Adela Cortina, Know Square Award for Exemplary Outreach Trajectory 2016
The full university professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy of the Universitat de València, Adela Cortina, receives this Tuesday 31 January the Know Square Award 2016 for Exemplary Outreach Trajectory. The jury of the sixth edition of these awards has chosen the professor of the Universitat de València unanimously. The award ceremony will take place at 19:00 in the Auditorium of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum of Madrid.
30 de january de 2017
The jury, compounded of 25 professionals, journalists, entrepreneurs and directives, has evaluated not just the biography and experience of the winner, but also her expositive and outreach capacity, her innovation, contribution and approach to ideas, her recognition and reputation both in the national and international level and her social commitment. The decision is focused on the contributions made by Adela Cortina to the field of ethics, specially applied to economics and business management, through her works and also her belonging to ÉTNOR Foundation. Her contributions in the field of moral philosophy, proposing a business ethic committed with the creation of a fair society, make her completely deserving of this award according to the jury.
Adela Cortina studied Philosophy and Letters at the Universitat de València. In 1976 she defended her doctoral thesis ‘Dios en la filosofía trascendental kantiana’ (God in Kantian transcendental philosophy). A research grant allowed her to frequent the University of Munich, where she came into contact with critical rationalism, pragmatism and Marxist ethics, and more specifically, with the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel.
When she returned to academic activity in Spain, she definitely directed her research interests towards ethics. In 1981 she joined the Department of Practical Philosophy of the UV. In 1986 she obtained the Chair in Moral Philosophy. Her work has also focused on questions concerning economy, business, woman discrimination, war, ecology or genetics. With her work ‘Ética de la razón cordial’ (Ethics of Friendly Reason), she won the Jovellanos International Essay Prize in 2007.