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Javier Pérez-Jara
is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies at the University of Seville and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy with honors (
cum laude
) from the University of Seville in 2012. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge's Department of Sociology from 2013 to 2015. Following this, he joined Beijing Foreign Studies University's International Business School as an Assistant Professor, where he taught Philosophy, Critical Thinking, and Sociology for eight years.
His work has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, and, among his books, he is the author of
Techno-Utopia and Techno-Apocalypse in Global Capitalism
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming),
Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology
(co-authored with Lino Camprubí, Lexington Books/Bloomsbury, 2022), and
La Filosofía de Bertrand Russell
(Pentalfa, 2014). He also co-edited
Dramatic Intellectuals
(Palgrave Macmillan Series in Cultural Sociology, 2025) and
Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology
(Springer's
Synthese Library
, 2022).
Pérez-Jara has held visiting positions across the world, including at Stanford University, Yale University, the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Sangyo University of Kyoto, Tohoku University, the University of Gothenburg, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, and Minzu University of China. Íñigo Ongay
has been teaching philosophy at the University of Deusto in Spain since 2013. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the Facultad de Filosofía de León (Mexico) and a Visiting Professor at several universities, including Minzu University of China, Qingdao University, Shanghai Finance University, China Jiliang University in Hangzhou, Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taipei, the University of La Rioja, and the National University of Costa Rica.
His research covers a broad range of topics, from the general philosophy of science-focusing particularly on the philosophy of biology and life sciences-to the history of modern and contemporary philosophy. His recent publications include articles in
Filozofia Nauki
(
The Philosophy of Science
) and
Science and Education
, as well as book chapters in edited volumes published by Springer.
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