Coming up!

📯 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!

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers

It's maybe ironic to post about the death of Jürgen Habermas here in one of our many twisted parodies of a public square, but he's the philosopher we very much need right now, a believer in the power of communication and reason. Here's my Times obituary:

ejemplos de perversiones del significado, una noción que tengo que repensar y precisar

Episode 6: Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni on Emotions as Attitudes (en français). Quand on a peur, on fuit.

Nouvel épisode de _Philosophy of Emotion_ 🎙️ — en français !

Avec Julien Deonna et Fabrice Teroni, nous discutons de **l’attitudinalisme**, la fameuse théorie des émotions qu’ils développent ensemble depuis plus de 15 ans 🫀

open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...:

Very cool event coming up, bringing together two "María de Maeztu" institutions at the @ub.edu: BIAP @biap.bsky.social and Institut de Neurociències @ubneuro.bsky.social
Two colleagues, Manolo and Andrea, at @logos-group.bsky.social will participate!
@filosofiaub.bsky.social

The Constitutive Function of Derogation - Topoi I defend an Austinian account of derogatory speech acts that distinguishes their general effects from their specific function – those that the being in force of their defining constitutive rules is me...

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.
@biap.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We had a brilliant workshop last month on lies, fiction and manipulation in propaganda.
The most actual topic we could be studying these days.

👋 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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@logos-group.bsky.social
@filosofiaub.bsky.social

😀 What a week!

Prof. Ernesto Sosa (Rutgers) delivered this year's PhD seminar, and a LOGOS Colloquium on the side.
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@logos-group.bsky.social

Doctoral student in philosophy

We have an open PhD position at Umeå. Current deadline is March 6th which is pretty soon. S
Please send this to any promising students who might be interested - especially if they are into the sort of stuff we do at Umeå. Here is the link: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

🎙️ If you're an APhil alumnus/alumna (or not...) looking for a fully funded PhD in the Humanities, check out the call below in Vienna.
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The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

✨ BIAP Conference ✨
“Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda”

📅 12 i 13 de febrer de 2026
📍 Sala Polivalent (24.S18), Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, Campus de la Ciutadella, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

👋 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. 📚👏

Philosophy jobseekers! 6 year postdoc in theoretical philosophy in Saarbrücken.

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

Organized by Andrei Bespalov, Levan Sikharulidze, Andrea Huete and yours truly!
Check it out!

📢 FPU 2025 (Formación de Profesorado Universitario)
The application period will open soon. Stay tuned!

LINK: www.ciencia.gob.es/Convocatoria...

What is this thing called Philosophy? What is this thing called Philosophy? is the definitive textbook for all who want a thorough introduction to the field. It introduces philosophy using a question-led approach that reflects the discurs...

www.routledge.com/What-is-this...
A nice gift for Epiphany/dia de reis: 2nd edition of What is this thing called Philosophy, edited by Duncan Pritchard, and now with a part on Phil Language 🥰

"I don't sleep at night,I knit [socks].I knit as best I can so their feet are warm in them."

95-year-old Mrs Sofiia Dukhovych from the village of Krylos,Ivano-Frankivsk region,has been knitting socks for Ukrainian Defenders for three years.During this time,she has knitted over 270 pairs

📹Reporter

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

Whenever anyone questions if women are capable of abstract thought, complex planning, etc., remember the history of crafts

La vuelta del papel y el boli: así es la nueva iniciativa de la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de Sevilla La Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de Sevilla propone una iniciativa para recuperar la escritura manual y la lectura pausada, al igual que otros compañeros europeos

www.elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/2025...

these are the news I'm here for

Workshop: Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk - Communication, Inner Speech, and Mental Health (CIM) - UPF

Tomorrow (4 Dec): Workshop
*Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk*

📅 10:00–18:00
📍 UPF, Barcelona — Roger de Llúria Building, Room 40.248 (hybrid)

👉 www.upf.edu/web/communic...

#Philosophy #Communication #Cognition #UPF
Don't miss it.

👋🎓 TODAY! PhD Dissertation Defense

Our student Marcelino Botín (UB) @logos-group.bsky.social will defend his thesis:
“Consciousness in Its Right Place: The Case for A Posteriori Russellian Physicalism”

Supervisors: BIAP members Esa Díaz León & Genoveva Martí

🕔 17:00 h
📍Seminari de Filosofia UB

👋REMINDER! Today!!

👋Exciting news!
Our Director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB @logos-group.bsky.social), has been awarded the ‘Distinción a una trayectoria’ by the Society for Women in (Analytic) Philosophy Spain (SWIP(A)).

Huge congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 👏💫

👋No os perdáis la exposición en linea dedicada al centenario de la muerte de Gottlob Frege!

Varios de nuestros profesores han contribuido a la celebración!🤩

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@filosofiaub.bsky.social
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