BIO
Atocha Aliseda is Professor of Philosophy in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a position she has held since 1997. Her main areas of philosophical inquiry are science and logic, medicine and clinical reasoning, scientific discoveries, non-classical logics and science methodology, and she has researched extensively on abductive reasoning and the logics of scientific discovery. From 2022 to 2024 she was a María Zambrano research fellow at Spain’s National University of Distance Education (UNED), where she continues today as an honorary research collaborator in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UNAM and a PhD in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, she is the author of five books and over 80 academic publications between papers, book chapters and reviews. In 2018 she received the National Logic Prize from the Mexican Academy of Logic, and since 2023 has been a member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.
