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Martí Campillo, Genoveva
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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I was born in Barcelona and I obtained my "Licenciatura" (BA) at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1981. In 1982 I joined the PhD program at Stanford University, where my PhD was awarded in January 1989. I have been Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Reader at the London School of Economics. I am an elected member of the Academia Europaea (since 2009). I am the coordinator of the research group LOGOS (http://www.ub.es/grc_logos ) and I participate in the MA/doctoral programs on Language & Cognitive Science, Analytic Philosophy and Pensament Contemporani.
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Research Interests
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I am primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. A traditional explanation of the relation of reference is the view that reference is mediated by our cognitive perspective on things. On this view, which object we talk about is determined by the concept we associate with the expression we use. Against this view I defend an approach according to which what we refer to is not determined by our internal mental states nor by the concepts we entertain; it rather depends on social and causal factors that are external to our mind. This area of research is connected to other research areas, especially in Linguistics and Psychology.
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KeyWords
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Philosophy of Language, Theory of Reference, Modality, Analytic Philosophy
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