Rebeca Maldonado

Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and full-time professor in the area of Ontology and Metaphysics at the Philosophy College of the UNAM’s Philosophy and Letters Faculty. She leads a seminar focused on the fundamental texts of the Kyoto School and Buddhism. She was responsible for the PAPIIT project Ontology and History: Inquiry into the paths for another history from the ontology of the twentieth century and has many publications. She is a member of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, of the International Chair of Critical Hermeneutics - coordinated by Teresa Oñate of the UNED-, and the International Center of Studies in Contemporary Nihilism -coordinated by professor Alfredo Rocha-. She was the coordinator of the translation of the great work from the japanese philosophy of Hajime Tanabe ''Philosophy as metanoetics''. Participates in the research project Topological thinking in Japan, coordinated by Raquel Bouso of the Pompeu Fabra University. She is director of the magazine Theoría and coordinator of the of Philosophy College of the UNAM’s School of Philosophy and Literature. She has been a visiting professor at the Nanzan Institute of Religion and Culture, in Nagoya, Japan, and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.