JAVIER BELASTEGUI

Exploring the Space of Concepts

PUBLICATIONS

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Articles

  • Belastegui, J. (2026): Classical Logical Coherentism. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 55, 713-757. 10.1007/s10992-026-09849-3
  • Belastegui, J. (2025): A Conceptual Space for Classical Concepts. Synthese, 206, 71, T.C. Conceptual Spaces: A Mathematical Framework for Concept Engineering. 10.1007/s11229-025-05148-7
  • Jacinto, B.; Belastegui, J. (2023): Quineanism, Noneism and Metaphysical Equivalence. Studia Logica, 112, 1019–1090. 10.1007/s11225-023-10085-y
  • Belastegui, J. (2022): Natural Kind Semantics for a Classical Essentialist Theory of Kinds. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 17, 2, 509-545. 10.1017/S1755020322000351
  • Belastegui, J. (2022): A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms. Erkenntnis, 89, 319–354. 10.1007/s10670-022-00535-9
  • Belastegui, J. (2017): Simetría y Similitud: La Concepción Transformacional de la Similitud. Boletín Especial Mejores TFM-s Curso 2015-2016 (24/10/2017), SLMFCE, ISSN: 1577-2292.

Book Chapters

  • Belastegui, J. (2026): Chapter 72: New Developments of Carnap’s Aufbau: Quasi- Analysis, Abstraction and Representation. In Christian Damböck and Georg Schiemer (eds.) Carnap-Handbuch. Leben-Werk-Wirkung, J.B. Metzler Verlag (Springer, Open Access). 10.1007/978-3-662- 72937-3, ISBN: 978-3-662-72936-6.

PhD Dissertation

  • Belastegui, J. (2021): The Resemblance Structure of Natural Kinds: A Formal Model for Resemblance Nominalism. PhD Dissertation, Addi Open Repository, University of the Basque Country.

Conference Proceedings

  • Belastegui, J. (2024): Conceptual Spaces, Classical Concepts and Analyticity. In Laspra, B.; Suárez, J. (2024): Proceedings of the XI Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science – Oviedo, 16-19 July 2024. Universidad de Oviedo. ISBN: 978-84-10135-39-0.
  • Belastegui, J. (2024): Classical Concepts, Definitions and Analyticity in Conceptual Spaces. In 9th National Meeting in Analytic Philosophy, ENFA IX, 10-12 July 2024.
  • Belastegui, J. (2022): A Classical Natural Kind Semantics for an Essentialist Theory of Kinds. In Booklet of Abstracts of Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy IV: Dubrovnik, April 21-23 2022, FMSP IV.
  • Belastegui, J. (2021): Essentialist Negative Kinds and Internal Negations. In Cuevas, A.; Torres, O.; Aranda, V.; Moldovan, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the X Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Salamanca, 16-19 November 2021, ISBN: 978-84-09-35510-5.
  • Belastegui, J. (2021): Kant’s Duality Principle for Kinds. In Annual Conference Abstracts of the 2021 Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, 07-09 July 2021, BSPS 2021.
  • Belastegui, J. (2018): Kinds, Joints and Trees: The Non-Hierarchical Structure of Natural Kinds. In Saborido, C.; Oms, S. and González de Prado, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Madrid, 13-16 November 2018, 26, ISBN: 978-84-09-06054-2.