

Speaker name
Jorge Oseguera Gamba
Institutional affiliation
CINCCO, UAEM
Miércoles 13 de noviembre 2024, 12:20 - 14:20
Neltiliztli: Nahua wisdom for living well today
Abstact
Through the Florentine Codex we can enter into the way in which the Nahua (or Aztecs) conceived wellbeing, or Netiliztli in Nahuatl: in a holistic way that can be understood on four levels: health, mental, community and environment. It will be argued that this conception should be developed into a general theory of wellbeing with the help of complexity sciences, which would help us to develop transdisciplinary research aimed at the wellbeing of humans and the planet, to be translated into concrete public policies.
Semblance
Jorge Oseguera Gamba received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he also obtained a diploma in bioethics. During his undergraduate studies he did an exchange program at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Fulbright-GarcÃa Robles scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at Florida State University, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D., specializing in evolutionary ethics and welfare theories respectively. He has taught at Florida State University and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently a research professor at the Center for Research in Cognitive Sciences (CINCCO) of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEMor), where he also teaches in the Public Policy program. He is a member of the SNII and is inclined towards empirical and interdisciplinary methodologies to approach problems in ethics and political philosophy. His main lines of research are welfare and political epistemology. His current projects in these areas are: 1) to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework to investigate welfare in a transdisciplinary way and 2) to analyze the impacts that Artificial Intelligence will have on democracy. He is a member of the Well-being Economy Alliance (WEAll).