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José Vicente Hernández Conde
Predoctoral Researcher
Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
josevicente.hernandez@ehu.eus
I am a predoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies (UPV/EHU), whose main interests are in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology.
My present work is focused on how concept acquisition is explained by similarity-based theories. I am also working on the invariantist-contextualist debate, the representational character of concepts, and the circularity problem in the empiricist accounts of concepts
In the past I was funded by the FPI Program of the University of the Basque Country.
Academic Degrees
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Currently enrolled: PhD in Philosophy, University of the Basque Country..
MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universities of Salamanca, et al., 2013.
BA in Philosophy, University of Valladolid, 2012
BS in Marketing Research and Techniques, University of Valladolid, 2001.
BS in Telecommunications Engineering, University of Valladolid, 1999.
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Further education
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Summer School “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Application”, Osnabrück University, August 2018.
Visiting Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh (Prof. Edouard Machery), September-December 2016.
Visiting Scholarship, University of Salzburg (Prof. Christopher Gauker), May-July 2015.
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Talks, Publications & Manuscripts
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Talks
"Contextualism, instantiated concepts, and non-representationality," Workshop on Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Application, Osnabrück, 2018.
"A consistent-contextualist view of the mind," VIII Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science, Madrid, 2018.
"Circularity and precedence in concept empiricism," European Congress of Analytic Philosophy 9, Munich, 2017.
"Two-faceted concepts," Cognitive Structures 2016, Düsseldorf, 2016.
"A case against convexity in conceptual spaces," Conceptual Spaces at Work 2016, Södertörn, 2016.
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"Articulating context dependence," 1st Context, Cognition and Communication Conference, Warsaw, 2016.
"Ad hoc cognition and conceptual structure," III Graduate Conference of the SLMFCE (Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science), Valencia, 2016.
"A way out for Empiricism," VI Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science, Barcelona, 2016.
"The life cycle of a concept within the ad hoc cognition framework," Young Researchers Workshop, Valladolid, 2016.
"A case against the convexity of meaning in conceptual spaces," Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 8, Cambridge, 2015.
"Characterization of antonyms in conceptual spaces," VIII Conference of the SLMFCE (Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science), Barcelona, 2015.
"Verbs and antonyms in conceptual semantics," Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Semantics, Nijmegen, 2015.
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Publications
Hernández-Conde, J.V., with Florian Cova, Brent Strickland, et al. 2018. "Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy," Review of Philosophy and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0400-9, 2018.
Hernández-Conde, J.V. 2017. "Life cycle of a concept in the ad hoc cognition framework," Theoria 32(3), 271-292.
Hernández-Conde, J.V. 2017. "A case against convexity in conceptual spaces," Synthese 194(10), 4011-4037.
Hernández-Conde, J.V. 2015. "Characterization of antonyms in conceptual spaces," in J. Díez, M. García-Carpintero, J. Martínez and S. Oms (eds.), Proceedings of the VIII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 128-133.
Hernández-Conde, J.V. 2010. "La curva de Taylor. Revisión y soluciones óptimas alternativas," Anales de Estudios Económicos y Empresariales 20, 213-61.
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Research Projects
The XPhi Replicability Project, University of Pittsburgh (P.I.: Florian Cova), 2016-2018.
Language and Thought: Linguistic Meaning and Concepts (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity), University of the Basque Country (P.I.: Agustín Vicente), 2015-2017.
Language and Thought: Lexical Meaning (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity), University of the Basque Country (P.I.: Agustín Vicente), 2013-2015.
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