Address
Isabel Riquelme Sur 1769, dpto. 43Maipú, Santiago, RM, Chile
Short biography
I am Doctor in Philosophy (received my degree at KU Leuven). My PhD thesis was on modal epistemology, and I am currently working on a postdoc project on know-how.
Area of Specialization: Modal Epistemology.
Areas of Competence: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Metaphilosophy, and Philosophical Logic.
Areas of Interest: Aesthetics, Ancient Skepticism, and Philosophy of Mathematics.
Education
2017-2021
PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Project: The Epistemology of Counterfactuals and Modality.
Thesis: Agentive Modality and the Structure of Modal Thought.
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Heylen. Defended 5/1/2021. Examination committee: Grant Ramsey, Lorenz Demey, Sonia Roca-Royes (external, U. Of Stirling).
2015-2016
MPhil, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Thesis: A Model of Understanding: An Account of its Structure and Measures.
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Heylen.
2009-2013
Master in Philosophy, with specialization in Epistemology, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Thesis: El Problema Epistemológico de los Juicios de Posibilidad como Problema Metafilosófico y sobre el Entendimiento (eng: The Epistemological Problem of Possibility Judgements as a Metaphilosophical Problem, and On Understanding”).
Supervisor: Dr. Rodrigo González Fernández.
2005-2008
Bachelor in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Thesis: Análisis y Ontología (eng: Analysis and Ontology”).
Supervisor: Dr. Guido Vallejos.
Scholarships
2022-2025
Beca FONDECYT de Postdoctorado 2022, ANID, Chile.
2017-2021
Beca Chile para estudios de Doctorado en el Extranjero (Chile Scholarship for Doctoral Studies Abroad), CONICYT/ANID, Chile.
2015-2016
Beca Chile para estudios de Magister en el Extranjero (Chile Scholarship for Master's Studies Abroad), CONICYT/ANID, Chile.
Articles
forthcoming
“Reseña. Justin Clarke-Doane (2022) Mathematics and metaphilosophy. Cambridge University Press. 58pp.", Revista de Filosofia.
forthcoming
“Cartesian Know-How", (with Rodrigo Gonzalez), Southern Journal of Philosophy.
2024
“Calibrating and Bootstrapping Modal Judgment", Disputatio, XV, 69, 250-266.
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/disp-2023-0011
2024
“On the possession and attribution problems for collective know-how", Aufklärung, 11, n. Especial Nov. 2024, 87-102.
https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v11iEspecial.69933
2024
“Modalizing in Musical Performance", (with Giulia Lorenzi), Mind & Language.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.12515
2024
“An Epistemic Argument for Evolutionary Dispositions", (as co-author with Cristina Villegas) Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 39/1, 89-108.
2024
“¿Es cartesiano el “teatro cartesiano” de Dennett?: Un análisis crítico desde el trialismo y el ens per se", (as co-author with Rodrigo Gonzalez), Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofia, 40(1): 143-153.
https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASHF/article/view/88025
2024
“Going Ballistic: the Dynamics of the Imagination and the Issue of Intentionalism", Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2024.10257
2024
“Transcendental Knowability, Closure, Luminosity and Factivity: reply to Stephenson", (as co-author with Jan Heylen). History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 27, 121-140.
https://www.mentis.de/view/journals/hpla/aop/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10073/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10073.xml
2023
“Reseña: J. Adam Carter. Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy & The Future of Knowing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022, 159 pp. ", Revista de Filosofía, 80, 319-321.
2023
“¿Quién sabe cómo? Re-examinando las atribuciones de know-how en contexto", Palabra y Razón, 24, 15-32
https://doi.org/10.29035/pyr.24.15
2023
“Concepts of Knowability", (as co-author with Jan Heylen), Revista de Humanidades de Valparaiso, 23, 287-308
https://rhv.uv.cl/index.php/RHV/article/view/4095/3892
2023
“Compressing Graphs: A Model for the Content of Understanding", Erkenntnis, doi: 10.1007/s10670-023-00694-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-023-00694-3
2022
“Towards Subject Matters for Counterpossibles", Studia Semiotyczne, 35(2), 125-152
http://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/index.php/Studiasemiotyczne/article/view/229
2021
“On Understanding People, Structure, Desires, and Ourselves", Cinta de Moebio, 72, 183-193
https://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/65795
2021
“Understanding Attributions: Problems, Options, and a Proposal", Theoria, 88, 558–583. doi: 10.1111/theo.12380
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/G4PWDCR3AINGPYIAV6U6?target=10.1111/theo.12380
2020
“Game Counterpossibles", Argumenta, 6(1), 117-133. doi: 10.150pt75/2465-2334/202011.mor
https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202011.mor
2020
“Epistemic Projects, Indispensability and the Structure of Modal Thought", Res Philosophica, 97(4), 611–638, doi: 10.11612/resphil.1946
https://www.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/content/resphilosophica_2020_0097_0004_0611_0638
2019
“Mistakes as Revealing and as Manifestations of Competence", Synthese, doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02281-y
https://rdcu.be/bGkY9
2018
“What is the Locus of Abilities?", Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 12(2), 19-30, doi: 10.4396/20180201
2018
“On the Question of the Indispensability of Modal Thought", Proceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, ISBN: 978-84-09-06054-2
2015
“Posibilidades más allá de los fenómenos", El Pensamiento de Kant en la Actualidad - Comunicaciones del I Congreso Internacional Kant y el Criticismo: pasado, presente, ¿futuro? (eds. Daniela Alegría, Paula Órdenes), Editora FI, Porto Alegre.
2011
“La Malla Conceptual de Sentido Comun sobre la Conciencia", Anuario de Postgrado 2011, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile.
2011
“Sobre Posibilidades Contingentes", Metafísica: Cinco Ensayos de Filosofia Analítica, Publicaciones Especiales del Departamento de Filosofia, Universidad de Chile.
Talks
2024, September 4
"Know how and epistemic friction", XXIV Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Valparaiso, Chile
2024, April 12
"Imagining how", Workshop: Llegando a saber como, Universidad de Chile
2023, October 9
"Group know-how is understanding-like", 3º Encontro Cognição & Linguagem, CLE UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil
2023, July 25
"What the Tortoise should have asked Achilles", 17th CLMPST, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023, June 6
"Alien questions and knowability", Workshop on the concept and scope of knowability, Leuven, Belgium
2023, May 26
"Know-how desde una perspectiva minimalista", IX Coloquio Lenguaje y Cognición, Santiago, Chile
2023, May 24
"Commentary on Zuzanna Rucinska "Do we perceive or do we imagine in virtual realities?"", Fourth Annual C.O.V.I.D. (online)
2022, October 21
"Compressing Graphs", CLPS Seminar, HIW, Leuven, Belgium
2022, October 17
"Modalizing Together", Issues on the (Im)Possible, Tilburg, Netherlands
2022, October 5
"What is that Question? On Holding an Epistemic Relation to a Question", XXII Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Santiago, Chile
2022, August 2
"What is that Question? Knowledge of Questions vs Knowledge of things", scholar.social #Summerschool 2022
2022, July 22
"Modalizing in Musical Performance (poster)", SPP/ESPP Conference, Milan, Italy (online participation)
2022, June 30
"Calibrating and Bootstrapping Modal Judgment", IV Blasco Disputatio, Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
2022, May 24
"Commentary on Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa "Can Daydreaming Too Much Constitute a Pathology of Its Own?"", Third Annual C.O.V.I.D.
2022, April 21
"The Content of Understanding as Compressed Graphs", 4th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop, New York, USA (online)
2021, December 2
"Modal Judgement in Musical Performance", (with Giulia Lorenzi) PG WIP Seminar, Warwick, UK.
2021, October 22
"Disyunción y Topicalidad", XXI Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
2021, September 2
"Contemporary Concepts of Knowability", (with Jan Heylen) Knowability and the Limits of Knowledge, Leuven, Belgium (online)
2021, August 4
"The Search for Know-How", scholar.social #Summerschool
2021, June 23
"The Dynamics of Daydreaming in a Ballistic Model", Extremes of Mind-Wandering Conference, University of Edinburgh, Online.
2021, April 19
"things that slowly fill all there ever was", MMRN 1st Annual Conference, Music and Adversity (poster session)
2020, November 6
"Counterpossibles in Games and Subject Matters for Counterpossibles", CLPS Seminar, Leuven, Belgium
2020, August 27
"Subject matter for counterpossibles", ECAP 10, Utrecht (Online).
2019, August 27-30
""Imagined, supposed and impossible ways" (individual presentation) & "Counterfactual knowability, once again" (with Jan Heylen)", XX Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Santiago, Chile.
2019, July 19-21
"What about the bees? Generality and holism in geometry and modality", Open session of the Joint Session, Durham.
2019, July 11-12
"Musical attentiveness' modal aspect", Session on A Musical Matter of Mind at the MPSG 2019, London.
2019, May 30-31
"Modality and circularity", Conference Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)possible VII, Bratislava
2019, May 23-24
"Imagined and supposed ways", Conference Learning from Imagination, Leeds
2018, November
"On the question of the indispensability of modal thought", IX Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Madrid, Spain.
2018, October
"Accounting for the structure of modal knowledge", CLPS Seminar, Leuven.
2018, September
"On the global embedding problem for modal expressivism", Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2018, Salzburg, Austria.
2018, June
"Non-assertion and modality - from Pyrrho to some contemporary debates", CLPS-DWMC Symposium, Leuven.
2018, January
"On the indispensability of modal thought", First Leuven-Paris Anaytic Philoophy Workshop, Leuven.
2017, September
"Boundaries for Williamsonian epistemologies of modality", CLAW-CEFISES Workshop, Leuven, Belgium.
2017, July
"Knowing (how I can) and counterfactual success", Varieties of Knowing How Workshop, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
2017, April
"Knowing what is possible atemporally and at all times", 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference, HIW KU Leuven, Belgium.
2016, July
"Attributions of misunderstanding and the context-sensitivity of understanding", European Epistemology Network Conference, Paris, France.
2014
"Posibilidades más allá de los fenómenos", I Congreso Internaciona Kant y el Criticismo\: Presente, Pasado, ¿Futuro?, Santiago, Chile.
2013
"Experimentos mentales, comprensión y la tesis de la pluralidad lógica", XIV Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
2013
"Descartes y la relación entre la concebibilidad y la afirmabilidad de lo posible", III Congreso Nacional de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
2013
"Entendimiento y juicios de posibilidad", IV Coloquio Lenguaje y Cognición, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
2011
"¿Se apunta a la verdad cuando se afirman juicios de posibilidad?", II Congreso Nacional de Filosofía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
2011
"Metafilosofías escépticas a la Wittgenstein y a la Moore", Coloquio de Estudiantes de Filosofìa Analítica, Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Valparaíso, Chile
2010
"Sobre cierta resistencia de la imaginación", Congreso Bicentenario, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2008
"Sobre el fallo de los experimentos mentales", I Congreso Nacional de Filosofía, Santiago, Chile.
Organized events
2024, April 12
Workshop: Llegando a Saber Cómo, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile., https://filosofia.uchile.cl/agenda/214501/workshop-llegando-a-saber-como
Others
2024
“Losing one's ability to imagine”, at The Junkyard (scholarly blog on the Imagination). https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/3/15/losing-ones-ability-to-imagine
2023
“Imagining the Questions People May Ask”, at The Junkyard (scholarly blog on the Imagination). https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2023/3/26/imagining-the-questions-people-may-ask
2019
“Daydreaming, Philosophy, and the Logics of the Imagination”, at The Junkyard (scholarly blog on the Imagination). https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2019/12/7/daydreaming-philosophy-and-the-logics-of-the-imagination
Editing/Translation
2009
Metafísica: Cinco Ensayos de Filosofía Analítica, Publicaciones Especiales del Departamento de Filosofía nº 119, Serie Cursos y Seminarios, Universidad de Chile. Co-edited with Manuel Rodriguez.
2009
Experimentación Mental, Publicaciones Especiales del Departamento de Filosofía nº 118, Serie Cursos y Seminarios, Universidad de Chile. Co-edited with Rodrigo González.
Teaching Experience
2021-2024
Profesor de Cátedra (Adjunct) Philosophy of Social Science (Bachelors level), Universidad de Chile - Estudios Internacionales.
2019-2020
TA Logic (Bachelors level), Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.
2018-2019
TA Theory of Knowledge (Bachelors level), Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.