Adela Cortina
Invitado de Honor
Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Science. Recipient of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Humboldt-Stiftung grants, she studied at the universities of Munich and Frankfurt, where she worked with Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas, the creators of discourse ethics, which she introduced into the Spanish and Latin American world.
She is the Director of the Étnor Foundation (Ethics of Business and Organizations), has an honorary PhD from various national and foreign universities, won the international “Jovellanos” Non-Fiction Award in 2007, Karl-Otto Apel International Philosophy Award in 2013, National Non-Fiction Award in 2014, Palabra Award, Premio Derechos Humanos de la Abogacía Española award in 2018, and received the High Distinction of the Valencian Government in 2017. She has been a member of the jury of the Prince and Princess of Asturias Awards in Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences on multiple occasions.
She has directed numerous doctoral theses for Spanish and foreign students, which currently form a network of knowledge in applied ethics and democracy, linked to academic networks in Latin America, Europe and the United States.
She works on questions of “ethics” (both as a basis and applied to education, politics, companies, the media, professions and artificial intelligence) and “political philosophy” (citizenship, democracy, human development and cosmopolitanism).
Her books include Ética mínima (Tecnos, 1986), Ética aplicada y democracia radical (Tecnos, 1993), Ciudadanos del mundo (Alianza, 1997), Alianza y Contrato (Trotta, 2001), Por una ética del consumo, (Taurus, 2002), Ética de la razón cordial (Nobel, 2007), Las fronteras de la persona (Taurus, 2009), Neuroética y neuropolítica (Tecnos, 2011), ¿Para qué sirve realmente la ética? (Paidós, 2013), Aporophobia: why we reject the poor instead of helping them (Paidós, 2017) and Ética cosmopolita (Paidós, 2021).