Héctor Velázquez
Pofessor and chair of philosophy of science and technology
Senior researcher for Centro de Bioética y Derecho del Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.
Héctor Velázquez is a doctor in Philosophy. Full time professor and researcher at the Center for Bioethics and Law, Institute of Science and Innovation in Medicine, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. and char of Philosophy of Science and Technology for the same institution.
Member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (CONACYT) from 2001 to 2024. He has published more than one hundred research and outreach papers in books, book chapters, edited volumes, research and popular-science articles, notebooks, and translations. He has supervised 35 theses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels and has served on 97 professional examination committees.
He has been an invited speaker at 61 national and international congresses, symposia, and conferences, and has served as a guest professor at the universities of Oxford, Seville, La Sabana in Colombia, Piura in Peru, and the Catholic University of Chile, among others.
He is a member of several research groups, working on the concepts of limits, the scope and impact of science and technology on human beings and society, and the social, cultural, and political issues that have shaped Western individualism. He has specialized in the study of the limits and scope of the proposal for the biotechnological modification of human nature — transhumanism — the channels of dialogue between science, philosophy, and religion, and interdisciplinarity.
He has served as advisor to the Mexican Senate’s International Relations Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; to the LX Legislature (2006–2012); to the Bioethics Commission of the Government of Mexico (2008–2012); and as editorial advisor for the newspaper Reforma (2009). He is a regular contributor on science and society in Eddy Warman’s program on Radio Acir, 88.9 FM, from 2006 to the present.