Max Reyes Lobos is a Chilean psychologist with a degree from the University of Talca and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Valencia. Throughout his professional career he has worked in public service, psychotherapy and university teaching. His teaching experience and interests include ethics and political theory, social psychology and studies on civil society, development and environment. Since 2019 he has been a professor in the Department of General Studies at the Universidad Católica del Maule (Chile), where he maintains his distance teaching role.
Dr. Reyes joined the Department of Political Science in September 2023, as a fellow of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID-Chile). As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Reyes researches Chilean and Canadian politics from the perspective of Aristotelian practical wisdom.

In his research, Dr. Reyes comparatively analyzes Chilean and Canadian politics from the perspective of Aristotelian practical wisdom, examining how practical wisdom can inform the decision-making of statesmen and citizens in relation to constitutionalism and democratization, and the protection of the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups. The aim of his work, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron, is to investigate and inform the kind of knowledge that statesmen and citizens need to respond to situations in which rules are not sufficient to achieve the ends that circumstances warrant. In this sense, both in everyday life and in politics, the ability to adapt the rules to the exigencies of the situation will largely determine the correctness of the rule, its flexibility being what allows for fair dealing.

Recent publications

(2024). The influence of the dictatorship and the emergence of the common, UCMaule, 66, 27-45. https://doi.org/10.29035/ucmaule.66.27.

(2023). Chile y sus tensiones. Aportes para la resolución de conflictos sociales en el marco de la acción ciudadana, en J. Gracia (Ed.), Educación ética y filosófica en contextos de conflicto, heridas y vulnerabilidad (pp. 129-136). Dykinson. https://doi.org/10.14679/2170

(2022). Sobre la participación y toma de decisiones políticas en Chile. Tras el horizonte de posibilidad, Revista Palabra y Razón, 22, 25-41. https://doi.org/10.29035/pyr.22.25

With Javier Gracia Calandín (2022). Bien común, bienes comunes ¿para quién(es)? Desafiando la visión atomista de la sociedad civil, Isegoría, 66, e18. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2022.66.18

Work in Progress

“The constitution is more than the text. Notes on equity and wise judgment in Chilean Constitution”, article under preparation.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Abroad 2023-2025, National Research and Development Agency of Chile (ANID)