UP Campus: Mexico City

• Tenured Research Professor, Level D, SNII III
• Email: hzagal@up.edu.mx and hzagal@gmail.com

Mexican, a hypochondriac, single, and, in practical terms, the grandfather of two wonderful grandnieces. I consider myself a disciple of Mauricio Beuchot and Carlos Pereda, professors at UNAM; of Carlos Llano (†) of the Universidad Panamericana; of Fernando Inciarte (†) of the University of Münster; and of Alejandro Llano (†) of the University of Navarra.

I attended the “5 de Mayo” public technical High School (Mexico City), and, thanks to a series of scholarships, I was able to complete my high school diploma and earn a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana.

I am committed to philosophical research, but I believe that academic rigor should not be equated with “rigor mortis.” Philosophical depth should not be a kind of hardening of the mind.

First and foremost, I am a cultural educator. My scholarly publications, participation in committees, panels, and conferences, my teaching, and the theses I have advised reflect my scholarly expertise: Aristotle, his medieval commentators, and the Baroque period. My academic books include Rhetoric, Induction, and Science in Aristotle (1991); Limits of Ethical Argumentation in Aristotle (with Aguilar, 1996); Horisms, Syllogisms, and Asapheia in Aristotle (Spain, 2002); “Method and Science in Aristotle” (Mexico, 2005); “Arguments of Aristotle” (Spain, 2009); “Happiness, Virtue, and Pleasure According to Aristotle” (Mexico, 2013); “Happiness and Friendship in Aristotle” (Mexico, 2014); “Virtues: The Fabric of Happiness According to Aristotle” (with Gómez, 2019); “Baroque: Nepantla and Oscillating Reason” (Mexico, 2026); “Slavery, Democracy, and Bestiality in Aristotle” (Mexico, 2026). I edited: “Aristotle and the Aristotelians” (with Fonseca, 2002); “Metaphysics, Action, Will” (with Rodríguez, 2005); “From Plato to Pixar: Philosophizing in a Pop Key” (with Hansberg and Ramos, 2026).

I am pleased to have supervised more than 80 theses, four of which have won awards. I like to think that I have had the privilege of teaching those who will become key figures in Mexican philosophy in the 21st century.

In 1999, I won the National Essay Prize (1999) from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for “Two Approaches to National Identity: Baroque and Surrealism,” co-authored with López Farjeat. The essay was published in 2000. I have been a member of the federal government’s National System of Researchers since 1994. Since 2005, I have been a graduate professor of philosophy at UNAM. I am a researcher at the School of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, where, thanks to a collaborative effort, I founded the journal Tópicos (1991), which I edited until 2012. In 2009, Tópicos was included in the list of scientific journals maintained by the then-CONACYT.

Together with José Galindo, I wrote Ethics for Postmodern Teenagers (1998). Reclam Verlag published it in German (2000). I regularly appear on TV, radio, and digital media to bring philosophy into everyday life. Since 2010, I have hosted a weekly program (102.5 FM), which received the National Broadcasting Award in the Cultural category (2013).

I am actively involved in promoting culture through books, articles, radio, lectures, and social media. Since 2010, I have hosted the program “El Banquete del Dr. Zagal” on MVS Radio. I have published seven novels with Planeta, six of which are historical in nature. “Imperio,” a novel about Maximilian of Habsburg, was adapted for the stage and has been performed since 2013 at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.

Research Areas:

1. Philosophy of culture
2. Ethics
3. Aristotelian Studies

Research projects:

• Cultural Manifestations of the Baroque: A Hermeneutics of a Cultural Category.

Link to publications:

• https://up-mx.academia.edu/H%C3%A9ctorZagal
• https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/hzagal
• https://mvsnoticias.com/autor/hector-zagal.html
• https://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/autor/hector-zagal/000026337

 

• Professor-Researcher 
• Email: dlevystone@up.edu.mx
• Profile:

After studying philosophy at the University of Paris IV–Sorbonne and philology and papyrology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, David Lévystone earned his Ph.D. in the History of Philosophy from the Sorbonne University in 2009, under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Barnes. After completing his dissertation, he participated in the project on the Presocratics led by Professors André Laks and Glenn Most, which resulted in new standard editions of the Presocratic fragments (Les débuts de la philosophie, Fayard, 2016, and Early Greek Philosophy, 9 vols., Loeb, 2016).

Starting in 2010 and for six years, he served as a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, where he taught courses in ancient and medieval philosophy. Since 2017, he has been a professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana, where he teaches Greek and ancient philosophy. He has been particularly involved in the organization and development of the Master’s program in Ancient Philosophy at that institution.

He has published numerous articles in French, English, and Spanish in specialized journals such as *Phoenix*, *Phronesis*, *Mnemosyne*, and *Philosophie Antique*. His research focuses primarily on archaic and classical philosophy, with a special interest in the origins of political and economic thought and their implications for the contemporary world. He also co-edits the Oikonomia series, dedicated to the study of the ancient economy, published by De Gruyter.

Research Areas:

• Ancient Philosophy
• Ancient Economy
• Studies on Greek Sophistry

Research Projects:

• “Xenophon’s Economic Thought and Its Influence”

Link to publications: 

• up-mx.academia.edu/DavidLévystone
• www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Levystone
• scholar.google.com/citations?user=aCG3CsAAAAAJ

• Secretary of Research, Full Professor B, SNII II
• Email: echarpen@up.edu.mx
• Profile:

Eduardo Charpenel Elorduy is a full-time research professor in the Department of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany) in 2015. He has subsequently taught seminars there as a visiting scholar and, during the 2021–2022 winter semester, served as a visiting professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter), holding the chair of Ancient and Practical Philosophy. In 2023, he was also a visiting professor at the University of Łódź (Poland). His historical research focuses on Ancient Philosophy, particularly Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine of Hippo, as well as on Classical German Philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel. His systematic interests include ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of right, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Ethos und Praxis. Der Charakterbegriff bei Aristoteles (Karl Alber, 2017), as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He has also co-edited, with Nassim Bravo and Gustavo Esparza, Myth and Religion: The Cultural and Philosophical Significance of the Hero (Brill, 2026), and, with Nassim Bravo and Luis Xavier López Farjeat, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job: The Disruptive Challenges of God (Brill, 2026). Since 2024, he has served as co-editor of Revista de Estudios Kantianos, the journal of the Society for Kantian Studies in the Spanish Language (SEKLE). He has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers since 2018 and currently holds Level II status.

Research Areas:

1. German Idealism
2. Ancient Philosophy
3. Kantian and Hegelian Studies

• Link to publications: https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/echarpen
• https://up-mx.academia.edu/EduardoCharpenel

 

Doctorate in Philosophy (DPhil 2015) from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, and a Diploma in Open and Distance Education (1994) from the Sistema Universidad Abierta y a Distancia, both from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has been a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow of the U.S. Department of State at Saint Louis University (1998) and the Catholic University of America (1999-2003), and of the General Direction of Academic Personnel Affairs (1994-1998) at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Professor of Logic, Dialectics and Argumentation, Political Philosophy, and Analytic Philosophy and Pragmatism in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana. 

Liaison Coordinator for the International Logic Olympiad organized by the Mexican Academy of Logic. 

Areas of expertise: Modern and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy; medieval Scholastic philosophy; epistemology, logic, and argumentation. 

Areas of expertise: Semiotics and Philosophy of Language; Political, Social, and Legal Philosophy. 

Areas of interest: Metaphysics, Ontology; Philosophy of Religion.

Research Areas:

1. Political philosophy
2. Medieval Philosophy
3. Philosophy of Logic
4. Theories of Argumentation

• Tenured Professor-Researcher, Level D
• Email: alaks@up.edu.mx

Born in 1950. Studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Paris- Sorbonne and Lille. ,I am currently a tenured research professor in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City; formerly SNI Level II, then Level III, between 2013 and 2024. Previously, I had a chair in Greek and Ancient Philosophy at the University of Lille, Paris-Sorbonne, and Princeton University. I am an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. I have been a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan, Lausanne, and Princeton; I was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Center for Humanities at Princeton, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. At the Universidad Panamericana, I spearheaded the creation of the Master’s program in Ancient Philosophy. I have edited, co-edited, and authored approximately twenty books, among which stand my French book on the concept of “Presocratic philosophy” (2006)—which has been translated into several languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Chinese)— my latest book on Plato’s Laws (2022) and the nine-volume co-edition with Glenn W. Most on early Greek philosophy in nine volumes in the Loeb Library series published by Harvard University Press in 2016 (also available in French as a single volume from Fayard), the second revised and expanded edition of which is scheduled for publication in December 2027. I have authored over 200 articles, in which I have explored various aspects of ancient philosophy across its different thinkers and periods, as well as its reception by modern and contemporary authors. My main international connections and collaborations include the Sorbonne (Paris 1 and Paris 4), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Princeton University.

Research Areas:

• The Origins of Greek Thought.
• Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus
• Commentary
• The Reception of Ancient Philosophy in Antiquity and Modernity
• History of Hermeneutics and Philology

Research Projects

• Epistemic Modesty

Link to publications: 

• https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/alaks
• https://upmx.academia.edu/Andr%C3%A9Laks