Ernest Sosa, a philosopher at Rutgers University, teaches the II ICS Lecture on Humanities and Social Sciences under the degree scroll 'knowledge in action'
In parallel, a colloquium-presentation of his works will take place at Spanish, with the participation of professors from the University of Zaragoza and the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
Ernest Sosa, professor of Philosophy of Rutgers University (USA), will give on March 13 the II ICS Lecture on Humanities and Social Sciences on March 13 at degree scroll 'knowledge in action'.
The ICS lectures are a series of conferences organized annually by the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) organizes on an annual basis. They are given by researchers of international prestige, and their aim is to present to the whole University of Navarra some of the topics being researched in the different ICS projects. goal .
On the speakerErnest Sosa graduated from the University of Miami and received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Subsequently, in 1964, he joined Brown University, where he was a faculty member at teaching and research until 2007. He is currently Senior Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University (USA).
He has also taught at the following universities: Western Ontario, Harvard, Mexico, Miami, Michigan, Salamanca and Texas. He has also been a visiting professor at Oxford and the Australian National University, researcher .
Sosa, one of today's foremost epistemologists, is also a leading researcher in metaphysics, Philosophy modern and Philosophy of the mind.
association Ernest Sosa is a past president of the American Philosophical Association ( Philosophy ) and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
He is also publisher of the philosophical journals Noûs and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In 2005 he gave the prestigious class lecture 'John Locke Lectures' at the University of Oxford (England).
colloquium-presentation of Sosa's works at SpanishOn the same day there is a colloquium-presentation on the occasion of the edition of the works of Ernest Sosa in Spanish. It is presented by David Pérez Chico, professor of department of Philosophy of the University of Zaragoza. Invervienen Modesto Gómez Alonso, professor of the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of Salamanca and translator of the work of Ernest Sosa; and Professor Sosa himself.