Carlos Zorrilla Piña, PhD

Personal information

Carlos Zorrilla-Piña is a postdoctoral researcher and Teaching Fellow at the Chair for Metaphysics and a member of the DFG-sponsored project Schellings Unfinished System, focusing on F.W.J. Schelling's (1775-1854) final proposal for a critical yet robust post-Kantian metaphysics. Before joining LMU, he obtained his MA and PhD in Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta in 2018 and 2020, respectively, as well as his BA at National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM) in 2011.

Research interests

Carlos Zorrilla-Piña's research focuses on metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of science. In particular, he focuses on topics such as gravity, light, and space and time, and seeks to justify the relevance of speculative approaches as a complementary but specifically irreducible approach to the empirical exploration of nature. He has pursued these interests particularly from the vantage point of classical German philosophy, in the works of thinkers such as Leibniz, Kant, Herder, Schelling, Hegel, and Baader.

Selected publications

• "Coagulated Spirit? Hemsterhuis on Matter as Organ and Signature," in Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. Vol. 4. 111–140.
• “Matter and its Topological Operations in Schelling’s Science of Reason,” in Kabiri (journal of the North American Schelling Society), Vol. 3, pp. 19–45.
• “Circumvolutions of the Mind: Fichte on First Principles and Transcendental Circles,” in Fichte-Studien Vol. 49, pp. 309–330.
• “Transumption and the Decentered Cosmology of Nicolaus Cusanus,” in The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 269–300.