Concha Martínez Vidal

I am a “Profesora titular” at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I got my PhD at the University of Valencia (Supervisor Beneyto, "From Prawitz’s Theory of Meaning to searching proofs in an intelligent way: From the Inversion Theorem to Artificial Intelligence.") During that period, I worked for several months with Dag Prawitz in Stockholm. I have taught different subjects in logic and analytic philosophy. My publications include a manual for teaching logic (with J.L. Falguera) and various papers, book chapters and reviews. Among them: Is SOL Logic? (Logica Yearbook 1999), El estatuto epistemológico de la Lógica (Técnos 2007), Normativity and its Vindication: The Case of Logic (Theoria 2004), Is Logic Objective? (Cadernos de Filosofía, Lisbon), "Leon Henkin the Reviewer"(with J. P. Úbeda in Manzano et alt. (Eds.) Springer 2014); "Putnam and contemporary fictionalism" (THEORIA 2018) I have systematized arguments for and against abstract objects in different domains (Falguera & Martínez-Vidal, 2020 “Preface”), and, recent ways of formulating the concrete/ abstract distinction. (Rosen, Falguera, Martínez-Vidal, ms. In assessment). I have edited several volumes: Truth in perspective (Ashgate 1996, with Villegas & Monroy), Following Putnam's Trail (Rodopi 2004 with Silva & Monroy), Current Topics in logic and Analytic Philosophy (USC 2007, with Falguera & Sagüillo) and Abstract Objects. For and Against (with José L. Falguera, Springer 2020). I have been in charge of several research projects financed by the Spanish Ministries of Education and Science. I am currently one of the two main researchers for the MINECO financed project “Abstract Objects For and Against. A Neo-Carnapian Approach". I have organized conferences and workshops with other members of the group. Among them the VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Santiago de Compostela, July, 2012). In that conference, I was appointed President of the Society (until November 2018). I am currently an assessor for the DLMPST Council 2020-2023. I have also been Chair of the Dept. of Logic and Moral Philosophy, and a member of the scientific committees for various conferences organized by national and international scientific societies. I have participated in assessment committees (ANEP, ANECA, EURIAS Fellowships, etc.) and tutored a "Parga Pondal" Fellow (Javier de Donato-Rodríguez), two Juan de la Cierva Fellows (Matteo Plebani and Victor Verdejo), a predoctoral grant (FPU) and I am currently tutoring two more (FPUs). I have supervised 2 PhDs (one with de Donato-Rodríguez and the other with Mary Leng). My research interests are related to the philosophy of logic and mathematics: the justification of logic, the role of intuition in mathematics, indispensability arguments, and the metaphysics of numbers as abstract objects. In connection with the latter, I have reconsidered Putnam's acknowledged version of the indispensability argument and his philosophical position against contemporary fictionalist views about applied mathematics, to conclude it can be assimilated to them in many aspects due to the ontological compromises that Putnam's favorite reconstruction of mathematics, Hellman's, subscribes to. I continued to work in the latest developments of the ongoing debate on the indispensability argument (Martínez-Vidal and Rivas-de-Castro 2020) and in the recent reconstructions of mathematics that argue for deflationary views about abstract objects.