Edgar Maraguat

Department of Philosophy
University of Valencia

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Senior Lecturer at University of Valencia since 2017. Currently, Head of the MA in Contemporary Philosophy.

Specialised in Classical German Philosophy, with particular emphasis on epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of action and philosophy of the life sciences.

Editor of La Lógica de Hegel (Pre-Textos, 2017), Cartas filosóficas sobre dogmatismo y criticismo (Abada, 2009) and Sobre el proyecto de reforma inglés (Marcial Pons, 2005).

Co-founder of the seminar Hegel en perspectiva at University of Valencia (active since 2014). Member of the Advisory Board of the Internationale Schelling-Gesellschaft.

Author of True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Recent work

‘Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel’s Organic Physics’, in: L. Corti & J.-G. Schülein (eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature, Cham: Springer, 2023, 79–96.

‘Hegel’s Case for Means and Ends: The Logic of ’Teleology’’, Hegel Bulletin, 44 (1), 2023.

‘La apropiación de Hegel, filósofo de la ambigüedad’, Ápeiron 17, 2022, 13–31.

‘Not Non-Metaphysical, but just as much Metaphysical. Pippin’s Hegel and the Status of Subjectivity’, Verifiche 50(1), 2021, 21–56.

‘Necesidad y finalidad en la naturaleza y en el espíritu. Algunas indicaciones de la Ciencia de la lógica’, Philosophical Readings, 13(1), 2021, 37–43.

‘Hegel’s Organizational Account of Biological Functions’, Hegel Bulletin 41(3), 2020, 407–25.

‘El estudio universitario de la filosofía Acerca del método (Lehrart) de Schelling y el plan (Plan) de Fichte’, Ideas. Revista de filosofía moderna y contemporánea, 11, 2020, 236–55.

‘Hegel on the Productivity of Action: Metaphysical Questions, Non-Metaphysical Answers, and Metaphysical Answers’, Hegel Bulletin 40(1), 2019, 425–43.

‘On the Logical Idea of Objective Concept’, Hegel Jahrbuch 11(1), 2018, 56–9.

‘On Concepts that Give Themselves their Own Actuality (Kant, Fichte, Hegel)’, in: P. Stekeler-Weithofer & W. Neuser (eds.), Idee, Geist, Freiheit. Hegel und die zweite Natur, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017, 25–35.

‘Fichte und Schelling über Dogmatismus und Wahlfreiheit’, in T. Grohmann, L. Held, J.-Ch. Lemaitre (eds.), Fichte und Schelling: Der Idealismus in der Diskussion, vol. II, Toulouse: EuroPhilosophie Éditions, 2017,1–10.

‘Hegel y la naturalización de la teleología’, in E. Maraguat (ed.), La Lógica de Hegel, Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2017, 179–97.

‘Hegel's Non-Metaphysical Idea of Freedom’, Revista de Filosofía 44(1), 2016, 111–34.

‘El idealismo de Hegel y la refutación de Spinoza: algunos malentendidos recientes’, Ágora. Papeles de Filosofía, 35(2), 2016, 199–223.

More on PhilPapers.

Recent & upcoming talks

Hegel y Derrida en el glaciar, Jornadas Filosofía en una realidad espectral, Valencia, November 23–24, 2023.

Knowing Fictional Characters in Action: Some Hegelian Principles, XV Inter-university Workshop on Art, Mind, and Morality: Philosophy and Film, Valencia, September 18–20, 2023.

La nueva lectura metafísica-dialéctica de Hegel, Seminario de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Hegel, June 15, 2023.

La “asombrosa maniobra” hegeliana, Jornadas Hegel contemporáneo. Herencias y variaciones, UCM, Madrid, May 31–June 1, 2023.

El idealismo de Hegel y el pragmatismo de Wittgenstein: una discrepancia fundamental, 10º Seminario Hegel en perspectiva, Valencia, February 23, 2023.

Idealism in Hegel and Wittgenstein, Conference Witgenstein and Classical German Philosophy: Self-Consciousness and Self-Reference, Barcelona, September 21–23, 2022.

Objective Indeterminacy and Causal Perspectivism: A Dialectical Approach, The 2022 Hegel en perspectiva Conference, Valencia, June 6–8, 2022.

La lógica especulativa y la monarquía hereditaria. Una tentativa, VII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Hegel, Málaga, October 13–15, 2021.

La teleología en el Sistema del Idealismo Trascendental, UNED, Madrid, January 15–17, 2020.

Biological Functions in Hegel's Logic, Conference: Contemporary Relevance of Hegelian Naturalism, Università di Parma, June 19–21, 2019.

Life as Real Purposiveness, Bochum, May 23–24, 2019.

Necesidad y finalidad en la naturaleza y en el espíritu, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, May 8–9, 2019.

El estudio universitario de la Filosofía. Acerca del método (Lehrart) de Schelling y el plan (Plan) de Fichte, Jornadas de la Red Ibérica de Estudios Fichteanos, Valencia, April 10–12, 2019.

Moralidad y sentido ético en la Fenomenología de Hegel, Círculo filosófico soriano, Soria, November 21, 2018.

Research Projects & Seminars

Hegel en perspectiva Research Seminar at Univerisity of Valencia. More info here.

Reading Group on Hegel’s The Science of Logic (in Spanish) (2023–).

Research Project on The New Metaphysical Reading of Hegel, funded by the Research Council of the Spanish Government (2023–6).

Research Project on Teleology in Hegel’s Logic, funded by the Research Council of the Spanish Government (2019–22).

Research Project on Hegel’s Philosophy of Action — Logical and Ontological Aspects, funded by the Research Council of the Spanish Government (2014–17).

Contact

Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l’Educació (UVEG)

Avenida Blasco Ibáñez 30
E-46010 Valencia

Office hours

Tuesdays 11 am–1 pm

Phone & e-mail

+34 963 864 434

edgar.maraguat@uv.es