OYA_CV_JANUARY_2025.pdfAlberto Oya
Alberto Oya is a Research Fellow (Investigador Doutorado Contratado) at the IFILNOVA – Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) and Senior Member (Membro Integrado) of ArgLab – Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Research Group.
Oya holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universitat de Girona (2020) graded Excellent Cum Laude with International Mention and awarded the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 2020 (Extraordinary PhD Award 2020) for the best PhD thesis in the field of Humanities read at the Universitat de Girona that year; an MA in Analytic Philosophy from the Universitat de Barcelona (2015); a BA in Geography and History from the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (2015), and a BA in Philosophy from the Universitat de Girona (2013).
Oya is the author of the monographs The Metaphysical Anthropology of Julián Marías (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), First-Person Shooter Videogames (Brill, 2023), Unamuno’s Religious Fictionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and An Introduction to Logical Positivism: the Viennese Formulation of the Verifiability Principle (Amazon Books, 2020). He has published thirty-seven (37) papers in professional philosophical peer-reviewed journals, including such well-known international publications as Metaphilosophy, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Sophia, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Teorema, and in specialised peer-reviewed academic volumes of the prestigious international publishers Routledge (Milton Park, UK), Blackwell (New Jersey, USA), Palgrave Macmillan (London, UK), Salem Press (New Jersey, USA) and Vernon Press (Delaware, USA). Oya has also been invited to contribute to the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. He has translated the works of George Berkeley (A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge), John Dewey (The Sources of a Science of Education), William James (“The Will to Believe”), W. K. Clifford (“The Ethics of Belief”), Charles L. Stevenson (“Persuasive Definitions”) and Louis Pojman (“Faith without Belief?”) into Catalan and/or Spanish. Oya has been invited to lecture at the Universities of Penn State (United States of America, 2021) and Valencia (Spain, 2021). He has taken part in 20 international professional academic peer-reviewed conferences (in Spain, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Poland, Brazil and Serbia). In 2020, Oya received the accreditation (“Acreditación”) from the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) for the academic ranks of Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Profesor de Universidad Privada, and Profesor Contratado Doctor.
In 2016, Oya was awarded a competitive grant to carry out his doctoral studies at the University of Girona (“Ajuts per a investigadors en formació: IFUDG2016”; 47,700€). From then until completion of his PhD, he was an active member of LOGOS (University of Barcelona), ranked as one of Spain’s leading research groups in analytic philosophy (AGAUR: 2017-SGR-63). Seeking to increase his international profile, in 2019 Oya obtained a competitive grant (“Ajuts complementaris per a la mobilitat d’investigadors de la UdG: MOB18”; 4,400€) to carry out a research stay in the Philosophy Department of the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) focused on the topic of pragmatic arguments for religious belief. In 2020, Oya obtained a six-year competitive research fellowship (“Individual Call to Scientific Employment 2019”; ca., 200,000€) funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Fundaçao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT).
Oya has actively taken part in two collaborative research projects, and he has served as an external reviewer for the following academic journals: Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía (2024); Philosophia (2023); Hispanic Research Journal (2023); Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2023); Sophia (2024; 2023; 2022; 2021); Endoxa (2022); Metaphilosophy (2024; 2023; 2022); Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2021); Idealistic Studies (2020) and Claridades (2020).