BIAP is growing in new and exciting directions! 🙌 Join us in welcoming three new members this week: Anna Ortín Nadal, David Fernández-Duque, Sergi Morales-Gálvez! 👏

👋 Recent post in the Open Philosophy blog by recent PhD graduates, Marcelino Botín and Markel Kortabarria (also an APhil alumnus) Check it out! 👇

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How can physical matter undergo conscious experience? 🧠💭 BIAP members Markel Kortabarria and Marcelino Botín discuss how physicalists about the mind should draw on the metaphysical notion of grounding in their latest Open Philosophy Blog entry! 💡 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/two-ground-r...

Congratulations to Oscar Piedrahita on his new position in Utrecht! 👏👏👏 Oscar was one of our lecturers (epistemology) this academic year. Best of luck for the future!✨

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great news! 📢 BIAP member Oscar Piedrahita has taken up a postdoctoral position at Utrecht University, where he will be working within the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) research programme! ✨️ biap.ub.edu/2026/05/14/o...

Our 5 ⭐ PhD students! Levan Sikharulidze, current PhD with @logos-group.bsky.social and @biap.bsky.social and recent graduate Niccolà Rossi, have won the Early-Career Scholar Prize of the ESAP - European Society for Analytic Philosophy! Congratulations ‼️✨🥂 👇

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The ESAP Early-Career Scholar Prize went really well for BIAP! 🏆️ ✨️ Levan Sikharulidze won in Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, and Niccolò Rossi in Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics! 👏 Congratulations to all, and see you at ECAP12 this summer! ☀️

🎙️ Today at the UB‼️

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Starting today at 15:00! 🧠 Join us today and tomorrow for the workshop Representation and Affect in Cognitive Science! 📍 Seminari de Filosofia, UB Raval (4th floor) 🕒 26/5, 15:00 - 27/5, 9:30 & 15:00

📢 Coming up!‼️ Session for current APhil master students on how to apply to a PhD in philosoph! 👨‍🎓📖 Check out the info at the link ✨ aphil.ub.edu/news/trainin... @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social

Exciting news at BIAP! 🚨 Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA/UB) is officially our new Director! 🎉 We look forward to this new chapter in the life of BIAP 🚀 We are also very thankful to our outgoing director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB), for her work over the past years👏 @ub.edu

Choosing whether—and whom—to marry is a bit like choosing between a bowl of cereal or a chocolate doughnut for breakfast. How? 💍❓🍩 Join us with Prof. Ruth Chang at the BIAP Distinguished Lectures to explore these questions and more! 🤔💭 ✨ Sneak peek on TED: t.ly/ylR6E 🗓️Schedule and info: t.ly/r8_jI

What a week! 🙌 It was such a privilege to host Prof. Ruth Chang for this year’s BIAP Distinguished Lectures. Across three talks, we learned and thought a lot about rationality, value, choice, and much more!💭✨ A huge thank you to Prof. Chang—and to all of you who joined us! 👏

Last week, our BIAP student member Elena Menta took part in the 4th UB Research & Outreach Day, organised by @doctorandsub.bsky.social 📣✨ She presented her research project in under 4 minutes! ⌛⚡ Great work, @elenamenta.bsky.social! 👏

👋Teresa Marques, the current coordinator of APhil, has recently published in Open Philosophy, the blog of BIAP, where she presents discusses issues about the meaning of slurs and disagreements about which words count as such. 👇 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The use of certain words can be very contentious, but how can perfectly competent speakers disagree about whether the use of a term is derogatory? 🤔 Check out Teresa Marques's new entry on our Open Philosophy blog: "Derogation, Common Ground, and Why We Disagree"! 👉️ t.ly/3o0gh

📢 Our 2026 #Philosophy #grant programmes are now open! You can apply for #funding now, for your event, education programme or postgraduate study. Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/philosophy-f... #bursaries #studentships #postgraduate #philosophymatters

👋 La coordinadora del máster en Filosofía Analítica, Teresa Marques, participó ayer en #FilosofasEnStreaming organizado por @swipaesp.bsky.social 👇

@swipaesp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SEGUNDA SESIÓN DE FILÓSOFAS EN STREAMING 2026 La segunda sesión tendrá lugar el martes 24 de marzo a las 16:30(hora peninsular). Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social (U. Barcelona) impartirá una charla titulada “Los afectos como parte del contexto”. Toda la info: wpd.ugr.es/~swipa/wordp...

📡 After the Easter break, BIAP is back in action! @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social ✨Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford) is this year's Distinguished Lecturer! ✨ 👋 Check out the information below about the Lectures and the Open Talk at the Ateneu @ateneubcn.cat 👇👇👇

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📯 BIAP Distinguished Lectures! We're very happy to announce three upcoming events with Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford) on rationality, values, and the choices that shape our lives 🧩✨ 👇 See below for full details 📅 Open lecture on April 8 with @ateneubcn.cat - don’t miss it!

The coordinator of the APhil master, Teresa Marques, will give a talk to the SWIP-Analytic on March 24th 👇 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

@swipaesp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SEGUNDA SESIÓN DE FILÓSOFAS EN STREAMING 2026 La segunda sesión tendrá lugar el martes 24 de marzo a las 16:30(hora peninsular). Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social (U. Barcelona) impartirá una charla titulada “Los afectos como parte del contexto”. Toda la info: wpd.ugr.es/~swipa/wordp...

🍾Wonderful news! Laura Delgado, APhil alumna, joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project of the University of Valencia. Congratulations, Laura!👏👏👏 🥂🥳 aphil.ub.edu/students/lau... @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

👋 Check this out! Upcoming event with two of our lecturers in APhil, Manolo Martínez and Andrea Rivadulla-Duró! 😍 See more info below ‼️ 👇👇👇

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Upcoming event! Seminar + Round Table with @ubneuro.bsky.social 🗓️ Thu, March 12 📍 Sala de Graus (Miquel Siguan), Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona (Campus Mundet) 👇 More info + streaming link at t.ly/0KolP & t.ly/W28EK

😀 What a week! Prof. Ernesto Sosa (Rutgers) delivered this year's PhD seminar, and a LOGOS Colloquium on the side. 📸 @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

👋 Ongoing this week! PhD seminar with Professor Ernesto Sosa, Rutgers University. The course is based on a new book that Prod. Sosa is concluding: Dawning Light Epistemology and Bounded Knowledge aphil.ub.edu/activity/daw... @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social

🎙️Due to bad weather, today the BIAP Conference will take place online, following government recommendations. Tomorrow the sessions will be in person, as planned.🙌

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 6mo ago

👋REMINDER: Upcoming BIAP Conference Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda 📅 12–13 February 2026, UPF Join us next week! 🔗 Details here: t.ly/jIutA

🎙️ If you're an APhil alumnus/alumna (or not...) looking for a fully funded PhD in the Humanities, check out the call below in Vienna. 👇👇👇

Paulina Sliwa@pasliwa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The University of Vienna is advertising a number of fully funded PhD positions in the Humanities (4 years), including in Philosophy. If you are interested or know any philosophy MA student who would be interested, please tell them to get in touch! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

👋This year’s cohort with invited lecturer, Dr Julien Dutant, from Kings College London, and Prof. Sven Rosenkranz 👨‍🎓

🎉 We’ve reached 1K followers! Thank you for being part of our growing community 💙 ✨ Stay tuned to learn more about BIAP and the amazing researchers behind it.🧠 👋Check out our website biap.ub.edu and our outreach & dissemination blog openphilosophy.blog to see what we’ve been up to!

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SAVE THE DATE! 📢 BIAP collaborative research event: 'Lies, Fiction & Manipulation in Propaganda' 🗓 12–13 Feb 2026 📍 UPF, Barcelona The workshop brings together experts on propaganda, information warfare, and conspiracy theories 🧠 LINK: t.ly/jIutA #BIAP #Propaganda

🎙️ The founder of our master program, Prof. Manuel García-Carpintero, and coordinator of the analytic philosophy branch of the doctoral program, has a new book out with Cambridge University Press! Check it out! 📖📚

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

👋NEW PUBLICATION! Huge congratulations to our senior member Manuel García-Carpintero (UB) on the publication of his new book with Cambridge University Press: 📖Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction A fantastic achievement, well done! 👏 tinyurl.com/2aw3b9t4 @filosofiaub.bsky.social

👋 Welcome, Paulina! Paulina was an Erasmus student visiting us in Barcelona and has now started the analytic philosophy branch of the doctoral program! 👏

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

👋Welcome our new student member, Paulina Kraft! Her wider research interests include the philosophy of time, the epistemology of modality, and the philosophy of action. We’re excited to have her on board and look forward to the insights she’ll bring to our community! www.ub.edu/grc_logos/au...

SAVE THE DATE! 📢 BIAP collaborative research event: 'Lies, Fiction & Manipulation in Propaganda' 🗓 12–13 Feb 2026 📍 UPF, Barcelona The workshop brings together experts on propaganda, information warfare, and conspiracy theories 🧠 LINK: t.ly/jIutA #BIAP #Propaganda

📢 Attention researchers! The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) has just released its new 2026 calls calendar for research funding and grants! 🔗 Check the full calendar here: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...

📢 Upcoming! BIAP conference 🧠 Causal Relationships & Generalizations in Human Life and Mind Sciences 📅 21–23 January 2026 📍 Faculty of Philosophy, @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/32jrt8tx #BIAPconference

👋🧠Fantastic outreach activity yesterday, made possible through our collaboration with the Ateneu Barcelonès @filoateneubcn ✨

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy@biap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

OUTREACH! BIAP Open Conversations Series How the Mind Develops: From Infants to Language Users 📅 Tue 20 Jan | 18:30 📍 Ateneu Barcelonès – Sala Verdaguer With Luca Bonatti (ICREA-UPF) & Susan Gelman (Michigan) Moderator: Manuel García-Carpintero (UB) 💬 Open to all! Organized with @ateneubcn.cat