Sebastián Sánchez-Martínez - CV
Bio
A Colombian philosophy researcher currently based at TU Dresden with an international background, an interdisciplinary spirit, and a focus on reasoning, the rationality of beliefs, and applications to individual improvements in reasoning and decision making.
Education
2020 - PhD Candidate, Technische Universität Dresden (DAAD Scholarship)
Dissertation: Keeping it Simple: A Philosophical Essay on Simplified Reasoning
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Moritz Schulz
2015-2019 MA in Philosophy, Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia)
Dissertation: Wilfrid Sellars’ Naturalism with a Normative Turn
Supervisors: Mauricio Zuluaga & Jorge Ornelas
2007-2014 BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)
Dissertation: The Problem of Singular Terms in Robert Brandom
Research
Areas of Specialization: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, American Neopragmatism.
Academic Visits
2016 Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM (Mexico City)
2010 -2011 Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Publications
2020 Translation into Spanish of Brandom, Robert. Holismo e idealismo en la Fenomenología de Hegel. Praxis Filosófica, 50, 287–324.
2017 Review of James O’Shea (Ed.) Wilfrid Sellars and His Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2016), Ideas y Valores Vol. 66, Núm 165 (December 2017).
2016 Book Chapter “El problema de los términos singulares en Robert Brandom”. En: Olga Gómez Gutiérrez y Jairo Isaac Racines (comps.) En los límites de la ciencia y la filosofía: debates actuales. Editorial Universidad del Valle.
Talks
2024.02.02 “A Consequentialist Model of Simplified Reasoning” Workshop in Theoretical Philosophy, TU Dresden.
2023.12.12 “Expresivismo sobre la credibilidad”. (Online) Hybrid Workshop Lenguaje, Acción y Expresividad, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 12 December 2023.
2023.09.09 “Rational Simplified Reasoning in Beliefs”. SOPhiA Young Analytic Philosophy Conference, Salzburg, 09 September 2023.
2023.06.07 “Higher-Order Doubts in Simplified Reasoning”. Workshop in Theoretical Philosophy, TU Dresden, 07 July 2023.
2023.04.01 “Making Sense of Representativeness”. EpiJust2023, LMU München, 01 April 2023.
2023.01.19 “Simplified (Epistemically) Rational Reasoning”. Workshop in Theoretical Philosophy, TU Dresden, 19 January 2023.
Teaching
TU Dresden
2021 Nature and Nurture: the Locke vs. Leibniz Debate
Pereira Technical University
2019-2020 Logico-mathematical Reasoning
Service
2009 Organizer of international student event I Foro Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Filosofía.
2009-2012 Editor of student publication Versiones (Universidad de Antioquia).
2009 Organizer of student event XXII Foro de estudiantes de filosofía de Versiones (Universidad de Antioquia).
2008-2009 Referee of student publication Versiones (Universidad de Antioquia).
Honors & Awards
2020 DAAD Scholarship
2019 Laureate Mention for Research Project, Universidad del Valle
2014 Monography Special Mention, Universidad de Antioquia
Outreach & Public Philosophy
2020- Blog (in Spanish) at Ghost.
2019 Markus Gabriel and New Realism (As part of the Gimnasio de filosofía popular [Popular Philosophy Gym] initiative in the town-theatre SALAEstrecha in Pereira, Colombia); July 16
2019 Nick Bostrom and the Simulation Argument (As part of the Gimnasio de filosofía popular [Popular Philosophy Gym] initiative in the town-theatre SALAEstrecha in Pereira, Colombia); July 2
2019 Jean Baudrillard and Simulacra (As part of the Gimnasio de filosofía popular [Popular Philosophy Gym] initiative in the town-theatre SALAEstrecha in Pereira, Colombia); June 18
2019 Suicide: Mass Media & Prevention in Youngsters. Conference to English Elementary & High School Pre-Service Teachers as part of a public suicide prevention initiative led by Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.
Academic References
- Prof. Moritz Schulz, Technische Universität Dresden
moritz.schulz@tu-dresden.de
- Prof. Dr. Patricia Rich, Universität Bayreuth
patricia.rich@uni-bayreuth.de