Josu Acosta
Josu Acosta got his PhD in Cognitive Science and Humanities in 2017 at the University of the Basque Country, with a dissertation entitled “Explaining Culture. A Constraint-based Account." His research is focused on naturalistic accounts of culture. His own account results from the application of basic situation-theoretic notions of "constraint" and “attunement” to the analysis of cultural subject matter, its birth, reproduction, survival and extinction.
Rodrigo Blanco
Rodrigo Blanco has a BA in Mathematics (University of the Basque Country, 2021) and a MA in Philosophy (UNED, 2023). He is currently working on a PhD on the semantics of mathematical propositions, under the supervision of Dr. María de Ponte and Prof. Kepa Korta. His main areas of interest and research are mathematical logic, philosophy of language and game theory and its ethical implications.
Javier Belastegui
Javier Belastegui completed in 2021 his PhD thesis in Philosophy (sup. Dr. Thomas Mormann), on the topic of natural kinds. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI), under a contract with the UPV/EHU funded by the Basque Government. He will be spending the next two years as a visiting researcher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). He is working on a project, supervised by Dr. María de Ponte, that applies the theory of conceptual spaces to the study of the formal structure of natural kinds. His research interests include anything involving formal models of similarity, properties and kinds.
Eros Corazza
He was educated at the University of Geneva, Indiana University and Stanford University. After 10 years at Nottingham U., in 2005 he joined Carleton University Philosophy and Cognitive Science Departments and in 2009 he became a Ikerbasque Research Professor (ILCLI-UPV). His main interests concern the philosophy of language/mind, philosophy of linguistics and cognitive sciences.
María de Ponte
María de Ponte (Tenerife, Canary Islands) is an Associate Professor of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and researcher of the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI). Before joining the University of the Basque Country, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Seville (2012-2018), a Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral Researcher at ILCLI, and a Fulbright post-doctoral Researcher at Brown University. She works on the philosophy of language, logic, mathematics, and time, and her works has been published in journals such as Logique et Analyse, Journal of Pragmatics, Topoi, as well as in a number of edited volumes.
Beñat Esnaola
Beñat Esnaola has a B.A. in Philosophy (University of the Basque Country, 2018) and a M.A. in Cognitive Science and Language (University of Barcelona, 2019). He is currently working on a PhD on unarticulated constituents in language and thought under the supervision of Dr. Kepa Korta. His main research interests include unarticulated constituents, the philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics.
Yolanda García-Lorenzo
Yolanda García-Lorenzo is a postdoctoral researcher at ILCLI. She recently obtained her PhD in Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country with a dissertation titled "Irony-understanding and Theory of mind: A conceptual and experimental inquiry from a realist perspective" which was supervised by Kepa Korta and Fernando García Murga. Prior to that, she completed a MA in Cognitive Science and Humanities at ILCLI-University of the Basque Country (2015) and a BA in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2013).
Currently, she is focused on investigating the metarepresentational abilities involved in irony, lies and literal speech understanding and production under the supervision of Joana Garmendia and Nausicaa Pouscoulous. She will be a visiting researcher at UCL from September 2023 to August 2025, where she will further explore her main research interests in irony, lies, literal and non-literal speech, developmental pragmatics and the cognitive abilities involved in pragmatic skills, all from a theoretical and empirical perspective.
Joana Garmendia
Joana Garmendia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Basque Language and Communication of the University of the Basque Country. She has also been (2008-2010) a post-doctoral fellow at the CSLI (Stanford University); then (2010-2013) a Juan de la Cierva researcher at the ILCLI. Her main research interests include irony, non-literal speech, lies, and the semantics and pragmatics of Basque. She has published in journals such as Pragmatics and Cognition, Intercultural Pragmatics, Humor or International Review on Pragmatics. Her book Irony was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. She is the assistant secretary of Gogoa — the ILCLI journal, which is devoted to the study of language, knowledge, communication, and action.
Ekain Garmendia
Ekain Garmendia Mujika is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country since 2017. He got a BA in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, and an MA on Cognitive Sciences and Language and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (within the Logos research group). After that, he spent two years at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at UNAM, Mexico, as a postdoctoral researcher. His main philosophical interests include topics in areas like Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology, mainly focusing on epistemological issues and aspects concerning externalistic notions of representational content.
Kepa Korta
Kepa Korta is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country. His work has been focused on the study of dialogue, the implicit/explicit distinction, and the semantics/pragmatics interface. His research fields include the philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics, and the philosophy of action. He has authored a number of books and papers, and recently co-authored with John Perry several works on pragmatics in Mind and Language, Synthese, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Their book entitled Critical Pragmatics. An inquiry into reference and communication was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He is currently the coordinator of the research group on Language, Action, and Thought.
Heidi Maibom
Heidi Maibom (PhD London, CandPhil Copenhagen) is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Professor of Philosophy at University of Cincinnati, and President of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE). She works on empathy, emotions, moral psychology, psychopathology, responsibility, and meaning in life. She has written two books on empathy, Empathy (Routledge 2020) and The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works (Oxford, 2022), edited The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (Routledge 2017), Empathy and Morality (Oxford 2014), and Neurofeminism (w. R. Bluhm & A.J. Jacobsen, Palgrave McMillan 2012), and published numerous papers in journals and collections. Maibom has previously held research fellowships at Princeton University and Cambridge University.
Thom Scott-Phillips
Thom Scott-Phillips is Ikerbasque Research Associate at the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language & Information. Humans are similar to other great apes in many ways, yet the few differences that do exist combine to generate languages, rituals, institutions, technologies, markets and other cultural and societal phenomena. The general question that motivates Thom's work is, how and why does this happen? Thom is especially focused on the case of communication and languages, on which he has published many theoretical and empirical papers. He is one of the world's leading experts in the origins and evolution of language.
Larraitz Zubeldia
Larraitz Zubeldia obtained her PhD in Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country in 2010. Her dissertation was on the semantics and pragmatics of the Basque particle omen. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at UCL (2011-2012), with Robyn Carston as a mentor, and at ILCLI (2013), with a fellowship from the Basque Government. Now she is an Associate Professor at the department of Basque Language and Communication at the University of the Basque Country. Her research work is focused mostly on the analysis of the meaning and use of the Basque evidential/modal particles and other words and expressions used to express modality and evidentiality in Basque. She is also interested in the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality, semantics/pragmatics distinction, explicit/implicit meaning distinction, experimental pragmatics and semantics and pragmatics of anaphoric and logophoric pronouns in Basque in particular.
Irati Zubia
Irati Zubia Landa has a BA in Philosophy (University of the Basque Country, 2019) and a MA in
Philosophy, Science and Values (University of the Basque Country, 2020). She is currently doing her
PhD on post-truth and bullshit, under the supervision of Dr. Joana Garmendia and Dr. Agustin Arrieta Urtizberea. Her main research interests include philosophical issues related to post-truth, the pragmatics of bullshitting, and their political and ethical implications
Jérôme Dokic
Jérôme Dokic is a Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (part of PSL Research University), a member of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris, and a member of Academia Europaea. His work has been focused on perception, memory, imagination, and metacognition. He is the author of La philosophie du son with Roberto Casati (Philosophy of sound, Editions Chambon, 1994), L’esprit en mouvement. Essai sur la dynamique cognitive (Mind in motion. Essay on cognitive dynamics, CSLI, Stanford, 2001), Qu’est-ce que la perception? (What is perception?, Editions Vrin, 2nd edition 2009) and Ramsey. Truth and Success with Pascal Engel (Routledge, 2002). His current research interest have two strands. One concerns the affective phenomenology accompanying our ordinary experience of the world, which involves feelings of presence, familiarity and confidence and their opposites, such as feelings of absence, or Freud’s feeling of uncanniness. A second strand is about the relationship between mental states and the self: the perspectival dimension of perception, imagination and memory, i.e., the nature and role of the “point of view” involved in our mental states (for instance, the perspectival differences between field and observer memories).
Stacie Friend
Stacie Friend is a Reader in Philosophy and the Director of Education and Undergraduate Programmes in Philosophy at Birkbeck University, London. She is the President of the British Society of Aesthetics and an organizer of the London Aesthetics Forum series of talks at the Institute of Philosophy. Her work to date has focused on the nature of fiction (vs non-fiction), reference in fiction, thought and discourse about the nonexistent, how we learn from narrative, the relationships between fiction and reality, and our emotional and imaginative engagement with literature and film. She is a pioneer in the incorporation of empirical research into philosophical debates about fiction, and is a co-investigator on a three-year Leverhulme Trust research project on 'Learning from Fiction' (2018-2021), with Gregory Currie (Philosophy, York) and Heather Ferguson (Psychology, Kent).
Chris Genovesi
Chris Genovesi received his PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at Carleton University. His research interests include philosophy of language, pragmatics, figurative language, and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur.
Genoveva Martí
Genoveva Martí is an ICREA Research Professor at the Philosophy Department, Barcelona. She is an elected member of the Academia Europaea (since 2009) and from January 2013 till July 2014 she was the Academic Director of the Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub in Barcelona. Her research focuses on the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. She defends an approach to the semantics of singular terms and natural-kind terms according to which reference is not determined just by our mental states nor by the concepts we entertain; it rather depends on causal and social factors that are external to our mind. Her research topics are connected to research areas in Linguistics and Psychology. She also has worked on the explanation of legal disputes from the point of view of different theories of reference, and on the impact of experimental data on semantics.
Eleonora Orlando
Eleonora Orlando works as an Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Buenos Aires and an Independent Researcher at the Argentinian National Research Council (CONICET). Her area of expertise is philosophy of language, more specifically, she has worked on topics such as the theory of reference for proper names and general terms, propositional attitude ascriptions, general term rigidity, fictional discourse, and expressive language, in particular, slurs and thick terms. Recently, she has focused on the semantic-pragmatic analysis of aesthetic predicates and their relation to aesthetic experience. She coordinates, together with A. Saab, the research group in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (BA-LingPhil) of the IIF-SADAF (https://sites.google.com/view/ba-lingphil) and is a foundational member of the FilingSUR, a Latin-American association of philosophers of language and formal linguists. She has been the president of the Argentinian Society for Philosophical Analysis (SADAF, 2015-2017) and the Latin-American Association of Analytic Philosophy (ALFAn, 2010-2012). She has been the editor-in-chief of Análisis Filosófico (2015-2017). She is currently the editor-in-chief of SADAF’s editorial seal and the co-editor, together with L. Clapp and R. Stainton, of the series Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives, by Lexington Books.
Ernesto Perini
Ernesto Perini is a Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a researcher at CNPq. He is a member of the CNPq Board of Philosophy. His research is divided into two areas: the history of medieval philosophy and philosophy of language. His main research project in recent years seeks to develop a contextualist position in philosophy of language. In the history of medieval philosophy, his research has focused on ontology themes, such as the treatment of non-being in sophisms in the 12th century and the ontology of propositions in the 14th century. In the last couple of years, he also started working on some issues on social epistemology, concerning fake news, science denialism and "post-truth" (whatever that means).
John Perry
John Perry's contributions to philosophy are abundant and far-reaching. His writings, ranging from the philosophy of language and mind to metaphysics and epistemology, have had a remarkable impact not only in philosophy but also in other disciplines, such as logic, linguistics, psychology, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of over 130 articles and 10 books, including Situations and Attitudes (with Jon Barwise) (1983, reprinted with a new introduction, 1999), The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays (1993, enlarged edition 2000), Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness (2001), Reference and Reflexivity (2001; 2nd extended edition 2012), Identity, Personal Identity and the Self (2002) and Critical Pragmatics. An Inquiry into Reference and Communication (with Kepa Korta) (2011). John Perry was a co-founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford. He is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California (Riverside), and Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of the Basque Country. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Perry has been awarded, among others, the Humboldt Prize and the Jean Nicod Prize.
Stefano Predelli
Stefano Predelli is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He works on this and that, but mostly on 'this' and 'that', and other ways our interpretation and understanding of language depends on contextual factors. He is (moderately) sympathetic to the semantic intuitions within the fashionable 'contextualist' movement, but he is (highly) sceptical with respect to its philosophical import, in particular its criticism of traditional formal approaches to meaning and truth. He is also interested in proper names, belief reports, discourse about fiction, quotation marks, and related topics. Last but not least, when he is not occupied with philosophical semantics he likes to think of questions about the ontology of artworks, with particular interests in work and music. His current research is focused in the semantics of fictional discourse, with particular attention to fictional names, and their relationships with so-called empty names (such as 'Vulcan'), empty general terms (such as 'unicorn'), and referentially successful names and predicates. Concerning future research he is interested in the study of the 'metalinguistic' use of language, as in 'rhinoceroses are dangerous and difficult to spell' or in instances including nonsense words (as in 'there are no bandersnatches').
Richard Vallée
Vallée has a Ph.D from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, on non-literal meaning, and he spent two years as a post-doc at CSLI. He is interested in the pluri-propositionalist framework, and has recently published a collection of essays —Words and Contents— at CSLI Publications in 2018. Some of these essays are on plural pronouns, conventional implicatures, contextuals —words like «local », « imported » and « national » — and ethnic slurs. His recent work is on unarticulated constituents and referential expressions in fiction.