Life and Mind: New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences

José Manuel Viejo obtained his PhD in Philosophy and Language Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in November 2019. Before that, he graduated in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid and obtained a Master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. He taught several subjects at an undergraduate level (Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Knowledge) in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is Professor-Tutor of Philosophy of Language at the National Distance Education University. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California Riverside and the Institut Jean Nicod. He has been part of the R&D projects "Material cultures, epistemic cultures. Standards, cognitive practices, and knowledge", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness, and "Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is also part of Madrid Philosophy Network, AEGEA (Applied Epistemology Research Group), the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy. His main research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and language, with a special focus on the issue of the semantics of propositional attitude ascriptions. Some of his other research interests are in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of logic, epistemology and metaphysics.

Mariano Sanjuán
Mariano Sanjuán is Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Autonomous University of Madrid with a thesis on the recent history of scientific pluralism. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Zaragoza and San Diego State University and holdsa Master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on the history of philosophy of science with a special emphasis on the so-called Stanford School. Other fields of interest are the perspectivist approach in the Scientific Realism debate, the History and Philosophy of Psychiatry and the History of Biological Sciences in the XVII century. He has published at numerous top-ranked Spanish Philosophy journals as well as international such as European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

José Manuel Viejo於2019年11月在馬德里自治大學獲得哲學與語言科學博士學位。在此之前，他在馬德里自治大學獲得哲學學士學位，並在薩拉曼卡大學獲得邏輯與科學哲學碩士學位。他在馬德里自治大學邏輯與科學哲學系教授多門本科課程（語言哲學、心靈哲學、知識理論）。目前，他是國立遠程教育大學的語言哲學教授兼導師。在攻讀博士學位期間，他曾在加州大學河濱分校和Jean Nicod研究所擔任訪問研究員。他參與了由西班牙經濟、工業與競爭部資助的研究與開發項目「物質文化、認識文化：標準、認知實踐與知識」，以及由西班牙科學與創新部資助的「在認識依賴環境中的智力自主」。他也是馬德里哲學網絡、AEGEA（應用認識論研究小組）、西班牙邏輯、方法論與科學哲學學會以及西班牙分析哲學學會的成員。他的主要研究興趣在於心靈與語言的哲學，特別關注命題態度歸屬的語義問題。他的其他研究興趣包括科學的歷史與哲學、生物學的哲學、邏輯的哲學、認識論與形而上學。

Mariano Sanjuán是馬德里自治大學邏輯與科學哲學系的教學研究員及博士候選人，研究主題為科學多元論的近期歷史。他在薩拉曼卡大學獲得邏輯與科學哲學碩士學位，並在薩拉戈薩大學和聖地牙哥州立大學獲得哲學學士學位。他的研究專注於科學哲學的歷史，特別強調所謂的斯坦福學派。其他研究興趣包括科學實在論辯論中的觀點主義方法、精神病學的歷史與哲學，以及17世紀生物科學的歷史。他在多本西班牙頂尖哲學期刊以及國際期刊如《歐洲科學哲學期刊》上發表過文章。