Markel Kortabarria

📢 This Friday a new session of #VLCColloquium!

🔗More info: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/aida-r...

🌀 Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop

An exciting event bringing together leading specialists at the intersection of linguistics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of time.

⌛ 13-14 March 2026

Organizers: Fabrice Correia & Giovanni Merlo

More details: goo.su/zgagZp9

Shadow Hearts ~ シャドウハーツ (2001)

Developed by Sacnoth.

So cool seeing Kane take his little project to this level. It’s wild seeing this internet horror phenomenon grow into something so public and widely recognized. I really hope he gets to fully bring his dreadly liminal nightmare to life. I’m so hyped for it.

👋 The BIAP workshop “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” took place last week!

Thanks to all the participants for their insightful talks, to the organizers for their incredible work behind the scenes, and to everyone who attended and contributed to such engaging discussions.
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📣 AMAMI is now accepting membership applications!

By joining AMAMI, you will become part of a thriving community of Italian-speaking scholars working in analytic metaphysics across the globe.

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The second response retains psychophysical essence-mediation but invokes a distinction between deep and superficial essence to argue that, contrary to introspective apparences, phenomenal properties do not have purely phenomenal essences.

We argue that g-physicalists can offer two responses. The first denies that the psychophysical grounding relation is essence-mediated and instead appeals to psychophysical grounding laws. We show that, despite its apparent proximity to dualism, this view is more defensible than critics assume.

We take issue with a recent argument against grounding physicalism according to which the widely held view that grounding relations are essence-mediated is incompatible with the claim that the essence of phenomenal properties is revealed to us in introspection as being purely phenomenal.

Here is the official link to the open access version:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

M. Botin & Markel Kortabarria, Grounding Physicalism and the New Challenge of Consciousness - PhilPapers Grounding is a non-reductive relation which promises to help physicalists deal with the hard problem of consciousness. Grounding physicalists, however, are yet to face the new challenge for physicalis...

Thrilled to share that a long-overdue collaboration with my dear friend @marcebotin.bsky.social has been accepted for publication. We wrote it at the end of our PhD, which makes it especially meaningful to me.

You can find the prepint here 👇🏻:

philpapers.org/rec/BOTGPA

Filosofía en español: Hoy escribo sobre chatbots post-ruptura en El Salto.

👋REMINDER! Today!!

👋Exciting news!
Our Director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB @logos-group.bsky.social), has been awarded the ‘Distinción a una trayectoria’ by the Society for Women in (Analytic) Philosophy Spain (SWIP(A)).

Huge congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 👏💫

🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED).
Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...

👋 Call for Abstracts!

The Taller d'Investigació en Filosofia will take place in València, 7–8 May 2026.

📢 The call for abstracts is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: December 14th

Don’t miss this great opportunity to present your research work!
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The best week of the year and official celebration of my viva begins today

Raven, M. (2004). What physicalism could be

Advances a grounding-based formulation of physicalism that exploits a distinction between circumstantial and acricumstantial facts, and examines how this approach might address the problem of whether grounding facts are physical or non-physical

Honestly, I wondered about this, but since it’s a review for which I already asked an extension and I’m now quite free, I’ve already drafted a response based on the content. Besides, some claims made were interesting. But I will obviously let the editors know of my suspicion

The presence of nonexistent references in a paper I’m reviewing makes me suspect that AI may have been used

University of Barcelona, you better pay me soon. I need to get my hands on that Silent Hill F

Political Theory Postdoc Funding: Grants & Fellowships for Early Career Researchers Grant and fellowship schemes for early-career researchers in political theory. Browse a comprehensive database of international funding sources for your postdoc in political philosophy. Grant applicat...

Oh wow, this is a really valuable resource for postdoc funding opportunities (all disciplines) across Europe! #philsky Many thanks to Marcus Carlsen Häggrot for setting this up! (Something for @dailynous.com?)

the worse the shared draft the better the friend

You just know people are going to be googling that obscure metal band

I forgot to show here the incredible tshirt my friends designed me as a gift for my successful viva

Thomas Szanto, In hate we trust: The collectivization and habitualization of hatred - PhilPapers In the face of longstanding philosophical debates on the nature of hatred and an ever-growing interest in the underlying social-psychological function of group-directed or genocidal hatred, the peculi...

Szanto, T. (2018). In hate we trust: the collectivization and habitualization of hatred

Argues that hatred is an enduring affective–intentional attitude with an indeterminate focus that collectivizes its target, and that haters derive extreme affective power from commitment to the attitude itself

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

@leedsprhs.bsky.social
Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Revision Without Changing the Subject: A Haslangerian Account In recent discussions about conceptual engineering, many philosophers are concerned with a new version of Strawson’s challenge to Carnap’s notion of explication. The new challenge, as Koch...

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