CFP: I Congreso Éticas Aplicadas de la Universidad de Málaga

I Congress on Applied Ethics at the University of Malaga:

Injustice and differential treatment

One of the central themes of ethical reflection is denouncing and fighting against injustice in all its forms. Ethics provides a critical space from which to question the foundations of unequal treatment, from social and economic inequalities to discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation or species.

However, these asymmetries are not only currently prevalent, but are also developing in new areas, thus creating new challenges for philosophy and other disciplines. Interdisciplinary work is therefore of the utmost importance, as it offers new perspectives that enrich research into phenomena in which inequality manifests itself in some way. Many interdisciplinary collaborations result in the development of new applied ethics, which become essential tools for analysing, understanding, and guiding action in the face of various forms of differential treatment.

With this in mind, the I Congress on Applied Ethics at the University of Malaga: Injustice and Differential Treatment has been created. This interdisciplinary meeting space will allow us to discuss how to deal with specific situations of injustice. The event will take place on 7 and 8 May 2026 at the University of Malaga's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. The specific venues will be announced at a later date. The Congress aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on the application of ethics in various fields of study and practice.

We warmly invite students of all levels, as well as researchers and professionals, to join this rewarding discussion. The conference's themes are designed to encourage debate on current issues, offering frameworks for analysis and proposals that contribute to theory and practice in a world demanding increasingly urgent ethical responses. The thematic lines are:

• Issues of (in)justice in public health and healthcare.

• Classic problems of applied ethics in the context of technological advances.

• The ethics of care and personal and collective responsibility.

• Ethical and political responses to discrimination based on gender, age, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and other factors.

• Business and economic ethics: distributive justice, sustainability and precariousness.

• The ethics of communication in the age of disinformation.

• Professional ethics: engineering ethics, sports ethics, etc.

• Ethics and animal welfare and theories of moral status.

• Schools of thought in ethics in relation to the environment: ecofeminism, environmental ethics, conservationism, longtermism, etc.

• Research methodologies in ethics: experimental ethics, empirical bioethics, conceptual engineering, etc.

• Ethical education and training for critical citizenship.

• Other related topics not included in the above categories (please indicate these in the proposal).

In order to submit a proposal, two documents must be provided in either Spanish or English. The first document must include the following:

a. Basic contact information (full name and email address).

b. The title of the paper.

c. A brief biography of the author of no more than 150 words, including affiliation/university, academic interests, publications, and relevant contributions.

The second document must include the following information anonymously:

a. Theme(s) covered by the proposal (one to two).

b. The title of the paper.

c. Five keywords in alphabetical order.

d. An abstract of the paper of approximately 200–300 words.

e. A brief provisional bibliography.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 18 March 2026. Please send your proposals by email, attaching the two PDF files to [email protected]. We will respond with the scientific committee's evaluation and decision as soon as possible. The registration fee for speakers is 25 euros, except for students, who can register free of charge. This fee must be paid by 17 April 2026. We will communicate the payment method at a later date.

Papers presented at the seminar may be eligible for subsequent publication as articles in Ontos. Journal of Practical Philosophy & Bioethics (https://ontos.eduverso.pro/index.php/ontos/index). More information on this will be provided at a later date. If you have any questions, please send a message to the above address.

Keyspeakers

Fernando Aguiar (CSIC)

Fernando Aguiar holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (IFS-CSIC). His work lies between moral and political philosophy and applied ethics, and is characterised by the systematic incorporation of experimental methods to study how moral judgements and norms are formed and operate in real social contexts. He has been instrumental in establishing experimental philosophy as a recognised field of research through initiatives such as founding the Spanish Experimental Philosophy Association (AEFEX) and launching the European X-Phi Congress.

His recent research focuses on three topics: the limits of moral disgust and its role in assessing harm to third parties, contemporary disputes over the social and moral value of effort in scenarios of justice and cooperation, and the new problems of moral responsibility associated with autonomous artificial intelligence and robotics systems. He has conducted research at several institutions, including the University of Oxford, the University of California, San Diego (Institute for Practical Ethics), the University of Essex and the University of Mannheim. He also maintains ongoing collaborations with international teams in experimental philosophy and the social sciences.

He has edited the Revista Internacional de Sociología (CSIC) and promoted research networks in experimental social science. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as AI & Society, PLoS ONE, Science and Engineering Ethics, Current Psychology, American Behavioural Scientist, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Isegoria, and Economics and Philosophy. He has also co-edited Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy (Routledge) and co-authored Una introducción a la ética experimental (Cátedra).

Pedro García-Guirao (UMA)

He is a Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Malaga (Spain) and an Ambassador for Peace at the Universal Peace Federation (UPF). He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Murcia, a Master's degree in Bioethics from UNIR, and a PhD from the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). He has taught and conducted international research at universities in the United States (Duke University), the United Kingdom (the University of Southampton, the University of Bath and King's College London), the Czech Republic (the Cervantes Institute and the University of Ostrava) and Poland (WSB Merito University). A staunch advocate of multidisciplinarity, his research focuses on the history of political ideas, discourse analysis, education for peace, reading for civic competence, notions of justice in bioethics and how bioethical issues such as euthanasia are received by the media.

He has also had work published in renowned journals such as Global Intellectual History, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, the Peace Studies Journal, Frontiers in Education, Patterns of Prejudice, and Investigaciones sobre Lectura. He has also had work published by publishers such as PM Press, Peter Lang, Stockholm University Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Thomson Reuters, Renacimiento, Octaedro, and Fragua. Together with Manuel Abella Martínez, he translated Eric Voegelin's book Las religiones políticas (Trotta). He teaches undergraduate and master's degree courses at the University of Malaga in the faculties of Philosophy and Letters, Education, and the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering (Biomedical Engineering degree). His two most recent publications related to bioethics are Inteligencias imperfectas: Bioética, eugenesia liberal y selección embrionaria por cognición mejorada (UMA Editorial, 2025) and Eutanasia en los medios malagueños: Perspectivas bioéticas desde la Ley Orgánica reguladora de la eutanasia (Revista de Ciencias Sociales, RCS, 2025).

Further information can be found at: https://philpeople.org/profiles/pedro-garcia-guirao.

Organising committee

• Álvaro Herrera-Moya (University of Malaga)

• Francisco M. Macías-Pozo (University of Malaga)

• Marta Postigo Asenjo (University of Malaga)

• Olga Ramírez Calle (University of Malaga)

• Pedro García-Guirao (University of Malaga)

• Yecenia Rodríguez-Caro (University of Malaga)

Scientific Committee

• Alejandro Jiménez Delgado (University of Malaga)

• Antonio Trujillo Bandera (University of Malaga)

• Cristian Moyano Fernández (Spanish National Research Council)

• Daniel Martín Ruiz (University of Granada)

• Ester Massó Guijarro (University of Granada)

• Jesús López-Montilla (University of Granada)

• Julia Vélez Ramos (University of Salamanca)

• Manuel Toscano Méndez (University of Malaga)

• Marta Postigo Asenjo (University of Malaga)