I’m PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of St Andrews and at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. My supervisors are Derek Ball, Luca Incurvati and Greg Restall. My PhD is generously funded by The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The Royal Institute of Philosophy.
I mainly work on topics in the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language. I also have interests in the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics and epistemology.
Previously, I completed an MSc in Logic at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and an MA in Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Glasgow.
Feel free to get in touch at sdp8@st-andrews.ac.uk or at s.dominguezparrado@uva.nl.
Research
My PhD thesis is on logical pluralism and how to best articulate this position.
I argue that the debate between logical pluralists and monists often conflates distinct questions: a linguistic question about whether 'valid' and its ordinary-language counterparts have one or multiple meanings, a conceptual question about whether there is a single concept of validity or several, and a metaphysical question about whether there is one property of validity or many. By disentangling these questions, my research aims to clarify the different forms that logical pluralism can take and, ultimately, what logical pluralists ought to be pluralists about. The project also explores the implications of different forms of logical pluralism for debates about logical disagreement and the normativity of logic.
Papers
Can Paraconsistent Set-Theoretic Pluralism Solve the Access Problem? Philosophia Mathematica, forthcoming.
What Logical Contextualism Cannot Be. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2026.
On the Semantic Argument for Logical Pluralism. Erkenntnis, 2026
Ignorance and Temporal Prepositions: A New Team-Based Approach (with Gianluca Michelli and Elynn Weijland). Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session, 2022.
In progress (drafts available by email; feedback is very welcome!)
A paper on heuristics and philosophical methodology (co-authored), Under Review.
A paper on the different formulations of logical pluralism, Under Review.
A paper on logical pluralism and the metaphysics of logic.
A paper on the context-sensitivity of 'valid' and the normativity of logic.
Recent Talks
What Are Logical Pluralists Pluralist about?
3rd Logic and Philosophy conference, University of Vilnius.
4th European Network for the Philosophy of Logic Conference, University of Padova.
Meaning, Logic, and Cognition seminar, University of Amsterdam.
How (not) to Argue with Heuristics (joint work with Dario Mortini)
Zurich-Salzburg Cooperation Workshop on Applied and Theoretical Issues in Bounded Rationality, University of Salzburg.
XI Conference of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy, University of Sevilla.
