April, 2021 | FiloLab UGR

30Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

“Addressing organ shortage: An automatic organ procurement as a proposal”

Publications

Marina Morla-González, Clara Moya-Guillem, David Rodríguez-Arias (FiloLab), Íñigo de Miguel Beriain, Alberto Molina-Pérez, Iván Ortega-Deballon have recently published an article entitled “Addressing organ shortage: An automatic organ procurement as a proposal” In the Clinical Ethics, 0(0), pp. 1-13 journal. 2021. (DOI: 10.1177/14777509211011429). Here is the abstract: Organ shortage constitutes an unsolved problem for every country that offers transplantation as a therapeutic option. Besides the largely implemented donation model and the eventually implemented market model, an automatic organ procurement model has been largely studied: the automatic organ procurement for transplantation purposes model (also known as confiscatory model). This model has raised a rich debate in the legal, medical and bioethical community, since it could show a higher potential to solve organ shortage. In this paper, we study the main arguments for…

28Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

2021 APPLIED ETHICS SEMINAR

Activities, workshops

On 13th (afternoon) and 14th (morning) May, the ESPACyOS Network organises the ‘Seminario de Éticas Aplicadas’ (Applied Ethics Seminar).The Organising and Scientific Committee is made up of some FiloLab members: David Rodríguez-Arias (Deputy-Director at FiloLab) and Jon Rueda (Researcher in Training at FiloLab) are part of the Organising Committee while Ester Massó Guijarro (Associate Researcher at FiloLab) and Ivar Hannikainen (Associate Researcher at FiloLab) are part of the Scientific Committee. This seminar will be held online and it will be an opportunity to share ongoing work in the field of applied ethics. It will be structured in short presentations (between 10 and 15 minutes long) followed by a discussion. We highly encourage you to share this invitation with members of your department who might be interested or who are currently working in the…

26Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

Neftalí Villanueva and Manuel Almagro’s new article: “Cómo no hablar de Ayuso”

Publications

‘Cómo no hablar de Ayuso’ (How could we not speak about Ayuso?) is Neftalí Villanueva and Manuel Almagro’s new article for ‘CONTEXTO’. Our colleagues reflect on testimonial injustice, asymmetrical polarisation and disagreements. These are key elements that need to be explained so as to deal with controversies in an increasingly identity-focused public sphere. ‘Cómo no hablar de Ayuso’ ‘Communism or freedom’, Ayuso’s recent statements, cannot be countered with a flood of figures or mockery. Those who want to undermine the chances of the Spanish Popular Party’s candidate should find a way to reconstruct public debate. In 2017, Boris Johnson, who was Foreign Minister, visited the Schwedagon pagoda, one of the most sacred Buddhist centres in Myanmar, which was a source of dispute during the colonial period. He had just rung…

23Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

Bayfal diaspora in Spain: Discussing Murid Senegalese Migration

Activities, Conferences

Ester Massó Guijarro, researcher at FiloLab, gave the conference entitled ‘Bayfal diaspora in Spain: Challenging Murid Senegalese Migration’ as part of the ‘Mystique et ésotérisme dans la diaspora’ round table in the framework of the ‘Journées d’études internationales sur les mystiques islamiques en Afrique’. This event was organised by the GRECS group of the University of Barcelona on 21st and 22nd April 2021. This work reflects on the bayfal movement (bayfalism) within muridism from a transnational perspective, seen as a specifically migratory affiliation with contemporaneity and within the field of African studies. It compares original bayfalism as a Sufi heterodoxy in Senegal within the Mouride brotherhood with the case study of migratory diaspora in Madrid (Spain) as well as with Granada (Andalusia, Spain) in a complementary and secondary way. It…

22Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

Conversation between Carlos Fernández Liria and Mario Espinoza Pino on the book ‘Marx, 2857: el problema del método y la dialéctica’

Activities, workshops

From 4th February to 21st April 2021, two sessions of presentation, conversation, and debate on Carlos Fernández Liria’s work ‘Marx, 2857: el problema del método y la dialéctica’ took place. This event was organised by José Luis Moreno Pestaña and Mario Espinoza Pino, members of FiloLab and the Seminario de Filosofía Social ‘Capital (es), Cuerpos’. During the debate, they dealt with the methodological problems of Karl Marx’s work, which is paramount in the development of what Perry Anderson, Martin Jay, Russel Jacoby and Davic Mc Lellan, among others, called ‘Western Marxism’. Fernández Liria’s work, which focuses on rereading the 1857 Einleitung, radically criticises the Hegelian concept of dialectic, separating Marx from Hegel and approaching him towards the development of the history of sciences —with regards to Marxist authors such as…

22Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

“How much lack of participation can democracy stand?”

Publications

José Luis Moreno Pestaña has recently published an article entitled ‘How much lack of participation can democracy stand?’ in a political philosophy blog called ‘El Rumor de las Multitudes’, which is one of the main spaces for reflection of the Spanish newspaper ‘El Salto’. In his article, he deals with some of the major challenges of our democracies, in line with the main topic of J.L. Moreno Pestaña’s latest work, ‘Los pocos y los mejores’ (Akal, 2021) —which has earned him the award ‘Premio Internacional de Pensamiento 2030’ —. How much lack of participation can democracy stand? We present a study on how the election procedure shapes democracy and why sortition is necessary. To do so, the requirements for political participation in terms of knowledge are carefully considered. Faced with…

20Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

Publication of the article: “Childhood and Pandemic: Chronicle of an Absence Foretold”

COVID-19, News, Publications

Ester Massó Guijarro, researcher at FiloLab, has published the article “Childhood and Pandemic: Chronicle of an Absence Foretold” in Salud Colectiva (vol. 17, 2021), the magazine of the National University of Lanús (Argentina). It is an open access magazine indexed in the Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus amongst others. Here is the abstract of the article: “The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that childhood is the global south of the virus: a world where care is not a freely chosen value and where children’s voices are being silenced in virtue of a long-held epistemic injustice. Thus, the transformation that societies are going through due to the COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on children’s rights on both a small and a large scale. In Spain, a country particularly affected…

15Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

«In defence of posthuman vulnerability»

Publications

Belen Liedo Fernández (CSIC, UCM) and Jon Rueda Etxebarria (FiloLab, UGR) have recently published an article entitled “In Defence of Post human Vulnerability” in Scientia et Fides 9 (1)/2021 (P. 215 – 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2021.008) magazine. Here is the abstract of the research article: “Transhumanism is a challenging movement that invites us to rethink what defines humanity, including what we value and regret the most about our existence. Vulnerability is a key concept that require thorough philosophical scrutiny concerning transhumanist proposals. Vulnerability can refer to a universal condition of human life (ontological vulnerability) or, rather, to the specific exposure to certain harms due to particular situations (social vulnerability). Even if we are all vulnerable in the first sense, there are also different sources and levels of vulnerability depending on concrete social circumstances.…

14Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

CONFERENCE “EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE, INSTITUTIONS AND EPISTEMIC ACTIVISM”

Conferences

José Medina, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University (US) is the author of The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (Oxford University Press; recipient of the 2013 North-American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award). He will be the keynote speaker of the conference organised by the Doctoral Programme on Philosophy. Date: Friday 16th April 2021 Platform: https://oficinavirtual.ugr.es/redes/SOR/SALVEUGR/accesosala.jsp?IDSALA=22961761 Time : 12 am Organised by : For further information contact : Pedro Francés-Gómez Philosophy I (Political and Moral Philosophy) University of Granada Doctoral Programme on Philosophy Coordinator http://doctorados.ugr.es/filosofia/ pfg@ugr.es Please contact filolab@ugr.es with the subject “Injusticia epistémica, instituciones y activismo epistémico” to receive the password required to attend the event.

12Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

«Doctor, Please Make Me Freer: Capabilities Enhancement as a Goal of Medicine. Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy»

News, Publications

Jon Rueda (FiloLab, UGR), Pablo Garía Barranquero (UMA) and Francisco Lara (FiloLab, UGR) have recently published an article entitled Doctor Please, Make Me Freer: Capabilities Enhancement as a Goal of Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10016-5, 2021) in Medicine, Healthcare & Philosophy magazine. In their article, they address the debate on human enhancement and medicine’s goals. Here is the abstract of the research article: “Biomedical innovations are making possible the enhancement of human capabilities. There are two philosophical stances on the role that medicine should play in this respect. On the one hand, naturalism rejects every medical intervention that goes beyond preventing and treating disease. On the other hand, welfarism advocates enhancements that foster subjective well-being. We will show that both positions have considerable shortcomings. Consequently, we will introduce a third characterization in which therapies…

08Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

“Ethics of Care” seminar

Activities, Conferences, workshops

The 6th April, Esther Massó Guijarro—researcher at FiloLab— presented the “Ethics of Care” seminar together with Rosana Triviño at the Andalusian School of Public Health of Granada. This seminar took place in the framework of the 4th module on ethics, gender and care which is part of the 11th Diploma of Specialisation in Bioethics, organised by the Andalusian School of Public Health. Following the proposals and analyses of Kohlberg and Gilligan, this seminar shows how the ethics of care are a critical and complementary approach to traditional ethics of justice so as to move towards a non-binary and non-exclusive conception of gender, amongst other values. Through a hybrid methodology that combines theory and group practice, students are expected to develop and integrate approaches and guiding principles regarding ethics of care…

07Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

EBEN Spain 2021: 28 th Online Conference

Calls, Conferences, Posts, workshops

Rafael Cejudo (Cordoba University), member of FiloLab, is the organiser of the 28th EBEN (Erupopean Business Ethics Networks) Conference in Spain, which will take place on 10-12 June 2021. FiloLab would like to invite all of you to participate. The title of this conference is “Ethical and social economy: a new covenant between business and society” and it will be held online due to the social and health problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic has presented companies with new challenges in record time; it has speeded up technological change and it has created new consumer and work habits which were only starting to develop a few months ago. It has also plunged economies into an unprecedented crisis which has had uneven effects for each different sector. Therefore, citizens, consumers…

05Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

Debates on democracy. Discussion on “Los pocos y los mejores”, by J. L. Moreno Pestaña

Publications

Emmanuel Rodríguez López reviewed José Luis Moreno Pestaña’s newly published book “Los pocos y los mejores” for Sin permiso magazine. The book, edited by Akal, has earned him the Premio Internacional de Pensamiento 2030 award. This the third edition of debates on democracy, on the deep meaning of politics, on forms of organisation of political parties as well as the social tensions deriving from collective emancipation. Democratic degeneration. Poison and antidote Emmanuel Rodríguez López “Moreno Pestaña has just published a new book, a short but dense and smart essay whose title is “Los pocos y los mejores”. His work is relevant in the exchange of today’s politics conditions (this book is the third issue after the publication of «Estado, derecho y comunidad, política» [https://www.sinpermiso.info/textos/estado-derecho-comunidad-politica] and «Política y democracia» [https://www.sinpermiso.info/textos/politica-y-democracia]). It’s been…

05Apr 2021 by FiloLab No Comments

“When they call you, go and get vaccinated”

Media, News, Publications

Javier Rodríguez Alcázar reflects on the current COVID-19 vaccination process. It is a necessary reflection in these times of media sensationalism and misinformation about vaccines. “Because of my job and age, it is very likely that I will get vaccinated with AstraZeneca. And when they call me, I will go, get vaccinated, and go on with my life. And I will do it for my own sake and for the sake of those around me. Some people fear this vaccine because 30 cases of thromboembolic events out of 5 million vaccinated people have been reported. However, a causal relationship has not been established. Without taking vaccines into account, blood clots normally occur with an incidence of four per one million adults. Therefore, there are probably other causes for those cases.…