Jesús Padilla GálvezIn Spain people traditionally have two family names: the first family name is the paternal one (Padilla), inherited from the father's paternal family name, while the second family name is the maternal one (Gálvez), inherited from the mother's paternal family name. When speaking or in informal situations only the first one is used (also "Padilla"), although both are needed for legal purpose. (; born October 28, 1959) is a Spanish philosopher who has worked primarily in philosophy of language, logic, and the history of sciences.
Professional biography Jesús Padilla Gálvez studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and was awarded the M.A. in 1983 and a Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 1988. He was Research Assistant (1988–1991) at the University of Murcia (Spain) and later held the post of Associate Professor (1992–1994) for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of León (Spain). From 1994 to 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria). Since 1999 he has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain). He has held visiting posts at the Universities of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), University of Graz (Austria), University of Potsdam (Germany), University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), LMU Munich (Germany), University of Vienna and the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). As director of the international scientific journal Dókos. Revista Filosófica - Philosophical Review (published in Ápeiron Ediciones (Madrid) and editor of the international series "Aporia / Aπορία" (De Gruyter)Aporia / Aπορία, De Gruyter the author is continuously engaged with highly relevant philosophical topics.
Philosophical views In his doctoral thesis, Padilla Gálvez examined central issues of analytic philosophy.Cf. Referenz und Theorie der möglichen Welten (Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M, 1989) His subsequent investigations are characterized by an application of the analytic method to the study of philosophical problems.Edmund Runggaldier, Analytische Sprachphilosophie. Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln: Kohlhammer, 1990. This method involves both, the analysis of language to eliminate ambiguity as well as a profound scrutiny of the logical form of philosophical propositions.Cf. Phenomenology as Grammar (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2008). 2nd Edition: Phenomenology as Grammar (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2013). Transl. Portuguese: Fenomenologia como gramática (Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2011). Reflexionando acerca de la gramática filosófica (Areté. Revista de filosofía, 2012, Vol. XXIV, Nr 2, pp. 323-349.) Padilla Galvez's work may be classified into five lines of investigation: philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of history of science, social changes in democratic systems and language for specific purposes (LSP). He was dealing with the works of Gottfried Leibniz,Cf.: Identität und Selbigkeit. Ontologische Interpretation der Leibnizschen Individuen (V. Internationaler Leibniz Kongress Leibniz Tradition und Aktualität, Ed. A. Heinekamp, Hannover, 1988, pp. 685 692); Las lógicas modales en confrontación con los conceptos básicos de la lógica modal de G. W. Leibniz (Theoria, 1991, Vol. 14-15, pp. 115-127); Die Leibnizsche Behandlung kontrafaktischer Bedingungssätze (Leibniz und Europa. VI. Internationaler Leibniz Kongreß. Hannover, 1994, pp. 565-572); Teoría de los mundos posibles e identidad (Analogía y expresión en Leibniz, Madrid, 1992, 103-109); Modalisatoren und mögliche Welten in den logisch-semantischen Untersuchungen um 1686 (Nihil sine ratione. VII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß, Ed. Hans Poser, Berlin, 2001, pp. 926-933); Die Setzung der Einheit. Einheit in der Vielheit (VIII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress. Hannover, 2005, pp. 757-763); La teoría de los condicionales contrafácticos propuesta por Luis de Molina y la respuesta de G. W. Leibniz (Estudios Filosóficos, LVIII, 2009, pp. 333-346). Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl, Alfred Tarski, Ludwig Wittgenstein,Cf: Bibliography Willard Van Orman Quine, Saul Kripke, among others. Padilla Gálvez is recognized as one of the leading experts of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy in the EnglishCf.: Wittgenstein, from a New Point of View (Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M., 2003); Phenomenology as Grammar (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., 2008); Philosophical Anthropology. Wittgenstein's Perspectives (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2010); Wittgenstein: Issues and Debates (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2010); Forms of Life and Language Games (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2011); Doubtful Certainties. Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 2012) and Spanish-speaking world.Cf.: Wittgenstein y el Círculo de Viena / Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis (Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, 1998); El laberinto del lenguaje (Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca) 2007; Wittgenstein I. Lecturas Tractarianas (Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, 2009); Antropología filosófica de Wittgenstein. Reflexionando con P.M.S. Hacker (Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, 2011); Yo, Máscara y reflexión. Estudios sobre la autorreferencia de la subjetividad (Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2012); Formas de vida y juegos del lenguaje (Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2013); Hacia la representación perspicua. Wittgenstein 2 (Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2014)
He has published extensively in the field by focusing on logic-grammatical analysis of language.Jan Woleński, Referenz und Theorie der möglichen Welten. Darstellung und Kritik der logisch semantischen Theorie in der Sprachanalytischen Philosophie, Reports on Philosophy, Nr. 14 1991, pp. 154-156. This includes such topics as history of logic and mathematics (Kurt GödelCf. Gödels Vorschlag innerhalb der selbstbezüglichen Sätze (Grazer Philosophische Studien. 47, 1994, 43-57); La refutación de la metalógica descriptiva a la concepción aritmética de la metalógica (Arbor, CLV, 612, 1996, 79-98); Rudolf Carnap contra Kurt Gödel: Die Kritik Carnaps von 1931 am Projekt Gödels (Bausteine wissenschaftlicher Weltauffassung. Springer. Viena, 1997, pp. 125-139); Wittgenstein's Criticism against Gödel's Project of Metalogic (Wittgenstein: Issues and Debates. Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2010, pp. 127-148)), action, decision-making, forms of life,Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life anthropology,Philosophical Anthropology . language,Forms of Life and Language Games aesthetics, politics (democracyDemocracy in Times of Ochlocracy and terrorism) and practical philosophy.
Awards and recognition Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2020)
Bibliography He is the author of "Referenz und Theorie der möglichen Welten". Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1989.() Jorge Alfredo Roetti, Referenz und Theorie der möglichen Welten. Darstellung und Kritik der logisch semantischen Theorie in der Sprachanalytischen Philosophie. En: Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, 1994, pp. 371-373. "Tratado metateórico de las teorías científicas". Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, 2000. () "Sozioökonomische Einführung in die Interkulturalität". (Publicado con Margit Gaffal) Oldenbourg, München, 2005. () "Verdad y demostración". Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2007. () Reseña en: Revista Latinoamericana de filosofía "Wittgenstein I. Lecturas tractarianas". Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2009. () Cecilia B. Beristain, English Review from Wittgenstein I. Lecturas Tractarianas, Dókos, Vol. 7-8, 2011, pp. 136-141. "Yo, máscara y reflexión. estudios sobre la autorreferencia de la subjetividad". Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2012. () "Hacia la representación perspicua. Wittgenstein 2". Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2014. () "Parménides, Sobre la naturaleza, El desarrollo de una gramática metafísica". Ápeiron Ediciones, Madrid, 2015. (). "Verdad. Controversias abiertas". Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2017. (). "Estado de cosas. Reconstrucción de la polémica sobre el Sachverhalt". Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2018. (). "El mentiroso. Genealogía de una paradoja sobre verdad y autorreferencia". Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2021. (). "State of Affairs. Reconstructing the Controversy over Sachverhalt". Philosophia Verlag, Múnich, 2021. () Review in: Bulletin d'Analyse Phénoménologique, XIX 4 (2023), 24-30. "Negociación. Teoría de juegos, juegos de lenguaje y formas de vida". (coedit. with Margit Gaffal) Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2023, 204 págs. (). "Dynamics of Rational Negotiation: Game Theory, Language Games and Forms of Life". (coed. with Margit Gaffal) Springer, 2024, ().
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"El Círculo de Viena, reconsiderado". Arbor, 1996, Nr. 612, Tomo CLV, pp. 7– 147. ()(1996) "Wittgenstein y el Círculo de Viena / Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis". Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, 1998. () "Wittgenstein, from a New Point of View". Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M., 2003. () "El laberinto del lenguaje: Wittgenstein y la filosofía analítica / The Labyrinth of Language: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Analytic Philosophy". Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, 2007. () "Idealismus und Sprachanalytische Philosophie". Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., 2007. () "Phenomenology as Grammar". Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2008. () "Igualdad en el derecho y la moral". Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, México D.F., 2009. () "Philosophical Anthropology. Wittgenstein's Perspective". Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2010. () Review: "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" "Wittgenstein: Issues and Debates". (with Eric Lemaire). Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2010. () Review: Derek A. McDougall, Critical notice, British Wittgenstein Society "Antropología filosófica de Wittgenstein. Reflexionando con P.M.S. Hacker". Plaza y Valdés, Madrid - México, 2011. () "Forms of Life and Language Games". (with Margit Gaffal). Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2011. () "Fenomenologia como Gramática". Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília D.F., 2011. () "Doubtful Certainties. Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism". (with Margit Gaffal). Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick, 2012. () "Formas de vida y juegos de lenguaje". Coedición con Margit Gaffal, Plaza y Valdés, Madrid - México 2013, 266 pp., . "Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life". (Ed. Jesús Padilla Gálvez). De Gruyter, Berlin - Boston, 2016, 168 pp., . "Intentionality and Action". (Eds. Jesús Padilla Gálvez and Margit Gaffal). De Gruyter, Berlin - Boston, 2017, 180 pp., . "Human Understanding as Problem". (Eds. Jesús Padilla Gálvez and Margit Gaffal). De Gruyter, Berlin - Boston, 2018, 165 pp., . "Ontological Commitment Revisited". (Ed. Jesús Padilla Gálvez). De Gruyter, Berlin - Boston, 2021, 170 pp., . "The Many Faces of Language Games". (Eds. Jesús Padilla Gálvez and Margit Gaffal) De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2024. 183 pp. .
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1995. Metalógica / Metalogik. Mathesis, XI, Nr. 2, 113-136 / 137–192. () 2007. Sobre consistencia y completitud en el sistema axiomático. Discusión sobre la ponencia del Sr. Gödel. Protocolo del 15 de enero de 1931. Mathesis III 21 (2007) 193–196. () 2011. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nur die Erfahrung des gegewärtigen augenblickes hat Realität’... / Sólo la experiencia del momento actual es real’..., Hat es Sinn zu sagen "zwei Menschen hätten denselben Körper?... / ¿Tiene sentido decir que dos personas tienen el mismo cuerpo?....Dokos. Revista filosófica, Vols. 7-8, 2011, 53-72 ( - )