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I'm an RCUK Academic Fellow at the Stirling Philosophy Department since September 2007. I'm also and Associate Fellow of the Logos Research Group (Barcelona) and of the Northern Institute of Philosophy (Aberdeen).
Before that, and right after finishing my Ph.D., I spent 3 months as a post-doctoral visiting researcher at the CMM in Leeds.
I did both my B.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) at Logos, under supervision of Manuel García-Carpintero (a great experience!).
During the time I was writing my dissertation, I spent three fall terms as a visiting research student in Arché, attracted by the Modality Project that Bob Hale was leading at that time.
In my Ph.D. dissertation, Modal Properties. Extistence and Knowability, I address both metaphysical and epistemological issues in modality. In the first part, I spend lots of pages analysing arguments for Necessity of Origin. At the end of this part I am left very pessimistic, not only about the target-thesis itself but also about the methodology used by the arguments explored. This pessimism drove me to the epistemology of modality and this is the focus of the second part of the thesis. There, I explore rationalist proposals (Yablo's, Chalmers' and Peacocke's) and find them unsatisfactory. The thesis concludes with an epilogue in which I explore the prospects of modal empiricism—my favourite position. I grant that modal empiricism won't give us as much as the rationalist promised to us. Yet, I argue that it gives us more than the rationalists have given us.
I’ve been working on modality since the moment I became a graduate student (2002) and I plan to keep on working on it for a few more years. (Perhaps I shouldn't be particularly proud of it, but I feel very comfortable on the longest way to truth.)
As of now, I'm mostly focused on the epistemology of modality (empiricism is still my favourite).
Apart from modality, there are many other areas that attract me in philosophy. They include Ontology in general, Persistence, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Formal Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science and Moral Philosophy.
To be honest, though, I maximally enjoy those when I can see useful connections to what most worries me in modality, but I guess this is how it works for most of us! |
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