Contact Information
Department of Philosophy
C. Montalegre, 6. 934037983 m.garciacarpintero(a)ub.edu
My Profile
Manuel García-Carpintero got his PhD at the University of Barcelona, and has taught there since then; he is also an invited professor at the University of Lisbon. He works in the philosophy of language ...
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Manuel García-Carpintero got his PhD at the University of Barcelona, and has taught there since then; he is also an invited professor at the University of Lisbon. He works in the philosophy of language and mind, and related epistemological and metaphysical issues. A book putting together recent work on fiction, Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction, will be published by Cambridge UP in 2025. He is currently completing a book under contract with OUP on the nature of speech acts in general and assertion in particular, entitled Tell Me What You Know and another on reference under contract with Springer, title TBA- info
Academic Training
Filosofía
. Universidad de Barcelona
. 02/1988
. (Ph.D.)
Activity lines
Proper names: reference and cognitive valueSpeech acts: The nature of assertionReference and fictionSpeech acts: assertion and presuppositionSpeech acts: fiction as a representational act
Relevant publications
García-Carpintero, M.(2019).
Normative Fiction-Making and the World of the Fiction.The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 77(3), pp. 267 - 279
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0021-8529M. García-Carpintero(2023).
Semantics of Fiction.Mind & Language, 38(2), pp. 604 - 618
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0268-1064M. García-Carpintero(2023).
Lying versus misleading, with language and pictures: The adverbial account.Linguistics And Philosophy, 46, pp. 509 - 532
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0165-0157García-Carpintero, Manuel(2024).
Memory-based reference and immunity to error through misidentification.Synthese, 204(70)
. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04664-2. ISSN: 0039-7857García-Carpintero, M.(2021).
How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds.Review of Philosophy and Psychology
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 1878-5158García-Carpintero, M.(2021).
Reference-fixing and Presuppositions
. In
The Routledge Handbooks of Philosophy of Linguistic Reference, S. Biggs & H. Geirsson (eds.)
. (pp. 179 - 198)
. Routledge
. ISBN: 978-0367629724
.
García-Carpintero, M.(2021).
Models as Hypostatizations
. In
Models and Idealizations in Science: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches, Alejandro Cassini & Juan Redmond (eds.)
. (pp. 179 - 197)
. Springer
. ISBN: 978-3-030-65802-1
.
García-Carpintero, M.(2021).
Do the Imaginings that Fictions Invite Have a Direction of Fit?
. In
The Language of Fiction, Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke (eds.)
. (pp. 131 - 152)
. Oxford University Press
. ISBN: 978-0-19-884637-6
. http://DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198846376.003.00006García-Carpintero, M.(2022).
Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective
. In
The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.)
. (pp. 401 - 418)
. Cambridge University Press (CUP)
. ISBN: 978-1-108-49238-6
.
García-Carpintero, M.(2022).
Games, Artworks, and Hybrids
. In
Enrico Terrone and Vera Tripodi (eds.)
. (pp. 187 - 217)
. Palgrave Macmillan
. ISBN: 978-3-030-88792-6
.
Participation in Projects
AUTONOMY AS ADDRESS
.
2024 - 2028
. Ref.CIPROM/2023/55
. Generalitat Valenciana
. PI: Josep E. Corbí Fernández de IbarraBarcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP)
.
2023 - 2026
. Ref.CEX2021-001169-M
. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
. PI: Carl HoeferNOTA - The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion
.
2024 - 2026
. Ref.WT7829531
. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
. PI: Giulia FelappiPensamientos y Hechos en Perspectiva
.
2009 - 2014
. Ref.CSD2009-00056
. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
. PI: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero Sanchez-MiguelPerspectival Thoughts and Facts (PETAF)
.
2010 - 2013
. Ref.PITN-GA-2009-238128
. Unió Europea
. PI: Sven Rosenkranz
Conferences and Participations in Congresses
García-Carpintero, M.(2024).
On Plausible Deniability.
(Invited conference)
.
XXV World Congress of Philosophy. Roma
. ITALYGarcía-Carpintero, M.(2023).
On the Mood for Fiction.
(Invited conference)
.
2nd Philosophy of Language Association conference. Berlin
. GERMANYGarcía-Carpintero, M.(2019).
Fictional Direction of Fit.
(Invited conference)
.
The Language of Fiction
.
http://www.filosofi.uu.se/workshop-the-language-of-fiction/. Uppsala
. SWEDENM. García-Carpintero(2024).
Names and Name-Bearing.
(Invited conference)
.
Proper Names and Their Relation to Singular Terms. Dortmund
. GERMANYGarcía-Carpintero, M.(2021).
"Fictive Stance" vs. Mere Pretense Views of Fictionality: Explanatory Virtues.
(Invited conference)
.
Seminario sobre Ficción. Santiago de Compostela
. SPAINGarcía-Carpintero, M.(2025).
Games and Artworks.
(Invited conference)
.
Habits and Rules in Aesthetics: What Lies Within, Between and Beyond Them. Santiago de Compostela
. SPAINHow to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds.
15/05/2020On Speech Act Indirection.
02/12/2020Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide.
18/05/2021“Fictive Stance” vs. Mere Pretense Views of Fictionality: Explanatory Virtues.
27/05/2025