Deflationist Conceptions of Abstract Objects

Concha Martínez-Vidal is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has taught different subjects related to logic and analytic philosophy. Among her publications she has: a manual for teaching logic (Lógica Clásica de Primer Orden: Estrategias de deducción, formalización y evaluación semántica (Trotta 1999, with J.L. Falguera). She has also published various papers and book-chapters. Among them: Is Second-Order Logic Logic? (The Logica Yearbook 1999), El estatuto epistemológico de la Lógica: verdad y necesidad (Técnos 2007 Filosofía de la Lógica), Normativity and its Vindication: The Case of Logic (Theoria 2004), Is Logic Objective? (Cadernos de Filosofía, Lisboa), ＂Leon Henkin the Reviewer＂(with José Pedro Úbeda Rives in Manzano, M.; Sain, I; Alonso, E (Eds.) The Life and Work of Leon Henkin. (Springer 2014) ＂ ＂Description, Explanation and Ontological Commitment＂ (with Rivas-de-Castro) ＂Putnam and contemporary fictionalism＂ in THEORIA. Also the last version of the entry on ＂Abstract Objects＂ in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (with José L. Falguera and Gideon Rosen). She has edited several volumes such as: Truth in perspective (Ashgate 1996, with L. Villegas & U. Monroy), Following Putnams Trail: On Realism and Other Issues (Rodopi 2004 with Silva & Monroy), Current Topics in logic and Analytic Philosophy (USC 2007, with Falguera & Sagüillo) and lately: Abstract Objects For and Against (with José L. Falguera Springer 2020). She has participated and conducted several research projects funded by the Spanish Government. She has also organized many conferences and workshops in cooperation with other members of the group EPISTEME