Maximiliano Zeller

I am a philosopher based at the Instituto de Filosofía “Dr. Alejandro Korn”, Universidad de Buenos Aires. My research focuses on the philosophy of psychiatry, with particular attention to the epistemology and ethics of psychiatric classification and psychedelic-assisted therapy. I work on the validity of diagnostic categories, epistemic injustice in psychiatric discourse, the normative conditions of clinical encounters, and the philosophical presuppositions embedded in psychiatric research design. My recent work examines how evidential standards and institutional frameworks structure what counts as clinically relevant knowledge, and how this applies both to mainstream psychiatric practice and to emerging therapeutic interventions.

I received my PhD from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in November 2024, with a dissertation on psychedelic therapies between the biomedical model and the horizons of a new psychiatry, supervised by Diana Pérez. My work has appeared in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology and Philosophical Psychology. I am coordinator of the MIND Foundation reading group on philosophy of psychedelics in Buenos Aires, and director of the philosophy of psychedelics research group at SADAF.