Workshop: Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - UNAM
with support of SECIHTI's Projects CF-2023-I-712
and CBF2023-2024-55
and the UNAM's PAPIIT Project IN406225

Online Workshop
Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy
November 13 & 14, 2025
Via zoom
Registro previo necesario
This workshop aims to open interdisciplinary dialogue on how history is employed across philosophical domains, and what methodological and epistemic roles such uses play.
+info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.com
Schedule
November 13
2025
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16:00-17:30 CET ∥ 09:00-10:30 MX
Keynote Talk
“Newton’s Metaphysics in Practice”
Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
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17:30-18:20 CET ∥ 10:30-11:20 MX
“Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician–Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy”
Anna Gadignani (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
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18:20-18:30 CET ∥ 11:20-11:30 MX MINI-BREAK
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18:30-19:20 CET ∥ 11:30-12:20 MX
“Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison”
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
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19:20-20:10 CET || 12:20 -13:10 MX
“A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic”
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
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20:10 -20:20 CET ∥ 13:10-13:20 MX MINI-BREAK
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20:20-21:10 CET || 13:20-14:10 MX
"A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem"
Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
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21:10-22:00 CET || 14:10-15:00 MX
"Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)
November 14
2025
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15:30-17:00 CET ∥ 08:30-10:00 MX
Keynote Talk
“Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective”
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
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17:00-17:50 CET ∥ 10:00-10:50 MX
"Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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17:50-18:00 CET ∥ 10:50-11:00 MX MINI-BREAK
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18:00-18:50 CET ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX
“Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering”
Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
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[18:50-19:40 CET || 11:50 -12:40 MX
"Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
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19:40 -19:50CET ∥ 12:40-12:50 MX MINI-BREAK
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19:50-20:40 CET || 12:50-13:40 MX
"Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes"
Dubian Cañas
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20:40-21:30 CET || 13:40-14:30 MX
"Why some inaccurate case studies work? Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz
Actualizado Nov 07 de 2025