Iñigo Galzacorta
He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2009 with a dissertation entitled Modernity, Philosophy, and Metaphilosophy in Heidegger: An Analysis of the Beiträge zur Philosophie. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where he teaches Metaphysics I, Metaphysics II, and Fundamental Works of Contemporary Philosophy in the undergraduate Philosophy program. He also teaches the course Philosophy of Technology: Artifacts, Humanisms, and the Environment in the Master’s program Philosophy: Science, Society, Technology (UPV/EHU), as well as Science and Civilization in a Global World in the Master’s program Philosophy in a Global World, taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UPV/EHU & UASD). His research has developed around two main problem areas. On the one hand, he has focused on metaphilosophical questions concerning the increasing role that the reading and interpretation of philosophical texts from the past have played throughout twentieth-century philosophy. On the other hand, his research has addressed the analysis of modernity and the narratives and categories through which this period understands itself. Within this context, he has examined the role played by categories related to technology—such as calculation, domination, and control—in this self-understanding of modernity, as well as the ways in which certain dynamics arising from technological development itself appear to challenge these categories and reveal their limits.