BIO.

I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow in Philosophy at Utrecht University (working in a team with Rik Peels and  Prof. Herman Philipse). I previously held another post-doc at the UNAM in Mexico City and before that I taught philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast and at the University of Durham where I got a Ph.D. in January 2006. My thesis was supervised by Dr. R.F.Hendry and was examined by Prof. Chris Hookway and by Prof. Jonathan Lowe. My general research interests are in Epistemology, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind; topics I am particularly interested in include: Epistemic Deontologism, Epistemic Internalism vs. Externalism, Pluralism in Epistemology, Evidentialism, Norm Expressivism vs. Quasi-Realism in Ethics and Epistemology, the nature of belief, curiosity, understanding, Kant´s Unity of Reason thesis, Epistemic Conservatism, and the role of intuitions in philosophical discourse.

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Peer-Reviewed)

"The Value of Justification" Conference on Ernest Sosa, University of Zaragoza, Spain May 2009.

"The Sources of Epistemic Normativity" Graduate Conference on Normativity, University of Amsterdam, August 2008 & The Place of Epistemic Agents: Autonomy and Dependence in Epistemology, Carlos III University Madrid and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, October 2008.

"Epistemic Reasons and Moral Realism" Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society (open session), University of Southampton, July 2006.

"How to Defend the Unity of Justification" Unity of Reason Conference, University of St. Andrews, June 2005.

"Doxastic Voluntarism and Self Deception" Universities of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Trinity College Dublin, April 2005.

"The Price of Having a Deontic Conception" Graduate Conference on Skepticism, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2003.

"Arbitrariness, Reliabilism, and the Fate of Justification in Epistemology" SPPA Spring Conference, University of Edinburgh, April 2002.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

"Ethical Inconsistency" Practical Philosophy Seminar, Utrecht University, December 2009.

"Reply to van Woudenberg" Responsible Belief in the Face of Disagreement, VU Amsterdam, August 2009.

"The Value of Justification" 2nd Workshop in Analytic Philosophy, VU Amsterdam, June 2009 & Departmental Colloquium, Eindhoven University, May 2009.

"Doxastic Deontologism Defended" (with a reply by Miguel Angel Fernández) Seminario de Investigadores, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficás, UNAM, México, October 2007.  

Reply to DiNucci: "Automaticity and Davidsonian Rationalization" Postgraduate Conference on Action and Perception, University of Durham, August 2006.

Reply to Pellegrino: "Ethical Properties and Resultant Qualities: or, the Naturalism of W.D. Ross" Postgraduate Conference on Ethical Naturalism, St John's College, University of Durham, August 2006.

"Doxastic Voluntarism and Self-Deception" Philosophy Society, Queen's University Belfast, May 2006.

"Can there be Epistemic Reasons for Action?" Departmental Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, February 2006.

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