Exciting news at BIAP! 🚨 Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA/UB) is officially our new Director! 🎉 We look forward to this new chapter in the life of BIAP 🚀 We are also very thankful to our outgoing director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB), for her work over the past years👏 @ub.edu

Choosing whether—and whom—to marry is a bit like choosing between a bowl of cereal or a chocolate doughnut for breakfast. How? 💍❓🍩 Join us with Prof. Ruth Chang at the BIAP Distinguished Lectures to explore these questions and more! 🤔💭 ✨ Sneak peek on TED: t.ly/ylR6E 🗓️Schedule and info: t.ly/r8_jI

What a week! 🙌 It was such a privilege to host Prof. Ruth Chang for this year’s BIAP Distinguished Lectures. Across three talks, we learned and thought a lot about rationality, value, choice, and much more!💭✨ A huge thank you to Prof. Chang—and to all of you who joined us! 👏

Last week, our BIAP student member Elena Menta took part in the 4th UB Research & Outreach Day, organised by @doctorandsub.bsky.social 📣✨ She presented her research project in under 4 minutes! ⌛⚡ Great work, @elenamenta.bsky.social! 👏

👋Teresa Marques, the current coordinator of APhil, has recently published in Open Philosophy, the blog of BIAP, where she presents discusses issues about the meaning of slurs and disagreements about which words count as such. 👇 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

📢 Our 2026 #Philosophy #grant programmes are now open! You can apply for #funding now, for your event, education programme or postgraduate study. Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/philosophy-f... #bursaries #studentships #postgraduate #philosophymatters

👋 La coordinadora del máster en Filosofía Analítica, Teresa Marques, participó ayer en #FilosofasEnStreaming organizado por @swipaesp.bsky.social 👇

📡 After the Easter break, BIAP is back in action! @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social ✨Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford) is this year's Distinguished Lecturer! ✨ 👋 Check out the information below about the Lectures and the Open Talk at the Ateneu @ateneubcn.cat 👇👇👇

The coordinator of the APhil master, Teresa Marques, will give a talk to the SWIP-Analytic on March 24th 👇 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

🍾Wonderful news! Laura Delgado, APhil alumna, joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project of the University of Valencia. Congratulations, Laura!👏👏👏 🥂🥳 aphil.ub.edu/students/lau... @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

👋 Check this out! Upcoming event with two of our lecturers in APhil, Manolo Martínez and Andrea Rivadulla-Duró! 😍 See more info below ‼️ 👇👇👇

😀 What a week! Prof. Ernesto Sosa (Rutgers) delivered this year's PhD seminar, and a LOGOS Colloquium on the side. 📸 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

👋 Ongoing this week! PhD seminar with Professor Ernesto Sosa, Rutgers University. The course is based on a new book that Prod. Sosa is concluding: Dawning Light Epistemology and Bounded Knowledge aphil.ub.edu/activity/daw... @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social

🎙️Due to bad weather, today the BIAP Conference will take place online, following government recommendations. Tomorrow the sessions will be in person, as planned.🙌

🎙️ If you're an APhil alumnus/alumna (or not...) looking for a fully funded PhD in the Humanities, check out the call below in Vienna. 👇👇👇

👋This year’s cohort with invited lecturer, Dr Julien Dutant, from Kings College London, and Prof. Sven Rosenkranz 👨‍🎓

🎉 We’ve reached 1K followers! Thank you for being part of our growing community 💙 ✨ Stay tuned to learn more about BIAP and the amazing researchers behind it.🧠 👋Check out our website biap.ub.edu and our outreach & dissemination blog openphilosophy.blog to see what we’ve been up to!

Next week!

🎙️ The founder of our master program, Prof. Manuel García-Carpintero, and coordinator of the analytic philosophy branch of the doctoral program, has a new book out with Cambridge University Press! Check it out! 📖📚

👋 Welcome, Paulina! Paulina was an Erasmus student visiting us in Barcelona and has now started the analytic philosophy branch of the doctoral program! 👏

SAVE THE DATE! 📢 BIAP collaborative research event: 'Lies, Fiction & Manipulation in Propaganda' 🗓 12–13 Feb 2026 📍 UPF, Barcelona The workshop brings together experts on propaganda, information warfare, and conspiracy theories 🧠 LINK: t.ly/jIutA #BIAP #Propaganda

📢 Attention researchers! The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) has just released its new 2026 calls calendar for research funding and grants! 🔗 Check the full calendar here: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...

📢 Upcoming! BIAP conference 🧠 Causal Relationships & Generalizations in Human Life and Mind Sciences 📅 21–23 January 2026 📍 Faculty of Philosophy, @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/32jrt8tx #BIAPconference

👋🧠Fantastic outreach activity yesterday, made possible through our collaboration with the Ateneu Barcelonès @filoateneubcn ✨

Congratulations to our PhD student, Marcelino Botín! 👏👏👏 @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social @marcebotin.bsky.social

👋No os perdáis la exposición en linea dedicada al centenario de la muerte de Gottlob Frege! Varios de nuestros profesores han contribuido a la celebración!🤩 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social craiub.my.canva.site/frege/#portada

👋Exciting news! Our Director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB @logos-group.bsky.social), has been awarded the ‘Distinción a una trayectoria’ by the Society for Women in (Analytic) Philosophy Spain (SWIP(A)). Huge congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 👏💫

👋REMINDER! Today!!

🧠✨ Check out some photos from the amazing BIAP Conference on the Philosophy of Cognitive Science!

Check out the public lecture with Edouard Machery, organized by BIAP and the Ateneu Barcelonés about whether we should trust science! 🧪 If you missed, you have the video! 📼📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXm... @biap.bsky.social @ateneubcn.cat @filosofiaub.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

This week, Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social gave a public lecture at the Ateneu Barcelonès @ateneubcn.cat on whether we should *really* trust science. The event was organized by BIAP @biap.bsky.social and the Ateneu. Pics below! 📸 @filosofiaub.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

📖 Last post in #OpenPhilosophy: Óscar Piedrahita explains why ignorance isn't a failure! Check it out! @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social openphilosophy.blog/ignorance-is...

📣 Check this out! 👇 Next week, Barcelona will be the philosophy capital with the Barcelona Pensa Festival! 🧠📖📚📹🎤🎧

Coming up this week!

November *is* the Philosophy month 😍 📡 The Philosophy at the UB with Barcelona city council launch one more philosophy festival Barcelona Pensa!🧠 👋 Many APhil lecturers and alumni participate! www.barcelonapensa.cat @ub.edu @filosofiaub.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social

👋 Check this out! 📡 LOGOS welcomes expressions of interest from interested postdoctoral researchers (with recent PhDs). Read more below! 👇

🎙️ Coming up in Barcelona! Public talk organized by @biap.bsky.social with the @ateneubcn.cat! See below for details! 👇

Back in 2010, the coordinators of our programme, Max Kölbel and Manuel García-Carpintero, made a nice presentation of the master and PhD in analytic philosophy in Barcelona. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7X4...

Check out the next BIAP Public Lecture, this time with Edouard Machery. It will take place on November 10 at the Ateneu Barcelonès 👇

Call for papers for the Philosophy Graduate Conference TIF, taking place in Valencia in May 2026. Abstracts due in December. Check out the information 👇

🤩 We had a great welcome session to the APhil students of the cohort of 2025-26 with Lisa Herzog's inaugural lecture in political epistemology and addressed questions of citizen's knowledge and trust in experts, followed by a reception ☕ 🍪🧆 We wish our students all the best for the academic year! 🙌

Check out the BIAP outreach with our Inaugural Lecturer for academic year 2025-2026! 👋

👋 Tomorrow! APhil's Inaugural Lecture and welcome session for the cohort of 2025-26 with Prof. Lisa Herzog! Professor Herzog will address the question if people have had enough with experts 🎓 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social

Es con gran tristeza que supimos de la notica del fallecimiento de Juan José Acero. Doctor en Filosofía por la UB (1975), Profesor de las UB y UdG. Su trabajo trató de temas de la filosofía del lenguaje, de la mente y la evolución de la filosofía analítica del siglo XX. @ub.edu @biap.bsky.social

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

📣 Check out the master thesis published in the digital collection of APhil. The latest addition is Diego Castañon's "From Practical Knowledge to Forms of Life: Toward an Account of the Unity of Animal Action", suppervised by Josh Shepherd 👇 diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handl...

👋 Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) will be in Barcelona in November for the BIAP workshop "Evidence and Methodology in the Cognitive Sciences"🧠 His forthcoming book asks whether we should trust science!🤔 AND! He'll do a public lecture at the Ateneu Barcelonès See his interview below! @biap.bsky.social

We wish our 2025-2026 students all the best for this academic year! 💻📚📔 May this year be the key for a great future! 🗝️ 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

👋 NEWS! Edgar Aguilera, BIAP María de Maeztu postdoctoral fellow, has a new book out: 📚EPISTEMOLOGÍA JURÍDICA: Cuestiones, debates y propuestas actuales, Zela, 2025 🎉 Many congratulations, Edgar! LINK: www.academia.edu/142959976/EP...

📣 Congrats to Cathlene Centeno (APhil 2023–24) for winning 1st prize 🥇 for the Best Master’s Thesis from the Spanish Society for Logic & Philosophy of Science 👩‍🎓 #Philosophy #Logic Many APhil teaching professors are active members of BIAP! 🌟