José Luis Bermúdez,
Professor of Philosophy and Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, Matheus Valente,
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Lisbon, Víctor M. Verdejo,
Assistant Professor, Pompeu Fabra University José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy and Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was Director of the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience at Washington University in St Louis and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His many books include
The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, Thinking without Words, The Bodily Self, and
Frame it Again, as well as his widely-used textbook
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind, now in its fourth edition.
Matheus Valente is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Language, Mind, and Cognition research group at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Valencia, University of Barcelona, Institut Jean Nicod, and UNICAMP. He has published on mental and linguistic content, thought and intersubjectivity, reference and communication,
de se and self-locating belief, visual representations, and other topics in journals such as
Inquiry, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and
Synthese.
Víctor M. Verdejo is an Assistant Professor (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, he held positions at one British and five Spanish universities. His publications include over 30 papers on concepts and mental representation. More recently, his works have focused specifically on the shareability of thought and the first-person concept. His articles have been published in journals such as
Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Dialectica, Philosophical Explorations, Acta Analytica, and
Synthese. He is a senior member of the Logos Research Group, a collaborator of the Valencia Philosophy Lab, and an executive member of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.