in Analytic Philosophy
Genoveva Martí
ICREA - Universitat de Barcelona
E-mail: first-name dot last-name at gmail dot com
Departament de Filosofia
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta
I was born in Barcelona and I obtained my "Licenciatura" (BA) at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1981. In 1982 I joined the PhD program at Stanford University, where my PhD was awarded in January 1989. I have been Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Reader at the London School of Economics. In 2014-15 I was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). I have been coordinator of the research group LOGOS (http://www.ub.es/grc_logos). I was awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2012. I am an elected member of the Academia Europaea (since 2009) and from January 2013 till July 2014 I was the Academic Director of the Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub in Barcelona.
Research topics: I am primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. A traditional explanation of the relation of reference is the view that reference is mediated by our cognitive perspective on things. On this view, which objects we talk about is determined by the concepts we associate with the expressions we use. Against this view I defend an approach according to which what we refer to is not determined by our internal mental states nor by the concepts we entertain; it rather depends on social and causal factors that are external to our mind. This area of research is connected to other research areas, especially in Linguistics and Psychology.
Keywords: Theory of Reference; Direct Reference; Names and Definite Descriptions; Semantics of General terms; Modality; Carnap and Quine on Modality; Experimental data and Semantics.
Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2021
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
Semiotica 2021(240): 145-163
Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2021
Tolerance, Flexibility and the application of kind terms.
Synthese,198: 2973-2986
Genoveva Martí. 2020
Experimental semantics, descriptivism and anti-descriptivism. Should we endorse referential pluralism?
A. Bianchi (ed.): Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective. Springer Verlag, pp. 329-341.
Natural kind terms and rigidity
S. Biggs & H. Giersson (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. Routledge: 283-294.
Genoveva Martí, Carl Hoefer. 2020
Realism, reference and perspective
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(3) 38
On whales and fish. Two models of interpretation.
Jurisprudence, 11 (1): 63-75.
Names, Descriptions and Causal Descriptions. Is the Magic Gone?
Topoi 39: 357-365
DOI. 10.1007/s11245-017-9525-1
Water has a microstructural essence after all
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9, 1 UNSP 12
Names, predicates and the object-property distinction.
M. de Ponte and K. Korta (eds.): Reference and Representation in Thought and Language. Oxford University Press, pp. 14-19.
Legal Disagreements and Theories of Reference
Francesca Poggi (ed.): Pragmatics and Law. Philosophical Perspectives. Springer: 121-139.
General terms, hybrid theories and ambiguitiy. A discussion of some experimental results
Jussi Haukioja (ed.). Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language. London. Bloomsbury, pp. 157-172
Reference without cognition
A. Bianchi (ed.) On Reference. Oxford University Press
For the Disunity of Semantics
Mind & Language, 29/4: 485-489
Reference and Experimental Semantics
Edouard Machery and Elizabeth O'Neill (eds.): Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy. New York. Routledge, pp. 17-26
Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference
Kabasenche, W.; O'Rourke, M.; Slater, M. (eds.): Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Reference and Referring. MIT Press: 63-82
On Modality and Reference. Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012). Obituary
Teorema, 31 (2102), pp. 203-212
General Terms, Rigidity and the Trivialization Problem
Synthese 181, 2 (2011), pp. 277-293; doi:10.1007/s11229-010-9802-7
General Terms as Designators: A Defence of the View
H. Beebee & N. Sabbarton-Leary: The Semantics and Metaphysics of Kinds. Routledge, pp. 46-63
Against Semantic Multiculturalism
Analysis, 69:42-49
Direct Reference and Definite Descriptions
Dialectica, 62: 43-57
Weak and Strong Directness: Reference and Thought
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXXIV: 730-737
Genoveva Martí, José Martínez. 2007
General Terms and Non-Trivial Rigid Designation
C. Martínez, J.L. Falguera & J.M. Sagüillo: Current Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: 103-116
Rigidity and General Terms
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 104: 129-146
The Question of Rigidity in New Theories of Reference
Nous, 37: 161-179
Rigidity and the Description of Counterfactual Situations
Theoria, vol 13: 3, pp.477-490
The Significance of the Distinction between Concept Mastery and Concept Possession. Response to James Higginbotham
Philosophical Issues, vol 9, pp. 163-167
Rethinking Quine's Argument on the Collapse of Modal Distinctions
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol 38:2, pp. 276-294
The Essence of Genuine Reference
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 24, pp. 275-289
Do Modal Distinctions Collapse in Carnap's System?
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 23, pp. 575-593
The Source of Intensionality
Philosophical Perspectives, vol 7 (1993). pp. 197-206
Aboutness and Substitutivity
Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Vol. XIV (1989). pp. 127-139
See also my personal page at ICREA:
https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/genoveva-marti-campillo-176
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