​Some of the academic events that I have organized include:

Workshop Philosophical uses of history: some methodological worries
11, 12/05/2020
Joint with Teresa Rodriguez
UNAM
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LABELS-FREE
​Workshop
Intertheoretic relations: From Economics to Philosophy of Science and viceversa
28.29/11/2019

A kind message about this event
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At UNAM, seminars, reading groups and even research projects succeed thanks to the work of researchers, professors and students, but also thanks to the work of who I call "unofficial academics". They are human beings that don't do philosophy for living, they might have no degree in philosophy, they might have just gotten their degrees and be unemployed, or they might even have no affiliation at all. Nonetheless, they join seminars and reading groups, follow the readings, actively discuss, provide feedback and in general, help the careers of the "official academics".

Sadly, and despite the valuable work that unofficial academics do, they get very little visibility, if any, in our
official academic events. They are often public and almost never speakers. I think this is a huge mistake.

With this in mind, Josafat Hernández and I organized a labels-free workshop. No affiliations nor degrees were mentioned neither in the program nor in the posters. The speakers were members of the philosophy of science reading group and the philosophy of economics seminar --regardless whether we were students, professors, researchers or retired academics, among others. We were just two families trying to know the each other.

The interaction was absolutely great. Philosophers of science learned tons about economics and public policy, and philosophers of economics learned about scientific realism, mereology and so on.

For two full days a bunch of people who love philosophy met to discuss what we enjoy the most. Nobody cared about our official labels, nobody talked about the others' credentials, and more importantly, we got to listen in the open to some of the ones who always listen to us in 'secret'.

I think public universities give us golden opportunities to learn from others -very different others. We should take advantage of this and try build kinder academic communities, in which we can pay more attention to the actual work of our colleagues than to tags and labels.

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Symposium: From contradiction to defectiveness to pluralism
09-08-2019
joint with Otávio Bueno

​The symposium is divided into two parts: the first tackles the issue of inconsistency and scientific pluralism. This part includes discussions of the possible connections between the different ways in which scientist tolerate contradictions in the sciences and particular kinds of scientific pluralism. This analysis is extremely interesting in itself as the phenomenon of inconsistency toleration in the science has often been linked to the development of a plurality of formal approaches, but not necessarily to logical or scientific pluralism. In fact, scientific pluralism is independent of inconsistency toleration.

The second part of the symposium is concerned with a pluralistic view on contradictions and other defects. This part is devoted to explore under which circumstances (if any) it is possible to use the same mechanisms for tolerating inconsistencies and for dealing with other types of defective information. This part includes reflections on the scope of different formal methodologies for handling defectiveness in the sciences as well as considerations on scientific communicative practices and their connections with the use of defective information and reflections on the different epistemic commitments that scientists have towards defective information.

Contributors:  Carolin Antos, Jonas Becker Arenhart, Jody Azzouni, Diderik Batens Bryson Brown, Otávio Bueno, Michele Friend, Décio Krause, Daniel Kuby, Moisés Macías-Bustos, María del R. Martínez-Ordaz, Joke Meheus, and Xavier de Donato Rodríguez.

Intensive Sessions for Philosophical Discussion

Understanding Defectiveness in the Sciences
​joint with Cristian Alejandro Gutiérrez-Ramírez and Luis Estrada-González

(Recorded) Talks

Conference dates: June 3- 4, 2019
Institute for Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico.


​It is well known that the presence and use of defective ---false, imprecise, conflicting, incomplete, inconsistent, partial, ambiguous and vague--- information in science is ubiquitous and tends to be naturally seen as part of the dynamics of scientific development. Nonetheless, it is also thought that to be satisfactorily understood, bodies of information should fulfill certain epistemic virtues.  All this considered, philosophers and logicians of science should start wondering which are the possible connections between scientific understanding and the constant use of defective information in science.

The workshop welcomes formal and informal contributions on the different ways to explain and understand defective information in the sciences.

Coloquio de Estudiantes de Filosofía de la Ciencia 2019 
joint with Blanca Cárdenas and Jorge Armando Romo

4-6 March 2019
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

​"Coloquio de Estudiantes de Filosofia de la Ciencia 2019" was a conference in which 11 Philosophy of Science Mexican grad students presented their most recent work and 11 of our finest professors commentend on those papers. 
The conference took place on March 4-6, 2019, at the Institute for Philosophical Research-UNAM.

Normativity across Disciplines
joint with Cristian Alejandro Gutiérrez-Ramírez

22 and 23 of October 2018
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

What ought to be the case? What people ought to think or how they ought to reason? What sciences ought to tell us about the world? All these are normative questions that, since the very beginning, have shaped philosophy in a serious way. While in the philosophical literature it is possible to identify very diverse types of normative questions, there is a peculiar kind that, for decades, has been considered as a paradigmatic case of normativity: formal normativity.
Formal normativity is mostly concerned with how certain rules and structures constrain different areas of mathematics, logic, physics, and metaphysics; in some cases, formal normativity has some implications in our understanding of human reasoning, however, it does not go much further. Yet, the scope of such type of normativity seems to be not only formal. As a matter of fact, the majority of the intuitions behind formal normativity are also present (and fundamental) in the development of many other disciplines, such as epistemology, cognitive sciences, empirical sciences and even aesthetics.  
The workshop Normativity across Disciplines aims at discussing the connections between formal normativity and other areas of knowledge.  For this workshop, we want to move forward discussions on formal normativity from logic, mathematics and other formal areas, to other –not necessarily formal–disciplines. We think that reflections on the connections between formal and informal normativity can shed light on the nature of the constraints that philosophy and the sciences share, as well as on the nature of the normative differences among them.


The workshop’s title is Normativity across disciplines, and this will be a two-day event that will address questions such as:
- Is it possible to endorse pluralistic commitments regarding normativity in formal sciences?
- Does a specific type of disciplines (say formal, empirical, social) entail specific types of normativity?
- Do particular kinds of normativity entail particular kinds of consequences regarding human reasoning?
- Is it possible to identify specific types of normativity that are proper of human cognition and human reasoning?
- How can non-formal disciplines inform formal normativity?

Inconsistency and Scientific Pluralism
Joint with Diderik Batens (UGent), Joke Meheus (UGent), Dunja Seselja (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam)

November 8, 2017
Ghent University, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent, Belgium.
Workshop website: http://www.clps.ugent.be/events/inconsistency-and-scientific-pluralism


This workshop is devoted to connections between inconsistency toleration and scientific pluralism. Some views on the topic have recently been analyzed in the HumanaMente Special Issue Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences (available at: http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/pages/64-issue32). Different forms of pluralism discussed in the issue include evidential pluralism (Parkkinen, Russo, Wallmann), methodological pluralism (Friend, Llored), and logical pluralism (Batens).

We welcome submissions addressing the following and related questions:

1. What are the relevant connections between scientific pluralism and inconsistency toleration?
2. Do specific types of scientific pluralism entail specific types of inconsistency toleration commitments? Do particular inconsistency toleration commitments entail particular kinds of scientific pluralism?
3. In which ways is it possible to characterize and understand inconsistency toleration from a pluralist perspective?
4. Do the same inconsistency toleration mechanisms underlie all cases of inconsistency toleration in specific sciences?
5. Do all scientific disagreements involve or entail actual contradictions in scientific practice?

The Place of inconsistent science in scientific pluralism
joint with Luis Estrada-González

September 5-6, 2016.
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

Video                                  and                           Abstracts

The workshop’s title is The Place of Inconsistent Science in Scientific Pluralism, and this will be a two-days event that will address questions such as:

1. Does a specific type of scientific pluralism entail specific type of inconsistency toleration commitments?
2. Do particular inconsistency toleration commitments entail a particular kind of scientific pluralism?
3. - Is it possible to distinguish between different types of inconsistency toleration commitments?
   
   This workshop took place on Monday and Tuesday, during the first week of September, 2016. The language of the conference was English. The workshop program included around eight talks given by people such as Diderik Batens (Universiteit Gent), Otávio Bueno (University of Miami), Bryson Brown (University of Lethbridge), Michèle Friend (George Washington University), Dunja Šešelja (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) among others.

2nd Philosophy Graduate Conference (Institute for Philosophical Research-UNAM)
Joint with Efraín Gayosso, Erika Torres-Torres, Bertín Ortega-Polito and Nancy Nuñez.

March 9th and 10th, 2016.
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

Videos

​The 2nd IIFs-UNAM Philosophy Graduate Conference was an event organized by philosophy students from UNAM. The main goal was to promote the academic interchange among the graduate students from different universities, the distinguished keynote speaker, and the philosophical community.

The event took place on March 9th and 10th.  According to the conference timetable, the sessions took place from 10:00 to 14:00 hours and from 16:00 to 20:00 hours. The keynote speaker is François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod).The conference had the participation of seven graduate students who presented their papers  and will received a reply by a UNAM-student.

Talks offered by the following graduate students: Douglas Blue (Harvard University), A. Arturo Javier Castellanos (Syracuse University), Melisa Gutiérrez Vivanco (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Kevin J. Lande (University of California, Los Angeles), Freya Mobus (Cornell University), Georgia R. Rainer (Florida State University), and Manuel Rodeiro (City University of New York).

Replies by the following students: Samuel A. Lomelí-Gómez (FFyL, UNAM), Moisés Macías Bustos (Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia, UNAM), Jesús Mauricio Andrade Guzmán (IIMAS, UNAM), Javier Alejandro Godoy (Posgrado en Filosofía, UNAM), Efraín Gayosso Cabello (Posgrado en Filosofía, UNAM), María del Rosario Martínez Ordaz (Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia), and Raúl Ibarra Herrera (FFyL, UNAM).

Additionally, the sessions were chaired by researchers from the institute who have experience in working on different areas of philosophy and in the organization of seminars.

Chairs: Luis Estrada, Maite Ezcurdia, Olbeth Hansberg, Raymundo Morado, Ana Rosa Pérez, , Cristian Timmermann and Alessandro Torza.

We believe that the participation of students and researchers contributes to building a space of philosophical discussion and debate of high quality.

The abstracts of the papers that were presented can be accessed by the following link: https://goo.gl/KxrECC