Origin
The idea of creating ALFAn was born in Mexico DF in April, 2006, when Maite Ezcurdia proposed it to Olbeth Hansberg, Guillermo Hurtado and Carlos Pereda, from the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM and to Sílvio Pinto, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa. Afterwards, philosophers from Brazil (Marco Ruffino, Paulo Faria and André Leclerc) and from Argentina (Alberto Moretti, Eleonora Orlando and Diana Pérez) became interested in the idea of the association as well as philosophers from Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay.
First Meeting
The first ALFAn meeting took place on April 9, 2007, during the XXIII Simposio Internacional de Filosofía del Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM which also celebrated the 40th anniversary of Crítica, a Latin American philosophy journal.
Founding Members attending the First Meeting:
Name | Institution | Country |
Barceló Aspetia, Axel | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Caorsi, Carlos Enrique | Universidad de la Repùblica | Uruguay |
De Donato, Xavier | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Díaz Soto, Marcelo | Universidad de Santiago | Chile |
Duhau, Laura | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Eraña, Àngeles | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Ezcurdia, Maite | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Faria, Paulo | Universidad Fereral do Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil |
Fernández, Miguel Ángel | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Fernández de Castro, Max | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa | México |
Freund, Max | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
García, Claudia Lorena | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Gómez Torrente, Mario | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Hansberg, Olbeth | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Herrera Lima, María | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Hurtado, Guillermo | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Leclerc, André |
Universidad Federal da Paraíba | Brazil |
Lorenzano, Pablo | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes-CONICET | Argentina |
Meléndez, Raúl |
Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia |
Moretti, Alberto |
Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET | Argentina |
Orlando, Eleonora |
Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET | Argentina |
Ortiz Millán, Gustavo | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Pérez, Diana |
Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET | Argentina |
Pérez Ransanz, Ana Rosa |
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Pinto, Silvio |
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa | México |
Rodríguez-Pereira, Gonzalo | Universidad de Torcuato di Tella / Universidad de Nottingham | Argentina |
Rossi, Alejandro | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Ruffino, Marco | Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
Saab, Salma |
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Stepanenko, Pedro | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Tomasini, Alejandro |
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Valdés, Margarita | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
Winther, Rasmus | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM | México |
2nd Meeting
The second ALFAn meeting was the I ALFAn Conference (α1), which took place on April 13 -16, 2010, in Mérida, México, at the Centro Peninsular de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales-UNAM.
3rd Meeting
The II ALFAn Conference (α1) took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 21-24, 2012.
4th Meeting
The III ALFAn Conference (α3) took place in Fortaleza, Brazil, on May 27-31, 2014.
5th Meeting
The IV ALFAn Conference (α4) took place in San José, Costa Rica, on May 25-27, 2016.
6th Meeting
The V ALFAn Conference (α5) will take place in Colombia in 2018.