Matheus Valente

As of 2026, I'm an assistant professor at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid) and a member of METIS research group. Previously, I held research positions at LanCog, LOGOS, Valencia Philosophy Lab, and UNICAMP. I obtained my PhD at LOGOS in June 2020, supervised by Manuel García-Carpintero. 

My work has been on topics at the crossroads of the philosophy of language, mind, and epistemology. I have written about de se attitudes, communication, Frege's Puzzle, the shareability of thoughts, and iconicity/diagrams. Recently, I've been puzzling myself with the interplay of indexicality, (self-)consciousness and the epistemology of self-locating belief. Feel free to contact me if you've also been thinking about Lewisian gods, Perrian amnesiacs, Jacksonian neuroscientists, and Sleeping Beauty.

Selected Publications

Verdejo, Víctor M & Valente, Matheus (2025). 'Thought Sharing and Intersubjectivity'. In Sharing Thoughts: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication (eds. Bermúdez, Valente & Verdejo). Oxford University Press.

José Luis Bermúdez, Matheus Valente, Víctor M. Verdejo (eds.) (2025). Sharing Thoughts: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication. Oxford University Press.

Valente, Matheus (2025). 'Asymmetries between ‘you’ and ‘I’'. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.26508

Valente, Matheus & Onofri, Andrea (2023). ‘A puzzle about communication’. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.  

Valente, Matheus & Víctor, Verdejo (2022). ‘Relationism and the Problem of Publicity’. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 103, Issue3, pp. 645-669. Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12396

Valente, Matheus (2021). 'On Successful Communication, Intentions and False Beliefs'. Theoria 87 (1):167-186.

Dal Magro, Tamires & Valente, Matheus (2021). 'The representational role of Euclidean diagrams: representing qua samples'. Synthese.

Valente, Matheus (2019) 'Communicating and disagreeing with distinct concepts: a defense of semantic internalism'. Theoria 85:4, 312-336. 

Valente, Matheus (2018) 'What is special about indexical attitudes?', Inquiry, 61:7, 692-712. 

Philpapers

Contact

matheusvalenteleite [at] gmail [dot] com