Francisco Fernández Labastida

I was born in Mexico City on June 28, 1966. I graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1990 at the State University of Guadalajara (UdeG), in Guadalajara, Mexico. I obtained the degree of Baccalaureate in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, in 1993. At the same university I did my Licentiate studies in Philosophy, discussing the degree thesis in 1995, whose title was "Edith Stein: el problema de la empatía" (Edith Stein: The Problem of Empathy). From 1995 until 2001 I was an assistant in History of Contemporary Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, later I was appointed professor in charge of the same subject until 2004. On September 13, 1998, I received priestly ordination. I obtained my PhD in Philosophy in 2001, discussing the thesis "La antropología de Wilhelm Dilthey" (The Anthropology of Wilhelm Dilthey). From 2000 to 2004 I was secretary of the Editorial Board of the international journal of philosophy "Acta Philosophica" and Coordinator of Studies of the School of Philosophy from 2004 until 2008. From 2008 until 2012 I was the Academic Vice Rector of the University. From 2013 to 2018 I was Vicedirector of the DISF Center (Interdisciplinary Science and Faith Documentation Center). Since 2004 I am an associate professor of History of Contemporary Philosophy. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, I am editor of «Philosophica: enciclopedia filosófica online», an online Philosophy Encyclopaedia in Spanish.