CV February 2024.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 (Universitat de Girona, UdG: 2020; graded Excellent Cum Laude with International Mention; 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 in the year 2020), an MA in Analytic Philosophy (Universitat de Barcelona, UB: 2015), a BA in Geography and History (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, UNED: 2015) and a BA in Philosophy (Universitat de Girona, UdG: 2013).
Oya is the author of the monographs The Metaphysical Anthropology of Julián Marías (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming), First-Person Shooter Videogames (Brill, 2023) and Unamuno’s Religious Fictionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He has published twenty-six (26) 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, Daimon, Cauriensia and Teorema. He has authored seven (7) book chapters in specialised academic volumes and has been invited to contribute to the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. In addition to these published texts, Oya 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). Oya has participated in twenty (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. Oya is the co-supervisor of an ongoing PhD thesis on the philosophy of George Berkeley at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED (Spain).
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 that time until completion of his PhD, he was an active member of the research group LOGOS (University of Barcelona), ranked as one of the leading research groups in analytic philosophy in Spain (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 at the Philosophy Department of the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) 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: “Ajuts del programa d’impuls de la recerca amb més projecció competititva de la Universitat de Girona” [“Grants awarded to the University of Girona’s most competitive research groups via the Research Promotion Programme”] (1/10/2017 – 30/09/2019; main researcher: Jorg Rudolph Zimmer; reference: GdRCompetUdG2017/16; 57,000€) and “Metafísica de la mente (fenomenología, cognición y emociones” [“The Metaphysics of Mind (Phenomenology, Cognition and Emotions)”] (1/01/2016 – 31/12/2018; main researcher: Jose Luis Prades Celma; reference: MPCUdG2016/122; 13,500€). Oya has served as an external reviewer for the following academic journals: Philosophia (2023), Hispanic Research Journal (2023), Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2023), Sophia (2022; 2021), Endoxa (2022), Metaphilosophy (2022), Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2021), Idealistic Studies (2020) and Claridades (2020).