Contact

Isabel Riquelme Sur 1769, dpto. 43
Maipú, Santiago, RM, Chile

ef.em.carbonell@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5492-0759

Short biography

I am a Doctor in Philosophy (received my degree at KU Leuven). My PhD thesis was on
modal epistemology, and I just completed a postdoc project on know-how.

Area of Specialization: Epistemology.

Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of mind, Philosophical Logic, Metaphilosophy, and Metaphysics

Areas of Interest: Modal epistemology, Know-how, Ability, Skill, Understanding, and Models

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.

Supervisor: Dr. Rodrigo González Fernández.

2005-2008

Bachelor in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Thesis: Análisis y Ontología.

Supervisor: Dr. Guido Vallejos.

Scholarships

2022-2025
Beca FONDECYT de Postdoctorado 2022, Projecto 3220017: "Saber Cómo, Preguntas, Maneras e Intentos". ANID (Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo), 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.

Books

WIP
Lógica Para Batitús.
2025
¿Cómo? Una Introducción a la Epistemología del Saber Cómo. Montbretia. ISBN: 978-956-420-770-4. https://fmoralesc.github.io/libro-como.

Articles

forthcoming
El saber-cómo en la epistemología mapuche. Revista de Filosofía.
2026
Vicios epistémicos del saber-cómo. Ethika+ 13, 41-67. https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-6037.2026.78285.
2026
Algunas observaciones sobre graficos peirceans modales. Homónima 1, 453-464. https://revistahomonima.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Felipe-Morales-y-Comentarios-de-Kuminal-Lefio.pdf.
2025
On the concept of musical virtuosity. Inquiry. (With Giulia Lorenzi). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2519929.
2025
Peircean knowability and Fitch-like paradoxes. Res Philosophica 102(2), 163-190. (With Kristine Grigoryan). https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2664.
2025
Rylean fictions for mental fictionalism. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2507730.
2025
Reseña. Justin Clarke-Doane (2022) Mathematics and metaphilosophy. Cambridge University Press. 58pp.. Revista de Filosofía. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4360.2024.74714.
2025
Cartesian know-how. Southern Journal of Philosophy. (With Rodrigo Gonzalez). https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12615.
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, 87-102. https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v11iEspecial.69933.
2024
Modalizing in musical performance. Mind & Language. (With Giulia Lorenzi). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.12515.
2024
An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science 39(1), 89-108. (With Cristina Villegas). https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/25137.
2024
¿Es cartesiano el “teatro cartesiano” de Dennett?: Un análisis crítico desde el trialismo y el ens per se. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 40(1), 143-153. (With Rodrigo Gonzalez). 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. History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 27, 121-140. (With Jan Heylen). 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-43602023000100319.
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. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaiso 23, 287-308. (With Jan Heylen). https://rhv.uv.cl/index.php/RHV/article/view/4095/3892.
2023
Compressing graphs: A model for the content of understanding. Erkenntnis 90, 187-215. 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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/G4PWDCR3AINGPYIAV6U6?target=10.1111/theo.12380.
2020
Game counterpossibles. Argumenta 6(1), 117-133. 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. https://www.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/content/resphilosophica_2020_0097_0004_0611_0638.
2019
Mistakes as revealing and as manifestations of competence. Synthese 198, 3289-3308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02281-y.
2018
What is the locus of abilities?. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 12(2), 19-30. https://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/501.
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

2026, January 16
Idealisation as lossy compression. 1st SOCHIFIC Conference, Valparaiso, Chile.
2026, January 8
Institutions you can trust. Workshop Distrust in Institutions II, Santiago, Chile.
2025, November 18
Un modelo epistemológico de la confusión en el proceso de aprendizaje. VII Congreso Latinoamericano de Filosofía de la Educación, Santiago, Chile.
2025, November 7
Epistemologías modales inductivas para la habilidad y el know-how. IX Congreso ACHIF, Talca, Chile.
2025, November 5
Vicios epistémicos del saber-cómo. Simposio "Saber cómo, sociedad y confianza", IX Congreso ACHIF, Talca, Chile.
2025, October 9
Puzzles, graphs, know-how and understanding: towards a theory of content. XXV Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Concepción, Chile.
2025, September 25
Peircean knowability and Fitch-like paradoxes. Tercer Congreso de la Sociedad Latinoamericana Peirce, Valparaíso, Chile.
2025, September 24
"Throwing like a girl" re-examinado: sobre la injusticia epistémica modal agencial. I Jornadas de Investigación en Filosofía, Epistemología y Género Felicitas Valenzuela, Concepción, Chile.
2025, May 28
Knowing how to do something similarly. Issues on the (Im)possible XI. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2025, May 8
How-possible models for impossibilities. Necessity and Possibility in Science., Catholique Universiteit Louvan, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
2025, May 3
Theories, models, subject matters, and questions. Models and Theories: Book Symposium on Roman Friggs Philosophical Inquiry, Universität Postdam, Postdam, Germany.
2025, January 21
How-possible models for impossibilities. IV Workshop on Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2024, December 3
Saber-cómo como fuente de fricción epistémica. XIX Congreso SIF, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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, Santiago, Chile.
2023, October 24
Some reflections on the question of AI science. XXII Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun, Santiago, 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 (participated online).
2022, June 30
Calibrating and bootstrapping modal judgment. IV Blasco Disputatio, Universidad de Valencia, Spain (participated online).
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 (participated online).
2021, December 2
Modal judgement in musical performance. (with Giulia Lorenzi) <i>PG WIP Seminar</i>, 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 (participated 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, UK (participated 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 (participated 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, UK.
2019, July 11-12
Musical attentiveness' modal aspect. Session on A Musical Matter of Mind</em> at the <em>MPSG 2019, London, UK.
2019, May 30-31
Modality and circularity. Conference Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)possible VII, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2019, May 23-24
Imagined and supposed ways. Conference <em>Learning from Imagination</em>, Leeds, UK.
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, Belgium.
2018, September
On the global embedding problem for modal expressivism. Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SoPhiA) 2018, Salzburg, Austria.
2018, June
Non-assertion and modality - from Pyrrho to some contemporary debates. CLPS-DWMC Symposium, Leuven, Belgium.
2018, January
On the indispensability of modal thought. First Leuven-Paris Anaytic Philoophy Workshop, Leuven, Belgium.
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, Valparaiso, Chile.
2013
Entendimiento y juicios de posibilidad. IV Coloquio Lenguaje y Cognición, Universidad de Concepción, 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

2025, November 5
Simposio: "Saber cómo, sociedad y confianza". IX Congreso ACHIF, Talca, Chile.
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. 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. 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. 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

2025
Profesor de Cátedra. Seminario: Introducción a la epistemología del saber-cómo (Bachelors). Universidad de Chile.
2021-2025
Profesor de Cátedra (Adjunct). Philosophy of Social Science (Bachelors). Universidad de Chile - Estudios Internacionales.
2019-2020
TA. Logic (Bachelors). Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.
2018-2019
TA. Theory of Knowledge (Bachelors). Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

Service and community

  • Member of
    • AChEFA (Asociación Chilena de Estudiantes de Filosofía)
    • Sociedad Latinoamericana Peirce
    • SoChiFiC (Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía de la Ciencia)
    • AChiF (Asociación Chilena de Filosofía)
  • Editor of
    • Homónima, Revista de Filosofía
  • Reviewer for
    • Synthese
    • Philosophia
    • Sophia
    • Journal of Value Inquiry
    • Logique et Analyse
    • Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
    • Revista de Filosofía (Universidad de Chile)
    • Manuscrito
    • The Apricot
    • Philosophical Forum
    • Filozofia Nauki

Skills

  • Programming
    • Python
    • Lua
    • Javascript
    • HTML + CSS
  • Typesetting
    • LaTeX
    • Typst