The Universitat de València presents this Friday its Medal to the philosopher Celia Amorós

  • March 10th, 2017
 
Celia Amorós

Philosopher Celia Amorós will be awarded this Friday, 10 March, with the Medal of the Universitat de València. The solemn ceremony will start at 13:00h, at the Paranimf of the historic building of La Nau. Apart from the honoured, the principal Estaban Morcillo will give a speech together with the full university professor of Psychology, Esther Barberá, who will pronounce the ‘laudatio’.

Celia Amorós (València, 1944) has published several essays about feminism. Until her retirement, she was the 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 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.