Workshop: Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy

Online Workshop: Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy November 13 & 14, 2025 Via zoomOnline Workshop: Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy November 13 & 14, 2025 Via zoom


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

 

  • 16:00-17:30 CET ∥ 09:00-10:30 MX
    Keynote Talk
    “Newton’s Metaphysics in Practice”
    Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)

 

  • 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)

 

  • 18:20-18:30 CET ∥ 11:20-11:30 MX  MINI-BREAK

 

  • 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)

 

  • 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)

 

  • 20:10 -20:20 CET  ∥ 13:10-13:20 MX  MINI-BREAK

 

  • 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)

 

  • 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

 

  • 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)

 

  • 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) 

 

  • 17:50-18:00 CET ∥ 10:50-11:00 MX MINI-BREAK

 

  • 18:00-18:50 CET ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX
    “Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering”
    Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)

 

  • [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)

 

  • 19:40 -19:50CET  ∥ 12:40-12:50 MX  MINI-BREAK

 

  • 19:50-20:40 CET  || 12:50-13:40 MX 
    "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes"
    Dubian Cañas

 

  • 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

Organisers  
Teresa Rodríguez
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz  

+info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.com

 

Actualizado Nov 07 de 2025
    Nov 08 de 2025
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