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VIRGINIA BALLESTEROS TRAPERO
Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
Biography

I am interested in the philosophy of medicine, psychiatry, and altered states of consciousness, as well as various issues of ontology and social epistemology. I am a member of the research projects "The Social Roots of Mental Health: Agency and Normativity", "The Epistemology of Responsibility in Agency-Stultifying Situations" and "Metaphysics of Biology: Processes and Dispositions".

In 2023 I made a stay as a Margarita Salas Fellow in the Unit of Excellence FiloLab-UGR (University of Granada). There I worked on the philosophy of psychiatry, especially on the so-called self-illness ambiguity, on objectivity and epistemic injustice in psychiatry, and on some epistemic aspects of psychedelic therapy.

Previously, I worked as a researcher in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (2021-2022), where I did research on the philosophy of birth — in particular, on the experience of giving birth and on some metaphysical and epistemological aspects of birth care.

I also held a predoctoral researcher position in the Philosophy Departament at the University of Valencia (2016-2019), where I obtained my PhD in Philosophy, with a dissertation entitled Conceptions of Mental Illness: in Search of Reality.