Dr. Osiris González Romero

Osiris González Romero is a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies Philosophizing in a Global World (GloPhi), Hildesheim University, Germany. He is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Luis Villoro UMSNH-Mexico, and at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his PhD on the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples from Leiden University. He was awarded the Coimbra Group Scholarship for Young Professors and Researchers at Latin American Universities in 2015. His research focuses on Native American Philosophies, Intercultural Philosophy, Mesoamerican and Latin American Studies, Psychedelic Studies and Aesthetics.

His research project at GloPhi is entitled “Native American Philosophies in a Globalized World (Mesoamerica).” This project aims to provide an overview of philosophical works published between 1945 and 2025 by Indigenous/Native American researchers in Mexico, in order to examine their significance in the history of ideas. The general objective is setting out the state of the art and reflecting on the methodology required for studying Native American philosophies, mainly Nahuatl philosophy, Maya philosophy and Zapotec philosophy, which are the ones with the highest number of publications. Finally, four key philosophical issues will be addressed: a) the problem of lack of recognition or epistemic injustice faced by Native American philosophies, b) the explanation of the philosophical potential regarding Native American languages, c) the problem of incommensurability, that is, the difficulty that exists in translating or transferring concepts between philosophies based on different epistemic matrices, and d) the problem of considering the Native American philosophies as a primitive tradition, or belonging solely to the past and tradition, rather than as a living thought in constant evolution.

Filosofías Ancestrales. Pueblos Originarios de América. Tomo I (co-edited with Juan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio, Ignacio Ortiz, Lilian Moctezuma, Claudia de Lara, and Viridiana Vázquez), México. Forthcoming 2027.

Sacred Plants and Fungi of the Americas, Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2025.

Mesoamerican Narratives at the British Museum: Ancient Writing, Contemporary Voices (co-edited with Laura Ann Osorio Sunnucks, Omar Aguilar Sánchez, Iyaxel Ixkan Cojtí Ren, Alejandro José Garay Herrera, Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Raúl Macuil Martínez, Romelia Mó Isém, and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

Tlamatiliztli: la sabiduría del pueblo nahua. Filosofía intercultural y derecho a la tierra, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2021.

“Cognitive Liberty and the Psychedelic Humanities.” Frontiers in Psychology 14 (2023): 1128996.

“Inclusive Research Methodologies and Community Efforts in Nahuatl Language Revitalization.” Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences 1, no. 1 (2022): 49-62.

“Decolonization Is a Metaphor towards a Different Ethic: The Case from Psychedelic Studies” (with Christine Hauskeller, Taline Artinian, Amelia Fiske, Ernesto Schwarz Marin, Luis Eduardo Luna, Joseph Crickmore, and Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 48, no. 5 (2023): 732-751.

“Indigenous Philosophies and the “Psychedelic Renaissance” (with Keith Williams, Michelle Braunstein, and Suzanne Brant), Anthropology of Consciousness 33, no. 2 (2022): 506-527.

“Neocolonialism, Violence, and Indigenous Rights in Mexico.” Graffylia 11 (2021): 82-94.