Yolanda Espiña is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) at the University of Piura. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (University of Navarra) and a Higher Degree in Piano (Conservatorio Superior de Vigo). As a Fundación Rich Fellow, she conducted doctoral research at the University of Munich (with Werner Beierwaltes), in collaboration with the Hegel-Archiv (Bochum) and the FernUniversitát Hagen. She carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Barcelona and later, as a Research Fellow, at the John Cage Trust in New York. Awarded with a Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she collaborated with the Faculty of Humanities and the Rosenzweig Center, as well as with the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. In 1999 she joined the Catholic University of Portugal, first at the School of Arts, where she coordinated the Transversal Area and led the Theory of Arts Group of the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR), and later at the Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH), Faculty of Philosophy, as a member of the directive board and the coordinator of the Research Area in Philosophy, until 2018. She still remains as Associate Senior Researcher of both research centers. She was or continues to be a guest professor at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes Escénicas (ESMAE, Porto), and the Universities of Vigo, Sevilla, Navarra, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), University of São Paulo (USP) and La Sabana. As a Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Short Term Visiting Scholar, she was hosted by the University of Maryland in 2004. Invited speaker in the USA, Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, among other countries and institutions. She has extensively published on aesthetics and philosophy of art and music, contemporary philosophy and further questions related to culture and communication, in several countries. Is founder and director of the collection "Cadernos de Teoria das Artes". Yolanda is a member of several international scientific societies and editorial boards, and she frequently participates in international forums and debates, with a strong inclination to intercultural issues in the last years. Among other events organized, she was Convenor and co-Chair of the 2014 World Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), held at the Catholic University of Portugal in Porto. Main research interests: metaphysics; modern and contemporary thought; philosophy and theory of art and the arts; ethics and political philosophy; communication; cyberculture and globalization. Current lines of research include: contemporary thought and metaphysics; philosophy of music, and philosophy of technological creation, in the field of philosophy of art; and relationships between ethics, law and nature (in articulation with technology), in the field of political philosophy. Some further online references: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics (see Secondary Literature in German).