Dan López de Sa
ICREA at Departament de Lògica, Història,
i Filosofia de la Ciència
Universitat de Barcelona
LOGOS–Grup de Recerca en Lògica, Llenguatge i Cognició
Universitat de Barcelona
Arché–The AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy
of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind
University of St Andrews
dlopezdesa at ub.edu
last update: 6 October, 2009
I am an ICREA Researcher at LOGOS (Barcelona) and associate fellow at Arché (St Andrews).
Before I was GenCat-Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Department of Philosophy (2006-07), Vagueness Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Arché (2004-06), Professor Associat (2002-04) and PhD Research Fellow (1998-01) at the Universitat de Barcelona, where I got my PhD with the thesis Response-Dependencies: Colors and Values (2003), and a Visiting Student for a short while in 2001 at the RSSS Philosophy Program in ANU.
My research is mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and metaethics (see my cv here). I run the philosophical blog bleb. I am the PI of the research project "Vagueness and Physics, Metaphysics, and MetaMetaphysics" (Spanish Government FFI2008-06153/FISO, 2009-2011), in connection to which I organize a series of Workshops on Vagueness and Metaphysics.
Contextualism/Relativism
'What does it Take to Enter the Circumstance?'
'The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond,' for Hales (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Relativism, Blackwell
'Presuppositions of Commonality,' in García-Carpintero & Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, OUP, 297–310 (2008)
'Relativizing Utterance-Truth?,' Synthese 70, 1–5 (2009)
'The Many Relativisms and the Question of Disagreement', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15, 269–279 (2007)
'(Indexical) Relativism about Values: A Presuppositional Defense'
Vagueness as Sematic Indecision
'Is There Something Vague Objects Could Possibly Be?'
'Indeterminate Reference'
'How to Respond to Borderline Cases,' for Dietz & Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds, OUP (2009)
'Can One Get Bivalence from (Tarskian) Truth and Falsity?,' Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39, 273–282 (2009)
'On the Semantic Indecision of Vague Singular Terms,' Sorites 19, 88–91 (2007)
'Lewis vs Lewis on the Problem of the Many'
'Is 'Everything' Precise?, dialectica 60, 397–409 (2006)
Meta-Metaphysics
'Analytic Universalism'
'Indifferentism in Meta-Metaphysics'
'Is the Problem of the Many a Problem in Metaphysics?,' Noûs
42, 746–752 (2008)
Truthmakers
'Making Future Truths'
'The Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-Dependence, and Relativism,' for Pedersen & Wright (eds.), New Waves in Truth, Ashgate (2009/10)
'Disjunctions, Conjunctions, and their Truthmakers' Mind 118, 417–25 (2009)
'Truthmakers, Knowledge, and Paradox' (with Elia Zardini), Analysis 67, 242–50 (2007)
'Does This Sentence Have No Truthmaker?' (with Elia Zardini), Analysis 66, 154–57 (2006)
Rigidity for Predicates
'Rigidity for Predicates and the Trivialization Problem' Philosophers' Imprint 8/1, 1–13 (2008)
'The Over-Generalization Problem: Predicates Rigidly Signifying the "Unnatural,"' Synthese 163, 263–72 (2008)
'Rigidity, General Terms, and Trivialization' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107, 117–23 (2007)
'Flexible Property Designators'
Grazer Philosophische Studien 73, 221–230 (2006)
Response-Dependence and Realism
'The Aposteriori Response-Dependence of Colors' forthcoming in Croatian Journal of Philosophy (issue on response-dependence)
'Rigid vs Flexible Response-Dependent Properties'
'The Explanations that are Missed According to the Missing Explanation Argument'
Flexibility of Values
'What is Valuing?'
'Defending "Restricted Particularism" from Jackson, Pettit & Smith', Theoria 62, 133–143 (2008)
'The Case against Evaluative Realism', Theoria 21, 277–294 (2006)
'Values vs Secondary Qualities', Teorema 25, 197–210 (2006)
Miscellanea
'The Chief Supreme Court Justice: A Metaphysical Puzzle?' Critica 39, 61–68 (2007)
'The Non-Circularity Constraint: Peacocke vs Peacocke' Teorema 22, 85–93 (2003)
(Links to published papers are via publisher's websites or made available with the editor's permission.)