AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
- Ancient philosophy   - Plato, Platonism and Plato's reception   - Classical studies    - Political thought
 
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Metaphysics, phenomenology, epistemology    - Philosophy of mind, consciousness studies    - Religious studies, cognitive approaches to religious experience
 
I'm currently working on:
1. Religion/religiosity in Plato (and other Greek/Roman authors). 
2. Meanings and functions of "ineffability" in ancient and modern thought. 
3. Beliefs, beliefs formation, implicit bias, pseudorationality, ignorance, self-knowledge, consciousness.
4. Phenomenological approaches to knowledge and meaning.
5. Translations from Greek/Latin (e.g. Plato's Phaedo;  Anonymous Fragment on Rhet. III.18 in Paris. Gr. 1874; and others)
 
My teaching activity focuses on:
1. Ancient philosophy;  2. Epistemology and theory of knowledge; 3. Phenomenology; 4. Aesthetics;  5. Political thought;  6. Latin and Greek

Memberships:
- Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), Conacyt, México. 
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Antigua (ALFA).
- Nucleo académico básico de la Maestría en Estudios Filosóficos, UDG.
- Nucleo académico del Doctorado en humanidades, UDG.
- Cuerpo Académico “Cultura, religión y sociedad”, CERyS, UDG.   
- Centro de Estudios Religión y Sociedad (CERyS), Departamento de Filosofia, UDG.
- OIKONOMIA (Research Group on Ancient Economic Thought), Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City), Universidad de Puerto Rico, coord. Etienne Helmer and David Lévystone.    

Ongoing Projects:
- “Formas del saber en el mundo antiguo  y modos de transmisión y registro” (PAPIIT IN403622), coord. Omar Alvarez Salas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas (IIFl), UNAM.
- “Em busca do hieros logos: repensando a relação entre orfismo e filosofia antiga”, coord. Rafael César Pitt (Universidade Federal do Amapá, Unifap).
- Plato’s Phaedo, translation and commentary  (with Omar Alvarez Salas), Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, IIFL, UNAM.

Hermeneutics and the Classics