I am a philosopher currently working full time at the Philosophy Department of Universidad Alberto Hurtado located in Santiago, Chile. My areas of specialization are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Epistemology, Philosophy of Languaje and History of Modern Philosophy. I am also organizing a project called Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Analítica, a   small society that hopefully will provide a new space for academic debate in South America. 

After completing a Master of Arts in Philosophy working on David Hume’s views on perceptual knowledge, I did a PhD supervised by Professor David Papineau  and Dr. Mark Textor at King’s College London. My PhD thesis, entitled “Seeing or Seeming to see, a philosophical enquiry into the intentional nature of visual experience’ was examined by Professor Paul Snowdon (UCL) and Professor Alan Millar (Stirling).

In my dissertation I argue that we should adopt an intentional standpoint to understand the nature of visual experience as long as we accept that perceptual and non-perceptual experiences are fundamentally different and not necessarily conceptually structured in the way propositional attitudes like beliefs or desires are.

My research is currently focused on topics connected with conceptualism and the possibility of non-conceptual content, on disjunctive theories of perception and on the role of introspection and action in visual mental representation. I am also deeply interested in the history of early modern philosophy, particularly on the British Empiricists, the metaphysics of personal identity, modern skepticism and the appearance/reality distinction.

Please feel free to navigate my site and follow the different links located at the top of my page. Some of them are more ‘personal’, while others are strictly “professional”.

Francisco

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Alameda 1869, Piso 3

Santiago, Chile

francisco@correo.org.uk

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