José L. López González

Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain).

PhD in Moral Philosophy (Cum laude) with the international doctoral thesis «Ethics and Kinetics of Tourism. Contributions based on Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance Critical Theory» (Universitat Jaume I). Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training (Universitat Jaume I) and Master’s Degree in Ethics and Democracy (Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de València).

His research lines on ethics are focused on social acceleration and tourism.

He has participated in the research projects Applied Ethics and Reliability for Artificial Intelligence” PID2019-109078RB-C21, financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; «Moral neuroeducation for applied ethics» (FFI2016-76753- C2-2- P), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; «The potential of applied ethics in the Open Government and Civil Society participation tools» (UJI-A2016- 04), financed by the Universitat Jaume I. He has also participated in the project «Promoting ethical and responsible tourism among Valencian tourist agents», which forms part of the Collaboration Agreement signed by the Valencian Tourism Agency and the Universitat Jaume I to encourage research and innovation in the Valencian tourism sector.

Relevant Publications 

• López-González, J. L. (2024). The right to the city versus the right to tourism in teleological perspective: an ethical conflict between goods. Current Issues in Tourism [ISSN: 1368-3500]
• López-González, J. L. (2024). Neurotechnologies applied to tourism: from the epistemic contribution to the ethical risk. International Journal of Ethics and System [ISSN: 2514-9369].
• López-González, J. L. (2023). The resonance approach for non-alienated relationships: beyond slowness in higher education. Ethics and Education, 19 (1), 1-17. [ISSN: 1744-9642]
• López-González, J. L. (2023). Job Touristification: Bases for the Critique of a Social Acceleration Phenomenon Manifested in Bleisure and Workation. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 41(2), 335-348. [ISSN: 1131-8635]
• López-González, José L. (2023). Hartmut Rosa’s Critical Theory of Resonance versus Acceleration: Beyond Paternalism and Totalitarianism? Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin, 12 (24), [ISSN: 2254-0601]
• López-González, José L. (2022). Resonance in Hartmut Rosa’s Critical Theory: a Response to Practical Limits of Discourse Ethics for Accelerated Societies. Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía. [ISSN: 1989–4651].
• López-González, José L. y Fennel, David (2021). Social acceleration as a new frontier for the ethics of tourism Recerca, Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 26 (1), pp. 1–7.
• López-González, José L. y Medina-Vicent, Maria (2020). Las Kellys y el turismo: de la invisibilidad del cuidado a la visibilidad política. Digithum, (25), pp.1–13.
• López-González, José L. (2018). Del código ético a la convención internacional. Un panorama crítico de la Organización Mundial del Turismo desde la perspectiva del cosmopolitismo. Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política, 12, pp. 205-223, [ISSN: 2014-7708].
• López-González, José L. (2018). Ethics and Tourism: In dialogue with Dean MacCannell. Recerca. Revista de pensament i anàlisi, 23, pp. 239-248, [ISSN: 1130-6149]
• López-González, José L. (2018). Exploring discourse ethics for tourism transformation. Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 68, nº. 3, pp. 269-281, [ISSN: 1332-7461]

Contact details:

José L. López-González

jose.lopez@uji.es