Historian and Philosopher of Science, Escritor
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
Hi there! I am a Mexican historian and philosopher of science, with a special focus on the life sciences.
Currently, I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, and I am a member of The Ramsey Philosophy of Biology Lab. I earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) as part of the DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group “The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical and Social Dimensions” (ROTO) and was a Writing-Up Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. I hold an M.A. in Philosophy of Science (with a complementary specialization in History of Science) and a B.Sc. in Biology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). At present, I serve as book reviews editor for the Journal for General Philosophy of Science. I am also a fiction writer and editor (in Spanish).
Thank you for your interest in my work!
Areas of Specialization: General Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; History of Biology
Areas of Competence: Epistemology; Metaphysics; Environmental Ethics; Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences; Historiography & History of Science
Education, Positions, and Academic Service
December 2023–to date: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Belgium).
February 2020–November 2023: Ph.D. in Philosophy (summa cum laude)
Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). Dissertation: “The Organism-Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Re-Appraisal.” Advisor: Jan Baedke
October 2022– April 2023: Writing-Up Fellow
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria).
April– June 2022: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
March– April 2019: Visiting M.A. Student
Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany).
August 2017–November 2019: M.A. in Philosophy of Science (complementary specialization in History of Science) with honors
School of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico). Dissertation: “The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Debate: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Dimensions” (in Spanish). Advisor: Francisco Vergara-Silva.
August 2011–June 2016: B.Sc. in Biology (Highest Honors: Gabino Barreda Medal in University Merit)
School of Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico). Experimental work in mouse developmental genetics.
Reviewer for
Academic Journals
The Journal of Philosophy (2025–to date); Biology & Philosophy (2025–to date); Philosophy of Science (2024–to date); Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2024–to date); History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2024–to date); Acta Biotheoretica (2024–to date); Theory in Biosciences (2024–to date); Biosemiotics (2024–to date); Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica (2024–to date); Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (2023–to date); Ecology and Evolution (2023–to date); Evolutionary Biology (2023–to date); Synthese (2022–to date); HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2022–to date); Adaptive Behavior (2022–to date); Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2022–to date); Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía (2021–to date); BioScience (2020–to date).
Book Publishers (Book Manuscripts and Book Chapters)
Palgrave MacMillan, Humanities (2024–to date); Springer Nature, Ecology & Evolution (2023–to date); Routledge’s The Nineteenth Century Series (2023–to date); Springer Nature, ‘Interdisciplinary Evolution Research’ book series (2022–to date); Prensa de la Facultad de Ciencias ([Publishing House of the School of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico], 2022–to date).
Upcoming Presentations
April 2025
2025 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco (United States of America)
Fábregas-Tejeda A, Ramsey G. “Driftability and Niche Construction.”
March 2025
2025 German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP) Meeting, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Germany)
Prieto G. I., Fábregas-Tejeda A. “Representing with Model Organisms: Toward an Integrated Picture.”