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Kölbel, Max
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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After two years of studying various subjects at Freie Universität Berlin and acquiring a taste for analytic philosophy, I enrolled at King's College London in 1991, where I subsequently completed an MA (1992), an MPhil (1994) and a PhD (1997) in Philosophy. My first academic appointment was as a postdoc at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the UNAM in México City. Later, I held positions at Swansea (UK), Cambridge University (UK), and the University of Birmingham (UK). I have been ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona since January 2008. I am a member of the research group LOGOS (http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/) and contribute to two postgraduate programmes, one in Analytic Philosophy (http://www.ub.edu/aphil/) and one in Cognitive Science and Language (http://www.ub.edu/ccil/). I am responsible for admissions and student affairs with regard to the first of these. My main interests are in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics and metaethics.
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Research Interests
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My research is mostly in the philosophy of language, and in related areas of other philosophical disciplines, such as metaphysics, epistemology and metaethics. I am currently interested in the nature and purpose of semantic theories for natural languages, in the semantics-pragmatics distinction, in the way semantic theories should represent various forms of context dependence (including contextualism and relativism), in the ways in which language is used to transfer (and possibly generate) knowledge, and in the nature of objectivity.
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Key Words
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Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Metaethics
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