I got my PhD in Philosophy from Complutense University, Madrid, in 1988. I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense between 1989 and 1991. I was then awarded a postgraduate fellowship by the British Council to work in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (1991-93). I was Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1993-2000), Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (2000-2002), Associate Professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington (2002-2004), and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (2004-2008). I joined ICREA in 2009. I am a member of the research group LOGOS (Research Group in Analytic Philosophy) at the UB and also a member of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP). I have been president of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy (SEFA) between 2010 and 2016.
Research interests
My goal in philosophy has long been the same: to explore the nature of the mind within a naturalistic framework. What is most distinctive of my research is my ongoing effort to respect scientific findings about mental phenomena while insisting on the critical importance of the method of analysis and the theoretical tools provided by analytic philosophy. My current research focuses on the analysis of central topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science, with a special emphasis on the philosophy of perception and rationally responsive unconscious mental states such as implicit attitudes.
Selected publications
Selected research activities
- Toribio, J. (forthcoming). “Memory and Implicit Bias”. In A. Sant’Anna and C. Craver (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. Oxford: OUP.
- 2022-2026: Philosophy of Social Cognition. MICINN - PID2021-124100NB-I00. PIs: Josefa Toribio and Esa Díaz León.
- 2023-2026: María de Maeztu. Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy. MICINN - CEX2021-001169-M. PI: Carl Hoefer.
- 2023-2025: LOGOS (Research Group in Analytic Philosophy). 2021- SGR-00276 AGAUR. PI: Sven Rosenkranz.
- 2022-2025: Ilia Patronnikov. PhD Grant. FPI-PRE2019-089063. MICINN. Defence: 11/06/25. Excellent Cum Laude.
- 2024-2027: Lucía González Arias: “Social Cognition”. FPI-PRE2022-104536. MICINN.
- Toribio, J. “Valence as Vehicle: A psychofunctionalist account of implicit bias”. With Lucía González Arias. XI SEFA, 2025. Sevilla, October 1-3, 2025.
- Toribio, J. Implicit Attitudes and the Evidence of Affect: A Minimalist Account of Valence. 121st APA Meeting. Eastern Division. New York City, NY. January 8-11, 2025. Keynote speaker.
- Toribio, J. Valence Unseen. On the Affective Life of Experience in Sensory Substitution. 20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) at the University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK. 4 – 6th June 2025. Keynote speaker.
- Co-organizer (with S. Rosenkranz and D. Mortini) of the BIAP Workshop: “Perceptual Evidence and its Role for Belief”. Barcelona. April 7-9, 2025.
- Toribio, J. (2025) “How memory shapes implicit attitudes”. The Memory Palace. https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-memory-shapes-implicit-attitudes
- Philosophy of Language and Cognition CCiL. Universitat de Barcelona
- Paulina Lewandowska (CCiL UB). Deep Learning and Consciousness. Defense: 26/06/2025.