans Gambit”, Ágora. Papeles de
Filosofía (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), in press.
“Truth
Matters: Normativity in Thought and Knowledge”, Theoria, in
press.
(with
Jason Noble) “Mechanistic and
Ecological Explanations in Agent-Based Models of Cognition” ALIFE9,
MIT Press, in press.
“The
Anamalous Character of Experience”, Experience and Analysis (Preproceeding
of the 27th Wittgenstein Symposium), pp. 269-71.
“Del
representacionalismo a la armonía preestablecida: una introducción
crítica a la filosofía de Jerry Fodor”, Episteme NS (Venezuela),
in press.
“De
la imagen manifiesta a la actitud natural: el lugar de la ciencia en nuestra
comprensión del mundo”, Daimón, Revista de Filosofía
(Murcia, España), 25 (2002) 145-162.
“Vida artificial y filosofía”
Teorema
17 (1998) 119-26.
B)
Peer Commentaries, Reviews, and Critical Notices
“Reseña de El
conflicto entre continentales y analíticos de Luis Sáez”,
Teorema,
in press.
(with
Jason Noble) “Mind / Body Problems?
Turn to Beer” Adaptive Behavior 11 (2003) 289-90
“Reseña
de Mind and World de John McDowell” Teorema 16 (1997).
“Critical Notice of J.Heil's The Nature of True Minds” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1996).
C)
Editions
Monographical
Issue of Ágora. Papeles de Filosofía (Santiago de
Compostela, Spain): Gareth Evans: The Coming of Age (with Juan José
Acero), in press.
D) Conference talks
D1:
International Congresses
(with Jason Noble) “Mechanistic and Ecological Explanations in Agent-Based Models of Cognition”
9th
International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems,
Boston, EE. UU. 12-15 September 2004 (accepted)
“The Anamalous Character of Experience”
Experience
and Analysis (27th Wittgenstein Symposium),
Kirchberg, Austria, 8-14 August 2004
(with Jason Noble) “Beyond Persons: Extending the Personal / Subpersonal Distinction to Non-Rational Animals and Artificial Agents”
European
Society for Philosophy and Psychology—Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Joint Conference, Barcelona 3-6 July 2004
“De la interpretación radical a la fusión de horizontes: La perspectiva de la segunda persona”
El Legado de Gadamer
(Congreso Internacional sobre Hermenéutica Filosófica),
Granada 10-12 December 2003
“Anomalous Monism: Oscillating between Dogmas”
9th Italo-Spanish Meeting of Analytic Philosophy,
Padua
(Italy) 29-30 November 2002
“Truth Matters: Normativity and Identity”
Wittgenstein, Meaning and Truth: Paul Horwich Workshop
Valencia
(Spain), 24-5 October 2002
“If the Mind is Anomic, Why not Experience?”,
Fifth Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
Bergamo
(Italy), 3-5 October 2002
“Computation and Mind: From Syntax to Pragmatics”,
Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Lyon
(France), 10-13 July 2002
“No token-identities without scheme/content dualism”,
Forth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy,
Lund
(Sweden), 14-8 July 2002
“Personal Identity and Qualitative States: Discussion of Alberto Voltolini’s ‘Soulless yet non-material qualia’”
8th Italo-Spanish Meeting of Analytic Philosophy,
Santiago
de Compostela (Spain), 18-9 November 2001
(with Thomas Beament) “Givenness and Naturalism: Breaking with the Myths”,
Isle
of Thorns Philosophy Congress, February 1999
D2: National Congresses
“Truth Matters: Normativity in Thought and Language”
Workshop
“Normatividad”, Granada 12-13 February 2004
“Pensamiento y mundo: la verdad como norma”
Coloquio Compostelano de Filosofía Analítica
Santiago de Compostela
(Spain), 15 November 2002
D3: Invited Talks
“Truth Matters: Normativity and Identity”
Philosophical Society, Sussex University (United Kingdom), 7 November 2003
“Causación y explicación: la oscilación dogmática de Davidson”
TeC: Trabajos en Contrucción
Granada, 19 Mayo 2003
“Personal and Subpersonal: a Distinction for Philosophy and Cognitive Science”
Biosystems Reading Group
School of Computing, Leeds University (United Kingdom), 19 March 2003
“Pensamiento y mundo: la verdad como norma”
TeC: Trabajos en Contrucción
Granada, 21 October 2002
E)
Research Groups
Dinámica de Creencias, Junta de Andalucía HUM101.Director: Luis Miguel Peris Viñé
F)
Organization of Seminars, Conferences and workshops
Seminario TeC (Trabajos
en Construcción), Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad
de Granada. Octubre 2002-today. Invited speakers: John McDowell (Pittsburgh),
Steven Davies (Montreal), Genoveva Martí (Barcelona), Murali Ramachandran
(Sussex), Carlos Avendaño (Autónoma Madrid), Francisco Calvo
Garzón (Murcia), Jeremy Butterfield (Oxford), Philippe de Brabanter
(Jean Nicod, Paris), Henrik Zinkernagel (CSIC), María José
García Encinas (Deusto), Carolina Scotto (Córdoba, Argentina),
Hilan Bensusan (Brasilia, Brasil), Fernando Martínez Manrique (UPV),
Agustín Vicente (Valladolid), Germán Guerrero Pino (del Valle,
Colombia), Antonio Garzón Vico (UCD, Ireland), Manuel de Pinedo,
María José Frápolli, Juan José Acero, Neftalí
Villanueva, Antonio Gaitán, José Luis Pérez (Granada)
Workshop “Normatividad”,
Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Granada. 12-13 February
2004. Invited speakers: Concepción Martínez (Santiago de
Compostela), Josep Corbí (Valencia), Javier Rodríguez, Manuel
de Pinedo (Granada)
Workshop “David Lewis: Counterfactuals and Causation” taught by Murali Ramachandran (Sussex), Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Granada 22-24 March 2004
Workshop
“Reasoning, Knowledge and Causation: Counterfactuals in Philosophical Theorising”
taught by Murali Ramachandran (Sussex University), Departamento de Filosofía,
Universidad de Granada 2-8 April 2002
G)
Refereeing
“Referee” for III Congreso
de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica,
Granada, 13-15 December 2001
“Referee” for XII Interuniversitary Seminar of Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Christopher Peacocke, Girona (Spain) 21-3 March 2002
“Referee” for Episteme NS (Venezuela)
H)
Learned Societies Membership
Sociedad Española
de Filosofía Analítica (SEFA)
European
Society of Analytic Philosophy (ESAP)
Società Italiana
di Filosofia Analitica (SIFA)
European
Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP)
American
Philosophical Association (APA)
International
Society of Artificial Life (ISAL)
4.
Research Abroad
Leeds University (United Kingdom), School of Computing. August 2003 to January 2004: 5 months
Sussex University (United Kingdom), School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. October 1995-September 1996; October 1997-September 1999. DPhil: 36 months
University
College Galway, National University of Ireland, Philosophy Department.
January-June 1990 (Erasmus grant); October 1991-September 1993 (M.A. thesis);
October 1994-September 1995 (Ph.D.): 42 months
5.
Teaching
Universidad de Granada.
Departamento de Filosofía.
Senior Research Fellow, “Programa Ramón y Cajal” (Ministery for Science and Technology, Spain) (November 2001-November 2006). Philosophy subjects taught:
- Logic II (B. A., first cycle)
- Philosophy of Mind and Action (B.A., second cycle)
- Epistemology II (B.A., second cycle)
- D.Phil course: Enfoques Continentales y Analíticos Sobre la Disolución del Sujeto (Continental and Analytic Approaches to the dissolution of the subject)
Profesor
Asociado Extraordinario (junior assitant professor) (February-September
2001). Philosophy subjects taught:
- Philosophical Pragmatics (B.A., first cycle)
- Theory of Meaning and Reference (B.A., first cycle)
- Philosophy of Logic I: Theories of Truth (B.A., first cycle)
Sussex
University (School of Cognitive and Computing
Sciences [COGS] and Arts Faculty). Philosophy Demonstrator (1995-1996;
1997-1999). Subjects taught:
- COGS: Philosophy I seminar
- ‘Special Project’ supervision
(Fall 1995)
- Philosophy of Science seminar
- Mind, Computation and Matter seminar
- COGS: Philosophy II seminar
- Marking of Elementary Formal Logic exercises
(Spring/Summer 1996)
- Introduction to Cognitive Science: Philosophy seminars
- COGS: Philosophy II seminars
(Fall 1997)
- Introduction to Philosophy I seminars
- COGS: Philosophy I seminars
(Spring/Summer 1998)
- COGS: Philosophy I seminars
(Fall 1998)
- COGS: Philosophy II seminars
(Spring/Summer 1999)