- Director of Graduate Programs, SNII II
- Email: mlecon@up.edu.mx
- Profile:
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:
- Medieval and Scholastic Philosophy
- 20th-Century Mexican Philosophy
- 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:
- https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/mlecon
- @eme1ec (X)
- Academia.edu: https://up-mx.academia.edu/MauricioLec%C3%B3n
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9928-7739