Life and Mind (eBook)

José Manuel Viejo obtained his PhD in Philosophy and Language Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in November 2019. Before that, he graduated in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid and obtained a Master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. He taught several subjects at an undergraduate level (Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Knowledge) in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is Professor-Tutor of Philosophy of Language at the National Distance Education University. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California Riverside and the Institut Jean Nicod. He has been part of the R&D projects 'Material cultures, epistemic cultures. Standards, cognitive practices, and knowledge', funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness, and 'Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence', funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is also part of Madrid Philosophy Network, AEGEA (Applied Epistemology Research Group), the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy. His main research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and language, with a special focus on the issue of the semantics of propositional attitude ascriptions. Some of his other research interests are in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of logic, epistemology and metaphysics.