BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy

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On Tuesday, 27 October, our very own Sergi Oms will be talking about Night of the Living Dead at Fnac Rambles, following a screening of the film. Very spooky! 📽️🧟 shorturl.ly/k7K_G

🕰️ How can physics and philosophy help us understand time? Hear all about it from BIAP member Albert Solé at the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona on 22 October! 🔗 museuciencies.cat/activitats/2...

Congratulations to former BIAP student Abel Suñé, who was awarded his PhD on 9 October for his thesis, "Indispensability and Fundamentality in the Sciences: A Real-Patterns Account"! 🎓👏

Can diphthongs make Italian more gender-fair? 🇮🇹 🟰 Explore new linguistic strategies in our latest blog post 👇 openphilosophy.blog/the-viabilit...

🎉 Congratulations to Margherita Grassi for being awarded the Society for Applied Philosophy Doctoral Fellowship, in order to continue her research on tensions between individual and structural conceptions of misogyny! 🔍️

Congratulations to former BIAP member Niccolò Rossi (University of Pavia) on receiving the Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat from the University of Barcelona for his thesis on hyperintensional accounts of justification, knowledge, and epistemic possibility! 🎓✨️

Congratulations to Edgar Aguilera on obtaining a permanent position at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)! We were very lucky to have him as a BIAP María de Maeztu postdoctoral fellow, and we wish him every success in this exciting new stage! 🛫🙌

We are delighted to welcome a new BIAP student member! 🎉 As an FPI fellow with José Díez and Albert Solé as supervisors, Vuk will be exploring the relationship between the formalisation of scientific theories, and notions of understanding, modelling, and representation. 🔬

💬⚖️Looking forward to this double session on language, democracy and justice on Wednesday! Manuscript workshop in the morning, and Polis seminar session in the afternoon. See you there!

📚 New books by BIAP members! • Nationalism and Populism (Routledge), edited by Thomas Sturm and Sabine Döring, with a chapter by Teresa Marques. • The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, featuring a chapter by Teresa Marques and Manuel García-Carpintero. Congratulations! 👏

The summer school on Analytic Metaphysics and Reality, co-organised by BIAP members Marcelino Botín and Markel Kortabarria together with Marco Portillo, was a great success! Many thanks to UIMP and to all participants! ✨️

👨‍🎓APhil lecturer, LOGOS Coordinator, and Director of BIAP, ICREA Professor Sven Rosenkranz, as the Dialectica Lecturer at ECAP12 last Friday in Madrid 😍 @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @ecap12th.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

🌏️ We were delighted to collaborate with Underwood International College (Yonsei University, Seoul) on the workshop Philosophical Foundations: AI, Epistemic Methods, Language, and Logic. BIAP was represented by our Director, Sven Rosenkranz, and junior researcher Marc Lara Crosas. Thanks to all!

Should welfare programmes have to pick up the bill when private law makes people poorer? ⚖️ BIAP member Diego M. Papayannis challenges orthodox views on the relationship between public and private law in the latest post on our Open Philosophy blog. 🗨️ 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/when-private...

A few days ago, some colleagues, students and friends of our former BIAP Director Genoveva Martí gathered at UPF for a surprise workshop celebrating her and her many contributions to philosophy, ahead of her forthcoming retirement. Congratulations, Genoveva! 💙

As the European Congress for Metaphysics comes to a close, we're delighted that BIAP was represented by Esa Díaz-Leon, who delivered a keynote lecture, and Paulina Kraft, who presented a paper. Many thanks to the organisers, and congratulations to everyone who took part! ✨️

From botanical illustration to knitting, from architecture to video games—all were covered in the fantastic course on science and art organised last week by BIAP member Elena Menta Oliva at the Universitat d'Estiu de les Dones in Cornellà! 🌺🧶🏛️👾

The 8th PLM conference took place at the UPF Ciutadella campus last week. ✨️ It was a great opportunity to share the latest developments from a tongue-twisting and mind-bogglingly diverse range of topics in the philosophy of language and mind! 🧠👅 Thanks to all!

Such an amazing PLM conference… thank you all! @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @upf.edu

Huge congratulations to our own Duccio Calosi on his successful PhD defence yesterday! 👏🎓 We couldn't be happier or prouder. Well done, Dr. Calosi! ✨️

This week, the PLM Network conference brings together philosophers of language and mind from around the world to discuss the latest topics in the field. Programme and more info: eventum.upf.edu/142984/secti... @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @upf.edu

A big thank you to everyone who took part in the Final Workshop of the Inner Speech in Action project yesterday! ✨ We have learned so much about inner speech, and we look forward to learning a lot more in the future! 🧠🔎

🧑‍⚖️ Suppose a judge issues a ruling. Are they casting light on a pre-existing legal fact? Are they issuing a command? Are they just booing and yaying? 💡 Check out Federico Arena's Open Philosophy Blog for some deep insights into the relation between legality and morality! 🔗 t.ly/0YpFY

Wonderful workshop today on the manuscript "Linguistic Justice & AI", co-written by Sergi Morales-Gálvez & Seunghyun Song 📖✨️ Looking forward to tomorrow's workshop on Work & Social Justice! 🛠️⚖️

🚨 Starting today at 15:00! 🧠 Join us today and tomorrow for the workshop Representation and Affect in Cognitive Science! 📍 Seminari de Filosofia, UB Raval (4th floor) 🕒 26/5, 15:00 - 27/5, 9:30 & 15:00

The ESAP Early-Career Scholar Prize went really well for BIAP! 🏆️ ✨️ Levan Sikharulidze won in Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, and Niccolò Rossi in Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics! 👏 Congratulations to all, and see you at ECAP12 this summer! ☀️

Great news! 📢 BIAP member Oscar Piedrahita has taken up a postdoctoral position at Utrecht University, where he will be working within the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) research programme! ✨️ biap.ub.edu/2026/05/14/o...

How can physical matter undergo conscious experience? 🧠💭 BIAP members Markel Kortabarria and Marcelino Botín discuss how physicalists about the mind should draw on the metaphysical notion of grounding in their latest Open Philosophy Blog entry! 💡 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/two-ground-r...

BIAP is growing in new and exciting directions! 🙌 Join us in welcoming three new members this week: Anna Ortín Nadal, David Fernández-Duque, Sergi Morales-Gálvez! 👏

🤔 Can the label 'autistic' be “reclaimed” if it was never a slur? How does that work? 💡Marta Jorba, Bianca Cepollaro, and Valentina Petrolini explore this question in the latest entry for our Open Philosophy Blog! 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/reclaiming-t...

📢 Summer course: Metafísica Analítica y Realidad ☀️ 📚️ 📅 Apply by May 4, August 10–14, 2026 📍 Santander, UIMP 👩‍🏫Taught by Marcelino Botín, Markel Kortabarria, Marco Portillo ⚠️ Scholarships available! 🧠 ⏳️ 👥 Consciousness, time, social ontology, and more! 🔗 t.ly/chTbE

Check out this new episode of the Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica podcast! 🎙️✨️ BIAP members Jordi Ferrer and Edgar Aguilera take us on a deep dive into Legal Epistemology ⚖️🔍️ YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-v4... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7yna... @ccj-udg.bsky.social

The use of certain words can be very contentious, but how can perfectly competent speakers disagree about whether the use of a term is derogatory? 🤔 Check out Teresa Marques's new entry on our Open Philosophy blog: "Derogation, Common Ground, and Why We Disagree"! 👉️ t.ly/3o0gh

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! 👏

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! 👏

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

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

📯 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!

🙌 Busy days at BIAP! 📖 This last Wednesday, BIAP senior member Esa Díaz León gave a presentation of her Cambridge Elements book The Metaphysics of Gender, together with Pablo Rychter and Claudia Picazzo, organised by SEFA!

Looking forward to this talk by Teresa Marques at @swipaesp.bsky.social next week! 🗨️ Link for registration and info below👇

🍾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

📣 Upcoming event! Seminar + Round Table with @ubneuro.bsky.social 🗓️ Thu, March 12 📍 Sala de Graus (Miquel Siguan), Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona (Campus Mundet) 👇 More info + streaming link at t.ly/0KolP & t.ly/W28EK

Today! @logos-group.bsky.social @karlbergman.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @upf.edu

👋 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

👋 The BIAP workshop “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” took place last week! Thanks to all the participants for their insightful talks, to the organizers for their incredible work behind the scenes, and to everyone who attended and contributed to such engaging discussions. 👇📸

Happening today and tomorrow! Postdocs @kraymondh.bsky.social & @flampert.bsky.social are presenting at the @biap.bsky.social conference in Barcelona. Keith's talk is on propaganda and propagandists. Fabio's is on propaganda and the arts of coordination. cc @univie.ac.at buff.ly/DW7o9T3 #PhilSky

Also happy to see our former research assistant is giving a talk, Levan Sikharulidze, on trusting (or pretending to trust) authoritarian propaganda! Congrats, Levan! @biap.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.🙌