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Place of birth / Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of birth / Date of birth

17/9/1966

Contact / Contact

cvanney@austral.edu.ar
Last updated: 11/05/2025

Vanney, Claudia

Institute of Philosophy
Full-Time Professor |
Philosophy
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Claudia E. Vanney holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra (Spain). She is currently the Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Universidad Austral (Argentina). She was a visiting professor at the University of Navarra (Spain), the University of Oxford (UK) and Loyola Marymount University (USA).

She has led 16 interdisciplinary research projects, involving researchers from nineteen countries. Her current main research areas are the epistemology of virtue and the interdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences and the humanities.

She is the author of a book and numerous scientific articles, and editor of 5 collective volumes and of Austral Interdisciplinary DictionaryHe has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the journals Zygon, Arbor, Studia Poliana, Nature and Freedom, and Quaerentibus.

In 2017, he received the Open Reason Award, an international prize that recognizes excellence in research that promotes an integral approach to knowledge through an active dialogue between science, philosophy, and theology.

Primary research interests
Primary research interests

Epistemology of interdisciplinary research

Theory of knowledge

Intellectual virtues

Dialogue between science and religion

Secondary research interests
Secondary research interests

Philosophy of science

Philosophy of Physics

Awards and Honors
Awards & Honors

  • Visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, for two months of research, every year since 2011.
  • Open Reason Award (category: research), awarded by the Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain) and the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Foundation (Vatican), in 2017.
  • Post-doctoral fellowship from the Carolina Foundation (Spain), 2010.
  • Research grant in Philosophy of Science, from the Centro Internazionale di Villa Balestra (Rome), from 10/1/2003 to 3/1/2007.
  • Research grant from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Austral, from 4/1/1997 to 2/28/1998.
  • CONICET doctoral scholarship, from 6/1/1993 to 3/30/1997.
  • Award for scientific and technological production from the University of Buenos Aires: 1993, 1994 and 1995.