Lorenzo Baravalle

Education

Since 2011 April, Post-doctoral fellow at USP (São Paulo – Brazil).

2010 May, Discussion of PhD Dissertation, URV, Tarragona. Title: Evolución cultural y adaptación. Supervisor: Prof. José Antonio Diez Calzada. Score: Sobresaliente cum laude.

2008 February – July, Visiting Scholar at IFL (Istituto de Filosofia da Lenguagem), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

2007 November, “Suficiencia investigatoria” in Language and Cognitive Science, University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona. Thesis: Objetos sociales y realismo. Supervisors: F. Correia and Prof. J.A. Diez Calzada.

2005 – 2009 September, Ph.D. Student in Language and Cognitive Science, University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona (Spain).

2005 February, B.A. in Philosophy, University of Turin. Thesis: Il ruolo della sopravvenienza all’interno di un’ontologia della realtà  sociale. Supervisors: Prof. M. Ferraris and C. Barbero (University of Turin). Score: 110/110 cum laude.

1999 – 2004 Student at the University of Turin.

Grants

Since 2011 FAPESP Post-doctoral grant.

2007 – 2009 URV PhD grant.

2005 – 2007 Ramon y Cajal PhD grant.

Research

Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, epistemology, anthropology.

Languages

Mother tongue: Italian
Fluent in spoken and written Spanish
Good in spoken and written English
Good in spoken and written Portuguese
Elementary knowledge of French and Japanese

Services to Profession

2007 September, Co-organization of SEFA 5. Fifth Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, Barcelona

Articles

2011 “Cultural Evolution as a Second Order Adaptation”, Scientia Studia, in press.
2011 “L’adattabilità delle superstizioni”, Rivista di Estetica, in press.
2008 “Il riconoscimento della realtà  sociale”, Rivista di Estetica, n.39, pag. 23
2008 “La mente e il mondo fisico di Jaegwon Kim”, Humana.Mente, n.5, pag.223
2006 “Sopravvenienza del sociale”, Rivista di Estetica, n.33, pag.177

Talks

2011, June 21, “O papel adaptativo das culturas humanas”, presented at CEPISHC (Rio de Janeiro).

2011, April 19, “Evolución cultural como adaptación de segundo orden”, presented at UNQ (Buenos Aires).

2010,September 27, “Evolución cultural y adaptación”, presented at Logos Seminar (Barcelona).

2009, February 23, “Introducción a la filosofía de la mente”, presented at Master en Antropología Urbana, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona).

2008, July 10, “Memetica e determinismo cultural”, presented at IFL (Lisboa).

2008, January 09, “Realidad social y evolución”, presented at Logos Seminar (Barcelona).

2007, November 15, “Il riconoscimento della realtà  sociale”, presented at Terzo Convegno Nazionale di Filosofia Analitica, University of Turín.

2007 October 20, “Objetos sociales y realismo”, presented at Master en Antropología Urbana, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona).

2006 May 13, “Una aporía en el concepto de intencionalidad colectiva”, presented at GRG (Barcelona).