A Plural Reason Against Cognitive Empires: The Legacies of Iberian American Philosophy

The Instituto Cervantes in Manchester presents the roundtable "A Plural Reason Against Cognitive Empires: The Legacies of Iberian American Philosophy" with researchers Antolín Sánchez Cuervo and Axel Pérez Trujillo.

The roundtable engages with the potential dialogue between the contributions of an Iberian American philosophy and Postcolonial Studies. Both presenters will discuss the strands of inquiry linked to the Pluriber Research Project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Crucial to the discussion will be how a plural reason, one that responds to what philosopher Enrique Dussel argues is a “pluriversality yet to be defined” may help us rethink the imperialisms and colonialisms of the 21st Century.

Participants:

Dr. Antolín Sánchez Cuervo: Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC. He obtained his PhD at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and is the author of more than 200 publications on Iberian-American philosophy. He is also President of the Hispanic Philosophy Association (AHF) and Mercator Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Dr. Axel Pérez Trujillo: Associate Professor at Durham University, a post he has held since 2018. He obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta and is the author of the book Imagining the Plains of Latin America (Bloomsbury, 2021), having dedicated his research to embedding philosophical analysis in the study of Latin American culture. His current research engages with ecocriticism and Iberian-American philosophy.