UP Campus: Mexico City

  • José María Llovet Abascal

    José María Llovet Abascal

    José María Llovet is Full Research Professor C at the Instituto de Humanidades, Mexico campus, where he currently holds the position of Research Secretary. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level I. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana, a Master in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana. In 2009 he received the National Thesis Award from the Philosophical Association of Mexico for his thesis "The private and its relation to virtue in Aristotle's practical philosophy", directed by Dr. Héctor Zagal. He completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. André Laks. He specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of nature in Aristotle. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Humanities and the Faculty of Philosophy, where he has taught different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is a member of the board of directors of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. In 2020 he published his book La noción aristotélica de principio (The Aristotelian notion of principle) in Eunsa publishing house. He has also published specialized articles in national and international journals on Aristotle's thought and Kant's epistemology.

  • Catalina León Letelier

    Catalina León Letelier

    Catalina León Letelier studied a degree in Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana. She is currently coordinator of the Specialty in Philosophical Anthropology and professor at the Institute of Humanities. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Ancient Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana and her areas of interest are Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics.

  • Diana Erika Ibarra Soto

    Diana Erika Ibarra Soto

    D. in Philosophy from UNAM, a Master's degree in History of Thought and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana. Her work is strongly balanced with the dissemination of a culture of equality for all people, especially those who face conditions of vulnerability, with special interest in women, girls and boys. She has been a consultant for the three levels of government on issues related to gender violence, political philosophy, human development and mainstreaming of the gender and family perspective, highlighting her collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Defense on training issues, with CONAVIM in the process of requesting the Gender Alert for the State of Querétaro. In addition to having been an advisor to the National Institute of Women from 2012 to 2018. She is currently a consultant with her own company Gender Rating and professor at Universidad Panamericana of the Humanities subjects such as Person and Society, Ethics and has taught seminars in the Faculty of Philosophy of Political History of Sexuality, and Feminisms. She is also a member of the National System of Researchers at Level 1.

  • José Alfonso Ganem Gutiérrez

    José Alfonso Ganem Gutiérrez

    Alfonso Ganem is professor-researcher at the Institute of Humanities of the UP. He holds a master's degree in philosophy from UNAM and has recently joined the Autonomie Heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter group at the University of Jena. During this stay he will pursue his doctoral studies with a thesis entitled John Philoponus' mereology for particular natures of Christ. He was a member of the 9SALT project at the University of Vienna and has also been a collaborator in other national projects on Arabic philosophy. His areas of specialization are: the reception of Aristotelian philosophy in Syriac, Byzantine and Arabic traditions, the relationship between logic and theology and the Greco-Syriac intellectual world.

  • María Isabel Gamboa Cervantes

    María Isabel Gamboa Cervantes

    She has a degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana, a Master in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a specialization in Ethics and a PhD in History of Thought with a research on acedia. For five years she was general coordinator of the Institute of Humanities of the UP and was also general director of the UP High School, Yaocalli campus.

    She has been a professor at the Institute of Humanities since 2005 teaching subjects such as Person and Society, Ethics, Theological Anthropology I and II. Her lines of research are: love as a link in interpersonal relationships, the meaning of life and the theory of virtues.

  • Mariana Flores Rabasa

    Mariana Flores Rabasa

    She holds a degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana and a Master in Philosophy of Science from the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the UNAM. She currently works as Academic Secretary and full time professor at the Institute of Humanities at Universidad Panamericana, where she has taught History of Culture, Person and Society, Ethics and Social Philosophy, as well as Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of the Person at the Faculty of Philosophy of the same university. Previously she worked as a research assistant at IPADE, working on topics related to Philosophy and Business. Co-author of the book Formación Cívica y Ética 2, Jóvenes en acción por un mundo mejor (2013) for high school. She is part of the Interdisciplinary Group of Feminist Studies.

  • Catalina Echevarría Navarro

    Catalina Echevarría Navarro

    She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and a master’s degree in Educational Administration from the Universidad Panamericana. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, where she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree.

    She currently serves as Secretary of Student Affairs for the Humanities at Ciudad UP and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Institute of Humanities at the Mexico City campus. She teaches undergraduate courses in "Person and Society," "Ethics," and "Philosophical Anthropology."

  • Victor Isolino Doval González

    Victor Isolino Doval González

    He is a full time professor at the Institute of Humanities of the UP, Mexico campus. His research and teaching work focuses on practical philosophy (theory of action, political philosophy and ethics). His main lines of research are: 1) the thought of Carlos Llano, 2) philosophy of the city and 3) the thought of José Ortega y Gasset. His most recent publications include La fuerza del realismo. Ensayos sobre la obra filosófica de Carlos Llano (editor), published under the IPADE Publishing-EUNSA imprint (2023), "Renovar un mundo común: la posibilidad educativa de la ciudad" (in the book Educar en los márgenes. Reflexiones a partir de las teorías y de las experiencias prácticas compartidas. Subway river, 2023) and "Should the city be democratic? Una aproximación desde Ortega y Gasset" (in the book El cultivo del saber. EUNSA, 2021).

    D. in Philosophy (University of Navarra). He directs the research group on city and beauty at UP (campus Mexico). He is a member of the permanent seminar Aesthetics and City (ITAM). She obtained a master's degree in Government and Public Policy (UP, Mexico campus) with the thesis City and Beauty. Una propuesta ética desde la filosofía política, which he later worked on with José Antonio Lozano and they published under the title Ciudad y belleza (Tirant lo Blanch, 2018). He has been a professor at UP, campus Mexico, since 2007, where he has taught the subjects Argumentation, Writing and Techniques of Philosophical Writing (undergraduate), Ethics and Power, Selected Topics in Management and Foundations of Government Action (graduate). He currently coordinates the interdisciplinary faculty seminar Ethical Dilemmas of Contemporary Business. With students from different undergraduate programs, he participates in the reading group Libros y ayuda, in which classic works of world literature are discussed and analyzed and funds are raised for various charitable purposes.

  • Vicente De Haro Romo

    Vicente De Haro Romo

    Vicente de Haro holds a master's degree in philosophy from UNAM and a bachelor's and doctorate in philosophy from Universidad Panamericana . He won the national prize for his undergraduate thesis in Philosophy in 2002, awarded by the Philosophical Association of Mexico. He is a level 1 member of the national system of researchers, author of two books, co-author of another and editor of one more; among the books of his authorship stands out "Duty, Virtue and Practical Reason in Kant's Metaphysics of Morals" published by Olms in 2015. He is also the author of book chapters and specialized and popular articles and director of the philosophical collection Sapientia, of Editorial NUN. He is director of the Humanities area at the Mexico City campus of the Universidad Panamericana and member of the Identity and Values Committee of the same university.

    Research professor at the Institute of Humanities and professor of History of Kant's philosophy and the development of German idealism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the UP. He has taught and lectured in different postgraduate courses in Mexico and abroad. His research topics are ethics and anthropology in Kant and German idealism, hermeneutic philosophy and René Girard's mimetic anthropology.

  • Cecilia María Coronado Angulo

    Cecilia María Coronado Angulo

    She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra, Spain, and is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico; she is also a member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico (AFM). She earned a Master’s degree in Governance and Organizational Culture from the University of Navarra, Spain, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. During her studies in Spain, she completed a research fellowship at the University of Halle, Germany, with Professor Robert Schnepf. Her research interests include social philosophy, critical theory, social institutions, and migration.

    Since August 2014, she has been a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana Mexico), where she teaches courses on Social Philosophy and Man and the Contemporary World. She also teaches Social Philosophy in the School of Philosophy. She co-directed (along with Dr. Luis Xavier López Farjeat) the research project titled “Migration, Territory, and Identities” from 2017 to 2019 and currently directs the project “Identity and Plurality in the University: A Critical Perspective.” Both projects are funded by the UP Research Promotion Fund. She has served as a reviewer for the journals Tópicos, Civitas, and Perseitas, among many others, as well as for the publishers Aliosventos and NUN. Her most recent publications are: “Group Asylum, Sovereignty, and the Ethics of Care” (Social Sciences, 2020, Vol. 9, No. 8), “Instrumental Reason, Society, and Institutions: A Profile of Max Weber and the Frankfurt School” (2019, EUNSA, Pamplona), and “Freedom as a Condition of Justice in Axel Honneth” (Open Insight, 2018, Vol. 9, No. 15). She has been a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Humanities since August 2016, served as academic director of Contemporary Man and the World and Social Philosophy for over five years, and currently serves as deputy director of the Institute of Humanities.

  • Arturo Arroyo Gutierrez

    Arturo Arroyo Gutierrez

    He is a graduate of the School of Philosophy of the Universidad Panamericana. He graduated with the thesis "Prescience and freedom in Book V of the City of God, a dialogue with Cicero". He did his graduate studies at the School of Pedagogy at Universidad Panamericana. She obtained her degree with the research work "Academic preceptorship in university teaching: proposal for teacher training in the Superior of Gastronomy". She has taught at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana since 2010. Her teaching experience begins in 2006 at the Superior College of Gastronomy. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History of Thought with a research work on the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.