Curriculum Vitae

Education
  • PhD. in Philosophy, University of Stirling, 2004. 
  • M.Litt. in Philosophy University of St. Andrews, 1997. 
  • B. A. (licenciatura) in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 1994.
Other credentials
  • 2019 Certified accreditation I3 – Excellence in Advanced Research, Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation, and Universities.
  • 2019 Homologation of PhD – Grado de Doctor, University of Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2017 Certified accreditation ‘Profesor Contratado Doctor’, ANECA – National Agency of Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation, Ministry of Education, Spain.
  • 2017 Certified accreditation ‘Profesor Ayudante Doctor’, ANECA – National Agency of Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation, Ministry of Education, Spain.
  • 2016 Certified accreditation of Research. AQU – Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari i de la Recerca de Catalunya, Spain.  
Previous positions: 
  • Distinguished senior researcher Beatriz Galindo 2020, University of Barcelona (2021).
  • Profesora asociada (assistant professor), Philosophy Department, University of Barcelona (2020-2021).
  • Researcher and PI, I+D+i H2020 Challenges project, funded by the Spanish Science Ministry and FEDER, Philosophy Department and LOGOS Group. University of Barcelona (2017-2019)
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, funded by the European Commission, FP7, with the Philosophy of Law Group of the Univesitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. (2014-2016)
  • Investigador Ciência 2008 (senior researcher), Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, (2009-2014).  
  • Post-doctoral fellow, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (2008-2009).
  • Young Foreign Researcher (Ayuda de mobilidad) Logos Group, Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona (2007-2008) 
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland – University College Europe (2006-2007)
  • Post-doctoral Fellow,  Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (2004-2007)
Areas of research
Areas of specialization: philosophy of language.
Other areas of interest: metaethics; feminist philosophy; social and legal philosophy.
On going writing projects:
  1. In a Sentimental Mode: How Language Structures the Social, book project in preparation.
  2. ‘Talking of beauty: updating the motivational set’
  3. ‘Representing or shaping reality? The concept class can teach about woman’
  4. ‘We don't need no thought control’
  5. ‘Dogwhistles are conversational implicatures’
  6. 'Misogyny is the hatred of women'
  7. 'The case for de nobis attitudes'
  8. ‘De nobis dispositions and value’
  9. ‘The responsibility of individuals’, commissioned for an edited volume The Construction of Social Reality
  10. ‘Responsibility for dangerous speech’, commissioned for an edited volume Crying for respect, seduced by populism? Nationalism as a challenge to the European project
  11. ‘Relativismo’, (with Pedro Santos), commissioned for Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica, Lisbon: CFUL.
  12. ‘Language, Words, and Linguistic Objects’, commissioned for Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, and Hans Bernhard Schmidt for Oxford University Press. (with M. García-Carpintero)