Multiculturalism in Spain To-day and the Legacy of Al-Andalus

Between August 16 and 18, 2009 I participate at the First International Conference on Al-Andalus Studies, organizaed by the Department of History (Faculty of Arts) of the University of Khartoum and the Spanish Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). The conference takes place at the Sharjah Hall of Khartoum, Sudan. My lecture is “Multiculturalism […]

Wittgenstein against Wittgenstein: On a Certain Pragmatism in his Philosophy (in Spite of Himself)

On February 4, 2009 I participate at the 4th International Conference of the Academic Society of Philosophy «Thinking about the Future», organized in Madrid by the School of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid and the Academic Society of Philosophy, with the paper “Wittgenstein against Wittgenstein: On a Certain Pragmatism in his Philosophy (in […]

How to Understand Baudrillard (Better) with the Help of the MTV Music Video Awards

On January 29, 2009 I participate at the Meeting on Arst, Literature and Contingence. Thinking about Education in a New Way, organized by the Seminar on Contemporary Society and Culture (Semsocu) of the European University Miguel de Cervantes and the Higher Institute of Philosophy at Valladolid, and celebrated in Valladolid. The title of my lecture […]

Why is It Necessary to Tolerate the Various Religions if We Want to Have a Genuinely Liberal Ethic

On Saturday, October 18, 2008, I participate at the 8th Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Religions, “Lex Sacra: religion and law throughout History”, organized by the University of Valladolid and the Spanish Society of Sciences of Religions and held in Valladolid, with a communication entitled “Why is it necessary to tolerate […]

Hermeneuts without Equivocation: On Some Challenges of Analogical Hermeneutics and How to Face Them

On Thursday February 28, 2008 I participate with the paper “Hermeneuts without equivocation: on certain challenges of analogical hermeneutics and how to face them” in the International Conference “Analogical Hermeneutics in Spain”, held in Valladolid and organized by the Contemporary Society and Culture Seminar (Semsocu) of the Miguel de Cervantes European University and the Higher […]

The Sense of Forgetting; or Why the Oblivion of Being Cannot Be Solved by “Remembering” It

On Friday February 22, 2008 I participate at the First International Congress of the HERMES Permanent Seminar “Acting and thinking after Martin Heidegger’s Kehre”, organized by the ONLENHER Research Group (Ontology, Language and Hermeneutics) of the Faculty of Philosophy of the National University of Distance Education (UNED), with a paper entitled “The sense of forgetting: […]