Matheus Valente
Since 2022, I'm a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at the universities of Valencia (Valencia Philosophy Lab) and Barcelona (LOGOS). Previously, I was a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow at UNICAMP/CLE in my native country, Brazil. I obtained my PhD from the University of Barcelona/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 focused 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 (etc!) Recently, I've been puzzling myself about the interrelations of indexicality, consciousness and the epistemology of self-locating belief. Write to me if you've also been dreaming about Lewisian gods, Perrian amnesiacs, Jacksonian neuroscientists, Sleeping Beauty et al.
Besides philosophy, I like learning languages, listening to freeform radio stations (WFMU), playing Bach on the piano and 60s music on the guitar.
CV
Teaching
Tópicos Especiais em Filosofia da Linguagem II (2021.2/UNICAMP)
Selected Publications
*I'm currently editing the Oxford University Press collection Sharing Thoughts: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication alongside Víctor Verdejo and José Luis Bermúdez (expected: late 2023)
Valente, Matheus & Onofri, Andrea (forthcoming). ‘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.
Contact
matheusvalenteleite [at] gmail [point] com
Universitat de Barcelona. Carrer de Montalegre, 6. 08001. Barcelona, Spain.