Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez
Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist
I am a philosopher with a deep interest in the mind, interculturality, and multidisciplinarity. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, under the supervision of Professor Rob Wilson. My research is funded by the ARC Discovery Project Keeping Kinship in Mind. My thesis focuses on episodic thinking and mnemonic discordance, with a specific emphasis on autobiographical memory and its interaction with imagination, identity, language, and collective memory.
I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Subsequently, I moved to Argentina to complete a specialisation in Social Sciences with a focus on Social History at the University of Luján in Buenos Aires. In 2020, I completed a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos.
My contributions to the fields of philosophy and social history have been published in journals across Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. I was the compiler of Memorias desde el sur, a collective publication offering profound interdisciplinary perspectives on memory processes in Colombia and Argentina.
Curriculum Vitae
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Work Experience
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Education
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Presentations
Tutor in Bioethics (Phil 2001)
2025 (semester 1) / The University of Western Australia / Perth, WA
Tutor in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Phil 2008)
2024 (semester 2) / The University of Western Australia / Perth, WA
Tutor in Bioethics (Phil 2001)
2023 (semester 1) / The University of Western Australia / Perth, WA
Director of Educative Innovation
2020 – 2022 / Highland International School / Aguascalientes, Mexico
Scholar libraries manager and teacher’s trainer
2014 – 2018 / Bosques International School / Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Lecturer (Ethics)
2017 (semester 2) / Autonomous University of Aguascalientes / Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Literary creation teacher
2013 – 2014 / CONFENALCO Antioquia / Antioquia, Colombia.
Middle-school and High-school teacher (Critical writing)
2007 –2010 / Bosques International School / Aguascalientes
PhD in Philosophy (in progress)
2022 – 2026 / University of Western Australia
Under the direction of Prof. Robert A. Wilson
Certificate Course in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
2022 / 120 hours –Externado University (Colombia)
Master in Cognitive Sciences
2018 – 2020 / Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (CINCCO) – Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Mexico)
Honorific mention / Thesis (in Spanish): Contextual factors that influence autobiographic evocation in an interview context.
Academic stay (3 months)
2019 – Centre for Philosophy of Memory. Université Grenoble-Alpes (France).
Under the direction of Prof. Kourken Michaelian
Specialist in Social Sciences with mention in Social History
2010 – 2012 / National University of Luján (Argentina)
Dissertation (in Spanish): Territory, ritual and cultural mixing. Rethinking the emergence of guadalupan worship in Mexico.
Bachelor in Philosophy
2004 – 2008 / Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Final Essay (in Spanish): Claiming imagination (About language learning, imagination and family resemblance in Wittgenstein).
(2025) Barry Marshall and Robin Warren Convocation Postgraduate Research Travel Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2025) PSA Fieldwork and Data Collection Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2025) Kieran Dolin Prize for Postgraduate Publication
School of Humanities, University of Western Australia
(2025) Overseas Travel Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2023) AAP Postgraduate Fund
For funding for the conference ‘Thinking together: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge’
(2021) Scholarship for International Research Fees (48 months)
The University of Western Australia
(2021) International Living Allowance Scholarship (36+6 months)
The University of Western Australia
(2019) Scholarship as a visiting research student (3 months)
National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT)
(2018) Master Student Scholarship (24 months)
National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
(2012) Specialization Student Scholarship (24 months)
Ministry of Education of Argentina
(2008) Scholarship for the 10° Science Summer (1 month)
Council for Science and Technology of the State of Aguascalientes (CONCyTEA)
Guerrero-Velázquez, A. (2024). El trauma está en la respuesta. Hacia una visión postcausal en la definición de trauma psicológico. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, 26, 75-102. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2024iss26pp75-102
Guerrero-Velázquez, C. A. (2021). Memoria y percepción en la entrevista autobiográfica: una simulación episódica que se adapta en tiempo real al contexto. Estudios de Filosofía, 64, 21-45. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a02
Guerrero Velásquez, C. (2014). El mestizaje en el Tepeyac y la construcción discursiva de una hierofanía en el comienzo del despertar poscolonial. Espaço e Cultura. 34, 151-171. https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/ espacoecultura/article/view/12512
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2013). Creador de mundos. El efecto performativo del lenguaje en la narración autobiográfica y en la resignificación de la identidad. In Guerrero Velázquez, C. (Ed.), Memorias desde el sur. Reflexiones y propuestas de jóvenes investigadores sobre procesos de memoria en Colombia y Argentina (43-56). Argentina: Ceraunia – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP).
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2013). Memorias desde el sur. Reflexiones y propuestas de jóvenes investigadores sobre procesos de memoria en Colombia y Argentina (Comp.). Argentina: Ceraunia – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP).
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2012). Prologue. In Olvera, C., Dilucidación de la estética de Hegel. Una introducción a sus conceptos estéticos. Argentina: Ceraunia.
Guerrero Velázquez, C. y Olvera, C. (2012). Los límites del mundo. Primera persona, lenguaje y sentido en el pensamiento de Ludwig Wittgenstein. Argentina: Ceraunia.
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2011). El impacto ideológico de la Escuela francesa sobre el ejército argentino. Persona y Sociedad, XXV (2), 9-49. https://personaysociedad.uahurtado.cl/index.php/ps/article/view/214
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2009). Del fuego robado. In Olvera, C. (Ed.), Los límites del arte (43-54). México: Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2006). El arte supremo. Música y divinidad en Cioran. In Olvera, C. y Aguilera, R. (Eds.), Filosofía, Arte y Mística en Cioran (83-99). México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) – Jayo.
MemoriEs. Internacional Online Symposium II (in Spanish)
Conference co-organiser
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
27-28 November 2025
MemoriEs. Internacional Online Symposium (in Spanish)
Conference co-organiser with Stephen W. Enciso
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
20-22 November 2024
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2024
Volunteers Coordinator
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
7-11 July 2024
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2023
Conference co-organizer
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
14-15 December 2023
Thinking Together: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Collective Memory and Collective Thinking
Conference co-organiser with Dr. Anne Schwenkenbecher
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
31 October – 2 November 2023
Webinar in Cognitive Sciences (in Spanish)
Webinar’s organiser
Online: https://www.youtube.com/@webinarcc3522/streams
26 May 2020
(Last 2 years)
Reimagining the Past: The Creative Character of Episodic Remembering (in Spanish)
MemoriEs. Simposio Internacional Online.
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
20 November 2024
Reimagining the Past: The Creative Character of Episodic Remembering
Murdoch Philosophy Seminar
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
30 October 2024
Trauma Lies in the Response: Revisiting the Concept of Psychological
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2024
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
11 July 2024
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device
Internal Seminar – Centre for Philosophy of Memory
Online
8 January 2024
Trauma Lies in the Response: Revisiting the Concept of Psychological Trauma from a Post-Causal Perspective of Memory.
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2023
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
14 December 2023
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device
1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
Online
24 November 2023
Trauma is in the response. Revisiting the Concept of Psychological Trauma from a Postcausal Perspective of Memory. (in Spanish)
International Seminar on Behavior and Applications (SINCA)
University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
15 November 2023
Remembering is Constructing: the Creative Character of Remembering in Autobiographical Interview (in Spanish)
XIII International Conference of Oral History
University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
11 November 2023
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device (in Spanish)
XXI International Philosophy Conference of the Philosophical Association of Mexico
University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
7 November 2023
The Creative Potential of Remembering Together
Thinking Together: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Collective Memory and Collective Thinking
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
1 November 2023
Thinking Together: Exploring the Role of Kinship in the Emergence of Complex Forms of Memory
International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial meeting
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
10 July 2023
Creating Memories: the role of Perception in Autobiographical Remembering
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference
Online
26 November 2022
Grounded Simulation and Autobiographical Memory. A conceptual Model of Episodic Simulation in the Construction of Personal Past (in Spanish).
6th International Colloquium in Cognitive Sciences
Centre for Research in Cognitive Sciences / UAEM / Cuernavaca, Mexico
16 November 2022
The ritual of the vanquished: resignification and resistance in the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the XVI century in New Spain.
Perth Medieval & Renaissance Group Conference
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
14 October 2022
Creating Memories: The Role of Perception in Autobiographical Remembering
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference
Online
06 July 2022
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