Ana Marta González

Ana Marta González González (Ourense, 23 October 1969) is a Spanish professor and philosopher. Her research focuses on ethical foundations and the relationship between moral philosophy and social sciences.

Education Gonzalez received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Navarra (1997) with an extraordinary prize for her thesis Secundum naturam. La naturaleza como principio de moralidad en Tomás de Aquino, which was supervised by Alejandro Llano Cifuentes. She completed her training thanks to a Fulbright scholarship (2002) with which she conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University on "Naturaleza, cultura y moralidad en la filosofía práctica de Kant" (Nature, culture and morality in Kant's practical philosophy).

Career Since 2010, she has been principal investigator of the interdisciplinary research group "Cultura emocional e identidad: Diagnóstico de las sociedades contemporáneas desde el prisma de las emociones" (Emotional Culture and Identity: Diagnosis of Contemporary Societies from the Prism of Emotions), at the University of Navarra's Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (ICS), and of which she was scientific director between 2012 and 2019.

She serves as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, and academic director of the Culture & Lifestyles area of the university's Social Trends Institute.

Gonzalez is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (2003), and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2016), appointed by Pope Francis.

She has written numerous articles in specialized journals as well as books on philosophy, ethics and society.

Selected works Books

González, Ana Marta; Vigo, Alejandro G. (2010). Practical rationality. Scope and structures of human agency. Georg Olms Verlag. González, Ana Marta (2011). Culture as Mediation. Kant on nature, culture and morality. Georg Olms Verlag. González, Ana Marta; Bovone, Laura (2012). Identities through fashion. An interdisciplinary approach. Berg. González, Ana Marta (2013). The emotions and cultural analysis. Ashgate. González, Ana Marta (2013). Sociedad civil y normatividad : la teoría social de David Hume. Dykinson. González, Ana Marta; Iffland, Craig (2014). Care professions and globalization. Theoretical and practical perspectives.

González, Ana Marta; Davis, Joseph E. (2016). To fix or to heal: patient care, public health and the limits of biomedicine. New York University Press. González, Ana Marta; Vigo, Alejandro G. (2019). Gefühl, Identität im Anschluß an Kant//Reflection, emotion, identity from Kant onwards. Duncker & Humblot. González, Ana Marta (2021). Kant on culture, happiness and civilization. Palgrave. González, Ana Marta (2021). El claroscuro catalán. Nación, emociones e identidad en el proceso independentista. Rialp.