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Short biography

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 Mexico City. Later, I held positions at Swansea (UK), Cambridge University (UK), and the University of Birmingham (UK). I have been ICREA Research Professor 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/), the first of which I used to coordinate. My main interests are in philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and metaethics.

Research interests

My research is in the philosophy of language, 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/relativism, de se content), in the ways in which language is used to transfer (and possibly generate) knowledge, and in the nature of objectivity.

Key words

Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Metaethics

ORCID

0000-0003-0130-5976