Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

The constitution of representational content. Semantic and epistemic aspects

Duration: 2005 - 2008

Code: HUM2005-07539-C02-01/FISO (MEDU)

Principal Investigator

Manuel Pérez Otero (perez.otero@ub.edu)

All researchers

Manuel Pérez Otero (U. Barcelona)
Josep Macià (U. Barcelona)
Cristina Balaguer (U. Barcelona)

Cristina Balaguer

Ekain Garmendia

Josep Macià

Cristina Roadevin

Agustín Vicente

Summary

Compatibilism between externalist theses and rational-internalist intuitions (about meaning, knowledge, epistemic justification). Transparency of representational content. Non-reducibility of the referential semantic function. Discriminatory abilities required for knowledge and singular individuation. Development and application of Peacocke’s theory of concepts and apriority. Necessary conditions for the use of proper names and their transmission, relevant for the acquisition of knowledge by testimony. Relations between mental and linguistic representations.

Publications

  • Manuel Pérez Otero, (coautor). 2009

    The Conventional and the Analytic

    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 78, pp. 239-274

     

    Autores: M. García-Carpintero y M. Pérez Otero

  • Manuel Pérez Otero. 2008

    "The Humean problem of induction and Carroll’s Paradox"

    Philosophical Studies, Vol. 141, 3, pp. 357-376

  • Manuel Pérez Otero. 2007

    "An Evaluation of Kripke’s Account of the Illusion of Contingency"

    Crítica, vol. 39, pp. 19-44

  • Manuel Pérez Otero. 2007

    "Bases epistémicas de la inducción"

    Ludus Vitalis. Revista de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Vida, Vol. XV, núm. 27, pp. 37-49

  • Manuel Pérez Otero. 2006

    "Aspectos particularistas en el discurso modal"

    Theoria, Vol. 21/2, pp. 213-232

  • Manuel Pérez Otero. 2005

    "El problema de Hume y la Paradoja de Carroll"

    Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, Vol. XXXI, pp. 93-120