Matheus Valente

As of 2024, I'm an FCT Junior Researcher at LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon. Previously, I held research positions at LOGOS (Barcelona), Valencia Philosophy Lab  (València), and UNICAMP (Campinas). I obtained my PhD at LOGOS in June 2020, supervised by Manuel García-Carpintero. Three years of my research were part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie DIAPHORA project (coordinated by Sven Rosenkranz), one year was supported by a CNRS assistant researcher fellowship in Paris. Apart from my time in Barcelona, I spent a year at the Institut Jean Nicod and Collège de France (Paris) working with François Recanati, and a couple of months at Stockholm University working with Kathrin Glüer and Peter Pagin.

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

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.com

mthsvlnt [at] edu.ulisboa.pt