Coming up!

📯 BIAP Distinguished Lectures! We're very happy to announce three upcoming events with Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford) on rationality, values, and the choices that shape our lives 🧩✨ 👇 See below for full details 📅 Open lecture on April 8 with @ateneubcn.cat - don’t miss it!

It's maybe ironic to post about the death of Jürgen Habermas here in one of our many twisted parodies of a public square, but he's the philosopher we very much need right now, a believer in the power of communication and reason. Here's my Times obituary:

ejemplos de perversiones del significado, una noción que tengo que repensar y precisar

Nouvel épisode de _Philosophy of Emotion_ 🎙️ — en français ! Avec Julien Deonna et Fabrice Teroni, nous discutons de **l’attitudinalisme**, la fameuse théorie des émotions qu’ils développent ensemble depuis plus de 15 ans 🫀 open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...:

Very cool event coming up, bringing together two "María de Maeztu" institutions at the @ub.edu: BIAP @biap.bsky.social and Institut de Neurociències @ubneuro.bsky.social Two colleagues, Manolo and Andrea, at @logos-group.bsky.social will participate! @filosofiaub.bsky.social

Now out, my paper "The constitutive function of derogation" The main original contribution is a suggestion of how shared commitments to affective attitudes can update conversational contexts. @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We had a brilliant workshop last month on lies, fiction and manipulation in propaganda. The most actual topic we could be studying these days.

👋 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

😀 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

We have an open PhD position at Umeå. Current deadline is March 6th which is pretty soon. S Please send this to any promising students who might be interested - especially if they are into the sort of stuff we do at Umeå. Here is the link: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

🎙️ 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. 👇👇👇

The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

✨ BIAP Conference ✨ “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” 📅 12 i 13 de febrer de 2026 📍 Sala Polivalent (24.S18), Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, Campus de la Ciutadella, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

👋 Exciting news! Congratulations to our senior member Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social for contributing three introductory chapters on Philosophy of Language (Part VI) in What is this Thing Called Philosophy (2nd ed.), edited by Duncan Pritchard for Routledge. 📚👏

Philosophy jobseekers! 6 year postdoc in theoretical philosophy in Saarbrücken.

SAVE THE DATE! 📢 Call for Papers: PLM8 – Barcelona 🧠 Philosophy of Language & Mind Conference | 17–19 June 2026 @upf.edu 📝 Abstracts due: 1 Feb 2026 🔗 Submit & info: eventum.upf.edu/142984/plm8 #PLM8

Organized by Andrei Bespalov, Levan Sikharulidze, Andrea Huete and yours truly! Check it out!

📢 FPU 2025 (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) The application period will open soon. Stay tuned! LINK: www.ciencia.gob.es/Convocatoria...

www.routledge.com/What-is-this... A nice gift for Epiphany/dia de reis: 2nd edition of What is this thing called Philosophy, edited by Duncan Pritchard, and now with a part on Phil Language 🥰

"I don't sleep at night,I knit [socks].I knit as best I can so their feet are warm in them." 95-year-old Mrs Sofiia Dukhovych from the village of Krylos,Ivano-Frankivsk region,has been knitting socks for Ukrainian Defenders for three years.During this time,she has knitted over 270 pairs 📹Reporter

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

Whenever anyone questions if women are capable of abstract thought, complex planning, etc., remember the history of crafts

these are the news I'm here for

Tomorrow (4 Dec): Workshop *Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk* 📅 10:00–18:00 📍 UPF, Barcelona — Roger de Llúria Building, Room 40.248 (hybrid) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/communic... #Philosophy #Communication #Cognition #UPF Don't miss it.

👋🎓 TODAY! PhD Dissertation Defense Our student Marcelino Botín (UB) @logos-group.bsky.social will defend his thesis: “Consciousness in Its Right Place: The Case for A Posteriori Russellian Physicalism” Supervisors: BIAP members Esa Díaz León & Genoveva Martí 🕔 17:00 h 📍Seminari de Filosofia UB

👋REMINDER! Today!!

👋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! 👏💫

👋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

The Congreso de Postgrado de la SEFA (27–28 November 2025) is underway! Today, our senior member Manuel García-Carpintero is offering his commentary on Anna Verdet’s work! 👉 Check out the full program: sefaweb.es/programacps/

Tomorrow (26 Nov): LOGOS Colloquium Pekka Väyrynen (U. of Leeds) *Monism and Pluralism in Axiology and the Semantics of Evaluative Language* 🕒 15:00–17:00 📍 Seminari de Filosofia (UB, 4th floor) 👉 www.ub.edu/grc_logos/ac... #Philosophy #Axiology #Metaethics #UB Don't miss it.

Participants: Manuel García-Carpintero Genoveva Martí Elia Zardini Moderator: Josep Macià A roundtable commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gottlob Frege’s death.

Outreach event · Frege 100th Anniversary Roundtable organised by the Secció de Filosofia Analítica (Societat Catalana de Filosofia) 🗓️ 2 December 2025 · 16:00–17:30 📍 Seminari de Filosofia (UB, Faculty of Philosophy) Talks will be in Catalan. All welcome.

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

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

👋🎙️ New podcast episode of 'No Tan Jurídico'! Featuring our senior member Jordi Ferrer @jferrerbeltran.bsky.social Don’t miss it! 🔥 ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/e6YY1Llyf5g?... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2giw... 🍏 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/n...

Just sayin'. I'm on

Bryan Frances just dropped one helluva good paper on philpapers (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies). It lists 200 elementary facts from epistemology and on that basis draws interesting conclusions about the nature and progress of philosophy philarchive.org/rec/FRAPAF-2

Lo que pienso sobre las agencias de acreditación y verificación académicas "No me cansaría de decirte siempre, pero siempre siempre Que eres en mi vida ansiedad, angústia y desesperación" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwqe...

Latest post in Open Philosophy: Oscar Piedrahita argues that ignorance isn't a failure Check it out!

Yesterday we had an inspiring outreach event at the Ateneu Barcelonès with philosopher of science Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh)! 🎙️'Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?' Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to such a rich discussion! 🙌 🧠 @ateneubcn.cat

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

My work over the past 10 years has focused mainly on the nasty speech: 5 papers on slurs: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 2 papers on meaning perversions/propaganda: 2020, 2024 2 papers on hate and dangerous speech speech: 2019, 2023 Looking forward to better political scenarios...🙃

📣 This workshop an activity of our (García-Carpintero & me) project New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations. Co-sponsored & co-organized with Isidora Stojanovic's ERC Grant, the Philosophy Department at the UB @filosofiaub.bsky.social and LOGOS @logos-group.bsky.social Check it out👇

🚨 AEI Call Alert! Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (PhD 2024–25 · 2 years) The LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy welcomes expressions of interest from motivated postdoctoral researchers! ✨ More info now available in the News section of our website 👇 🔗 www.ub.edu/grc_logos/

👋 The Barcelona Pensa Festival is back! 📍 Barcelona | Nov 17–21, 2025 The Fac, of Philosophy @ub.edu, together with the Barcelona City Council, present another edition of this inspiring festival! 🧠 Several BIAP members will be sharing their knowledge! 👉https://www.barcelonapensa.cat/

LOGOS, and LOGOS members, welcome expressions of interest :-)

"At the Real Bread Campaign we define real bread simply as bread made without additives...We just say, ‘if it’s got an additive in it, it’s not bread.’" fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

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