I work as a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher in the Departament of Philosophy at the University of Valencia (Spain).
Currently, I am on a research stay at the Unit of Excellence FiloLab-UGR, at the University of Granada. My research project focuses on the role that experience and beliefs about the world as a whole play in depression. I am also interested in the philosophy of psychedelics and, more generally, in altered states of consciousness.
I am a member of the research projects "The Social Roots of Mental Health: Agency and Normativity" and "Metaphysics of Biology: Processes and Dispositions".
Previously, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (2021-2022), where I did research on the philosophy of birth — in particular, on the experience of giving birth and on some metaphysical and epistemological aspects of birth care.
I also held a Predoctoral Researcher position in the Philosophy Departament at the University of Valencia (2016-2019), where I obtained my PhD in Philosophy, with a dissertation entitled Conceptions of Mental Illness: in Search of Reality.
Research Interests
Philosophy of Psychiatry
Conceptions of mental illness
Self-illness ambiguity
Phenomenology of depression
Social Epistemology and Ontology
Epistemic injustice
Conceptual engineering
Social constructionism
Altered States of Consciousness
Philosophy of psychedelic therapy
Phenomenology of ASCs
Psychedelic moral enhancement
Publications
In press. "The psychedelic experience: a new perspective, a new attitude towards the world", in Letheby, Chris and Gerrans, Philip (eds.) Philosophical perspectives on psychedelic psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In press. With Pablo Moreno-Romero. "Resonancia natural y capacidad individual de acción ecosocial". Isegoría 68: e27. doi: 10.3989/isegoria.2023.68.27
Tejedor, Chon; Ballesteros, Virginia (trans.). Comenzando con Wittgenstein. (Original work: Tejedor, Chon. 2011. Starting with Wittgenstein. London & New York: Continuum Bloomsbury).
Work in Progress
A conceptual clarification of primal world beliefs.
An analysis of the biopsychiatric theoretical conception of mental illness as a source of epistemic injustice.
A Wittgensteinian framework to account for the epistemic aspects of psychedelic therapy for depression.