10/2020 – 09/2022
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Antike Philosophie MA

10/2020 – 10/2021
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Genderzertifikat

03/2022 – 07/2022
Ludwig Maximilians Universität: Teacher "Plato’s Epistemology"

03/2022 – 07/2022
Ludwig Maximilians Universität: Teacher "Feminist Interpretations of Plato"

09/2021 – 03/2022
Ludwig Maximilians Universität: Teacher "Feminist Phenomenology"

09/2016 – 05/2020
Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá, Philosophie BA

08/2018 – 12/2019
Ideas Y Valores – Indexed Philosophy Journal (Assistant Publisher)

01/2018 – 12/2019
Saga-Philosophy Student Journal (Director of the Ancient Philosophy Section)

Women and femininity in Plato

My doctoral thesis investigates Plato’s conceptualization of women and femininity across the dialogues, with a particular focus on how feminine-coded traits, roles, and images function within his wider philosophical system. The project examines the tension between Plato’s frequent characterization of women as morally and intellectually inferior and his explicit claims, most notably in Republic V and the Laws, that women share in the same fundamental virtues as men when provided with appropriate education. By tracing how Plato links femininity with qualities such as emotional excess, cowardice, or lack of self-control, the dissertation asks whether these descriptions reflect claims about innate female nature or, instead, serve as rhetorical tools within his broader moral psychology and political theory.

I also explore how feminine imagery and female figures are integrated into Plato’s accounts of philosophical practice, moral development, and the soul. Discussions of Diotima, Socrates’ midwifery, pregnancy and birth metaphors, erotic role reversals, and the use of feminine bodies in myths of reincarnation illuminate the complex and often ambivalent ways in which Plato employs the category of the “feminine.” Taken as a whole, the project aims to provide a systematic understanding of how Plato conceptualizes femininity and the extent to which his philosophy offers internal resources for critiquing gendered hierarchy

Dieses Projekt wird gefördert durch ein Promotionsstipendium der Einstein Stiftung Berlin im Rahmen des Einstein Foundation Doctoral Programme der BerGSAS 2024-2026.

2024
Carreño, S (2024). "Where Does Sexual Difference Come from for Plato? Making Sense of Timaeus 41e-42c." Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome: Selected Essays from the Eighth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy. Eds. Jurgen Gatt, Samatha Newington and Michaela Senkova. Parnassos Press- Fonte Aretusa. 111-134 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19783682)

2020
Carreño, S (2020). "¿Por qué utilizar lenguaje inclusivo? Una perspectiva fenomenológica." Nomadías v.29 fasc.29. p.237 – 255. DOI: 10.5354/0719-0905.2021.61063 (https://nomadias.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/61063)

Carreño, S (2020) "El concepto de sophrosýne en los diálogos platónicos y su ejemplificación en la figura de Sócrates".” Synthesis. Ed: Universidad Nacional De La Plata v.26 fasc.2 p.1 – 10. (https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84662943006)