METIS research group

📣David Teira and Oriol Vidal are speaking today on scientific breakthroughs at the Genome Biology retreat of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (www.crg.eu)

📣José Antonio Pérez Escobar has just delivered his talk “Petrification in Contemporary Set Theory: The Multiverse and the Later Wittgenstein” at the workshop David Bloor and the Contingency of the Formal Sciences in Nancy, France.
More info 👉 poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/manifesta...

Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.

Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚

📸Gabriel Corda during his talk today:

🎉 We are very happy to announce that our METIS member Samuele Chilovi’s new Cambridge Element, The Metaphysics of Legal Facts, is out now!!!
📘 Read it Open Access here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🟢Publicada la resolución de la plaza de ayudante doctor 326.08, convocada por nuestro Departamento:
🔗https://www.uned.es/universidad/inicio/institucional/areas-direccion/vicerrectorados/personal-docente/concursos-plazas-pdi/relacion-candidatos-aprobados-conv-7-2025.html

☝️The 2nd Conference of the Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy took place in Venice (30 Sept – 2 Oct). José Antonio Pérez Escobar was part of the organizing and scientific committee, and we’re happy to announce it was a great success!🎉
🔗 sites.google.com/view/young-n...

📣 Join us tomorrow! (The session will be in Spanish this time!)

Greetings from the METIS team! 💚
Many thanks to SEFA and the local organizers at the @unisevilla.bsky.social for these wonderful days, full of inspiring encounters with friends and colleagues. A real pleasure to share ideas, debates, and great moments with all of you. See you soon!

Our colleague Sophie Keeling presented his talk: "Reasons Deliberation" at the XI SEFA Congress in Seville.

METIS researchers Claudia Picazo, Laura Delgado, and Laura Delgado-Verges presented their work at the 11th SEFA Congress, as part of the symposium “Approaches to Hermeneutical Injustice and Their Applications in Mental Health”.

Ignacio Sánchez Moreno (@isanchezmoreno.bsky.social) at the 11th SEFA Congress in Seville presented his work:

“¿Podemos hablar con nuestros perros?”

At the 11th SEFA in Sevilla, Neri Marsili (@narsimarsi.bsky.social) speaks on:

“Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”

Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social) at the XI SEFA Congress in Seville.

Ramón Carnota, PhD student at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at the UNED, presented at the XI SEFA:

“Score Interpretation in Musical Work-Performance Practice”

📢 METIS seminar #2:
Samuel Corda (UBA) will talk about "Hacia un modelo multidimensional de la memoria episódica" (in Spanish)
🗓️ Tuesday, October 7 | 🕚 11:30-13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Humanities Building, Room B
💻 Attend online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

Our colleague Paloma Atencia Linares in her talk “Creatividad, sistemas artificiales y el problema de la subjetividad”.

The XI SEFA Congress starts!

We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

At the XI SEFA Congress in Seville, Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com) (with Guillermo Marín Penella) presenting:

“Two Extensions of Causal Extrapolation within Evidential Pluralism”

Javier González de Prado Salas (@jgonzalezdeprado.bsky.social) at the XI SEFA Congress (Seville):

“The Norms We Try to Follow”

XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA). This event aims to bring together scholars working within the Analytic tradition of Philosophy. The 2025 edition will take place at t...

+ info and program: goo.su/LSxSHiq

The XI SEFA Congress starts!

We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

📣This is tomorrow!

This Tuesday we kick off the seminar with Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), who will talk about ''Local coastal communities and their ways of knowing. Ocean tales from the past and looking into the future''
📆 Tuesday 30/9, 11:30–13:00 (CET)
🌐 Join online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/
🗣️ Language: English

End🧵

5/
🗣️ Language: most seminars are in English, though some are in Spanish.
(Every Thursday before the next seminar we’ll announce here both the talk’s title and the language in which it will be held.)

4/
📅 When: every Tuesday, 11:30–13:00 (CET).
🏛️ Where: hybrid format
• On site: Paseo Senda del Rey 7, Humanities Building (UNED), Room B
• Online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

3/ THE SEMINARS:
📚 Content: The seminars cover different areas of philosophy, mostly from an analytic perspective.
🌐 We alternate between internal and external speakers.
⏰ Typical format: 45’ talk + 45’ discussion.
👉 Full program here: blogs.uned.es/metis/seminar/

2/
🎓 In teaching, we are part of the Master’s in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy (UNED) and the PhD program in Philosophy, where 30 theses have already been defended under our supervision. Our group also includes several predoctoral researchers.

1/ ABOUT US
🟢METIS is a research group in philosophy, currently coordinated by Paloma Atencia and Claudia Picazo. Since 2009 we have hosted 400+ speakers and published in journals such as Noûs, Journal of Philosophy, PPR, BJPS, and Philosophical Quarterly. We also edit EJPS, HPLS, BJA, and Theoria.