Sergio Guerra

I am a FPU predoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy I at the University of Granada, working under the supervision of Neftalí Villanueva. I am also part of the research group Filosofía y Análisis (aka Granada Gang) and the unit of excellence FiloLab-UGR.

My main area of interest is the philosophy of language. Currently, my research focuses on the development of an evaluative approach to belief attributions capable of accounting for their uses in political contexts. In this sense, I am working on the following issues, concerning the formal analysis of language and politically oriented questions:

• Difference between descriptive and evaluative uses of language.
• Pragmatics and semantics of belief attributions
• Problems of substitution and hyperintensionality in belief attributions
• Occurrence and meaning of pejorative expressions (slurs, deadnames, etc.) in belief attributions

Before starting my PhD, I completed my undergraduate degree in Philosophy (with an extraordinary end-of-degree award) at the University of Granada. My final thesis (with honors), supervised by Neftalí Villanueva, consisted of an epistemic explanation of asymmetric polarization in the United States. After graduating, I did a Master’s degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science (language and mind module) at the University of Granada. In my Master’s thesis, supervised by Víctor Fernández Castro and Neftalí Villanueva, I argued against the relationalist analysis of propositional attitude attributions. I also completed the Master’s Degree in Teaching of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (specializing in Philosophy).