About me
I am a researcher (he/him) working at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, with a special interest in the philosophy of psychiatry. Currently, I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the FiloLab Unit of Excellence in the University of Granada (Dept. of Philosophy 1), under the supervision of Neftalí Villanueva. Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rijeka (Dept. of Philosophy), on a research project on the interface problem in the philosophy of psychiatry (PI: Marko Jurjako); at the University of Granada (Dept. of Philosophy 1) on a research project on the social roots of mental health (PI: Víctor Fernández Castro); and at Utrecht University (Dept. Philosophy and Religious Studies), on a research project on situated self-control led by Annemarie Kalis. I also worked as a researcher at the University of Granada (Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Dept. Social Psychology and Methodology, Dept. Biological and Health Psychology). I have also been a visiting researcher at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (University of Exeter, with Sam Wilkinson), the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon, with Robert Clowes), the School of Psychology (University of Valparaíso, with Pablo López-Silva), the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS-ENS-EHESS, with Elisabeth Pacherie), and the Department of Philosophy 1 (University of Granada, with Manuel de Pinedo).
I have a multidisciplinary research and academic background, with a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology (Autonomous University of Madrid; Cum Laude, International Accreditation) and a Master’s in Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of Salamanca; Extraordinary Award). My interdisciplinary doctoral thesis Mental Health Without Mirrors, conducted under the supervision of Prof. María Xesús Froxán Parga (Faculty of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid) and Prof. Manuel de Pinedo García (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Granada), explored non-descriptivist, expressivist-like views of mind and language as a viable alternative against reductivism and eliminativism in mental health assessment and treatment, emphasizing their consequences for the doxastic understanding of delusions.
Research interests
My work mainly focuses on conceptual debates in psychiatry and clinical psychology that are pertinent to mental health practice and policymaking. It draws from a broadly situated perspective, connecting expressivist and mindshaping views of mind with functional-analytic and post-cognitivist views of mental health. I am currently working on issues of social and epistemic justice concerning the neurodiversity movement and how it may help us move toward a non-ideal philosophy of mind and psychiatry; the role of self-regulatory abilities in mental health; the impact of different 4E Cognition tools for the concepts of mental health and disorder; the role of mental interpretation practices in our understanding and treatment of delusions and other forms of neurodivergence; and the distinctive epistemic contributions of lived experience.
My research has a marked inter- and multidisciplinary scope. It is also strongly collaborative. For me, continuous collaboration with (and support from) many friends and colleagues across philosophy and psychology has been key to developing my multidisciplinary skills and research interests. This includes many colleagues from a growing international network conneting institutions in Granada (e.g., Víctor Fernández Castro, Manuel de Pinedo, Neftalí Villanueva, Manuel Heras Escribano, Laura Delgado-Verges, Daniel Galdeano), Rijeka (Marko Jurjako, Luca Malatesti), Utrecht (Annemarie Kalis, Josephine Pascoe, Jelle Stegers, Cato Benschop), Valencia (Manuel Almagro Holgado, Virginia Ballesteros), Valparaíso (Pablo López Silva), Lisbon (Amalia Haro, Robert Clowes), Exeter (Sam Wilkinson), or Bayreuth (Cristina Borgoni), among others. I also owe much to my former colleagues in psychology, such as Jesús Alonso Vega, Caru Basakatua, Ricardo de Pascual Verdú, Gladis Lee Pereira, and many others. Another constant source of support has been Amalia’s cat, Socrates, who was the main inspiration for the design of this website’s improvised logo.
You can take a look at my full CV here.