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Celia Amorós

Date of granting: 26 july 2016.

By proposal of: Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality (Universitat de València.

Date of deliverance: 10 march 2017.

Biographical outline:

Celia Amorós (València, 1944) is a philosopher and feminism essayist who worked as a Full University Professor of Philosophy in the National University of Distance Education (UNED).

She holds a degree and a doctorate in Philosophy by the Universitat de València and worked as a high school teacher and a university professor at the Universitat de València and Complutense University of Madrid. She was a visiting professor in Harvard University.

She founded the seminar Feminism and Illustration that was consolidated in the creation of the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid. She was the first director of this institute.

Celia is a key referent in the so called equality feminism, studies that she included in the Spanish philosophy. She is also a specialist in the ethical political thinking of Jean Paul Sartre. The majority of her research is focused on the building of relationships between illustration and feminism.

Writer of many books of distinguished impact in the feminist philosophy, like ‘Hacia una crítica de la razón patriarcal’. She has won many awards, among them, the Essay Award María Espinosa, the National Essay Award and the Clara Campoamor of the City Hall of Madrid.

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