The use of certain words can be very contentious, but how can perfectly competent speakers disagree about whether the use of a term is derogatory? 🤔
Check out Teresa Marques's new entry on our Open Philosophy blog: "Derogation, Common Ground, and Why We Disagree"! 👉️ t.ly/3o0gh
Last week, our BIAP student member Elena Menta took part in the 4th UB Research & Outreach Day, organised by @doctorandsub.bsky.social 📣✨
She presented her research project in under 4 minutes! ⌛⚡
Great work, @elenamenta.bsky.social! 👏
What a week! 🙌
It was such a privilege to host Prof. Ruth Chang for this year’s BIAP Distinguished Lectures. Across three talks, we learned and thought a lot about rationality, value, choice, and much more!💭✨
A huge thank you to Prof. Chang—and to all of you who joined us! 👏
Choosing whether—and whom—to marry is a bit like choosing between a bowl of cereal or a chocolate doughnut for breakfast. How? 💍❓🍩
Join us with Prof. Ruth Chang at the BIAP Distinguished Lectures to explore these questions and more! 🤔💭
✨ Sneak peek on TED: t.ly/ylR6E
🗓️Schedule and info: t.ly/r8_jI
Exciting news at BIAP! 🚨
Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA/UB) is officially our new Director! 🎉
We look forward to this new chapter in the life of BIAP 🚀
We are also very thankful to our outgoing director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB), for her work over the past years👏
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📯 BIAP Distinguished Lectures!
We're very happy to announce three upcoming events with Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford) on rationality, values, and the choices that shape our lives 🧩✨
👇 See below for full details
📅 Open lecture on April 8 with @ateneubcn.cat - don’t miss it!
🙌 Busy days at BIAP!
📖 This last Wednesday, BIAP senior member Esa Díaz León gave a presentation of her Cambridge Elements book The Metaphysics of Gender, together with Pablo Rychter and Claudia Picazzo, organised by SEFA!
Looking forward to this talk by Teresa Marques at @swipaesp.bsky.social next week! 🗨️
Link for registration and info below👇
🍾Wonderful news!
Laura Delgado, APhil alumna, joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project of the University of Valencia. Congratulations, Laura!👏👏👏 🥂🥳
aphil.ub.edu/students/lau...
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Now out, my paper "The constitutive function of derogation"
The main original contribution is a suggestion of how shared commitments to affective attitudes can update conversational contexts.
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📣 Upcoming event! Seminar + Round Table with @ubneuro.bsky.social
🗓️ Thu, March 12
📍 Sala de Graus (Miquel Siguan), Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona (Campus Mundet)
👇 More info + streaming link at t.ly/0KolP & t.ly/W28EK
Today! @logos-group.bsky.social @karlbergman.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social @upf.edu
👋 Ongoing this week! PhD seminar with Professor Ernesto Sosa, Rutgers University.
The course is based on a new book that Prod. Sosa is concluding:
Dawning Light Epistemology and Bounded Knowledge
aphil.ub.edu/activity/daw...
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👋 The BIAP workshop “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” took place last week!
Thanks to all the participants for their insightful talks, to the organizers for their incredible work behind the scenes, and to everyone who attended and contributed to such engaging discussions.
👇📸
Conference poster: Large red circle on a cream background. In the circle is the title of the conference: Lies, Fiction & Manipulation in Propaganda. 12-13th February 2026 Pompeu Fabra University.
Happening today and tomorrow!
Postdocs @kraymondh.bsky.social & @flampert.bsky.social are presenting at the @biap.bsky.social conference in Barcelona. Keith's talk is on propaganda and propagandists. Fabio's is on propaganda and the arts of coordination.
cc @univie.ac.at
buff.ly/DW7o9T3
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Also happy to see our former research assistant is giving a talk, Levan Sikharulidze, on trusting (or pretending to trust) authoritarian propaganda! Congrats, Levan!
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🎙️Due to bad weather, today the BIAP Conference will take place online, following government recommendations.
Tomorrow the sessions will be in person, as planned.🙌
👋REMINDER: Upcoming BIAP Conference
Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda
📅 12–13 February 2026, UPF
Join us next week!
🔗 Details here: t.ly/jIutA
👋🎉 On 1st Feb, our postdoc Andrés Soria-Ruiz started his contract as a Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Dep. of Philosophy, U. of Barcelona @ub.edu, joining BIAP as faculty. Huge congratulations, Andrés! 👏
The Ramón y Cajal program is Spain’s most prestigious competitive research grant.
#RamonyCajal
👋 Exciting news! Congratulations to our senior member Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social for contributing three introductory chapters on Philosophy of Language (Part VI) in What is this Thing Called Philosophy (2nd ed.), edited by Duncan Pritchard for Routledge. 📚👏
👋 New on the Open Philosophy Blog! 💡
We’re thrilled to feature a post by our María de Maeztu Fellow Dario Mortini (UB):
📝 Assessing the Linguistic Data on Hedged Assertions
Read it here: t.ly/2ZGqD
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👋Welcome our new student member, Paulina Kraft!
Her wider research interests include the philosophy of time, the epistemology of modality, and the philosophy of action. We’re excited to have her on board and look forward to the insights she’ll bring to our community!
www.ub.edu/grc_logos/au...
👋🧠Fantastic outreach activity yesterday, made possible through our collaboration with the Ateneu Barcelonès @filoateneubcn ✨
👋NEW PUBLICATION!
Huge congratulations to our senior member Manuel García-Carpintero (UB) on the publication of his new book with Cambridge University Press:
📖Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction
A fantastic achievement, well done! 👏
tinyurl.com/2aw3b9t4
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OUTREACH! BIAP Open Conversations Series
How the Mind Develops: From Infants to Language Users
📅 Tue 20 Jan | 18:30
📍 Ateneu Barcelonès – Sala Verdaguer
With Luca Bonatti (ICREA-UPF) & Susan Gelman (Michigan)
Moderator: Manuel García-Carpintero (UB)
💬 Open to all! Organized with @ateneubcn.cat
📢 Upcoming! BIAP conference
🧠 Causal Relationships & Generalizations in Human Life and Mind Sciences
📅 21–23 January 2026
📍 Faculty of Philosophy, @ub.edu
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👉 More info: tinyurl.com/32jrt8tx
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📢 Attention researchers!
The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) has just released its new 2026 calls calendar for research funding and grants!
🔗 Check the full calendar here: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
📢 Attention researchers!
The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) has just released its new 2026 calls calendar for research funding and grants!
🔗 Check the full calendar here: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
SAVE THE DATE!
📢 BIAP collaborative research event: 'Lies, Fiction & Manipulation in Propaganda'
🗓 12–13 Feb 2026
📍 UPF, Barcelona
The workshop brings together experts on propaganda, information warfare, and conspiracy theories 🧠
LINK: t.ly/jIutA
#BIAP #Propaganda
SAVE THE DATE!
📢 Call for Papers: PLM8 – Barcelona
🧠 Philosophy of Language & Mind Conference | 17–19 June 2026 @upf.edu
📝 Abstracts due: 1 Feb 2026
🔗 Submit & info: eventum.upf.edu/142984/plm8
#PLM8