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Toribio Mateas, Josefa
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Humanities
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I was born in Jaén and raised in Madrid. I got my PhD in Philosophy at the Complutense University, Madrid, in 1988. I worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense between 1989 and 1991. I was then awarded a postgraduate fellowship by the British Council to work in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (1991-93). I have been Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1993-2000), Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (2000-2002), Associate Professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington (2002-2004), and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (2004-2008). I am a member of the research group GRECC (Grup de recerca en epistemologia i ciències cognitives) at the UAB and an associate member of LOGOS (Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group) at the UB.
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Research Interest
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My goal in philosophy has long been the same: to explore the nature of mind and language within a naturalistic framework. What is most distinctive of my research is my ongoing effort to respect scientific findings about mental and linguistic phenomena while insisting on the critical importance of an analytic philosophical mode of analysis and understanding.
My research has focused on four distinct but interlocking topics. (i) The apparent causal efficacy of semantic properties (in particular, the property of meaning such-and-such). (ii) The notion of content required for psychological explanation (iii). Naturalistic theories of content, and (iv) the relations between language, concepts, and visual perception. I am now extending my earlier work on perception and content to the topic of mental action, focusing on the temporal aspects of our experience of intending to act and the notion of agency.
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KeyWords
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Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science
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ERC Codes
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Humanities, The human mind & its complexity
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