BIO
Genoveva Martí is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. Holder of a PhD from Stanford University, she has taught at the University of Washington (Seattle), the University of California, Riverside and the London School of Economics (United Kingdom), and served as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). Her specialist area is the philosophy of language, with a particular interest in reference, a field closely connected to psychology and linguistics that deals with the relationship between words and things. She has also worked on the role of the theory of reference in the defense of scientific realism and on the impact of experimental data on semantics. Martí chairs the Humanities Class of the Academia Europaea, having held the vice-presidency there from 2018 to 2021, and is also Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and a former coordinator of LOGOS, the Research Group in Analytic Philosophy at the University of Barcelona.
