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Matheus Valente

@mthsvlnt.bsky.social
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Philosopher at the METIS group (UNED, Madrid). Mostly phil of language and mind via Lewisian gods, Black's spheres and Sleeping Beauties.

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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper just out! Co-written with Emiliano Boccardi as part of the Synthese special issue on the 120th anniversary of Russell’s “On Denoting” (ed. Nils Kürbis): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Russellian acquaintance and the problem of indexical thought - Synthese
Russell’s “On Denoting” introduced two ideas—the theory of descriptions and the principle of acquaintance—designed to work in tandem: the first extends thought beyond the boundary of what is directly ...
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🟢 Book review Sharing Thoughts (Oxford University Press, 2025), edited by José Luis Bermúdez, Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social & Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social, has been reviewed by Victor Tamburini in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Read it: lix.li/UcLGcu
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Sharing Thoughts: Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication
This welcome collection addresses the question of how to individuate thoughts and their constituents, concepts, to explain intersubjective phenomena such as co…
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just published in open access: special issue in @theoriajournal.bsky.social on the philosophy of José Luis Bermúdez w/ contributions by @victormverdejo.bsky.social, @mjurjako.bsky.social, @martajorba.bsky.social, Gallagher, Brown, Dohrn, Bernués, Serrahima + responses. ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...
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Vol. 41 No. 2 (2026): XXX SIUCC – José Luis Bermúdez | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dear Dr. Aaronson, as sympathetic as I am to the moral and political reasons for enforcing alphabetical other in the authorship of papers written by multiple authors, private reasons impede me from signing up for your manifesto at this time. Signed, Dr. Valente.
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📣Our METIS member Claudia Picazo’s paper, “Exploiting Ambiguity”, co-authored with Laura Delgado (Valencia), has just been published in Mind! Congratulations to Claudia and Laura on this fantastic achievement!!!🙏 Check it out!🔗 academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This week at the #TSAColloquium Miguel Ángel Sebastián (UNAM) and @mthsvlnt.bsky.social @metisuned.bsky.social Join us for a deep dive into perspectival information and its role in action explanation. Everyone welcome! More info: www.upf.edu/web/thought-... Kindly funded by the #BBVAFoundation
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🎉El pasado martes cerramos el curso 2025-2026 del Seminario Metis con 29 charlas Hemos contado con ponentes de España, Reino Unido, Argentina, México, Estados Unidos, Italia, Francia, Alemania, Portugal y Suiza🌎 ¡Gracias a participantes y ponentes por hacerlo posible!
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Someone born blind and deaf suddenly regains vision and hearing at the same time. The doctors ensure that one’s first experiences are of a red patch presented simultaneously to a stable-pitch tone. Can you immediately distinguish the colour from the sound? Can you tell which is which? #philsky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hot take: the label "Russellianism" in phil of language/mind ought to be reappropriated by theories which not only postulate singular propositions but also restrict the realm of that which we can think singularly about to nothing more than ourselves, the present time, and our mental states. #PhilSky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Someone born blind and deaf suddenly regains vision and hearing at the same time. The doctors ensure that one’s first experiences are of a red patch presented simultaneously to a stable-pitch tone. Can you immediately distinguish the colour from the sound? Can you tell which is which? #philsky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Philosophy is the only x such that 'What is x?' is a meaningful central question within x. A form of inquiry whose rules beg to be twisted around themselves in a way that normally would be self-defeating or at least paralysing, but instead, in this case, leads to the deepest of enterprises. #philsky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Catchiest summary of my research project, casually found in the inner cover of The Fall’s 1990 record “Extricate!”.
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Sleeping Beauty problem divided philosophers into many camps, but one promising original theory has never been explored. In this paper, I address that gap by arguing that Beauty ought to have 1/3 confidence that the fair coin will come up Heads before the experiment even starts. #philsky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Dener is to football what Gareth Evans is to analytic philosophy.
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A link between the Axiom of Choice, Haecceitism, Singular or De Se Thought, Random Selection, and Arbitrary Reference: all allow for the singling out of particular things even if they'd otherwise be indistinguishable from others. #philsky
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What's for dinner? For carbs: Rice or Pasta. For protein: Tofu or Beans. So, P(RT)=P(RB)=P(PT)=P(PB)=1/4. Chef tells you: "If there's Rice today, then it'll be Rice&Beans cause the Tofu we bought today gets sour mixed w/ Rice. Sorry, no Rice&Tofu today!" Do you now have P(RB)=1/3 or P(RB)=1/2?
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Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Great to see the first papers out in the Special Issue on themes from the philosophy of José Luis Bermúdez, now live in the journal Theoria.👇👇👇 Co-edited with @mthsvlnt.bsky.social & Valentí Simpson. All open access. More on the way!
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If I apriori know p, then p is evidentially inert for me. So, I cannot use the fact that I exist as evidence for objective hypotheses. But this fact isn't a priori for you: it's relevant contingent information. Thus, you and I might be maximal peers but still differ in what our evidence supports.
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Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If you and I completely agree with each other in all of our beliefs, could we nonetheless differ in our desires? Suppose I'm thirsty but you're not. So, I desire to drink water but you don't desire yourself to drink water. Fine. But my question is: could you not desire *me* to drink water?
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