Alejandro G. Vigo and Ramón Rodríguez will maintain a dialogue about the concept of diagnosis and the Faculty of Judgment based on Wolfgang Wieland’s research dedicated to medicine conceived as a practical science. The reflections will focus on the consideration that, although medicine largely uses the results of the theoretical sciences, it is not a theoretical science but practical, which although it is not aimed at the justification of propositions but of actions, does not allow, however, abrupt changes and modifications of its fundamental concepts. This raises a fundamental issue that is that of the diagnosis: are they to find, deduce and base what is understood as a diagnosis or to agree and establish a convention on the most relevant rules for the use of the term diagnosis?
Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1958) is a professor in Philosophy and a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has been a fellow of the Conicet of Argentina, the Daad of Germany and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
He taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires (1982-1988), Los Andes (1993-2001), Catholic of Chile (2001-2006) and Navarra (2006-2020). Currently (2021-) he is a ordinary titular professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Los Andes, Santiago de Chile.
He is the author of 17 books and co -author of another 5. He has edited or co -edited 15 books, and published more than 150 articles and book chapters in specialized publications.
Between 2006 and 2017 he was a titular member of the Institut International of Philosophie (Paris), and since 2017 he is an emeritus member.
Since 2014 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Public Studies (CEP), San–Tiago de Chile, Chile.
Since 2020 he is a member of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft council (Messkirch, Germany).
In 2010 he received the “Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel” award (Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn) in recognition of the research trajectory.
EN 2017 Changes El International Prize of Philosophía “Antonio Jannone” (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome).
In 2023 he received the “Franco Volpi” International Award (Ibero -American Society of Heideggerian Studies, Santiago, Chile).
Ramón Rodríguez He is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the author of method, alterity, time. New essays on Heidegger (Madrid, 2025), the metaphysics of the twentieth century (Madrid, 2024), Gadamer. Understand the truth of experience (Barcelona, 2021), phenomenon and interpretation (Madrid, 2015), hermeneutics and subjectivity. (Madrid, 2010), Heidegger and the crisis of the modern era (Madrid, 1987, 2006), the hermeneutic transformation of phenomenology. An interpretation of Heidegger’s early work (Madrid, 1997, Buenos Aires, 2019), of the subject and the truth (Madrid, 2004) and editor of ontological thinking methods (Madrid, 2002), language and categories in the philosophical hermeneutics (Madrid, 2012), being and time of Martin Heidegger. A phenomenological comment (Madrid, 2015) and Heidegger Comares Guide (Madrid, 2018). He has also published numerous articles and collaborated in multiple collective volumes in the fields of ethics, phenomenology and hermeneutics. He is a guest professor at various Ibero -American universities (Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico). Franco Volpi International Award, awarded by the Ibero -American Society of Heideggerian Studies (2013). He is a member of the free College of Emeritus.
Day and schedule: Tuesday, June 3 at 2:00 p.m. (Argentina).
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