Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Belgium). He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum and was a Writing-Up Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria). His research is focused on the history and philosophy of the life sciences, particularly on how organism-environment interactions have been construed in ecology and evolutionary biology. He has published on diverse topics such as the holobiont concept, organismal agency, reciprocal causation, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis debate. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Organism-Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Re-Appraisal, which is set to be published in 2025 by the MIT Press. Alongside Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick, he is the co-editor of the volume The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections (Routledge, 2024). Currently, he is the book reviews editor of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
Before coming to Ruhr University Bochum to work in the DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions, he did a B.Sc. degree in Biology (Gabino Barreda Medal in University Merit) and a M.A. in Philosophy of Science (with complementary specialization in History of Science) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He graduated from UNAM in 2019 with a dissertation entitled “The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Debate: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Dimensions” (M.A with honors). His PhD dissertation (summa cum laude) was a philosophical and historical re-appraisal of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences. In particular, he studied how this relationship has been theorized in the history of twentieth-century biology and how it features in contemporary debates through three interrelated notions: (i) organismal agency; (ii) reciprocity; and (iii) organism-environment separation.
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