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31How to Say When. A Reichenbachian Approach to the Answering Machine PuzzleIn Tadeusz Ciecierski & Pawel Grabarczyk (eds.), The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity, Springer. pp. 97-112. 2020.In this paper, we offer a novel solution to the much discussed " answering machine puzzle " and similarly problematic cases for the Kaplanian view of temporal indexicals. The solution we propose consists in an appeal to a well-established and (for many still) useful framework: Reichenbach's theory of tense and aspect. Starting from some more recent articulations of the theory in its application to temporal adverbials, we show how it can be applied to 'now' so that to provide an easy and intuitiv…Read more
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30Vertical dependencies and the exclusion problemIn La Filosofia Analitica En El Cambio de Milenio, Santiago De Compostela. 1999.
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29The role of dispositions in explanationsTheoria 19 (3): 301-310. 2010.According to a model defended by some authors, dispositional concepts can be legitimately used in causal explanations, although such a use is not necessary. I argue, however, that there is a kind of use of dispositions in explanations that does not fall within this model: we will miss some explanations if we forsake dispositional concepts and explanations.
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25Hablar para pensar: sobre el uso del lenguaje en el pensamientoAnálisis Filosófico 28 (1): 91-112. 2008.En este artículo examinamos la última propuesta de Carruthers acerca del papel del lenguaje en cuanto emisor global de pensamientos en una arquitectura masivamente modular, centrándonos en dos aspectos: el habla interna como integrador intermodular y su función para explicar la creatividad de la cognición humana. En primer lugar argumentamos que el lenguaje no es suficiente para la integración intermodular, a partir de lo que llamamos el "problema de la audiencia": las oraciones compuestas por e…Read more
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25The Influence of Language on ConceptualizationProtoSociology 30 89-106. 2013.Different languages carve the world in different categories. They also encode events in different ways, conventionalize different metaphorical mappings, and differ in their rule-based metonymies and patterns of meaning extensions. A long-standing, and controversial, question is whether this variability in the languages generates a corresponding variability in the conceptual structure of the speakers of those languages. Here we will present and discuss three interesting general proposals by foc…Read more
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23Literalism in Autistic People: a Predictive Processing ProposalReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1-24. forthcoming.Autistic individuals are commonly said – and also consider themselves – to be excessively literalist, in the sense that they tend to prefer literal interpretations of words and utterances. This literalist bias seems to be fairly specific to autism and still lacks a convincing explanation. In this paper we explore a novel hypothesis that has the potential to account for the literalist bias in autism. We argue that literalism results from an atypical functioning of the predictive system: specifica…Read more
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22Explanatory Exclusion, Over-Determination, and the Mind-Body ProblemThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 9 13-21. 2000.Taking into account the difficulties that all attempts at a solution of the problem of causal-explanatory exclusion have experienced, we analyze in this paper the chances that mind-body causation is a case of overdetermination, a line of attack that has scarcely been explored. Our conclusion is that claiming that behaviors are causally overdetermined cannot solve the problem of causal-explanatory exclusion. The reason is the problem of massive coincidence, that can only be avoided by establishin…Read more
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18The challenges raised by comorbidity in psychiatric research: The case of autismPhilosophical Psychology 35 (8): 1234-1263. 2022.Despite several criticisms surrounding the DSM classification in psychiatry, a significant bulk of research on mental conditions still operates according to two core assumptions: a) homogeneity, that is the idea that mental conditions are sufficiently homogeneous to justify generalization; b) additive comorbidity, that is the idea that the coexistence of multiple conditions in the same individual can be interpreted as additive. In this paper we take autism research as a case study to show that, …Read more
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16Sobredeterminación causal mente-cuerpoTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 14 (3): 511-524. 1999.Jaegwon Kim ha actualizado y resumido el problema cartesiano de la causación mental en tres ideas en conflicto: el principio deI cierre causal deI mundo fisico, la eficacia causal de la mente, y el principio de exclusión causal-explicativa. Este último principio nos dice que no puede haber dos causas/explicaciones causales que sean ambas completas e independientes para un evento determinado, salvo en casos de sobredeterminación. Aunque la forma habitual de afrontar este problema de exclusión es …Read more
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15The Localism of the Conserved Quantity TheoryTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 17 (3): 563-571. 2002.Phil Dowe has argued persuasively for a reductivist theory of causality. Drawing on Wesley Salmon's mark transmission theory and David Fair's transferencetheory, Dowe proposes to reduce causality to the exchange of conserved quantities. Dowe's account has the virtue of being simple and offering a definite "visible" idea of causation. According to Dowe and Salmon, it is also virtuous in being localist. That a theory of causation is localist means that it does not need the aid of counterfactuals a…Read more
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14Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditionsMind and Language 38 (1): 119-140. 2021.Pragmatic difficulties are considered a hallmark of autism spectrum conditions (ASC), but remain poorly understood. We discuss and evaluate existing hypotheses regarding the literalism of ASC individuals, that is, their tendency for literal interpretations of non‐literal communicative intentions. We present evidence that reveals a developmental stage at which neurotypical children also have a tendency for literalism and suggest an explanation for such behaviour that links it to other behavioural…Read more
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13La teoría dretskeana de la causación mental ante la explicación psicológicaEndoxa 1 (13): 9. 2000.
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12Overhearing a sentence: Recanati and the cognitive view of languagePragmatics and Cognition 12 (2): 219-251. 2004.Many pragmaticians have distinguished three levels of meaning involved in the comprehension of utterances, and there is an ongoing debate about how to characterize the intermediate level. Recanati has called it the level of `what is said' and has opposed the idea that it can be determined semantically — a position that he labels `pragmatic minimalism'. To this end he has offered two chief arguments: semantic underdeterminacy and the Availability Principle. This paper exposes a tension between bo…Read more
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7La relatividad lingüística en los tiempos del mentalésTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 18 (1): 88-106. 2010....
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7Editor’s IntroductionTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 285-286. 2016.Editor's introduction to the special issue on Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works.
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2Robert A. Wilson, Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Sciences of the Mind Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (3): 227-229. 1996.
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La introspección y el uso cognitivo del lenguajeTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 24 (1). 2005.
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University of the Basque CountryRegular Faculty
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IkerbasqueRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |