Selection of publications

Books & collections

Papers by topic

Pejoratives & slurs

  • 'Pejoratives & oughts', Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel. doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00288-1. 2020. Link to online access.
  • ‘Really expressive presuppositions and how to block them’, Grazer Philosophische Studien,  (with M. García-Carpintero). 2020.  preprint
  • ‘Pejorative discourse is not fictional’, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 6(4): 250–260. 2017. preprint

Hate speech
  • 'How can philosophy of language help us navigate the political news cycle?', in Elly Vintiadis (ed.) Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy and Its Value, NY: Routledge. 2020
  • 'Bestias en forma humana: o de los daños que causa el discurso peligroso' La torre del Virrey. Revista de Estudios Culturales 27 (2020/11), 1-31 2020. Link. [Spanish translation of the above]
  • In English: 'Beasts in human form’: how dangerous speech harms’, Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades, y Relaciones Internacionales, 21(42). 2019.  link

Disagreement & metalinguistic negotiations
  • 'Illocutionary force and attitude mode in normative disputes', Metaphilosophy. 2021; 00: 1– 17. Open access.
  • ‘Disagreement with a bald-faced liar’,  Ratio  pp. 1–14. doi:10.1111/rati.12268. 2020. Final draft.
  • ‘What metalinguistic negotiations can’t do’, Phenomenology and Mind. 12: 40-48. 2017. Link.
  • ‘Can metalinguistic negotiations and ‘conceptual ethics’ rescue legal positivism?’ Francesca Poggi and Alessandro Capone (eds.), Pragmatics and Law: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives, pp. 223-241. Springer. ISBN-10: 3319445995. 2017. Link.
  • ‘Disagreeing in context’. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (257). 2015. Link
  • 'Desacordo', Compêndio Em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica. 2014. Link.
  • 'Disagreement about taste: commonality presuppositions and coordination’. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 92 (4):701-723. (with Manuel García-Carpintero). 2014 Link.
  • ‘Doxastic disagreement’. Erkenntnis, 79 (1): 121 - 142. 2014. Link.
  • ‘Disagreements’. Erkenntnis, 79 (1): 1-10. (with Daniel Conhitz). 2014.

Relativism
  • ‘The case against semantic relativism’, in M. Kusch (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy  of Relativism, Routledge. 2019. preprint
  • ‘Retractions’. Synthese. 195(8), 3335-3359. 2018 preprint
  • ‘Relative correctness’. Philosophical Studies 167 (2): 361 - 373. 2014. Link.
  • ‘What can modes do for (moderate) relativism?’ Critical notice of François Recanati’s Perspectival Thought: A Plea for (Moderate) Relativism, OUP, in Crítica, Revista Hispano-Americana de Filosofia, 42(124): 77–100. 2010

Evaluative and normative discourse
  • ‘Hybrid dispositionalism and the law’, in D. Plunkett, S. Shapiro, and K. Toh (eds.), Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press. 2019 preprint
  • ‘Aesthetic predicates: a hybrid dispositional account’. Inquiry  59(6), pp. 723-751. 2016  Link.
  • ‘We can’t have no satisfaction’. Philosophy South – Unisinos Philosophy Journal 17(3):308-314. 2016. Link.

Social kinds, conceptual amelioration, sex and gender
  • 'Language, Words, and Linguistic Objects’, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, and Hans Bernhard Schmidt, Oxford University Press. (with M. García-Carpintero)
  • ‘Amelioration vs perversion’, in T. Marques and Å. Wikforss (eds.) Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.  preprint
  • ‘The relevance of causal social construction’. Journal of Social Ontology. 3 (1). 2017 Link.
  • ‘É o género uma construção social?’, in Mesquita, A. P., Beckert, C. Pérez, J. L., Xavier, M. L. (eds.), A Paixão da Razão, Lisbon: CFUL, pp. 561-578. 2015
  • 'Construção social', in Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica, Lisbon: CFUL. 2015 . Link.

Truth, falsity, negation
  • ‘This is not an instance of (E)’. Synthese. 195(3), pp. 1035–1063. 2018  preprint
  • 'Truth and the ambiguity of negation'. In Erich Rast & Luiz Carlos Baptista (eds.), Meaning and Context. Peter Lang. pp. 2--235. 2010. Link.
  • 'The square of opposition and the paradoxes'. Logica Universalis 2 (1):87-105. 2008. Link.
  • ‘Pode o deflacionismo negar a bivalência?’ Philosophica, 28: 227–244 2006

Philosophy of language misc.
  • 'Nomes vazios' (with Manuel García-Carpintero)  Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica. 2014. Link
  • ‘Filosofia da Linguagem’, in P. Galvão (ed.), Filosofia: Uma Introdução por Disciplinas, Lisbon: Edições 70. (with M. García-Carpintero) 2012.
  • ‘On an argument of Segal’s against object dependent thoughts’. Disputatio, 2(21): 19–37. 2006. Link
  • ‘Referência, Teorias da’, in J. Branquinho, D. Murcho and N. Gonçalves (eds.) Enciclopédia de Termos Lógico-Filosóficos, São Paulo: Martins Fontes. 2006.
  • Tipo natural’, in J. Branquinho, D. Murcho and N. Gonçalves (eds.) Enciclopédia de Termos Lógico- Filosóficos, São Paulo: Martins Fontes. 2006
 

Outreach and other publications in the media

  • Article in the Catalan newspaper Ara, on censorship, propaganda, and disinformation.
  • Article in the Portuguese newspaper Público, on its P3 supplement, on the silencing of women.
  • Article in the Catalan newspaper Ara on strategic ignorance and the Covid pandemic.
  • Article in the Catalan newspaper Ara  on free speech (January 2020), and another
  • ​Interview for GPS, Global Portuguese Scientists network.
  • Article for The Conversation on the problems with research assessment and funding in Portugal, which has been reprinted here and here. (2014). The graphics below were prepared by Sylvia Tippman and show how many review panels and how many members there were in each review exercise. Whereas in 2007, decisions were taken by the 223 reviewers (covering more than 20 specialized panels), in 2014 the external reviewers opinion was not conclusive for the final verdicts. Instead, the 74 reviewers distributed in only 5 panels made all the final decisions concerning rating of the research units, and their future funding until 2020... which is now!