Brief biography:
Pascual F. Martinez-Freire was
born in Vigo (Spain). He took his Master in Philosophy (1964) and his Ph. D. in
Philosophy (1972) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
He lectured for two years at
Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Porto Alegre (Brazil), and then for
fourteen years at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, being from 1982 till 2012
Full Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Universidad de Malaga,
where he was also main researcher of the Group “Cognitive Sciences”. Currently,
he is Professor Emeritus of Logic and Philosophy of Science.
He has published several books
about mathematical logic, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. His latest book is La
Importancia del Conocimiento. Filosofia y Ciencias Cognitivas (First ed.
2005, Second ed. 2007).
He is also editor and
co-author of other books about philosophy of science and philosophy of
cognitive sciences. His latest edited book is Representaciones
(2009). Among
his many papers are “Being inside: Putting representation, body and world
together again” (in Cognición y
Representación, 2005), “El enfoque enactivo en las ciencias cognitivas” (Ludus Vitalis, 2006), “What is peculiar
to human beings is not reason but free volition” (Pensamiento, 2009), and “Is embodied cognition a good conceptual
revolution?” (Conceptual Revolutions:
From Cognitive Science to Medicine, 2011).