Research
My research focuses broadly on ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of biology. I am currently researching and developing articles on the following topics:
the possibility of non-instrumental value for animal life within 'Analytic Hegelianism' (e.g., Sellars, Brandom, McDowell)
the place of literal (not metaphorical) nonhuman animals in Spinoza and Nietzsche's thought
the place of nonpropositional forms of knowledge and nonlinguistic knowers in social epistemology
the human/animal divide with regards to nature/culture and the social ontologies of intensely social nonhuman animals
Emilio Uranga's claim in Análisis del ser del mexicano that the Mexican feels compassion toward animals and plants, and the role of zozobra as an opening to the other
the nature of Latinx identity, and whether particular ethnic or racial identities can give a person reasons for action or give rise to prima facie moral duties
I also have research interests in:
process metaphysics and biology
disability studies and the moral and affective ecology that hinders/facilitates the moral agency of disabled individuals