Josep E. Corbí was born in Monòver (Alacant, Spain) in 1957. He got his “Licenciatura” (≈BA) at the University of Valencia (1980) and his PhD also at the University of Valencia (1984), where he has taught at the Department of Philosophy (1980-1990) and the Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge (since 1990). He has been a Visiting Scholar for one academic year at the University of Oxford (1989-90), Brown University (1995-96), and the University of Sheffield (2008-09); and has visited the University of Buenos Aires (2006) and the University of Fribourg (2009) for shorter periods of time.
Josep has published Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms. A Case against Physicalism (Blackwell Publishers, 2000; in cooperation with Josep L. Prades (University of Girona)) and Un lugar para la moral (Madrid, Antonio Machado Editores, 2003). His publications include a number of papers in epistemology, philosophy of mind and meta-ethics in Crítica, European Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Noûs, Teorema,Theoria, Synthese etc.; as well as less technical papers on guilt and the experience of harm in Azafea, L’Espill and Pasajes. A pdf edition of some such papers is to be found in publications. A new book on Morality, Self-Knowledge, and Human Suffering. An Essay on the Loss of Confidence in the World (New York, NY: Routledge) is forthcoming by April 2012.
Since 1990, Josep has been a research fellow and principal researcher in a number of different Research Projects At present, he is the principal researcher of the Sub-group at the University of Valencia of the Research Project ‘Philosophy of Language, Logic and Cognition‘ (Principal Researcher: Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona), HUM2006-08236) and ‘Perspectival Thoughts and Facts‘ (Principal Researcher: Manuel García-Carpintero’ (University of Barcelona), CSD2009-00056), both funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. From 1999 to 2005, he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP); at present, he coordinates, together with Jesús Vega (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Pepa Toribio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Nomos Network for Applied Philosophy, and is a member of the Steering Committee of Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica (SEFA). Josep is also Head of a Master’s in Contemporary Philosophy and forms a part of the Scientific Committee of Journals such as Acta Analytica, Crítica, Dialectica, Theoria and Teorema.
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