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Markel Kortabarria
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Postdoctoral researcher at LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy – BIAP, University of Barcelona.

Thinking about (meta)metaphysics, grounding, m-explanation and other nerdy stuff.

(He/Him)

Website: http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/markel-kortabarri
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The best week of the year and official celebration of my viva begins today
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I forgot to show here the incredible tshirt my friends designed me as a gift for my successful viva
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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On the occasion of my birthday, my good friends have decided to indulge me with my favorite avant-garde black metal album
October 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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My friends and I have just annihilated Gladius. I'm really having a lot of fun with this new take on the souls games
June 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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First summer reading
House of leaves by M. Danielewski
May 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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May 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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We began our PhD with the goal of co-authoring something together and we made it happen just before the end of the journey. Looking forward to sharing it with our colleagues!
Abstract of the talk advertised in the quoted post: "Grounding is a non-reductive relation of metaphysical determination which promises to help physicalists deal with the hard problem of consciousness. Grounding physicalists, however, are yet to face the new challenge for physicalism, which consists of explaining our substantive phenomenal knowledge. Among the difficulties posed by this challenge, grounding physicalists struggle the most in accounting for revelation, the claim that our phenomenal knowledge is not only substantive, but also essence-revealing. Revelation is said to be in tension with the view that grounding relations are essence-mediated. We argue that grounding physicalists can accommodate revelation in two ways. First, they can drop the claim that the physical/phenomenal grounding relation is essence-mediated and adopt a law-based formulation of grounding physicalism. However, to make this work, they must show that the resulting view does not bear the costs of dualism. Second, they can retain essence-mediation and explain why, contrary to introspective appearances, phenomenal properties do not have purely phenomenal essences. We contend that both approaches are viable, grounding physicalism can address the new challenge."
May 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Proof that sometimes I do work
April 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I've finally read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and I freakin loved it, that's it, that's the update.
March 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Bruh
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I have takes
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Well
January 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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A bit of post-research-stay self-indulgence
Dark souls 1, 2 and 3 vynils Dark Souls 1 Vynil Dark Souls 2 Vynil Dark souls 3 Vynil
December 13, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Mayo fue definitivamente un mes de oscuridad
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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My mom said they were pretty
A buquet of flowers I bought for the girl i like
December 1, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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An academic paper introducing an objection and replying "That is hard to swallow. Believe it if you can, but I cannot."
November 27, 2024 at 8:58 AM