Alejandro Vigo, lead researcher of the project ‘Natural Law and Practical Rationality' of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) and a Philosophy professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Navarra, has been appointed member of the scientific committee of Differenz, Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas.

This new publication has open access and is edited by the Heidegger Studies Center at the Universidad de Sevilla and its mission is to encourage, develop and publicize the work and research related to the life and work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Set of articles: ten universities from three different countries

On July 2014 the journal published its first issue online that includes a text written by professor Vigo under the title Ontología, aleteiología y praxis.

The following papers completed this first issue: El carisma de un joven profesor inconformista: la fuerza y la magia de "Ser y tiempo" (Jesús Adrián Escudero, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), De Heidegger a Corbin (José A. Antón Pacheco, Universidad de Sevilla), La mano y la mirada (Félix Duque, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Encuentros con Heidegger (Raúl Gabás, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Mi Semblanza con Heidegger (Humberto González Galván, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, México), «Allí arriba, en la amplia proximidad de todas las cosas». Espaciamientos de M. Heidegger [Todtnauberg] (César Moreno-Márquez, Universidad de Sevilla), Gracias Heidegger (Hugo Mújica, Argentina), Protodecisiones circa 1919. Martin Heidegger y el círculo de Max Weber en torno a la primera guerra mundial (Patricio Peñalver, Universidad de Murcia), En la senda de la fenomenología (Ramón Rodríguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Breve recuerdo de Friburgo (Amador Vega, Universitat Pompeu Fabra),Mi camino hacia Heidegger (Ángel Xolocotzi, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México) y Ser es conversación. Residuos, pensamiento débil y hermenéutica (Santiago Zabala, Universidad de Barcelona).

Alejandro Vigo has a degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Philosophy with specialization in Greek Philosophy and Romance Languages. He combines his work in the ICS with teaching and research in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Navarra. He has also worked at several universities in Argentina and Chile, including the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Universidad de los Andes (Chile). He has been a visiting researcher at Universität Heidelberg (Germany), Universität Münster (Germany), Universität Luzern (Switzerland) and, Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).