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Alberto Fragio Author & Editor

Alberto Fragio is full professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, Mexico City. He earned his PhD in Philosophy (2007) from the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain), and in Cultural Sciences (2011) from Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi di Modena (Italy). He was holder of a Swiss Government Scholarship at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich – Chair for Science Studies (Switzerland), and a Gerda Henkel Stiftung postdoctoral fellowship (Marie Curie Fellowship – M4HUMAN programme) at the Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung der Universität zu Lübeck(Germany). He has been Visiting Scholar in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University (USA), in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany), or the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC (Spain), among other institutions. He is a member of the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (ZKFL Lübeck), and the research group on “Historical Epistemology and History of Experience” at Spanish National Research Council CSIC (Madrid).