Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Max Kölbel

ICREA Research Professor

Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

Universitat de Barcelona

Contact

max.kolbel [the 'a' with a circle around it] gmx.com

LOGOS/Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta, 4051

08001 Barcelona

Spain

Tel: (+34) 93 403 7989

Curriculum Vitae

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Max Kölbel has been a senior member of Logos and an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat de Barcelona since 2008. His main interests are in philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and metaethics. Max has recently led international collaborative research projects on "Semantic Content and Conversational Dynamics" as well as "Semantic Content and Context Dependence". He was also involved centrally in the PERSP project. Currently, he is jointly responsible with Josep Macià for a new research project on "Foundations and Methods of Natural Language Semantics". He participates in the European DIAPHORA Training Network. He is also engaged in a long-term research project on objectivity in thought and language.

Max got his PhD in Philosophy from King's College, University of London (UK), in 1997. He has worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the UNAM in México City, at the University of Wales Swansea, in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University (UK) and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Birmingham (UK). He has held visiting positions at, amongst others, the Mercator Research Group, Bochum University, the Philosophy Department, University of Hamburg, and at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.

From September 2017, Max will be joining the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He will continue to be associated with Logos as a Collaborator.

ORCID-identifier: 0000-0003-0130-5976

PhilPapers page: http://philpapers.org/s/Max%20K%C3%B6lbel

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5eFb4CcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Selection of Publications

Max Kölbel. 2017
"About Concerns "
In Ilse Depraetere and Raphael Salkie (eds.), Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line, Amsterdam: Springer, 197–214.
Max Kölbel. 2016
"Moralischer Relativismus " (German translation of "Moral Relativism" (2015).
In Markus Rüther (ed.), Grundkurs Metaethik. Münster: Mentis Verlag.
Max Kölbel. 2016
"Aesthetic Judge-Dependence and Expertise "
Inquiry 59, 589–617.
Max Kölbel. 2015
Review of John MacFarlane, Assessment Sensitivity [CORRECTED VERSION]
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Max Kölbel. 2015
"Propositionen "
In Nikola Kompa (ed), Handbuch Sprachphilosophie, Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler.
Max Kölbel. 2015
"Moral Relativism "
In Tim Crane (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2015, London: Routledge.
Max Kölbel. 2015
"Relativism 2: Semantic Content"
Philosophy Compass 10/1, pp. 52–67.
Max Kölbel. 2015
"Relativism 1: Representational Content"
Philosophy Compass 10/1, pp. 38–51.
Max Kölbel. 2014
"Agreement and Communication"
Erkenntnis 79, pp. 101–120.
Max Kölbel. 2013
Wörtliche illokutionäre Kraft. Eine Verteidigung der konventionalen Behauptung
in Eva-Maria Konrad et al. (eds), Fiktion, Wahrheit, Interpretation, Münster: Mentis Verlag.
Max Kölbel. 2013
"The Conversational Role of Centered Contents "
Inquiry 56, pp. 97–121.
Max Kölbel. 2013
"Should we be Pluralists about Truth?"
in Nicolaj Jang Pedersen and Cory Wright (eds), Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013.
Max Kölbel. 2011
"Global Relativism and Self-Refutation "
Steven D. Hales (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Relativism, Oxford: Blackwell.
Max Kölbel. 2011
Objectivity, Relativism and Context Dependence (text book for master-level course)
Fernuniversität Hagen.
Max Kölbel. 2011
"Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony "
in Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen (eds), New Essays on Assertion, Oxford Oxford University Press.
Max Kölbel. 2010
"Vagueness as Semantic "
Dietz and Moruzzi (eds.): Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Max Kölbel. 2009
English translation of pp. 25-36 as well as the last paragraph of Gottlob Frege: “Über Sinn und Bedeutung”. The translation is by Max Kölbel and may be used unchanged for non-commercial purposes, as long as the source is properly acknowledged.

This translation has appeared also in Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel (eds), Arguing about Language, London: Routledge 2010, pp. 49–55.
Max Kölbel. 2009
"The Evidence for Relativism"
Synthese 166 (January 2009), pp. 375–95.
Max Kölbel. 2009
“Sittenvielfalt und Moralischer Relativismus ”
in Gerhard Ernst (ed.): Moralischer Relativismus, Paderborn: Mentis.
Max Kölbel, Darragh Byrne. 2009
Arguing about Language (edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel)
London: Routledge.
Max Kölbel. 2009
"Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion "
in Sarah Sawyer (ed.), New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
Max Kölbel, Manuel García-Carpintero. 2008
Relative Truth (edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel)
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Max Kölbel. 2008
"Truth in Semantics "
Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 242–57.
Max Kölbel. 2008
"' True' as Ambiguous "
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (September 2008), pp.359–84.
Max Kölbel. 2008
"Motivations for Relativism "
in Garcia-Carpintero and Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 1–38.
Max Kölbel. 2007
“How to Spell Out Genuine Relativism and How to Defend Indexical Relativism”
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (July 2007), p. 281–288.
Max Kölbel. 2006
"Conventions in Language "
Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Elsevier Publishers 2006. Reprinted in Alex Barber and Robert Stainton (eds),Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Elsevier Publishers 2010.
Max Kölbel. 2005
"Moral Relativism "
in Dag Westerstahl and Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds), Lectures on Relativism, Göteborg University 2005.
Max Kölbel. 2004
“Zwei Arten von Relativismus ”
in R. Bluhm and C. Nimtz (eds.), Selected Papers Contributed to GAP.5, 5th International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, 22-26 September 2003, Paderborn: Mentis 2004. (Shortened German version of "Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism").
Max Kölbel. 2004
“Sainsbury’s Programme ”. Article for a Book Symposium on Departing from Frege by Mark Sainsbury
Philosophical Books 45, (July 2004), pp. 187–96.
Max Kölbel. 2004
"Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism "
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (Oct. 2004), pp. 297–313.
Max Kölbel. 2003
"Faultless Disagreement "
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (October 2003), pp. 53–73.
Max Kölbel. 2002
Truth without Objectivity (table of contents , introduction )
London: Routledge
Max Kölbel. 2002
"Wright on Disputes of Inclination "
Unpublished paper, deposited here in order to continue to provide access.
Max Kölbel. 2001
"Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics "
Journal of Philosophy 98 (December 2001), pp. 613–35.
Max Kölbel. 2000
"Edgington on Compounds of Conditionals "
Mind 109 (Jan 2000), pp. 97–108.
Max Kölbel. 1999
“Saving Relativism from its Saviour ”
Crítica 31 (April 1999), pp. 91–103.
Max Kölbel. 1998
“Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies ”
Inquiry 41 (Sept 1998), pp. 301–15.
Max Kölbel. 1997
“Wright’s Argument from Neutrality ”
Ratio 10, (April 1997), pp. 35–47.
Max Kölbel. 1997
Expressivism and the Syntactic Uniformity of Declarative Sentences
Crítica 29 (December 1997), pp. 3–51.

Links

Here are links to the webpages of some of my courses:
Wahrheit (Oct 2013-Jan 2014)
Metaethik (Oct 2013-Jan 2014)
Texte zu den Grundlagen der Semantik (Oct 2013-Jan 2014)
Topics in Epistemology (Feb-June 2014)
The Nature of Language (Feb-June 2014)
Intro to Metaethics (Oct 2014–Jan 2015)
Intro to Metaethics (Feb 2016–Jun 2016)
See Max's page at ICREA (for downloads of some recent papers you need to click "selected publications" at the bottom).
Handout for Talk at Philosophische Gesellschaft Zentralschweiz, Luzern, 11/11/2015.
Handout for PLM4 talk 22/9/2017

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Max Kölbel

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Curriculum Vitae

Selection of Publications

"About Concerns "

"Moralischer Relativismus " (German translation of "Moral Relativism" (2015).

"Aesthetic Judge-Dependence and Expertise "

Review of John MacFarlane, Assessment Sensitivity [CORRECTED VERSION]

"Propositionen "

"Moral Relativism "

"Relativism 2: Semantic Content"

"Relativism 1: Representational Content"

"Agreement and Communication"

Wörtliche illokutionäre Kraft. Eine Verteidigung der konventionalen Behauptung

"The Conversational Role of Centered Contents "

"Should we be Pluralists about Truth?"

"Global Relativism and Self-Refutation "

Objectivity, Relativism and Context Dependence (text book for master-level course)

"Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony "

"Vagueness as Semantic "

English translation of pp. 25-36 as well as the last paragraph of Gottlob Frege: “Über Sinn und Bedeutung”. The translation is by Max Kölbel and may be used unchanged for non-commercial purposes, as long as the source is properly acknowledged.

"The Evidence for Relativism"

“Sittenvielfalt und Moralischer Relativismus ”

Arguing about Language (edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel)

"Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion "

Relative Truth (edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel)

"Truth in Semantics "

"' True' as Ambiguous "

"Motivations for Relativism "

“How to Spell Out Genuine Relativism and How to Defend Indexical Relativism”

"Conventions in Language "

"Moral Relativism "

“Zwei Arten von Relativismus ”

“Sainsbury’s Programme ”. Article for a Book Symposium on Departing from Frege by Mark Sainsbury

"Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism "

"Faultless Disagreement "

Truth without Objectivity (table of contents , introduction )

"Wright on Disputes of Inclination "

"Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics "

"Edgington on Compounds of Conditionals "

“Saving Relativism from its Saviour ”

“Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies ”

“Wright’s Argument from Neutrality ”

Expressivism and the Syntactic Uniformity of Declarative Sentences

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Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy