IRENE MARTÍNEZ MARÍN

Philosophy Postdoctoral Researcher

Uppsala University


I am a philosopher based at Uppsala University (Sweden) working in aesthetics. My thesis, Aesthetic Valuing and the Self (2023) was supervised by Prof. Elisabeth Schellekens.

Starting in September 2024, I will begin a 3-year Post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Swedish Research Council. My project, titled Aesthetic Rationality: Coherence and Respect will be based at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University and the University of Southampton (UK).

Recent publications include work on the nature of aesthetic taste, the epistemology of aesthetic emotions, rational requirements and aesthetic akrasia. 

In 2019, I was awarded the Fabian Dorsch Essay Prize from the European Society for Aesthetics. In 2021, I received the Irene Chayes New Voices Award, organised by the American Society for Aesthetics.

In 2022, I was a postgraduate researcher at the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London (UK). In the Spring term of 2023, I was a visiting researcher at Auburn University (USA) thanks to a Swedish strategic grant for Internationalisation (STINT).

Before moving to Sweden, I worked as an art gallery assistant at ARTNUEVE. Prior to this, I completed an M.A. in Art History at Autonomous University of Madrid— in collaboration with the Museum Reina Sofía (2014)—, and a degree in Philosophy at the University of Murcia (2013).

Outside of philosophy, I enjoy making collages, and writing poetry and short stories. I was shortlisted for the Alpine Writing Fellowship (2020) and awarded the CreaJoven Poetry Prize (2009). I have a poem about the many times I've fallen on ice in The Skirt Chronicles.



You can contact me at: irene.martinez@filosofi.uu.se


*Note about my name: 'Martínez Marín' are both my surnames. For citation purposes, please use: Martínez Marín, I.