Emotions: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

·      The workshop will be held in English and there will be no translation service.

·      Free entrance, limited access and mandatory registration: [email protected]

·      Venue: Auditorio, Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad C3, UNAM, Mexico City.

SPEAKERS

DAVID BAIN

David Bain is reader in the Philosophy Department at the University of Glasgow. BA and DPhil at Oxford. He has been Principal Investigator (jointly) of the Value of Suffering Project, and the Pain Project. Interested in many aspects of philosophy, his research is mainly in the philosophy of mind and has published extensively on pain and the philosophy of pain. is currently articulating an evaluativist conception of pain.

http://www.davidbain.org/

MICHAEL BRADY

Michael Brady is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of emotion, ethics, and epistemology. He was co-Principal Investigator on a major three-yearinterdisciplinary research project: The Value of Suffering. He is a well known moral philosopher who has published widely exploring the relations among emotion, reason, and value.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/michaelbrady/

ROSARIO ESTEINOU

She is a Research Professor at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She received her Ph.D, from Universidad degli Studi di Torino, Italy. Her research interests are related to family and kinship. Recent publications have focused on parenting, changes in structure and family relations, history of the family, family roles, new tendencies in family formation, and family policy in Mexico. Chair of the Social Sciences Section of the Mexican Academy of Science.

http://www.ciesas.edu.mx/esteinou-madrid-rosario/

GUILLERMINA NATERA

She is Director of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research of the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (México). Member of the National System of Researchers III.  She has a Master in Psychology and Education Sciences and is doctoral candidate in Anthropology. Natera's areas of interest are mental health, addictions, family, and partner violence in rural, indigenous and urban contexts. She has published more than 200 articles, 3 international books.

 FEGGY OSTROSKY

Feggy Ostrosky is Professor of Neuropsychology at the Faculty of Psychology UNAM, where she is also Head of the Neuropsychology and Psychophysiology laboratory of the Graduate School. Her PhD is from the Department of Communicative Disorders, at Northwestern University Evanston Illinois, and also received a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Mexico. Her primary interest includes the development of neuropsychological tests for Spanish speaking population, the study of cultural and educational effects on neuropsychological testing, and neuropsychological and psychophysiological profiles of several neuropsychiatry and medical disorders (Violence and antisocial individuals, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Schizophrenia). She has published 320 papers in specialized journals, 6 neuropsychological tests  and is the author of 23 books.

http://feggylab.mex.tl/

JESSE PRINZ

Jesse J. Prinz is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy and director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago.Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ethics and has authored several books and over 100 papers, addressing such topics as emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness. Prinz is also an advocate of experimental philosophy.

http://subcortex.com/

RANULFO ROMO

Ranulfo Romo is Professor of neuroscience at the Institute of Cellular Physiology (UNAM). He received his D.Sc. in the field of neuroscience from the University of Paris in France. His research topics are Neurophysiology of perception, Encoding temporal patterns in the cerebral cortex. He has written more than a hundred articles for several international journals and has published six books.

http://www.ifc.unam.mx/investigadores/ranulfo-romo

 FRANCISCO XAVIER SOBERÓN

Francisco Xavier Soberón is currently General Director of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) and a Senior Research Scientist at the Biotechnology Institute of UNAM (The National University of Mexico). He holds a PhD in Biomedical Research from UNAM. His research has focused on the chemical synthesis of DNA and its applications in the study of proteins, as well as the development of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines and biocatalysis. More recently he has focused on genomics and its application to human health. He has published more than 70 original research articles in journals of international circulation.

http://www.inmegen.gob.mx/acerca-de/semblanza-dr-xavier-soberon/