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About
I obtained a J.D. with
high honors from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2001. My
J.D. thesis, which was published as a book in 2002, was awarded the Octavio
A. Hernandez Prize for the best thesis in Constitutional Law, by the Legal
Research Institute of UNAM. I have a M.A. in philosophy from the New School
for Social Research (2003), where I worked mainly on Aristotle’s Politics.
I am now concluding my Ph.D. in philosophy at Rutgers University. My
dissertation is a philosophical interpretation of the literature on the
psychology of time. Although the motivation of my dissertation can be found
in the metaphysics of time, particularly the debates between A and B
theorists, the main source of inspiration for my approach is the work of
Alvin Goldman, my advisor. I am a member of the Visual Attention Lab,
at Rutgers, where I designed experiments with Zenon Pylyshyn and Harry
Haladjian. I am also a member of the International Society for the Study
of Time (ISST), and received the New Scholar Award from the ISST in
August 2007. My research interests concern mainly the philosophy of
cognitive science, mind, perception and time but include the philosophy of
science, human rights and applied ethics.
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