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  • Virginia Aspe Armella

    Virginia Aspe Armella

    • Tenured Research Professor, Level D, SNI III 
    • Email: vaspe@up.edu.mx
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    Professor Virginia Aspe Armella holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra and, since 1998, has been a professor of Mexican philosophy at Universidad Panamericana. She specializes in Aristotle, practical and productive reasoning, and political and social philosophy in Mexico. She is a full member of the Hispanic-American Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters (corresponding to the Royal Spanish Academy), as well as of the Mexican Academy of History and the National System of Researchers (Level III). She previously lectured in the graduate philosophy program at UNAM and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University on four occasions. For her philosophical work, Dr. Aspe was awarded the Fray Alonso de la Veracruz Medal (2023) by the Philosophical Association of Mexico (AFILOMEX). She was also honoured as “Distinguished Guest” of the city of Salamanca on the occasion of the international conference marking the 500th anniversary of the School of Salamanca, where she delivered the closing lecture.

    She has taught courses or presented as a guest speaker at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla, the National University of Cuyo (Argentina), New York University (NYU), the 2024 World Congress of Philosophy (Rome), and the 5th International Congress on Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville), among many other forums. She has also served on organizing committees for numerous international conferences in Mexico, such as the 16th International Congress of Classical Studies of the International Federation of Classical Studies Associations (2022) and the 12th International Conference on the Baroque (2025). 

    Her most recent books are Aristotle and New Spain (Routledge, 2025) and Approaches to the Theory of Freedom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Aliosvientos-Colegio de Michoacán-UP, 2018). Other notable publications include “The Renaissance Reception of Nahua Paideia in the Writings of Bernardino de Sahagún: An Aesthetic Approach to Religion” (Religions, 12), “The Influence of the School of Salamanca in Alonso de la Vera Cruz’s De dominio infidelium et iusto bello” (in The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production, Brill), “On the Greed and Extravagance of the Encomenderos in the Eighth Remedy by Bartolomé de las Casas” (Cauriensia, 15) and “The Political Dilemmas of Mexico’s Transformations: A Philosophical Approach” (Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía, 58).

    Research Areas:

    1. Mexican Philosophy
    2. Reception of the Aristotelian Tradition

    Research Projects

    • Authority, Freedom, and Dominion in Mexico’s Transformations: An Examination of Fundamental Philosophical Arguments. Phase One: The Mexican Enlightenment of the 18th Century and the Early 19th Century.
    • Authority, Freedom, and Dominion in Mexico’s Transformations: An Examination of Fundamental Philosophical Arguments. Part Two: Mexico’s Second Political Transformation (1848–1898): Background and Consequences.
    • The Fundamental Philosophical Arguments Underlying Mexico’s Transformations: An Approach to the Third and Fourth Transformations (1903–2019)
    • Cultural Manifestations of the Baroque: A Hermeneutics of a Cultural Category.


    Link to publications:     https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/vaspe

    Awards: Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz Medal, 2024, Mexican Philosophy Association



  • Luis Xavier López Farjeat

    Luis Xavier López Farjeat

    • Tenured Research Professor, Level D, SNII III
    • Email: llopez@up.edu.mx
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    Dr. Luis Xavier López-Farjeat is a tenured professor and researcher (Level D) in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus.

    He is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level III. He is associate director of the “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group” (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org) and editor of Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía (https://revistas.up.edu.mx/topicos/es).

    He is a professor of Islamic philosophy in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UNAM and of Islamic philosophy and intellectual history in the Master’s Program in Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a resident scholar at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton.

    He is a professor of Islamic Philosophy in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and of Islamic Philosophy and Intellectual History in the Master’s Program in Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a resident scholar at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton.

    He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including Marquette University, the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, Princeton Theological Seminary, the University of Navarra, the University of the Andes, and El Colegio de México.He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the transmission and transformation of ancient philosophy in the Islamic world, Arabic philosophy, and the intellectual history of the Middle East; on the interaction between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophies; and on the role of Middle Eastern Christian traditions in the transmission of Greek philosophy to the Islamic context.

    His books include Reasons, Arguments, and Beliefs: Reflections Based on Classical Islamic Philosophy (2018) and Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction (2022). He is also a co-author and co-editor of Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century (2013), The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (2016), Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions (2023), and Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job. The Disruptive Challenges of God (2025). He has also contributed as an author to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and has served as a guest editor for the journals Anuario Filosófico and The Muslim World.

    Research Areas:

    • Arab and Islamic Philosophy
    • Ancient Philosophy
    • Arab and Syriac Reception of Greek Philosophy
    • The Latin Reception of Arabic Philosophy
    • Hegel

    Areas of interest:

    • Theory of Argumentation, Theory of Knowledge, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Ethics and Political Philosophy, Ethics of Immigration, Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Literature.

    Research Projects

    • “Aristotelian and Neoplatonic Perspectives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”
    • “Migration, Territory, and Identities.”
    • “Experiences of the Divine in the Abrahamic Traditions”

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  • María Elena García Peláez Cruz

    María Elena García Peláez Cruz

    • Research Professor
    • Email: mepelaez@up.edu.mx
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    Dr. María Elena García Peláez Cruz is a research professor in the School of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana). She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from that institution. Her master’s thesis in philosophy at UNAM, “On the Biological Assumptions of Aristotle’s Politics,” was awarded the Norman Sverdlin Prize in 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from UNAM with the dissertation “The Cosmological, Metaphysical, and Physiological Relevance of Reproduction in Aristotle’s Biological Treatises and Its Implications for the Definability of Women.” From 2013 to 2023, she served as Dean of the School of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana). She has taught numerous undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses in that same school, as well as in other programs and institutions both nationally and internationally. Committed to the social impact of philosophy, she co-directed SWIP-Analytic México, an organization dedicated to providing tools and support to female philosophy students at the undergraduate and graduate levels from various Mexican states. She has collaborated on and directed various research projects and published in books and specialized journals. She is the author of the book *The Feminine Longing for Eternity. Reproduction and Embryology in Aristotle’s Biological Works,” in the International Aristotle Studies series, Verlag Karl Alber, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2026, and co-edited the book “Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy,” in the Beiträge zur Altertumskunde series, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024. She has also participated in and organized international conferences and, in the publishing field, contributes to various specialized journals, both on editorial boards and as a reviewer. She has worked tirelessly to forge connections that benefit the academic community and students in the country; as a result, since 2019 she has been a co-organizer of the Consortium on Ancient Philosophy among Princeton, São Paulo, and Panamericana universities.

     

    Research Areas:

    1. Ancient Philosophy and Biology
    2. History of Ancient Philosophy
    3. Aristotle

    Research Projects

    • “Rethinking Ourselves from the University”
    • “Women and the Feminine in Ancient History: Contributions to a New Philosophical and Historiographical Approach” (principal investigator).
    •  “Experiences of the Divine in the Abrahamic Traditions” (co-project leader).
    • “Collaboration Between Philosophy and Theology in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger” (research associate).
    • “Xenophon’s Economic Thought and Its Influence” (research associate).
    • “The Intelligent Cosmos” (research assistant).
    • “Philosophy of Mind in Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism” (research assistant).

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  • Leonardo Ruiz Gómez

    Leonardo Ruiz Gómez

    • Dean of the School of Philosophy, Professor and Tenured Researcher, Level D, SNII II
    • Email: leruiz@up.edu.mx
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    Leonardo Ruiz Gómez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra, where he was awarded the 2014 Thesis Extraordinary Prize. Since 2015, he has worked as a Research Professor in the School of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, served as director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana from 2019 to 2023 and is currently the dean of the School of Philosophy at the same institution. Since 2016, he has been a member of the SECITHI National System of Researchers (Level II). He is currently secretary of the Ibero-American Leibniz Network since 2024 and has led and participated in various research projects on the philosophy of Leibniz and the Baroque period. 

    He is the author of the book: The Leibnizian Concept of Space: The Controversy with Clarke and Newtonianism (EUNSA, 2014) and of various scholarly articles. His areas of research include the philosophy of nature, bioethics, the philosophy of science, modern philosophy, and 17th-century metaphysics.

    Research Areas:

    1. Modern Metaphysics of the 17th and 18th Centuries
    2. Baroque Philosophy
    3. Bioethics
    4. Philosophy and History of Modern Science
    5. Transhumanism

    Research projects:

    • Transformations in Metaphysics in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Concepts of Cause, Substance, and Mode
    • Cultural Manifestations of the Baroque: A Hermeneutics of a Cultural Category 

    Link to publications:

  • Mauricio Lecón Rosales

    Mauricio Lecón Rosales

    • Director of Graduate Programs, SNII II
    • Email: mlecon@up.edu.mx
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    Mauricio Lecón Rosales holds a BA in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra (2014). His doctoral dissertation, "Causalidad, acción y libertad en Francisco Suárez" [Causality, Action, and Freedom in Francisco Suárez], was supervised by Prof. Ángel Luis González and received the highest distinction, summa cum laude. He has been a visiting researcher at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

    Since 2014 he has been a Tenured Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, where he currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He is a Level II member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNII), administered by the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI). He is a member of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM) and the Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (SOFIME).

    His work is organized around three main areas: scholastic metaphysics and legal philosophy, with particular attention to Francisco Suárez and the School of Salamanca; the philosophy of humor and laughter; and twentieth-century Mexican philosophy.

    He has published with presses such as Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Brill, and EUNSA, and in journals including The Review of Metaphysics, The European Journal of Humour Research, Studia Neoaristotelica, Pensamiento, Scripta Mediaevalia, and DOXA. Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho. His books include Acción, praxis y ley. Estudio metafísico y psicológico de la acción legislativa en Francisco Suárez [Action, Praxis, and Law: A Metaphysical and Psychological Study of Legislative Action in Francisco Suárez] (EUNSA, 2014).

    Research Areas:

    1. Medieval and Scholastic Philosophy
    2. 20th-Century Mexican Philosophy
    3. The Philosophy of Humor

    Research projects:

    • Transformations in Metaphysics in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Concepts of Cause, Substance, and Mode
    • Cultural Manifestations of the Baroque: A Hermeneutics of a Cultural Category.

    Link to publications: 

     

     

  • Karen González Fernández

    Karen González Fernández

    • Professor and Researcher
    • Email: kgonzale@up.edu.mx
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    Professor Karen González Fernández has a License degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana, and a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

    She´s Research-Professor in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, where she primarily teaches courses in propositional logic, first order logic, contemporary epistemology, and philosophy of science. She is also the editorial secretary of Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía..

    Her main areas of research are philosophy of logic, the teaching of logic, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence. She is the principal investigator of the interdisciplinary seminar LEEIA, “Logic, Epistemology, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” organized in collaboration with the School of Engineering at the Universidad Panamericana, which has been held since 2019.

    She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Logic (AML), the Philosophical Association of Mexico (AFM), and the International Panel on Information Environment (IPIE).

    Research Areas:

    • Philosophical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Heuristics
    • Teaching Logic

    Research Projects

    • Co-leader of the “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” project with the Institute(2024–2026)

    Champion of the Common Good. (2024–2026)

    • Fermento—Transdisciplinary Collection. (Participant, 2024–2025)
    • “Logic, Epistemology, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” (Principal Investigator, 2020–2021)
    • “Logics of Discovery, Heuristics, and Creativity in the Sciences,” PAPIIT-DGAPA-UNAM-IN Project 400514-3(2014–2016)“

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  • Miluska Fiorella Orbegoso Silva

    Miluska Fiorella Orbegoso Silva

    She is a Peruvian national. She holds a Law Degree from the University of Piura, Peru; a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Navarra, Spain; a research stay on the Social State and Public Administration at the University of Münster, in Münster, Germany; and a PhD in Law from the University of Navarra, Spain with the thesis entitled "The protection of fundamental rights in social benefits: relevance of the organization and procedure", under the direction of Dr. Ángel J. Gómez Montoro and qualified as outstanding CUM LAUDE.

    She has been a member of the teacher training program at the University of Piura, Peru and a scholar of different national and foreign institutions. She has been a full-time researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Jurídico-Políticas of the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala; full-time professor of the Law Department of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla; and Director of Faculty Development of the School of Social Sciences and Government of the Tec de Monterrey.

    She is the author of the book Derechos fundamentales y prestaciones sociales. Una aproximación desde la teoría de la organización y el procedimiento, published by the Centro de estudios políticos y Constitucionales de Madrid, Spain; and is the author of various doctrinal articles in indexed journals, both national and foreign.

    She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers Level I and a member of the Peruvian Association of Constitutional Law. Her area of expertise is Constitutional Law and she is currently a full time research professor at the Law School of Universidad Panamericana, campus Mixcoac.

    Research Areas

    • Constitutional Law
  • José Juan Anzures Gurría

    José Juan Anzures Gurría

    Bachelor of Laws from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus; Doctor of Laws from the University of Navarra, awarded cum laude by unanimous decision.

    He has held various academic positions. At the Universidad Panamericana , he served as Academic Director of the Certificate and Master’s programs in Judicial Law, and he was also Academic Director of the Specialization in Amparo Law. At Tec de Monterrey, he served as Director of the Department of Law, International Relations, and Political Science at the Puebla Campus; he later served as Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Government for the Central-South Region.

    He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal *IUS*, published by the Institute of Legal Sciences in Puebla, Mexico; a Level I member of the National System of Researchers; and was awarded the runner-up prize in the 2011–2012 Nicolás Pérez-Serrano Award, organized by the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid for doctoral dissertations.

    Author of the book *The Constitutional Protection of Associations*, Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2014; *The Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Its 70th Anniversary*. (Ed.), Mariel, Mexico, 2019; *One Hundred Years of the Mexican Constitution*. (Ed.), Tec de Monterrey, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017. Author of various scholarly articles in national and international journals.

    His research focuses on the content and scope of fundamental rights, particularly the right of association, the right of assembly, freedom of expression, and the right to the Internet.

    Research Areas

    • Content and scope of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to the right of association, the right of assembly, freedom of expression, and the right to the Internet
  • Carlos Espinosa Berecochea

    Carlos Espinosa Berecochea

    He holds a bachelor's, master's and doctorate degree in law from Universidad Panamericana, where he also obtained a master's degree in legal sciences. Since 2014 he is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT, SNI-I.

    He has more than 25 years teaching the subject of International Trade Law in the Law Degree and Customs Law. He also teaches Unfair International Trade Practices and Customs Law, General Import Tax in the Postgraduate Program in Law.

    He is former Chairman of the Foreign Trade Commission of the Colegio de Contadores Públicos de México, A.C.; of the Foreign Trade Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, and of the Mexican Academy of Tax Law.

    Author of the books: "La Jurisprudencia y los Derechos Acquiridos. Análisis y propuestas" and "Valoración Aduanera. Causales de rechazo" Coordinator of the works "Manual de Derecho Tributario" and "Derechos de los Contribuyentes" of the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Fiscal Author of multiple studies on tax and foreign trade matters for specialized publications in such matters, both nationally and internationally.

    Research Areas

    • Customs Law
    • Tax Law
    • International Trade
  • Ari Yair Barrera Ánimas

    Ari Yair Barrera Ánimas

    Ari Barrera earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a specialization in Intelligent Systems in 2017 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is currently a professor and researcher in the Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering at the Universidad Panamericana. He previously worked as a software and machine learning engineer at the Big Data Enterprise and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. Ari is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers and an associate member of the Mexican Academy of Computing. He has 12 scientific publications indexed in journals such as Elsevier and Sensors; the most recent is an article titled “Generating real-world-like labeled synthetic datasets for construction site applications.”

    Research Areas

    • Pattern recognition
    • Data Mining
    • Machine Learning
    • Classification of a Class
    • Monitoring Psychological Conditions and Wearable Sensors
  • Fernando Batista Jiménez

    Fernando Batista Jiménez

    Doctor of Law; tenured professor (Level B) at the School of Law of the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus, and professor at the School of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 

    He has been a visiting professor at the University ofNotre Dame in Indianaand is a Level 1 researcher in the SECIHTI National Researcher System. 

    He is the author of the book La dignidad humana y su protección constitucional en México, published by the Biblioteca Porrúa de Derecho Procesal Constitucional and coordinator of two other books.

    He has published numerous scholarly articles on human rights in specialized journals, both nationally and internationally, including*Cuestiones Constitucionales*and the*Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado*, publishedby the Institute for Legal Research (IIJ) at UNAM; the*Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho* of the University of A Coruña, Spain; and the*Forced Migration Review*journalofthe University of Oxford.

    He is an Editorial Board Member of the journal*Cuestiones Constitucionales*published by the IIJ at UNAM; a Board Member of the Institute of International Legal Studies at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain; and an Associate Founder of the Governing Board of the Universidad Panamericana IPADE. 

    He is a full member of the Illustrious National Bar Association of Mexico, an associate member of the Mexican Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and a member of the General Council of the Mexican Bar.

    Research Areas

    • Human Dignity and Human Rights