University of Geneva

Post-Doc, Philosophy

Collaborateur scientifique, FNS Project: "Knowledge, Evidence, and Practice"

Thesis Title: The Situated Mind: An Essay in the Theory of Reference

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I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Geneva, within an FNS project entitled “Knowledge, Evidence, and Practice”. In 2010 I defended my PhD thesis under the supervision of Jérôme Dokic at the Institut Jean Nicod and the EHESS in Paris. I also hold an M.A. in History of Philosophy from the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne (2004) and an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science from the EHESS (2005). Before coming to Europe, I finished my undergraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Antioquia (Colombia).

I am mainly interested in the Philosophy of Mind, and its connections to various topics in the Philosophy of Language and Epistemology. In my PhD dissertation I worked on the epistemology of linguistic reference. I argued that, in order to explain the mastery of referential expressions, the so-called ‘representational theory of mind’ should be rejected. As a result, I was led to explore the notion of practical knowledge, which I thought could provide an alternative framework. The underlying claim is that descriptivism and referentialism do not exhaust the logical space.

In the last few years, I have been working on an explanatory framework where the notion of practical knowledge is taken as central.

I am also interested in the philosophy of perception, mainly in its relation to perceptual judgment and the theory of reference. I have argued that conscious perceptual experience has some functional links to doxastic states that cannot be explained as justification relations. Right now, I am concerned with the role of generality in perceptual experience and the search for a non-propositional model of perceptual content.

I used to do research on Early Modern Philosophy. A result of this work is a book (in Spanish) on Kant’s refutation of idealism, and some manuscripts on Kant’s conception of the self.

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