Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Main Research Interests:

Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind & Psychology, Social & Political Philosophy

Recent activities:

The Foundations of Fiction, 2024 (with E. Paganini)

Filosofia Inter-Disciplinare, 2024 (with E. Paganini)

Expressives, Emotions, Beliefs (with M. García-Carpintero & T. Marques)

III Jornada dels Instituts de Recerca Propis de la UB sobre Intel·ligència Artificial (IA), 2024 (with P. Connolly)

Filosofia Inter-Disciplinare (FID), 2024 (with E. Paganini)

EHESS/UB Doctoral Workshops on Aesthetic Emotions, 2024 (with C. Cano & M. Castro)

Barcelona Pensa X, 2023 (with T. Marques & E. Pérez-Navarro)

Mini-workshop on Fiction, 2023 (with M. García-Carpintero & N. Marsili) [Video recording]

Barcelona Workshop 12, 2023 (with M. García-Carpintero & E. Terrone) [Video recordings]

Online Accessibility Pledge, 2022

Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy, 2021

LOGOS Graduate Training Workshops, 2020–present (with M. Palmira up to 2020)

Research Methods in Analytic Philosophy, Master's in Analytic Philosophy (APhil), 2021–2022 (with S. Keeling)

Discussion Groups:

- Affects and Mental Agency (AMA), 2019–2020 (with D. Pineda & J. Toribio)

- Philosophy of Propaganda (PoP), 2020–2021 (with T. Marques)

Extra Talks:

- Jenn Gleason (Ohio State), "'Mental Disorder' is Not Medically Useful", 13/11/2018

- Julia Langkau (Fribourg), "On Imagining Being Someone Else", 24/11/2020 [Video recording]

- Dimitrios Dentsoras (Manitoba), "Aesthetic Value, Location, and Narrative: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles", 9/2/2021 [Video recording]

- Giulia Piredda (IUSS Pavia), "Situated Affectivity: A Guide for the Perplexed", 23/3/2021 [Video recording]

- Bill Seeley (Southern Maine), "How to Be a Moderate Optimist about Neuroscience in Philosophy of Film and Other Places", 13/4/2021 [Video recording]

- Mark Windsor (New College Humanities), "The Miraculous and the Uncanny", 4/5/2021 [Video recording]

- Dan Hutto & Ian Robertson (Wollongong), "A New Better BET", 27/7/2021 [Video recording]

- Constant Bonard (Jean Nicod), "A new belief-desire theory of emotion: the etiological cognitive-conative account", 10/11/2021 [Video recording]

- Ana Clemente (Queen Mary & Barcelona), "Aesthetic Sensitivity", 7/12/2021 [Video recording]

- Gemma Schino (Groningen), "Applying Bodily Sensation Maps To Art-Elicited Emotions", 22/2/2022 [Video recording]

- Gerald Cupchik (Toronto), "Building Bridges Between Analytic and Experimental Psychological Aesthetics", 19/4/2022 [Video recording]

- Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė (Vilnius), "Aesthetic Value and Judgments of the Identity of Musical Works", 27/6/2022 [Video recording]

- Philip Letts (Manchester), "Art and Eligibility", 8/8/2022 [Video recording]

- Thomas Adajian (James Madison), "Steps Towards a Pragmatic (Peircean) Definition of Art", 14/5/2024 [Video recording]

Linguistic Justice Society Webinars:

- 25 March 2022, 09.00-10.30 (CET): Ying Ying Tan (Nanyang Technological University), "Doing Justice to and in the World of Englishes" [Video recording]

- 25 May 2022, 11.00-12.30 (CEST): Michele Gazzola (Ulster University), "Towards an Index of Linguistic Justice" [Video recording]

- 25 July 2022, 17.00-18.30 (CEST): Saray Ayala-López (California State University, Sacramento), "Norms of Philosophy" [Video recording]

- 29 September 2022, 16.00-17.30 (CEST): Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), "What if Epistemology Was Written in Cofán Rather Than English?" [Video recording]

- 25 November 2022, 14.00-15.30 (CET): Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal), "Addressing Power in the Representation of Minoritized Linguistic Interests"

- 30 January 2023, 14.00-16.00 (CET): Yael Peled (Max Planck Institute), "How to do Things Without Words? Relational Ethics in Linguistic Rupture"

- 30 March 2023, 15:00-17:00 (CEST): Yener Çağla Çimendereli (Syracuse University), "Phenomenology of Nonnative Speaking: An Agential Approach to Linguistic Injustice" [Video recording]

- 30 May 2023, 16:00-18:00 (CEST): Brice Nordquist (Syracuse University), "Literacy, Mobility and Collaborative Writing on the 7 Train" [Video recording]

- 28 July 2023, 1:00-3:00 (CEST), Alexandra Grey (Sydney University of Technology), "Linguistic Inclusion and Good Governance in Multilingual Australia" [Video recording]

- 29 September 2023, 16.00-18.00 (CEST), Filippo Contesi (Universitat de Barcelona), "Philosophy's Linguistic Rut" [Video recording]

- 29 November 2023, 20.00-22.00 (CET), Gerald Roche (La Trobe University), "Death and the Politics of Languages" [Video recording]

- 30 January 2024, 11.00-13.00 (CET), Lucien Baumgartner (Zurich), Neri Marsili (UNED) & Paul Rehren (Utrecht), "Linguistic Inequity in Academic Philosophy: A Big Data Analysis of Publication Trends (1975–2021)" [Video recording]

- 29 May 2024, 15.00-16.30 (CEST), Cecilia Gialdini (Edinburgh) & Nicole Marinaro (Ulster), "Linguistic Justice In Healthcare: Macro and Micro Perspectives" [Video recording]

- 12 June 2024, 16.00-17.30 (CEST), Josep Soler (Stockholm) & Kerttu Rozenvalde (Tartu), "Linguistic Domination or Discrimination? Linguistic Justice in International Academic Mobility" [Video recording]

- 23 September 2024, 11.00-12.30 (CEST), Francesca Ervas (Cagliari), "Linguistic Justice and Translation in Analytic Philosophy" [Video recording]

- 26 November 2024, 15.00-16.30 (CET), Nomaswazi Kubeka (Johannesburg), "Linguistic Justice as an Epistemic Reparation" [Video recording]

- 27 January 2025, 14.00-15.30 (CET), Kristin Snoddon (Toronto Metropolitan University), "Deaf Interpreters and Epistemic Injustice"

- March 2025, time TBD, Sergi Morales-Gálvez (University of Valencia), Núria Franco-Guillén (Aberystwyth University), Toni Rodon (Pompeu Fabra University), Bernat Puertas (Pompeu Fabra University) and Avel·lí Flors (University of Barcelona), “Language and Political Trust in Multilingual Settings”

Selected Publications:

- "The Defectiveness of Propaganda" (with Constant Bonard & Teresa Marques), Philosophical Quarterly, 2024

- "The Problem of Taste to the Experimental Test" (with Enrico Terrone, Marta Campdelacreu, Ramón García-Moya & Genoveva Martí), Analysis, 2024

- "Stylistic Appearances and Linguistic Diversity", Metaphilosophy, 2023 [open access]

- "The Affective Nature of Horror", in M. Ryynänen et al. (eds), Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral, Routledge, 2022 [open access]

- "Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping?" (with Louise Chapman & Constantine Sandis), The Philosophers’ Magazine, 2021

- Il disgusto tra arte e scienza, Mimesis, 2021

- "Peter Lamarque", in A. Giovannelli (ed.), Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers, Bloomsbury, 2021

- "Carroll on the Emotion of Horror", Projections, 2020

- "A Taxonomy of Disgust in Art" (with Noël Carroll), in K. Tavin et al. (eds), Art, Excess, and Education, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

- "Art and Emotion", in D. Pritchard (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2018

- "Linguistic Justice and Analytic Philosophy" (eds; with Enrico Terrone), Philosophical Papers, 2018

- "How Transparent is Disgust?", European Journal of Philosophy, 2017

- "Korsmeyer on Fiction and Disgust", British Journal of Aesthetics, 2015