SPEAKERS

Enara García is a philosopher and cognitive scientist with a multidisciplinary background in philosophy, experimental neuroscience, and humanistic psychotherapy. Her research lies at the intersection of 4E cognition, phenomenology, and mental health, developing enactive and relational approaches to mental disorders and exploring embodied intersubjectivity in therapeutic encounters. Other research interests include the philosophy of psychiatry, affective environments in therapeutic change, and qualitative methodologies in mental health research. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). 

Her current project, Therapeutic Atmospheres (THERASPHERES), investigates how affective and emotional atmospheres shape therapeutic processes, combining phenomenological analysis with qualitative methods, including video analysis and in-depth interviews. Before joining SDU, she was a Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country and previously held a Juan de la Cierva–Formación fellowship at the University of Granada. She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 at the University of the Basque Country at the IAS Research Group, with a dissertation focused on embodied intersubjectivity in psychotherapy. During her PhD, she organized the IXth PBCS Workshop together with Guglielmo Militello at the University of the Basque Country.

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda is a historian and philosopher of science specializing in the life sciences. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven, where he is a member of The Ramsey Philosophy of Biology Lab. His research spans the history and philosophy of biology, with a particular focus on the study of organisms and enviroments, and the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory and comparative biology. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum as part of the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group "The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical and Social Dimensions" (ROTO)

and was also a Writing-Up Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. Prior to his doctoral work, he completed an M.A. in Philosophy of Science (with a complementary specialization in History of Science) and a B.Sc. in Biology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He currently serves as Book Review Editor for the Journal for General Philosophy of Science and is also a fiction writer and editor in Spanish.

José Antonio Pérez-Escobar is a philosopher of science and mathematics and currently an assistant professor in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at UNED. Initially trained as a psychologist, he holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Heidelberg and a PhD in philosophy of science from ETH Zurich, for which he received the ETH Zurich Medal. After completing his degrees, he was awarded two postdoctoral project grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation: Mathematizing Biology: Measurement, Intuitions, Explanations and Big Data

at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and Mathematical Models and Normativity in Biology and Psychology at the University of Geneva. He has published widely in philosophy and scientific journals, including The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Technology, the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Topoi, Measurement, and eLife, and has given over 100 talks in conference and workshops.