Rocío Orsi

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Orsi, the second or maternal family name is Portalo.
Rocío Orsi
(2013)
Born3 February 1976
Madrid, Spain
Died29 November 2014 (aged 38)
Madrid, Spain
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Philosopher
  • professor
InstitutionsCharles III University of Madrid
ThesisTi chre poiein, pensamiento y acción en Sófocles (2005)
Doctoral advisorAntonio Valdecantos
LanguageSpanish

Rocío Orsi Portalo (3 February 1976 – 29 November 2014) was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of philosophy at Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M).[1] She is considered to be one of the most important Spanish-language thinkers of her generation.[2]

Education

Rocío Orsi studied high school at Covadonga High School and a degree in philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and received her Ph.D. from UC3M in March 2006, with a thesis, directed by Antonio Valdecantos [es], entitled Ti chre poiein, pensamiento y acción en Sophocles,[3] which would give rise to her book El saber del error. (The knowledge of error).

Career and research

Since 1999, she was a research fellow at UC3M and a professor since 2004. She developed research and work stays in Paris, Cambridge, New York City (Columbia University), and Bologna, Italy, participating in numerous research projects. She was instrumental in the founding and activities of the Grupo Kóre Estudios de Género.[4]

She was assistant vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation at UC3M, and a member of the boards of the Sociedad Académica de Filosofía and the Asociación Española de Ética y Filosofía Política, as well as of the editorial board of the journal Isegoría [es].[5] She was also active in civil society. She was one of the first signatories of the manifesto, Libres e Iguales.[6]

Orsi cultivated the history of ideas, political and moral philosophy, epistemology, gender studies, and political economy. Her initial topics of interest were the relations between philosophy and literature and between epistemological and moral problems. She was later concerned with questions of the philosophy of history and, in the period immediately preceding her untimely death, planned a systematic study of ancient skepticism and its modern reception.[1]

Death and legacy

Orsi died of cancer in 2014.[7] Since 2016, UC3M has awarded the Rocío Orsi Prize to the best master's degree thesis in the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation.[8]

Selective works

Books

As editor

References

  1. ^ a b "Qué piensan los nuevos filósofos españoles". El Español (in Spanish). 28 October 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ Valdecantos, Antonio (16 December 2014). "Rocío Orsi, filósofa". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ^ Orsi Portalo, Rocío (2005). "Ti chre poiein, pensamiento y acción en Sófocles". Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Inicio". www.uc3m.es (in Spanish). UC3M. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Isegoría". isegoria.revistas.csic.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Manifiesto". www.libreseiguales.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  7. ^ Pérez, Francisco de Asís Pastor (26 December 2014). "La filosofía de una sonrisa imparable". Hablar por hablar (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  8. ^ "V Edición del Premio Rocío Orsi de Trabajos de Fin de Máster | UC3M". www.uc3m.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2023.