Research

Lines of research

Present main line: Language and thought: empiricist alternatives to cognitivism.

Secondary line 1: Foundations and development of analytic philosophy, Russell Studies.

Secondary line 2: Philosophy and history of logic and mathematics: Peano and his school, Russell, Gödel, Tarski.

Ph. D. Dissertation

"El método en la filosofía de Bertrand Russell" (1987). Supervisor: Jesús Mosterín.

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"Russell Studies", Visiting Scholarship in the The Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University, 1989-90, through a Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
"Some problems in the philosophy of formal and empirical sciences", Fulbright Visiting Fellowship in the Philosophy Department, Harvard University, 1993, through a Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Fulbright/Ministry of Education and Science Program.
"Verdad y consecuencia lógicas: un enfoque histórico-filosófico", Project of Research DGICYT PS93-220, from the Spanish Dirección General de Investigación, Ciencia y Tecnología, covering certain research expenses of the period 1994-1997. Through this project I was able to visit Italy in June, 1995, as well as the Maths. Dept. and the Bancroft Library, Berkeley University, USA, in June, 1996. The Italian universities which I visited in 1995 were the following: Genova University (Maths. Dept.), Milan University (Maths. Dept.), Parma University (Maths. Dept.) and the Roma University (Maths. Dept.).

Current research (work in progress)

"A private language argument: formulability and refutability", in preparation.
"Points about denoting and denotation", in preparation.
"Lenguaje y ontogenia: cognitivismo versus empirismo", in preparation.
"Tarski's philosophical ideas", in preparation.
Mario Pieri's philosophy and foundations of mathematics. A book with E. Marchisotto including English translations of some of Pieri's Italian writings. It is near completion and it will appear in Birkhäuser, containing some unpublished materials by Pieri and Padoa.

Special activities

Referee and reviewer of History and Philosophy of Logic
Referee, reviewer and member of the edit. board of Mathesis
Referee of Crítica, Análisis Filosófico, Revista de Filosofía, Daimon, Birkhäuser publisher, Editorial UNAM.
Reviewer of: Russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, Diálogos, Modern Logic, Mathematical Reviews, Theoria, Revista de Libros, Llull, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Organizer (with I. Grattan-Guinness), Symposium "Logics and foundations of Mathematics, 1885-1905", International Union for History and Philosophy of Science, International Congress, Zaragoza, August 1993.
Referee to evaluate research projects submitted to ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva), 2002.
Invited Professor to Ph.D. evaluation committees. (1) C.A. Cardona Suárez, Wittgenstein y Gödel. Debate acerca del sentido y la interpretación de las proposiciones matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Filosofía, Bogotá, abril 2003. (2) M. Galvani, Teoria degli insiemi, logica e filosofia nei Collected Works di Kurt Gödel, Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Lettere, Pisa, abril 2005.
Member of the Scientific Board, Great Ape Trust of Iowa (www.GreatApeTrust.org), 2005.
Guest co-Editor (with Juan J. Acero) of special issue of Theoria: "Language and thought: empirical and conceptual viewpoints", Setb 2005.