AREA OF SPECIALTY: Ancient Philosophy
AREA OF COMPETENCE: Continental Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Guelph
M.A. University of Guelph
B.Phil. Universidad Panamericana
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Articles, Book reviews, and Interviews.
In progress: "Aristotle´s Theory of Imagination and Habit Formation in the Relationship of Habit Formation in Food Preferences and Habit Formation in Happiness."
2008 "Interview with Gianni Vattimo," Symposium 12, n.1 (Spring), pp. 163-7.
2005 Book review: "Statesman, Magician, or Physician? Commentary on Randall B. Clark´s The Law Most Beautiful and Best", The European Legacy, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 397-399.
Translations.
2007 "Christianity as Religion and the Irreligion of the Future" by Fernando Savater in: Weakening Philosophy: Festschrift in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago Zabala, McGill-Queen´s University Press.
2007 "The Rights of God in Heremeneutical Postmodernity" by Teresa Oñate in: Weakening Philosophy: Festschrift in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago Zabala, McGill-Queen´s University Press.
Book chapters.
In progress: "Hospitality and Women in Exile: Recasting the Power of the Guest and the Host" in the upcoming volume, Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship edited by Dorothy Miller and Maurice Hamington, to be published by Lexington Books.
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
1997 Short Story. Anatomía de una venganza, "Algo Más," Mexico (year 9, volume 3), pp. 8-10.
1996 Poem. La Corrida o Compás gitano, "Vitalogía," Mexico (year 2), pp. 8-9.
1995 Short Story. Gabriela es buena, "1900," Mexico (March, year 1, number 6), p. 8.
1995 Short Story. Alisa, "1900," Mexico (September, year 1, number 12), p. 10.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2008 "Some Problems in Contemporary Feminist Philosophy of Science," Foundations in Feminism Workshop, University of Scranton.
2007 "Sense-perception as Alteration: The Question Aquinas Didn´t Ask," Second Marquette Summer Seminar: Aristotle´s De Anima and Its Interpreters (Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA).
2007 "The Identity of the Perceiver and the Perceived in Aristotle´s De Anima II.5," Canadian Philosophical Association (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada).
2007 Commentary on Mike Hinds´ "Aristotle on Perception: Two Readings," Canadian Philosophical Association (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada).
2006 "Revisiting Aristotle´s Notion of ´Alteration´ in Sense-Perception through the Notion of ´Quality´," Canadian Philosophical Association (York University, Toronto, Canada).
2005 "´Quality´ in Aristotle´s Theory of Sense-perception," Canadian Archaeological Institute of Athens (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada).
2005 Commentary on Cherilyn Keall´s "Schiller´s Error of One-Sidedness," Research Frontiers in Philosophy, Guelph-Laurier-McMaster Doctoral Programme Conference (University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada).
2004 "The Concept of Alloiosis in Aristotle´s De Anima," Research Frontiers in Philosophy, Guelph-Laurier-McMaster Doctoral Programme Conference (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada).
EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 Ethics (three sections) at the University of Scranton.
2009 Feminist Philosophy of Science at the University of Scranton.
2008 Ethics (two sections) at the University of Scranton.
2008 Ancient Philosophy at the University of Scranton.
2008 Lecturer of the course Introduction to Women´s Studies at the University of New Brunswick.
2008 Lecturer of the course Philosophical Foundations of Feminism at the University of New Brunswick.
2008 Lecturer of the course Introduction to the History of Philosophy II at the University of New Brunswick.
2008 Lecturer of the course Later Greek Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick.
2008 Lecturer of the course Selected Topics in Epistemology at the University of New Brunswick.
2007 Lecturer of the course Introduction to Ethical Classics at the University of New Brunswick.
2007 Lecturer of the course Introduction to the History of Philosophy I at the University of New Brunswick.
2007 Lecturer of the course Selected Topics in Metaphysics at the University of New Brunswick.
2005 Sessional Instructor of the course Selected Topics: Aristotle at the University of Guelph.
From 2000 to 2007 teaching assistant of the following courses: Contemporary Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Business Ethics, Human Rights, Politics and Sexuality, Chinese Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Philosophy of Medicine, Intro Philosophy: Classic Texts, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Feminism, Philosophy of Law, Basic Problems of Philosophy.
1999 Sessional Instructor of the course Knowledge of Man at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Mexico City.
1998-2000 High School instructor of the courses Logic and Ethics at Preparatoria Tomás Alva Edison, Mexico City.
1998-1999 High School instructor of the course Speech at Preparatoria Tomás Alva Edison, Mexico City.