Diego González Rodríguez, Ph.D.

Diego González Rodríguez is a professor at Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid) and, since 2021, a collaborating researcher at the Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His work lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

His current research focuses on cognition from an ethno-phenomenological approach, in dialogue with Indian philosophy, and on the relevance of these traditions to contemporary debates on consciousness and artificial systems. He holds a PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, Tallinn University of Technology and the University of North Carolina.

Indian philosophy and cognitive science

The relevance of Indian philosophy, especially the Śaiva-Śākta traditions, to contemporary cognitive science and the study of complex systems.

Ethno-phenomenology

Phenomenological and ethnographic methods for the study of first-person experience and non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Distributed cognition

Bio-inspired computing, complex systems and distributed cognition from a processual and relational perspective.

Language and systems

Computational linguistics and self-organized linguistic systems.

Selected

1. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2026). Enacting ontological pluralism: Informational dynamics and embodied cognition in Śaiva-Śākta phenomenology. Philosophies, 11(4), 120. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies11040120
2. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2025). Dynamic non-dualism and processual animism: Reframing consciousness and complexity through process-oriented ontology. Philosophia, 53, 129–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-025-00823-y
3. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2025). From neurocognitive and computational models to śāstra and paramparā: Exploring categorical translations between Indic darśanas and cognitive science. Caesurae: Poetics of Cultural Translation, 6(2), 1–13. Full text
4. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2024). La praxis etno-fenomenológica. Una apropiación metodológica para el estudio de los estados no ordinarios de conciencia en el ámbito de las ciencias cognitivas. Antropología Experimental, 24, 303–319. https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v24.8463
5. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D., & Hernández-Carrión, J. R. (2018). Self-Organized Linguistic Systems: From traditional AI to bottom-up generative processes. Futures, 103, 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.03.003

Full list of publications on Google Scholar.

Upcoming

1. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2027, January). Ecologies of recognition: Śākta imaginaries, embodied cognition and the cultivation of reverence. Lecture and three-week workshop, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
2. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. (2027, February). The reverential turn: Śākta phenomenology beyond the Anthropocene. Invited talk, Culture in the Symbiocene, Southfield College, Darjeeling (India).

He teaches in the following programmes at Universidad Camilo José Cela.

• BSc in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering
• BSc in Computer Engineering
• BSc in Biomedical Computer Engineering
• BSc in Business and Technology
• MSc in Data Science
• University Expert in Mindfulness in Educational Contexts

PhD

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

MSc

Research Master in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Engineering

Systems Computer Engineering, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Postgraduate

University Expert in Psychotherapy, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia · University Expert in International Development Cooperation, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Visiting

University of Toronto (2014) · Tallinn University of Technology (2015) · University of North Carolina (2016–2018)

Research

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2010–2011) · Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2013–2014) · University of Valencia (2013–2015)

EU projects

FP7-BACTOCOM · FP7-FIWARE · ERC-BLOCKCHAIN-GOV