Óscar Cubo Ugarte is a European Ph.D. in Philosophy with a paper entitled: Judgment and reflection on the critical philosophy of Kant (UNED, 2009). He has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011-2013), conducting his research at the "Kant-Forschungsstelle Research Center" of the University of Trier and the "Center for Research on Political Philosophy" "(Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie) of the University of Tübingen.

He has carried out research, editing and transcription works on the philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus at the "Ebbinghaus Archive" (Ebbinghaus-Archiv) in the Philosophy Department of the University of Trier (2013-2014), where he also carried out teaching activities during the same period. At the end of 2014, he started working as a research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the FernUniversität in Hagen (20014-2017), where he coordinated the activities of the German-Latin American Research and Doctorate in Philosophy Network (FILORED), directed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Sören Hoffmann. He currently works as professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universitat de València.

Faustino Oncina Coves, a researcher on secondment from 2007 to 2009 at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC in Madrid, is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. He has made several stays in Germany, both in universities (Mainz, TU Berlin) and in research centers (Max-Planck Institute for the History of European Law in Frankfurt am Main, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin), and directs the research project "Conceptual and critical history of modernity" (FFI2017-82195-P) of the AEI/FEDER, EU and the homonymous Research Group of the University of Valencia (GIUV2013-037), which follow the trail of several previous projects, under whose auspices he has edited or collaborated in numerous publications, among which it is worth mentioning: Philosophy for the University, Philosophy against the University (From Kant to Nietzsche) (Dykinson, 2008), Conceptual history, Enlightenment and modernity (Anthropos, 2009), Words, Concepts, Ideas. Studies on conceptual history (Herder, 2010), Aesthetics of memory (PUV, 2011), Tradition and innovation in intellectual history. Historiographic methods (Biblioteca Nueva, 2013), Narrative turns and stories of knowledge (Plaza and Valdés, 2013), Fichte und die Kunst (Rodopi, 2014) , Nomadic Concepts: Self-determination (PUV, 2014), Hans Blumenberg: In/conceptual history, anthropology and modernity (Pre-Texts, 2015), The History sedimented in concepts. Studies on conceptual history and critique of ideology (Comares, 2016), Spatio-temporal changes: image and memory (General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, 2017), Constelaciones (Pre-Texts, 2017), Critique of modernity. Modernity of criticism (Pre-Texts, 2019), Utopias and uchronies(Bellaterra, 2020), Spatio-temporal metaphors for history (Pre-Texts, 2021) and Does the future have a future? (Plaza and Valdés, 2022). At the moment, his interest revolves around the relationships between conceptual history and modernity, on the one hand, and between Enlightenment, German Idealism and hermeneutics, on the other.

Pedro Jesús Teruel (Lorca, 1971) is PhD with Extraordinary Doctorate Award (UNED, 2006) and master in Neuroscience and Ethology (UPO, 2010). He has evolved his studies in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy. His research focuses the convergence between philosophical anthropology, metaphysics and theory of knowledge, with particular interest for the scientific-natural projection of questions like the mind-body problem.

He has published many studies in different languages. Between them, the monographies Mind, Brain and Anthropology in Kant (Tecnos, Madrid, 2008) and Philosophy and Science in Hypatia (Gredos, Madrid, 2011). As editor he has coordinated Ingmar Bergman, pearl finder. Film and Philosophy in the work of a master of the 20th Century (Morphos, Murcia, 2008; second edition: 2009), Kant and the Sciences (Biblioteca Nueva / Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2011) and Brain, Mind, Body, Person. Film Anthropology (CEU Ediciones, Madrid, 2011). He has contributed also to the most recent introduction to the Critique of Practical Reason which has been published in Germany: Einführung in die Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Meiner, Hamburg, 2010).

He has given keynote speeches in countries like Spain, Italy, Germany, Liechtenstein, Mexico and Chile. He has been visiting researcher in the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna and visiting professor in academic institutions like the Università degli Studi di Verona.

He was the founding director of the Revista de Estudios Kantianos, international scientific journal of the Society of Kantian Studies in the Spanish Language (SEKLE). As main organizator he has coordinated scientific meetings like the 4th Internacional Conference "Actuality of the Critique of pure reason" (2018). He has been a member of the board of directors of the SEKLE and is nowadays member of the board of directors of the Kant-Gesellschaft, as well as of the editorial board of various scientific journals.

He is currently a tenured professor at the department of Philosophy of the University of València. The CNEAI has recognised him three six-years periods of research. His current research project takes place in the field of Neurophilosophy. He leads the research group "Kant-València".

Lines of research:

• Systematic aspects: Mind-Brain Problem, Evolutionary Epistemology, Neurophilosophy.
• Historiographical aspects: Kantian Theoretical Philosophy, post-Kantian Philosophy in the German Language.

Links:

• Contact: pedro.teruel@uv.es.
• Website of Pedro Jesús Teruel in the database Dialnet (University of La Rioja).
• Short curriculum vitae [in Spanish]. 

_{Last update: 30.11.2024.} 

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With a degree in Philosophy (2022) and a master's in Contemporary Philosophical Thought (2023), he is currently part of the group of research personnel in training at the Department of Philosophy, thanks to the help of the Ministry of Universities for Training of the University Faculty (FPU). Although I have been studying the history of sexuality through the ideas of Michel Foucault in recent years, I am currently working on some analytical debates around the nature of sexual desire.