Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health

Vallverdú, J., Puyol, A. y Estany, A. (Ed.). (2019). Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. ISBN: ISBN 978-3-030-28626-2 This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally […]

16th World Congress on Public Health Participation

Part of the GEHUCT research group (Angel Puyol, Anna Estany, David Casacuberta and Alger Sans) presented a philosophical workshop about epistemic and ethical innovations in public health research in the 16th World Congress on Public Health, which was held in a virtual edition due to coronavirus pandemics. Angel Puyol talked about solidarity and regulatory frameworks […]

Oriol Farrés

Oriol Farrés Juste is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He received the Extraordinary Degree Award in Philosophy from UAB. After completing his doctoral thesis on the construction of republican citizenship (2008), he worked as an associate professor at the University of Girona (UdG) and as an […]

Silvia de Bianchi

After receiving my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, I worked as post-doc in UK (University College London), Germany (Siegen University and TU Dortmund) and France (ENS Paris). In 2014 I moved to Barcelona and worked as Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science of the UAB. […]

Núria Estrach

Nuria Estrach Mira is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Member of two R & D projects, one on “Philosophy of public health” (SGR 2019) and the other on “Justice and democracy: towards a new model of solidarity” (FFI 2019). And from the Group of Humanistic Studies in […]

Jordi Vallverdú

Jordi Vallverdú B. Phil, B. Mus, M.Sci, Ph.D. is an ICREA Academia researcher and Professor at UAB about cognitive and epistemic aspects of the Philosophy of Computing, Philosophy of Sciences, Cognition, Ethics, and Philosophy of AI. He has enjoyed research stays at Glaxo-Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1997), J.F.K. School – Harvard University […]

Jordi Riba

Jordi Riba is a Professor of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting professor at the University of Paris, of which he is an associate member of its Research laboratory “Logiques contemporaines de la philosophie“. His current research focuses on the role of philosophy in the study of emerging democratic forms. He […]

Cristian Moyano

Cristian Moyano is a philosopher and PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from ICTA-UAB. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main areas of research are bioethics and moral philosophy. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Angel Puyol and Filka Sekulova, analyses the ethical-political limits […]