Xavier de Donato Rodríguez

Xavier de Donato Rodríguez é is currently Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is one of the founder guarantors of the recently created Research Institute for the Humanities, iHUs (University of Santiago de Compostela). He is “contratado doctor” (similar to associate professor) at this university. Xavier is the principal investigator of the research projects “DEFLATIONIST VIEWS IN ONTOLOGY AND METAONTOLOGY” (PID2020-115482GBI00) financed by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España and “Ingeniería Conceptual y Desacuerdo Epistémico”, financed by the BBVA Foundation (July 2022-December 2023). Xavier was formerly a PhD researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), where he received hi PhD in Philosophy. Xavier has been postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at the UNAM (in Mexico City) and Invited Professor at the UAM-I (Mexico City). From 2009 to 2013 Xavier a Parga Pondal Researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was also visiting scholar at Brown University (Providence, USA). Xavier has delivered talks in many conferences (at the PSA in Pittsburgh 2008, Models and Simulations 6 at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, etc.) and has also been keynote speaker at different conferences in numerous occasions. Xavier was awarded an ERASMUS+ fellowship to teach courses at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy). Xavier has published articles in peer-reviewed, indexed journals, such as Theoria (Sweden), Synthese, Erkenntnis, Ratio, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Argumentation, Theoria (Spain), Crítica, among many others. Xavier has also published book chapters in reputed international publishing houses, such as Springer, de Gruyter, Brill/Rodopi (Poznan Studies), Cambridge Academic Publishers, Siglo XXI, Plaza & Valdés, etc. Xavier’s main fields of research comprise philosophy of science, analytic epistemology, philosophy of mind and argumentation theory. He is also interested in theories of models, idealization, inferentialism, abstract objects, concepts and scientific understanding. More recently, Xavier has also published on topics such as metaontological/ontological deflationism, also one of the key topics of his last funded research projects, of which he was the principal investigator.