Benazir Flores Valdivia is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. She obtained a Degree in Philosophy at the University of Valencia (2013) and later concluded her Master's studies in Thought Creation (Escuela Contemporánea de Humanidades, 2018), Contemporary Culture (Complutense University and Ortega y Gasset Institute, 2018) and Education (Complutense University, 2020). Currently, she is a PhD student at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy (UCM) under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa and Vanessa Triviño. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on “Process Metaphysics in biology: a discussion of biological identity”. Her PhD research is being funded by the CONACYT program developed by the Mexican government.

Research interests: Benazir research interests concern metaphysical assumptions and implications of scientific practices. Specifically, she investigates the virtues and limitations of process metaphysics in accounting for the identity and persistence of organisms. 

Contact: benazirf[at]ucm.es

Juan Jacobo Ibarra graduated in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Nariño (Colombia) in 2016. In 2019, he obtained his Master's Degree in Literature at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Since 2020, he is a doctorate student at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. His thesis, supervised by Laura Nuño de la Rosa, deals with The Realism-anti-realism controversy: new naturalistic and materialistic approaches. 

Research interests: scientific realism, new materialisms, evolutionary epistemology.

Salvador Tlamatini Esparza García is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned his degree in Philosophy from the University of Guadalajara in 2014 and his master's degree in Philosophical Studies from the same institution in 2017. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr. María Cerezo, with the title: "A Critical Review of the Concept of System in Mario Bunge through Anglo-American Philosophy of Science."

Research Interests: Philosophy of science, materialism, metaphysics, system, emergence.

Contact: salvespa[at]ucm.es

Carolina Cuadrado Bastos holds a dual degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2022, she completed the Master's program in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences at the same institution. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. with a FPU fellowship, under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa. Her main research interests concern the epistemology of climate science, focusing on the interactions between epistemology, ethic, and politics that arise in this domain.

Research Interests: epistemology, climate models, values in science.

Contact: carocuad[at]gmail.com

Turad Miguel Turad Lorenzo is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2021, followed by the completion of a Master's degree in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral studies in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy (UCM), where he holds a position under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa and María Cerezo. His research is supported by an FPI scholarship, providing essential financial backing for his academic pursuits. His doctoral dissertation focuses on exploring potential avenues to redirect the current ontological debate between reductionist and emergentist positions in the philosophy of science.

Research Interests: Emergence, philosophy of physics, metaphysics, epistemology and reductionism.

Contact: turadtur[at]ucm.es

Alejandro Perea Martínez is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Dr. María Cerezo. He completed his Master in Epistemology of Social and Natural Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid in June 2023, acquiring a solid foundation in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, as well as the ability to handle advanced concepts and methodologies in philosophical research. In addition, Alejandro has studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, and also holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

His final thesis, in June 2023, investigates the recent history and characteristics of grounding, and attempts to postulate it as the primary notion of metaphysical explanation. Alejandro considers on the one hand that metaphysics has been unjustly vilified by various philosophical currents of the past and that careful study has the capacity to illuminate contemporary debates in the sciences by exposing problematic assumptions, and on the other hand that such research must be done in close collaboration with and always duly informed by the particular sciences.

Research Interests: Aristotelian metaphysics, meta ontology and general philosophy of science, focusing particularly on material composition, causality, agency and explanation, as well as debates on reductionism and pluralism.

Contact: aperea09[at]ucm.es