Investigadora FiloLab
Profesora Titular (Associate Professor), Departamento de Filosofía I, UGR
Página web: http://philpapers.org/profile/28848
ORCID. 0000-0003-2221-8097
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mj-Garcia-Encinas
Contacto: encinas@ugr.es
I got my Philosophy Degree with Honours at the University of Deusto (Spain) and received my Ph.D. from University of the Basque Country in 1999. My doctoral dissertation was a defence of singular causation within the framework of trope theory. In 2000-2002 I got a postdoctoral grant by the Basque Government to visit the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University where I became interested on questions concerning identity and general metaphysics. I came back to Spain as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher (tenure track) from 2002 to 2007 at the University of Granada, where I teach and study at its Philosophy Department since then.
Líneas de investigación
I mainly work in Metaphysics: categories and modal knowledge. In particular, I have written on causation, properties, relations, identity, and personal identity. I am a trope theorist, and a singularist concerning causation. I defend rational intuition for categorial knowledge, and a form of narrative approach to personal identity. I also love to study the History of Philosophy. From January 2017 to September 2021, I was General Editor of Theoria (Spain).
Publicaciones destacadas
(under contract) Categories in Metaphysics. The intuition of the transcendental
(2025) “Categorial intuition” Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-025-00820-1
(2025) “Non-Existence” in García-Encinas, M.J. & Martínez-Manrique, F. (eds.) Special Objects. Social, modal, non-existent Springer Nature, pp. 225-243. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-82221-6
(2024) “On the judgement of beaty. An open path towards transcendental realism” Kant e-prints 19: 1-26 https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/kant/article/view/8678628
(2024) “Can modal facts be perceived?” Synthesis: Journal for Philosophy 4: 59-81 https://synthesisonline.net/having-experience-in-view/
(2023) “Categories first” Disputatio 69: 203-222 https://sciendo.com/es/article/10.2478/disp-2023-0009
(2022) “Facts of Identity” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2153514
(2017) “On the Discovery that Phosphorus is Hesperus: A Follow-up to Kripke on Identity” Analysis and Metaphysics 16: 52-69.
(2015) “The Role of Intuition in Metaphysics” Teorema 34 (3): 79-99.
(2013) “On Necessary but External Relations” Review of Contemporary Philosophy 12: 93-101.
(2012) “On Categories and A Posteriori Necessity: A phenomenological echo” Metaphilosophy 43 (1-2):147-164.
(2009) “Tropes for Causation” Metaphysica 10: 157-174.
(2004) "Transference, or Identity Theories of Causation?" Theoria. An International Journal 49: 31-47.
(2003) "A posteriori Necessity in Singular Causation and the Humean Argument" Dialectica 57(1): 41-55.
Proyectos
Actual Project: PID2023-152118NB-I00 "The Metaphysics of Categories MetaCat". Ministry of Science, Spain. IP. M.J. García-Encinas, University of Granada (https://oncategories.wixsite.com/home)
Previous Projects:
"On the Origin and Epistemology of Categories" (PID2019-108870GB-I00)
"Mental speech, metacognition and the narrative theory of identity" (FFI2015-65953-P)