Víctor Carranza-Pinedo

Contact

Email: victor.carranza[at]uni-muenster[dot]de

Address: Philosophisches Seminar, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster

Bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster, where I am member of the collaborative project "The role of individual internal states in niche choice, niche construction, and behavioural niche conformance" led by Ulrich Krohs.

My research interests lie at the intersection of the philosophy of language, emotions, and biology.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Milan and the École Normale Supérieure in 2022, under the supervision of Elisa Paganini and Márta Abrusán. You can find my CV here and my dissertation here.

Output

• (forthcoming) Slurring individuals. Inquiry. [penultimate]
• (2024) Rethinking core affect: the role of dominance in animal behaviour and welfare research. Synthese 203(153). [final]
• (2023) Appraising evidence for valence. Animal Sentience 33(31). Commentary. [final]
• (2023) Slurs’ variability, emotional dimensions, and game-theoretic pragmatics. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics. [penultimate][final]
• (2022) The landscape of affective meaning. Ph.D. Dissertation. [final]
• (2021) The pragmatics of all-purpose pejoratives. Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Context. [final]

Under review

• A paper on the variety of all-purpose derogatory words.
• A paper on sentience's multidimensionality and cross-species welfare comparisons.
• A paper on the role of technological scaffolds during development.

(drafts available upon request)

News

• I am teaching the seminars "The Philosophy of Affective Sciences" [syllabus] and "Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics" in the 2023-24 academic year at the University of Münster.
• I am presenting my work on pejorative nicknames at the STAL seminar on May 21.