Humanities
I am ICREA Research Professor at the Departament de Filosofia of the Universitat de Barcelona. I did my PhD in Barcelona (visiting ANU for a short while). I was Arché Postdoc in St Andrews (2004-06), Fullbright-GenCat Postdoc at NYU (2006-07), ICREA Researcher (2007-12) and then RyC (2012-13). I have published papers in Analysis, Erkenntnis, Mind, Noûs, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, and Synthèse, among others.
I work on matters issuing from words -vagueness, contextualism/relativism, rigidity- and issues where words don’t really matter (much) -truthmaking, grounding, time, disagreement, values-. In between, I have an increasing interest in topics around gender, race, and sexuality.
– López de Sa D 2017, ‘Making Beatiful Truths’ in Young J (ed.),The Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements, Oxford University Press, UK.
Principal investigator of Spanish Government Research Project “DM — Derivative Metaphysics: The Existence and Significance of the non-Fundamental” (FFI2015-66372-P, 2016-18)
Associate Editor of Teorema for “Metaphysics” (www.unioviedo.es/teorema)
Member of the “network of excelence” (Consolider) “Facts and Thoughts in Perspective: New Isues” (FFI2016-81858-REDC, 2017-18) and the interuniversity BIAP–Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (UB, UPF, UdG)
Member of the Societat Catalana de Filosofia (IEC), the Sociedad Española de Filosofia Analítica, the European Society of analytic Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association.
In 2017, I convened the weekly SM-Seminar In Metaphysics and co-convened the weekly LOGOS Seminar & Colloquium, at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Co-organizer of two international workshops: “DM1 — Metaphysics in the Law” and “DM2 — Social Metaphysics.
Invited talks: “Significant Verbal Disputes and so-called ‘Metalinguistic Negotiations’” (Lisboa, GRSeminar), “Constructing Social Constructions” (GRSeminar)
My student Aurélien Darbellay defended his PhD dissertation on “Writing social reality into the book of the world”. I supervised or co-supervised three other PhD students and one MA thesis.