María de Ponte is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the philosophy department of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and director of the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLI). Her research interests include philosophy of language and philosophy of language and mathematics, with a special focus on the philosophy of time and on problems of reference and the nature of abstracts entities. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.