Jean-Baptiste Guillon
I am Profesor Titular (associate professor equivalent) at the University of Navarra.
I work at the intersection of metaphysics and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on the role of common sense in philosophical and scientific inquiry. My early work addressed issues in metaphysics (free will, time, nominalism) within a Quinean, science-oriented framework.
My current research investigates how both science and philosophy begin from common sense and how this initial theory is revised over time. Drawing on tools from philosophy of science (holism, theory change), I develop a Moorean approach in which all beliefs are in principle revisable, yet some “Moorean facts” are not rationally expected to be revised.
Here is a sample of my research :
- If presentism is false, then I don't exist. On common-sense presentism (Synthese, 2024)
- The Dynamic Strategy of Common Sense Against Radical Revisionism (Topoi, 2023)
- A Common Sense Defence of Ostrich Nominalism (Philosophia, 2020)
- Coincidence as Parthood (Synthese, 2019)
- The Evil Demon argument as based on closure plus meta-coherence (Synthese, 2016)
- Van Inwagen on introspected freedom (Philosophical Studies, 2014)
to guillonjeanbaptiste [AT] gmail.com.