Dr. Sandra Hernández González earned her Ph.D. from the International University of Catalonia in Spain with an outstanding dissertation on the role of desires in Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral philosophy. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara; a specialization in Philosophical Anthropology from the National Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences ( Universidad Panamericana ); and a bachelor’s degree from the School of Modern Languages at the University of Guadalajara.
She currently serves as a research professor at the Institute of Humanities and the School of Psychology, where she teaches courses in Anthropology, Ethics, and Psychoaffectivity.
She has presented at various international conferences (London, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, Italy) and has completed research fellowships at the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (USA).
Based on her doctoral research, she is currently leading a workshop on the education of desires and collaborating on a research project on desires with Finnis Terre University in Chile and Comillas University in Madrid.
Research Areas
- Virtue ethics, theory of action, desires, and motivations
- Moral Psychology
- Alasdair MacIntyre