Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
Manuel García-Carpintero was born in Daimiel (Ciudad Real, Spain) in 1957. He got his “Licenciatura” ( ≈ BA) at the University of Barcelona (1979) and his PhD also at the University of Barcelona (1988), where he has taught since 1984, after teaching at secondary schools between 1979 and 1984. He visited the CSLI, Stanford University, for one academic year (1990-91), and for three-month periods the philosophy departments at MIT (1992), NYU (1997), Oxford (1998) and Lisbon (2011, 2012). He was a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh, 2001), and he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (2013-2016, 2016-2020), where he is a member of LanCog, CFUL. His main interests are in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and related epistemological and metaphysical issues. He was awarded a “Distinció de Recerca” for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2009 (2009-2013) and 2014 (2014-2018) the prize “ICREA Acadèmia” for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is completing a book on the nature of assertion under contract with OUP, entitled Tell Me What You Know.
Selected Publications
Books
Self-Experience: Essays on Inner Awareness, Manuel García-Carpintero & Marie Guillot (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2023.
Articles
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2023
‘Lying vs. Misleading, with Language and Pictures: The Adverbial Account’, Linguistics & Philosophy
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-022-09355-0.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2023
‘Semantics of Fiction’, Mind and Language, 38 (2), 604-618
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12412.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
(with Michele Palmira) ‘What Do Propositions Explain? Inflationary vs. Deflationary Perspectives and The Case of Singular Propositions’, Synthese
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03467-7.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
‘Aristotle and Inner Awareness’, The Journal for the philosophy of language, mind and the arts, Vol. 3 (1), 119-134.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
‘Truth in Fiction Reprised’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 62 (2), 307-324
DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayab066.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
‘Predelli on Fictional Discourse’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80 (1), 83-94
DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpab062.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
‘How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds’, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 13, 7-27
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-021-00576-z.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
‘Pretense, Cancellation, and the Act Theory of Propositions’, Inquiry
DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1990795.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
‘Lying vs. Misleading: The Adverbial Account’, Intercultural Pragmatics 18(3), 391-413.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide
Studies in Documentary Film 15 (2), 163-74
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: CUP, Cambridge: CUP, 2021, 401-418.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics
Alejandro Cassini & Juan Redmond (eds.): Models and Idealizations in Science: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches, Cham: Springer, 179-197
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Reference-fixing and Presuppositions
S. Biggs & H. Geirsson (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, London: Routledge, 179-197.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account
Erkenntnis 85(2), 269-293, 2020
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
Co-Identification and fictional names
Philosophy and phenomenological research, 101 (1), 3-34, DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12552
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
Referential Indeterminacy in Fiction
Journal of Applied Logic, 7(2), 177-190
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
Mario Gómez-Torrente’ Roads to Reference: An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
Commentary on Greg Currie’s Imagining and Knowing
The Junkyard
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2020
Semantics and Metaphysics of Truth
M. Kusch (ed.), Routledge Handbook to the Philosophy of Relativism, London: Routledge, 468-76
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse?
Disputatio 54 (2019), 143-177, DOI: 10.2478/disp-2019-0015
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
Teorema 38(2), 2019, 73-100.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
Conventions and Constitutive Norms
Journal of Social Ontology, 5 (1), 2019, 35-52, DOI: 10.1515/jso-2019-0013
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
Normative Fiction-Making and the World of the Fiction
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (3), 2019, 267-279, DOI: 10.1111/jaac.12660
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
Assertions in Fictions: An Indirect Speech Act Account
Grazer Philosophische Studien 96(3), 445-462, DOI: 10.1163/18756735-09603013
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2019
On the Nature of Fiction-Making: Grice or Austin?
British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (2), 2019, 203-210, DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayy054
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2018
De Se Thoughts and Immunity to Error through Misidentification
Synthese 195, 3311-3333, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0817-y.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2018
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2018
Philosophical Perspectives 32, 188-218
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2018
Pure Quotation Is Demonstrative Reference
Journal of Philosophy 115 (7): 361-381
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2016
Mark Richard’s Truth and Truth-Bearers
Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2016
Relatar lo ocurrido como invención: una introducción a la filosofía de la ficción contemporánea
Editorial Cátedra, Madrid
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2016
Recent Debates on Learning from Fiction
Teorema 35(3), 5-20
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2016
Token-reflexive Presuppositions and the De Se
García-Carpintero, M. & Torre, S. (eds.), About Oneself, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 179-199.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2015
Contexts as Shared Commitments
Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1932, 2015, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01932.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2015
Organon F 22, suppl. 1, 145-168.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2015
Topoi, DOI: 10.1007/s11245-014-9264-5
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2014
Understanding Anaphoric Dependence: A Reply to Glezakos
Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 53, 136, suppl. vol. (2014), 119-124.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2014
Introduction: The Problem of Empty Representations
García-Carpintero, M. & Martí, G. (eds.), Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 1-22.
Manuel García-Carpintero, Teresa Marques. 2014
Disagreement about taste: commonality presuppositions and coordination
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2014.922592
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Critical Study: Relativism and Monadic Truth
Philosophical Quarterly, 2013, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.12011 .
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
The Self File and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification
Disputatio 36, (2013), 191-206
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
British Journal for Aesthetics, DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayt021
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Insinuating Information and Accommodating Presuppositions
Brevity, Laurence Goldstein (ed.), OUP: Oxford, 214-229.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Perspectivas en Filosofía del Lenguaje, David Pérez-Chico (coord.), Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Self-Conception: Sosa on De Se Thought
J. Turri (ed.), Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, Philosophical Studies Series, Springer, Dordrecht 2013, 73-99.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Explicit Performatives Revisited
Journal of Pragmatics, DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.01.005
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2013
Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth
F. Correia & A. Iacona (eds.), Around the Tree, Synthese Library, Springer, 2013, 1-27.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2012
Disputatio 33, 4 (2012), 495-513.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2012
Editorial Introduction: the History of the Philosophy of Language
García-Carpintero, M. & Kölbel, M. (eds.), The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Continuum, London, London, 2012, 1-1.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2012
Foundational Semantics II: Normative Accounts
Philosophy Compass 7(6), 2012, 410-421 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00485.x
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2012
Foundational Semantics I: Descriptive Accounts
Philosophy Compass 7(6), 2012, 397-409 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00484.x.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2012
Philosophical Studies, 161 (2012) , 207-225. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9730-5 .
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2011
Review of Assertion, Brown & Cappelen (eds.), OUP 2011
Teorema 30 (2011), 167-17.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2011
Double-duty Quotation, Conventional Implicatures and What Is Said
E. Brendel, J. Meibauer & M. Steinbach (eds.): Understanding Quotation, Mouton Series in Pragmatics 7, 107-138.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2011
Teorema 30, 43-52.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2011
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 82, 49-75.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2010
Supervaluationism and the Report of Vague Contents
S. Moruzzi & R. Dietz. (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Essays in the Nature and Logic of Vagueness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 345-359.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2010
Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth
Frigg, R, and Hunter, M. (eds.), Beyond Mimesis and Convention – Representation in Art and Science, Springer, 139-68.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2010
Jeshion, R. (ed.), New Essays on Singular Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 273-299.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2010
Dialectica 64, 2, 279-288.
Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel Pérez-Otero. 2009
The Conventional and the Analytic
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 78, 2, 239-274.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2009
Dialectica 63, 57-66.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2008
Crítica 40, 67-84.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2008
Singular Thought and the Contingent A Priori
Revue Internationale de Philosophie, special issue “Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Mind” edited by Joëlle Proust, 62, 79-98.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2008
Relativism, Vagueness and What Is Said
In García-Carpintero, M. & Kölbel, M. (eds.), Relative Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2007
Recanati on the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction
Crítica 38, 35-68.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2007
Fiction-Making as an Illocutionary Act
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65, 203-216.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2007
A Non-Modal Conception of Secondary Properties
Philosophical Papers 36, 1-36.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2007
Dialectica 61, 167-190.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2006
Logical Form: Syntax and Semantics
Wittgenstein Today, A. Coliva & E. Picardi (eds.) Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2004, 63-87.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2006
Frascolla on Tractarian Logical Pictures of Facts
Dialectica 59, 87-97.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2006
Nonconceptual Modes of Presentation
European Review of Philosophy 6, 65-81.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2006
Two-Dimensional Semantics: A Neo-Fregean Interpretation
In Two-Dimensional Semantics, M. García-Carpintero & J. Macià (eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 181-204.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2005
Double-Duty Quotation: The Deferred Ostension Account
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 17, 89-106.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2005
The Real Distinction between Descriptions and Indexicals
Teorema 24, 49-74.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2004
Assertion and the Semantics of Force Markers
The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction, C. Bianchi (ed.) CSLI Lecture Notes, The University of Chicago Press Stanford, 2004,133-166.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2004
The Deferred Ostension Theory of Quotation
Noûs 38, 674-692.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2003
Qualia that It Is Right to Quine
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63, 357-377.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2002
Sense-Data: the Sensible Approach
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 62, 17-63.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2001
Gricean Rational Reconstructions and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction
Synthese, 97, 93-131.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2000
A Presuppositional Account of Reference-Fixing
Journal of Philosophy, 97 (3),109-147.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1999
Teorema 18/1, 19-41
Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel Pérez Otero. 1999
The Ontological Commitments of Logical Theories
European Review of Philosophy 4, 157-182.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1998
Indexicals as Token-Reflexives
Mind 107, pp. 529-563
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1998
Fregean versus Kripkean Reference
Teorema 17/1, 21-44
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1998
C. Martínez, U. Rivas & L. Villegas-Forero (eds.), Truth in Perspective, Ashgate, Aldershott (UK), pp. 37-63.
Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel Pérez Otero. 1998
Davidson, Correspondence Truth, and the Frege-Gödel-Church Argument
History and Philosophy of Logic, pp. 63-81.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1996
What Is a Tarskian Theory of Truth?
Philosophical Studies 82, pp. 113-144
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1996
The Model-Theoretic Argument: Another Turn of the Screw
Erkenntnis 44, pp. 305-316
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1995
The Philosophical Import of Connectionism : A Critical Notice of Andy Clark’s Associative Engines
Mind and Language 10, pp. 370-401
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1994
Ostensive Signs: Against the Identity Theory of Quotation
Journal of Philosophy, 91, 253-264.
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1994
Dretske on the Causal Efficacy of Meaning
Mind and Language 9 (2), 181-202
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1993
The Grounds for the Model-Theoretic Account of the Logical Properties
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 34, núm. 1, 107-131
Manuel García-Carpintero. 1994
The Supervenience of Mental Content
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 94 (1994), pp. 117-135