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Saray Ayala-Lpez
curriculum vitae
Honors & Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alliance 4 Universities, University Carlos III of Madrid,
awards 2012-2014
Teaching Excellence Award, University Carlos III of Madrid, 2013
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize, APA Pacific Division, 2009
Young Researcher Prize, Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science, 2009
Graduate Research Grant, La Caixa Foundation (Barcelona) and Canada Foundation
(Ottawa), 2007-2009
Graduate Research Grant, Science and Technology Ministry (Government of Spain),
2002-2006
Outstanding Qualification Award, BA in Philosophy, University of Murcia (Spain),
2001
Grants
Hypatia Diversity Project Grant, to fund the Foreigners in Philosophy workshop
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Sexual Orientation and Choice, Journal of Social Ontology 3 (2) 249-265, 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0015
Speech Affordances: A Structural Take on How Much We Can Do With Our Words,
European Journal of Philosophy 24(2); 879-891, 2016. doi 10.1111/ejop.12186
Extended Sex: An Account of Sex for a More Just Society, Hypatia 30(4), 2015,
co-authored with Nadya Vasilyeva.
The Placental Microbiome and The Risk of (More) Policing of Womens Bodies,
International Journal on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9(1), 2016, co-authored with
Lauren Freeman.
The Neuron Doctrine, in F. Martnez Manrique & L. Miguel Peris (eds.) Proceedings of
the V Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
(SLMFCE), 2006.
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Book review Review of Implicit Bias & Philosophy, by Michael Brownstein & Jennifer Saul (Eds.),
Vol. 1, Hypatia Onlie Reviews, forthcoming.
Review of Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups by Matt L.
Drabek, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May 18, 2015
Outreach & English patrol at the borders of philosophy. Philosopher blog, June 18,2017.
public
philosophy
Explanations, Causes and Intervention. Comments on Alex Madvas A Plea for
Anti-Anti Individualism work. Ergo Symposium organized at the Brains Blog,
March 6, 2017.
Brain, Sex, Gender and Class: Scientific Controversies, Encrucijadas 9, 2015; co-
authored with Simone Belli and Fernando Broncano [in Spanish]
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presentations Upcoming:
-Invited speaker, Symposium: The role of the English language in contemporary
philosophy, 2018 APA Central Division meeting, Chicago February 21-24, 2018.
-Invited speaker, Symposium: Trans*feminism, 2018 APA Central Division
meeting, Chicago February 21-24, 2018.
-Invited speaker, Symposium: Implicit bias in the classroom, 2018 APA Central
Division meeting, Chicago February 21-24, 2018.
-Outing Foreigners, Society for Analytic Feminism, APA Pacific Division, San
Diego March 29-31, 2018.
-Invited Speaker at San Raffaele Spring School of Philosophy, Unpacking Political
Agency, Milan June 5-7, 2018.
-Invited Faculty at PIKSI-Boston Philosophy in an inclusive key summer institute,
MIT, Cambridge June 19-26, 2018.
Past presentations
-"Explaining & Intervening", Bias in Context, University of Utah, October 2017.
-"Outing Foreigners: Accent and Nationality in Conversations", Joint Session of the
Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association Edinburg, July 2017.
-"Speech Affordances", University of Granada, June 2017, with comments by Manuel
Heras Escribano.
-"Responsibility for Silence", GRSeminar, University of Barcelona, July 2017.
-Social Structures, Structural Explanations, and Agency, April 25, 2017. New York
Society for Women in Philosophy.
-Foreigners in Academia, February 27, 2017. Opportunity for Postdoc Equity
Networking, U.C. Berkeley [invited]
-Structures & Agency, January 2017, Keynote, UNED Madrid [invited]
-Structural Explanation and Agency, September 2016. Bias in Context Conference,
U. of Sheffield.
-Sex Categories in Medical Contexts: A Cautionary Tale, September 2016
Society for Analytical Feminism, U. of Massachusetts Lowell.
-Speech Affordances, June 2016 (poster presentation) Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, University of Austin, Texas.
-Sexual Orientation, Choice and Constitution, May 2016. Minorities and
Philosophy, Stanford U. [invited]
-Why a Workshop on Foreigners in Philosophy?, March 2016. Foreigners in
Philosophy Workshop, U.C. Berkeley
- A Structural Explanation of Speech Injustice, March 2016. American
Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago.
- Plant Cognition, April 2016. Berkeley Social Ontology Group, U.C. Berkeley
- Sexual Orientation and Choice, April 2016. Minorities and Philosophy, U.C. Los
Angeles. [invited]
- Sex Identity without Sex Categories, September 2015. Reading Group in
Feminism, University of Louisville. [invited]
-A Structural Explanation of Speech Injustice, August 2015
Minds Online Conference, organized by the Brains Blog and the Departments of
Philosophy at Florida State University and the University of Houston. [invited]
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At Langara College:
I served as a teaching assistant for Metaphysics and Ethics, Spring 2009
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profession.
Organizer, special session for the Society for Analytical Feminism The Metaphysics
of Sex (Differences) and Sexual Orientation, Pacific APA, San Francisco; panelists:
Sally Haslanger (MIT), Talia Bettcher (Cal State LA), Esa Diaz-Leon (U. Manitoba),
Nadya Vasilyeva (U.C. Berkeley), March 2013
Other Participant in the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Adaptive Behavior and
experience & Cognition group, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, June 20-28th 2011.
training
(selected) Participant in the First European Summer School on Life and Cognition, Donosti,
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