Juan M Zaragoza

Biography

Juan Manuel Zaragoza holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with a thesis entitled: The Terminally Ill Patient as an Interactive Category. The incurably ill in Spain (1850 - 1955). From 2013 to 2015 he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, and from 2015 to 2016 a BBVA Foundation Leonardo Fellow. His research has focused on the history of experience and emotions, specifically around the experiences of discomfort and well-being.

He has taught Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernández University, Elche, and has taught several subjects at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Murcia, both in the Degree of Philosophy (Science, Nature and Society; Philosophy, Gender and Equality; Philosophy and Globalization; History of Science; Philosophy of Culture) and in the Master of Research (Philosophical Problems of Interculturality; Illustrated Clues to the Contemporary World. Theories of Modernity).

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Generational Renewal Programme for the Promotion of Research at the University of Murcia 2020, with a project entitled Nature as an ethical horizon. Modernity, ecological crisis and experience of order. He is PI of the National Plan project Climate crisis, mental health and well-being in the Anthropocene. An approach from historical ontology, and member of the research collective ehCOLAB (https://www.um.es/ehcolab/), which brings together researchers from the University of Murcia, the University of Alicante, the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Valencia interested in the development of the blue humanities. With this group, it is developing the training course Tools for citizen participation in ecosocial transition processes: describing, representing and participating. The case of the Mar Menor, which is funded by the European Climate Foundation.

Since 2021 he has been editor of the journal Pensamiento al Margen and since 2022 vice-president of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Historia de la Experiencia y de las Emociones. Author of several articles in specialised journals, his first monograph will be published in 2023, entitled Componer un mundo en común: la filosofía empírica de Bruno Latour (Lengua de Trapo) [Composing a World in Common: Bruno Latour’s Empirical Philosophy].