CARTAGENA THINKS: PHILOSOPHICAL CAFE. SALVADOR CAYUELA SÁNCHEZ WHAT IS MAN'S PLACE IN THE COSMOS?

CARTAGENA THINKS: PHILOSOPHICAL CAFE. SALVADOR CAYUELA SÁNCHEZ WHAT IS MAN'S PLACE IN THE COSMOS?

For most Western thought, humankind occupied a privileged place in the order of creation, an almost divine animal that shared the capacity for reason with the gods. However, the traumatic events of the 20th century, the accelerated climate crisis since the beginning of the 21st century, and the emergence of so-called "Big History" lead us to reconsider our place in the cosmos, whether we are truly a "chosen species," or simply a chance and ephemeral product of evolution, a speck of dust in the history of the universe. 
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Murcia and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona. He is a Full Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, and has taught at the Universities of Castilla-La Mancha, Copenhagen, and Basel. Her research interests have included the biopolitics of Francoist Spain and other 20th-century fascist regimes, the history and philosophy of medicine, philosophical anthropology, the sociology and anthropology of health, and economic anthropology. 
Among her published works are the co-edited, with Antonio Campillo and Carmen Guillén, of *Las (in)seguridades de Europa: una perspectiva crítica* (Marcial Pons, 2017); *Foucault y la medicina. La verdad muda del cuerpo* (Morata, 2022), co-edited with Paula A. Ruiz; and *La invención de la discapacidad. El gobierno de los cuerpos torcidos en España (1959-1986)* (Editorial del CSIC, 2023).

Presented by: Patricio Hernández, member of the Cartagena Piensa Promoter Group.
In collaboration with: Philosophy Society of the Region of Murcia.

DATE: April 30, 2026

TIME: 7:00 PM

LOCATION: Little Tin Soldier Cafeteria