JARA Javier（西班牙）

讲师

Nationality: The Kingdom of Spain（国籍：西班牙）

教育背景 Education Background

2007-2012 西班牙塞维利亚大学，哲学逻辑及科学哲学系，博士硕士

2007-2008 西班牙安达卢西亚教育证书

2003-2007 西班牙塞维利亚大学哲学系

国际交流 International Communication Experience

Visiting Research Positions

Sep 2022 – Oct 2022  Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan): Visiting Scholar. Innovative Japanese Studies Department, PI: Koji Ono.

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022  Yale University (New Haven, USA): Visiting Fellow. Center for Cultural Sociology, PI: Jeffrey Alexander.

Oct 2019 – Mar 2020  Sangyo University of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan): Visiting Scholar. Department of Sociology, PI: Prof. Kimio Ito.

Sep 2019 – Oct 2019  Stanford University (Stanford, USA): Visiting Scholar. Department of Religious Studies, PI: Prof. Thomas Sheehan.

Jan – Feb 2019; Jun 2017  Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan): Visiting Scholar. Faculty of Letter’s Center for Applied Philosophy & Ethics, PI: Prof. Satoshi Kodama.

Jan – Aug 2017  Minzu University of China (Beijing, China): Instructor of the Ivy Rain Future Scholar Research Program.

2015 – 2018  University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK): Affiliated Researcher. Department of Sociology, PI: Prof. Patrick Baert. Name of the project: International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 

2013 – 2015  University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK): Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. Department of Sociology, PI: Prof. Patrick Baert. 

2011 – 2013   University of Seville (Seville, Spain): Research Fellow. Institute of Philosophy of Economics and German Philosophy.         

2009  Shanghai Natural History Museum (Shanghai, China): Chief Scientific Researcher for the Conceptual Department of IngeniaQED (2009)

Visiting Teaching Positions

Jul 2022  University of La Rioja (Logro?o, Spain): Visiting Professor,Department of Philosophy. Philosophy course.

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 International University of La Rioja (Logro?o, Spain): Visiting Professor, Department of Education. Philosophy courses. 

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 University of Seville (Seville, Spain): Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy.Philosophy courses. 

Nov 2018  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece): Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy and Education. Philosophy and Social Theory courses. (Under the Erasmus+ International Mobility Programme)

Jul – Aug 2013, 2016, 2017  Minzu University of China (Beijing, China): Visiting Professor, Faculty of Letters.Social Theory and Philosophy courses.

Jul – Aug 2014, 2015 Fu Jen Catholic University (Taipei, Taiwan, China): Visiting Professor, Faculty of Letters. Social Theory and Philosophy courses.

工作经历 Work Experience

台湾辅仁大学客座教授 2014年6月-8月，2015年6月-8月

中央民族大学客座教授 2013年6月-8月

西班牙奥维耶多哲学研究所客座教授 2012年

科研成果 Achievements in Academic Research

Books

2023: Techno-Utopia and Techno-Apocalypse in Global Capitalism: A Critical Analysis of Four Perspectives. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

2023: Dramatic Intellectuals. (co-edited with Isabel Jijón and Nicolás Rudas). London: Yale’s Palgrave Macmillan Cultural Sociology Series. (forthcoming).

2023: Overcoming the Nature Versus Nurture Debate: New and Old Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality (co-edited with ??igo Ongay). New York: Springer’s Synthese Library (forthcoming).

2022: Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology. (co-edited with Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí). New York: Springer’s Synthese Library.

2022: Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell. A Cultural Sociology. (with Lino Camprubí). Lanham: Lexington Books .

2014: La filosofía de Betrand Russell. Oviedo: Pentalfa. 546 pp.

2012: Mente y materia. Seville: University of Seville Press. 464 pp.

Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals and Books

2023: “Hearing the Silent Call of the Last God: On Heidegger’s Mythical and Prophetic Language.” (forthcoming)

2023: “Process, Discontinuity, and Qualitative Novelty. The Ontology of Co-Evolution.” Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 1(4) (Springer).

2023: “From Quantum Fields to Cultural Artifacts (and Backwards): On the Reality of Vertical Causation.” Philosophies 10(1).

2023: “The Prophets of the Industrial Judgement Day.” in Dramatic Intellectuals. (co-edited with Isabel Jijón and Nicolás Rudas). London: Yale’s Palgrave Macmillan Series in Cultural Sociology. 

2023:  “The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology and Its Relation with Biology”, in Overcoming the Nature Versus Nurture Debate: New and Old Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality (co-edited with ??igo Ongay). New York:  Springer’s Synthese Library (forthcoming).

2022: “What is Materialism? History and Concepts” (with Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí) in Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Eds. Javier Pérez-Jara & Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí). New York: Springer Synthese Library.

2022: “Materialism is False / Materialism is Not False (debate with Graham Harman)” in Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Eds. Javier Pérez-Jara & Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí). New York: Springer Synthese Library.

2022: “Emergent Materialism does not Imply Continuism / Emergent Materialism implies Continuism (debate with ??igo Ongay)” in Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Eds. Javier Pérez-Jara & Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí). New York: Springer Synthese Library.

2022: “Discontinuous Materialism”, in Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Eds. Javier Pérez-Jara & Gustavo E. Romero & Lino Camprubí). New York: Springer Synthese Library.

2022: “The God-question(s) and the Ontological Dimensions of Being” in Rationality, Theism and Atheism (Eds.  Muhammad Saeidimehr, Kelly Clark, and Ebrahim Azadegan). Tehran: Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy Press.

2021: “Ritual and Myth in the International Corona-Drama. A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander”  (https://ccs.yale.edu/news/interview-jeff-alexander-ritual-and-myth-international-corona-drama).

2021: “Mito y rito en el corona-drama internacional. Jeffrey Alexander en diálogo con Javier Pérez Jara”, in Sociedad Entre Pandemias (Eds. Juan del Llano & Lino Camprubí). Madrid: Gaspar Casal Foundation. 

2017: “In Search of Nuda Veritas: Phenomenology, Technology, and Arche in the Modern World”, in Philosophy: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Ed. Dr. Tangjia Wang). Shanghai: GSTF.

2016: “Principles and Open Problems of Discontinuous Materialism.” Studia Iberica et Americana. California State  University’s Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, 3: 165-191.  

2016: “Revisiting Plato’s Republic: An Analysis of Spanish Adult and Elderly Education”, in Education in the Present World. Beijing: Chaoyang Community College Press.

2016: “再读柏拉图的《理想国》：西班牙成人和老年教育分析.” 2016中国国际教育年会 (CACIE 2016).第四届国际老年教育论坛. 学校、企业和社会合作 建设学习型家庭和社区 --实现老年教育创新发展. 北京： 朝阳社区学院.

2015: “Ritual and Myth in the Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam.” University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance & Human Rights Working Paper Series, 11.

2015: “From Golden Age to Apocalypse: Science Chez Bertrand Russell Before and After the Great War.” Ed: Laurie Michel-Hutteau. Being Modern: Science and Culture in the Early 20th Century. London: UCL Press.

2014: “Mi primer contacto con el materialismo filosófico”. Gustavo Bueno: 60 visiones sobre su obra. Ed: Raúl Angulo, Rubén Franco & Iván Vélez. Oviedo: Pentalfa.

2011: “Libertad, objeto práctico y acción. La facultad del juicio en la filosofía moral de Kant.” Thémata. Revista de Filosofía, 44: 582–595.

2011: “La importancia del cuerpo como 'constitutivo formal' de todo viviente en la filosofía de Schopenhauer.” Thémata. Revista de Filosofía, 44: 424–438.

2010: “La cuestión del Logos de la filosofía posmoderna y su teoría literaria”. Contra los mitos y sofismas de las “teorías literarias” posmodernas. Ed: Jesús G. Maestro & Inger Enkvist. Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo.

Popular Articles and Interviews

2022: Interview for the Red de Investigadores China-Espa?a (RICE), 20th Nov.

2022: Open Letter about the legacy of the Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno. The Objective Aug 5th (https://theobjective.com/elsubjetivo/opinion/2022-08-05/interesados-filosofia-gustavo-bueno/).

2017: Review of Gustavo Bueno’s Book El Ego Trascendental. Abaco. Revista de Cultura y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 3, n? 93.

2015: Interview for the Mexican Philosophical Journal El Obstinado Rigor about the research at Cambridge University, 5th Nov.

2015: Radio Interview on Radio Taipei International about the teaching at Fu Jen Catholic University, Jul 20th. 

2015: “The Performative Core of Power and Legitimacy in Human Rights Organisations.” (Forthcoming)

2015: “The Oblivion of Nature as Nature: the Importance of Heidegger's Ecological Thought About Modern Technology.” (Forthcoming)

2015: “Ritual and Myth in the Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam” University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance & Human Rights Working Paper Series, 11.

2015: “The Feet of Clay of Bertrand Russell's Criticisms Against Idealism.”, under review, European Journal of Philosophy.

2015: “New Developments in Social Theory After the “Performative Turn”: on Positioning Theory as a Theoretical Framework in the Sociology of Intellectuals.” under review, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

2011: “Libertad, objeto práctico y acción. La facultad del juicio en la filosofía moral de Kant.” Thémata, 44: 582–595.

2011: “La importancia del cuerpo como 'constitutivo formal' de todo viviente en la filosofía de Schopenhauer.” Thémata, 44: 424–438.

2009: “El desafío del Universo. De Tales de Mileto a la energía oscura.” Empiria, 18: 217–231.

2008: “Europa y cristianismo. Análisis del surgimiento del fenómeno cultural cristiano y su desarrollo histórico.” El Basilisco, 39: 37–66.

2008: “Libertad, Dios y Metafísica.” Thémata, 40: 277–293.

2007: “Determinismo y causalidad: sobre la inexistencia del libre arbitrio.” Thémata, 38: 323–344.

2005: “Materia y racionalidad: sobre la existencia de la idea de Dios.” El Basilisco. Revista de Filosofía, Ciencias Humanas, Teoría de la Ciencia y de la Cultura, 36: 27–64.

2005: “La confrontación entre el marxismo y el sistema del Idealismo trascendental kantiano en antropología y filosofía política.” Apuntes filosóficos, 26: 99–121.

2004: “Análisis de la Idea de Ego trascendental en el sistema kantiano.” El Basilisco, 35: 77–84.

2003: “Recopilación de estudios sobre Leibniz.” El Catoblepas, 15: 23–34.

2014: Report of the Presentation of the Book La filosofía de Bertrand Russell in the Spanish Newspaper La Nueva Espa?a (Page 8. January 14).

2012: Interview for Spanish Newspaper, La Nueva Espa?a, by journalist Javier Neira. Recognition for courses taught on Bertrand Russell at the Institute of Philosophy of Oviedo. (Page 6. October 31).

2007-: Regular contributor to Proyecto Filosofía en Espa?ol (www.filosofia.org).

2005-: Editor of multiple entries in Symploké - The Virtual Encyclopedia for Science and Philosophy. (http://symploke.trujaman.org/).

Special Invited Lectures

2023: “Contemporary Materialism” Department of Philosophy Feb 22th, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

2022: “Presentation of the Book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology” Department of Philosophy Jan 26th, Salamanca University, Seville, Spain.

2022: “Presentation of the Book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology” Department of Philosophy Nov 18th, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

2022: “Presentation of the Book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology” Department of History and Philosophy of Science Nov 15th, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA.

2022: “Presentation of the Book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology” Department of History Nov 7th, Chicago University, Chicago, USA.

2022: “What Do We Understand By ‘Philosophical Materialism’?” Department of Philosophy Jul 26th, University of the Atlantic, Barranquilla, Colombia.

2022: “Presentation of the book Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology” Department of Philosophy Jul 22th, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

2022: “A Critical Analysis of Gustavo Bueno’s Discontinuous Materialism.” Jul 19nd University of La Rioja, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain.

2021: “Lights and Shadows of Nuclear Death: On Bertrand Russell’s Positioning on the Atomic Bomb” (Discussant:  Jeffrey Alexander). Department of Sociology Nov 26th, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

2021: “Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell.” (Discussant: Jeffrey Alexander) Department of Sociology Sep 24th, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

2020: “Introducción a las relaciones entre ciencias sociales y filosofía.”  Instituto Cervantes de Pekín Dec 19th, Beijing, China.

2020: “A Critical Analysis of Bertrand Russell’s Anthropology.”   Department of Philosophy Nov 26th, University of Seville, Seville, Spain. 

2020: “Metafísica, epistemología y teoría política en la filosofía de Mario Bunge.”  Department of Philosophy Nov 14th, University of Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.

2020: “Utopía y apocalipsis: mito, ciencia y filosofía.” Department of Philosophy Jan 31st, University of Seville, Seville, Spain. 

2020: “Bertrand Russell’s Role as Social and Human Rights Activist in the 20th Century.” Department of Sociology Jan 15th, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan.

2019: “On the Philosophical Presuppositions of Sociological Theories.”  Department of Sociology Nov 21st, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan.

2019: “Who or What is Heidegger’s Last God?” Department of Religious Studies Oct 20th, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

2019: “From Icarus to the Last God: A Comparative Analysis Between Bertrand Russell’s and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Approaches.”  Center for Applied Philosophy & Ethics Feb 6th, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

2018: “The Role of Critical Thinking in Education.” Department of Philosophy and Education Nov 23rd, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.  

2018: “From World War I to the Vietnam War: Narrating Trauma, Utopia and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell’s Moral Philosophy.”  Center for Applied Philosophy & Ethics June 29th, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

2018: “Revisiting Truth, Knowledge, and Idealism in Bertrand Russell.”  Department of Philosophy March 22nd, Hong Kong University, China.

2018: “Science, Philosophy, and Ideology.” Department of History of Science Feb 15th, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 

2017: “East meets West: Encounters between China and Europe in the Last Decades.” Beijing Institute of Technology Nov 29th, Beijing, China.

2017: “East meets West: Encounters between China and Europe in the Last Decades.” University of International Business and Economics Nov 13th, Beijing, China.

2017: “East meets West: Encounters between China and Europe in the Last Decades.” Beijing University of Posts and Communication Nov 3rd, Beijing, China.

2017: “World, God, and Being in Heidegger’s Ontological Phenomenology.” Center for Applied Philosophy & Ethics June 2nd, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

2017: “The Feet of Clay underlying Bertrand Russell’s Critiques of Idealism.” Department of Philosophy April 4th, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

2016: “Unfolding the World: Hybris, Knowledge and Technology in the Modern Age.” (Discussant: Bruno Latour) Society for the the History of Technology (SHOT) Conference 22nd-26th June, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

2016: “The Oblivion of Nature as Nature in the Anthropocene Epoch: Revisiting Heidegger’s Confrontation between Planetary Technology and Modern Humanity.” Experiencing the Global Environment Workshop 4th-6th February, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. 

2015: “The Performative Core of Power and Legitimacy in Human Rights Organisations.” (Discussant: Patrick Baert) Department of Politics and International Studies February 2nd, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 

2014: Discussant. Annual Doctoral Research Triangle Univ. of Cambridge/Univ. of London/Univ. of Essex November 27th,  Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Essex, UK.

2014: “The Social Impact and Influence of the Russell-Sartre Tribunal.”  INTERCO-SSH Annual Meeting 6th-7th March, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazion, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

2014: “Presentation of the Book La filosofía de Bertrand Russell.” Oviedo Institute of Philosophy January 13th, Oviedo, Spain. 

2016: “Phenomenotechniques: the Role of Science and Technology in 20th Century Phenomenological Thinking.” Experiencing the Global Environment Workshop, 4-6 February. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.

2015: “The New Sociology of Intellectuals.” INTERCO-SSH Annual Meeting, April 27. Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, Paris, France.

2015: “From Golden Age to Apocalypse: Science Chez Bertrand Russell Before and After the Great War.” Being Modern. Science and Culture in the Early 20th Century. Institute of Historical Research, 22-24 April. Queen Mary University of London, UK.

2012: “The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.” Department of Philosophy and Logic and Philosophy of Science, July 5.University of Seville, Spain.

2010: “Matter, persity and Knowledge.” Department of Philosophy and Logic and Philosophy of Science, June 10.University of Seville, Spain

2006: “Cuestiones relativas al Socialismo, la Izquierda y otras ?categorías políticas?.” Problemas de una redefinición política del Continente iberoamericano. XI Encuentros de Filosofía en Gijón, 10-12 July. Gijón, Spain.

2005: “Europa y cristianismo.” Europa. X Encuentros de Filosofía en Gijón, 7-9 July. Gijón, Spain.

2004: “Análisis de la Idea de Ego trascendental en el sistema kantiano.” Kant. IX Encuentros de Filosofía en Gijón, 7-9 July. Gijón, Spain.

Academic Translations

Bueno, Gustavo (2019). The Happiness Delusion. Debunking the Myth of Happiness. Oviedo: Pentalfa (translated to English from Spanish: El mito de la felicidad, 2005, along with Brendan Burke and Lino Camprubí)  

Academic Memberships

Japanese Association of Hispanists (日本イスパニヤ学会)

Network of Researchers China-Spain (RICE, from its acronym in Spanish)

Reviewer of Academic Journals and Book Series 

Cambridge University Press’ Element Series

Synthese. An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Springer Nature)

Science & Education. Contributions from History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Mathematics (Springer Nature)

Continental Philosophy Review (Springer Nature)

Thémata. Journal of Philosophy (University of Seville, Spain)

Enrahonar: An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

Contrastes. International Journal of Philosophy (University of Malaga)

Revista de Humanidades (University Andrés Bello, Chile)

Discusiones Filosóficas (University of Caldas, Colombia)

Member of Academic Journals’ Scientific Editorial Boards

Araucaria. Ibero-American Journal of Philosophy, Politics, Humanities and International Relations (University of Seville, Spain)

Norba. Journal of History (University of Extremadura, Spain) 

学术兼职 Academic part-time jobs

2021 – Present Yale University (New Haven, USA): Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology. Research on cultural sociology and the philosophy of social science.

2015 – Present  Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing, China): Assistant Professor, International Business School. Philosophy, Sociology, Critical Thinking, and Spanish undergraduate and Masters courses. Supervision of Masters Dissertations.