
Federico Carlos Penelas
Doctor de Filosofía from the University of Buenos Aires
Investigador Independiente of CONICET
Profesor Titular Regular of “Philosophy of Language” at UNMdP (Facultad de Humanidades). Profesor Regular Adjunto of “Philosophy of Language” at UBA (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras). He has taught undergraduate and / or postgraduate courses at UFBA, UNGS, UNQ, UNTREF, UNL. He specializes in Epistemology and Philosophical Semantics, with special interest in Pragmatism (classical and post-analytic) and in the links between those areas and Political Philosophy. He coordinates three research groups at SADAF: Pragmatism (since 2012, in collaboration with Claudio Cormick); Epistemology (since 2017, in collaboration with Florencia Rimoldi and Moira Pérez); and Semantic Normativity (since 2019). He has directed and directs several research projects funded by the Secretary of Science and Technology of UBA and by CONICET. He has published Wittgenstein (Buenos Aires, Galerna 2020) and co-edited the collective volumes El giro pragmático en filosofía (Barcelona, Gedisa, 2003), and Gramáticas, juegos y silencio. Debates en torno a Wittgenstein (Buenos Aires, Grama, 2006). He has published numerous articles in several collective volumes in Argentina and abroad (Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru) as well as in prestigious academic magazines (Contemporary Pragmatism, Pragmatism Today, Ragion Prática, Dianoia, Endoxa, Ideas y Valores, etc.). He was President of the Asociación Filosófica Argentina (AFRA – 2018-2019). He is currently Vice-President of the Richard Rorty Society. He was elected President of the RRS for the period 2022-2023.