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Professor Dulce María Granja Castro de Probert studied her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, with theses titled: "Comparison between the method of transcendental metaphysics and the method of transcendental metaphysics," "The notion of transcendental in Kantian philosophy," and "The notion of a priori in the transcendental method," respectively.

She was a Full-Time Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Campus, in the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities. She coordinated the bilingual edition of the complete works of Kant: the Biblioteca Immanuel Kant Collection for Fondo de Cultura Económica, led the research project Kantian Documentation Center, and was a Member of the Academic Group Philosophy of Action.

She received Honors in her Bachelor’s and Doctoral examinations. She won the Open Competition for the position of Permanent Professor of the Kantian Philosophy chair at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in May 1984. She was awarded the National Prize for Editorial Art for the publication of the Critical-Bilingual German-Spanish Editions of Kant's Work, granted by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (CANIEM Prize), in Mexico, 2005. Additionally, she was a founding member of SEKLE, the Society for Kantian Studies in the Spanish Language, in Madrid, Spain, with the appointment on July 20, 2017.

She taught over 40 graduate-level courses and more than 220 undergraduate courses. She supervised 25 Bachelor’s theses, 15 Master’s theses, and 9 Doctoral theses. She published 9 books as an author, 11 edited books, 9 translated books, 23 book chapters, 7 prologues and introductory studies, 3 translated articles, 18 articles, 4 reviews, and 53 conference papers and congress presentations.

Published Work as Author
• (2021), The Kantian Doctrine of Hope, Republic of Moldova, Generis Publishing. ISBN: 9781639026142
• (2015), Brief Introduction to Socratic Thought, Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. ISBN: 9786072803718
• (2010), Kant's Lessons for Today, Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Anthropos. ISBN: 978-84-7658-955-7
• (2006), Javier Barros Sierra: His Life, His Ideas, and His Work, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 970-32-1488-6
• (2003), Javier Barros Sierra: His Life, His Ideas, and His Work, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 970-923-92-0-2
• (2001), Neo-Kantianism in Mexico, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 968-36-8525-0
• (1999), Javier Barros Sierra: His Life, His Ideas, and His Work, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 970-92392-0-1
• (1997), Kant in Spanish: Bibliographic Index, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. ISBN: 968-36-6279-X
• (1979), Philosophy 3: Theory of Knowledge, textbook for the open teaching system, Mexico, Colegio de Bachilleres/Publicaciones Cultural.

Book Chapters
• (2018), "Kantian Philosophy in the Spanish-Speaking World -- The Case of Spain and Mexico," in New Kantian Readers, Tokyo, Hosei University Press, pp. 33-46.
• (2018), “Kant’s Thought on the Concept of Human Dignity,” in Carmen Trueba Atienza and Sergio Pérez Cortés (Eds.), Dignity: Perspectives and Contributions of Moral Philosophy and Political Philosophy, Barcelona-Mexico, Anthropos-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus, pp.137-174.
• (2014), “Rousseau und Kant als Friedens theoretiker: Eine kurze vergleichende Analyse,” in Mario Egger (ed.), Philosophie nach Kant. Festschrift für Manfred Baum, Düsseldorf, Walter De Gruyter, pp. 403-425.
• (2009), “The Principle of Publicity in Kantian Action Theory (Part I),” in Dulce María Granja and Gustavo Leyva (comps.), Cosmopolitanism: Democracy in the Age of Globalization, Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Anthropos, pp. 59-102.
• (2008), “Radical Evil and Moral Progress: Incompatible Concepts in Kantian Action Theory?,” in Gustavo Leyva (comp.), Philosophy of Action, Madrid, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Síntesis, pp. 363-393.