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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy

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🧠BIAP aims at increasing awareness of the value that philosophical thinking can bring to the solution of current problems, including problems in the sciences and in society at large💡🌏 🌐 https://biap.ub.edu/ Member of SOMM Alliance 🌐 https://somma.es

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 We’ve reached 1K followers!
Thank you for being part of our growing community 💙
✨ Stay tuned to learn more about BIAP and the amazing researchers behind it.🧠
👋Check out our website biap.ub.edu and our outreach & dissemination blog openphilosophy.blog to see what we’ve been up to!

Open Philosophy

A blog about philosophical explorations supported by the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP)

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 1d

Our senior member Manuel García-Carpintero gave a keynote talk at the SEFA conference in Seville. Congratulations!! 🎉
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XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA). This event aims to bring together scholars working within the Analytic tradition of Philosophy. The 2025 edition will take place at t...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 1d

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 1d

👋NEWS: Welcome to our new senior member, Alfonso García Lapeña (UB)! 🎉
www.ub.edu/grc_logos/al...

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 1d

👋Check out this video where our María de Maeztu predoctoral fellow Lívia Moscatelli (UdG) talks about her experience as a student in the Master’s in Evidential Reasoning! 🎓 👇👇👇
LINK: bit.ly/3VVV81s

Livia Moscatelli: Alumna del máster en Razonamiento Probatorio, 4a generación.

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 1d

👋 2025–26 TeC-FiloLab seminar series @filolab.bsky.social

Our Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral fellow Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social kicked off the series with a talk: “On the Epistemic Norm of Hedged Assertion.” 💡
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FiloLab @filolab.bsky.social · 2d

📢 El pasado 7 de octubre tuvo lugar la primera sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab del curso 2025-26.

Nos acompañó Dario Mortini (del @biap.bsky.social) con la charla “On the Epistemic Norm of Hedged Assertion”.

👏 Gracias @dariomortini.bsky.social por inaugurar el curso con un debate tan estimulante.

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 NEWS! Our senior member Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social has a new book chapter out!

📖 Chapter: Representing or Shaping Reality? What Class Can Teach About Woman
📚 Book: New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering – Volume 2
🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Congratulations!

New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering - Volume 2

This book develops novel connections between conceptual engineering and a variety of fields and methods in analytic philosophy.

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 12d

👋 NEWS! 🚨

Senior member Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social , Maria de Maeztu postdoc @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social , has just published a new article – congratulations! 🧠✨

➡️“Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion”
📖 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - Erkenntnis

Erkenntnis - Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 24d

📚✨ Online presentation of "Prueba sin convicción. Estándares de prueba y debido proceso" by our senior member
@jferrerbeltran.bsky.social
featuring the participation of Rogéiro Schietti, Marcela Araya, Diana Veleda, César San Martín, & José Luis Ramírez Ortiz.
www.youtube.com/live/qxLxbnE...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 24d

👋 NEWS! Edgar Aguilera, BIAP María de Maeztu postdoctoral fellow, has a new book out:

📚EPISTEMOLOGÍA JURÍDICA: Cuestiones, debates y propuestas actuales, Zela, 2025

🎉 Many congratulations, Edgar!

LINK: www.academia.edu/142959976/EP...

EPISTEMOLOGÍA JURÍDICA: Cuestiones, debates y propuestas actuales, Zela, 2025

Mi incursión inicial en el campo de la epistemología jurídica se dio a través del contacto con la obra de Larry Laudan y de Jordi Ferrer. Con este volumen pretendo rendirles un modesto pero sincero ho...

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 24d

Her thesis, "The Problem of Expert Appraisal: Metacognition and the Rationality of “Thinking for Yourself", was supervised by Thomas Sturm. You can read it here diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handl...
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Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona: The Problem of Expert Appraisal: Metacognition and the Rationality of “Thinking for Yourself”

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 24d

Here's the announcement of the prize: solofici.org/resolucion-d...

Resolución de la convocatoria de la SLMFCE al Mejor TFM 2023-24 | Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 24d

📣 Congrats to Cathlene Centeno (APhil 2023–24) for winning 1st prize 🥇 for the Best Master’s Thesis from the Spanish Society for Logic & Philosophy of Science
👩‍🎓 #Philosophy #Logic

Many APhil teaching professors are active members of BIAP! 🌟

APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 24d

📣Cathlene Centeno, APhil alumna, won the first prize for the best Master thesis of the Spanish Society for Logic and Phil Science 🥇👩‍🎓🍾🥂

@biap.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social @slmfce.bsky.social
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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 25d

🌐🌏OUTREACH! New article by our senior member Jahel Queralt!!

Si eres de izquierdas, ¿por qué no vas a la escuela pública?

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Si eres de izquierdas, ¿por qué no vas a la escuela pública?

En educación, a diferencia de la sanidad, la ventaja de unos por poder acceder a una educación privada se traduce directamente en la desventaja de otros

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Sep 9

👋 Exciting news!
Several BIAP senior members will be teaching this academic year in the APhil Master’s in Analytic Philosophy 🎓✨
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📅 Classes begin September 22 – don’t miss it!
👉 Follow @aphil.bsky.social for updates!

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Sep 9

👋💡 BIAP Open Philosophy Blog 🌍

📝 Our senior member Riin Kõiv (UB) just shared a new blog post on her open access article:

📖 “Genetically caused trait is an interactive kind”
Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Volume 13, Article 31 (2023)

🔗 Read it here: openphilosophy.blog/can-genes-ca...

Can Genes Cause Because We Know They Cause?

Image attribution: Riin Kõiv This is a post by Riin Kõiv (University of Barcelona).Imagine being told that personality, performance in math, substance addiction, or excess body weight has gene…

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Sep 2

👋NEWS! We’re delighted to announce that our former senior member Daniel Gregory has joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab (@vlc_lab) as a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher.

👏 Congratulations, Daniel, on this fantastic achievement!
@logos-group.bsky.social

Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎯Daniel Gregory just joined the Valencia Philosphy Lab as Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral researcher.

Welcome, Daniel!

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Sep 2

👋 Our director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA, @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social), will be giving an invited talk at the Final Workshop of the Normative Kinds Project, taking place 3–4 September 2025 in Milan.

🔗 Full programme: sites.unimi.it/guala/normat...

Normative Kinds Project (2023-2025) – Francesco Guala

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEWS 🎉 Congratulations to our senior member Jahel Queralt (UPF) for receiving the Serra Húnter Talent Recognition Award! This prestigious award, granted by the Catalan government, celebrates her outstanding career and dedication to impactful research. 👏
Read more here: t.ly/Ctndn

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Aug 28

💡 BIAP Open Philosophy Blog 🌍

📝 New contribution by our senior member Martina Rosola (UB, @logos-group.bsky.social ) on her recent article:

📖 “Linguistic Hermeneutical Injustice”, Social Epistemology (2024), 39(4), 425–435.

🔗 Read the blog post here: openphilosophy.blog/linguistic-h...

Linguistic Hermeneutical Injustice

This is a post by Martina Rosola (University of Barcelona).Gender is expressed differently in each language. While in English, personal pronouns an a handful nouns are the only gendered words, in s…

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 22

Open Philosophy

A blog about philosophical explorations supported by the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP)

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎉 Congratulations to all 17 Severo Ochoa Centres and María de Maeztu Units that succeeded in the 2024 call! Your excellence in research inspires us all. 🚀👏 #SeveroOchoa #MariaDeMaeztu #ResearchExcellence

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 15

🌐🌏 OUTREACH! New article in El País
@elpais.com by our senior member Jahel Queralt
don’t miss her latest contribution to public debate! 🗞️
Check it out 👇👇
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¿Son las universidades un nido de profesores izquierdistas?

Las facultades de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades son espacios en los que predominan las ideas progresistas. La falta de diversidad ideológica no beneficia en nada al propio pensamiento de izquierdas

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 15

👋NEWS! SEGIB (www.segib.org) has commissioned the Chair of Legal Culture @ccj-udg.bsky.social (directed by our senior member Jordi Ferrer @jferrerbeltran.bsky.social) to produce a report on the challenges of strengthening legal security in Ibero-American countries.

LINK: 🔗 tinyurl.com/459nvtpv

SEGIB commissions the Chair of Legal Culture a report on the challenges to strengthen legal security in Ibero-American countries -

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 15

¡Foto de grupo del Máster en Razonamiento Probatorio, en su 9.ª edición! Para la próxima edición, inscripciones abiertas hasta el 15 de octubre.
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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 13

👋NEWS 🎙️ Our senior member & outreach leader Teresa Marques took part in the debate “Propaganda: Shaping Narratives in Times of War”, organized by the
@knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
project in Vienna.

The debate is now available here!
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