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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).