Personal Presentation

Fields of interest: I teach and supervise research and thesis on Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy; Political Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Medieval Studies (Codicology; University; Libraries).
Academic training and career: Philosophy graduate (Porto, 1984), Master in Medieval Philosophy (Porto, 1990), Diplôme Européen d'Études Médiévales (Roma, 1992), Qualification in Education Sciences – Teaching of Philosophy (Lisboa, 1993), PhD in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Porto, 2002), Habilitation in Philosophy (Porto, 2007).



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Ciência ID: 0C11-4DD9-8D7C / Ciência vitae
Researcher ID (publons): M-3298-2013 

Teaching activity 2023-2024

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Research projects with external funding

• 2024 (co-IP, with Ricardo Melo) Signo. Value systems in digital health technologies (FCT-CMU Ref. 2022.15724.CMU)
• 2018-2021(co-PI, with José Higuera) From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century). (FCT- AAC nº 02/SAICT/2017 - Nr. 029717)
• 2017-2019 (PI): Estudo e valorização da Biblioteca do convento de Vilar de Frades, Barcelos (funded by Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte)
• 2016-2019 (PI): Critical Edition and Study of the Works Attributed do Petrus Hispanus - 1 (PTDC/MHC-FIL/0216/2014)
• 2013-2015 (PI): Scholastica iberica. A filosofia em Portugal nos séculos XVI-XVII e a sua recepção e desenvolvimento no novo mundo: cooperação CAPES/FCT
• 2011-2014 (PI): Iberian Scholastic Philosophy at the Crossroads of Western Reason: The Reception of Aristotle and the Transition to Modernity (PTDC/FIL-FIL/109889/2009)
• 2010-2013 (PI): Imago mundi - Medieval Philosophy in Text and Translation (PTDC/FIL-FIL/098044/2008)

Faculty

• Full Professor (2012). Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Political Philosophy
• Chair of the Ethics Committee of the University of Porto (2022-)
• Diretor of the Departament of Philosophy (2017.11-)
• Director / Scientific Coordinator of the Instituto de Filosofia UI&D 502 (2022.08.08-)
• Researcher and PI of the TL Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy / GFM/IF (1995-; PI since 2013)

Scientific Societies

• (2021-) President of the General Assembly of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia. (2017-2021 President of the Board)
• (2021-) Board member of the Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval Salamanca-Córdoba. (2016-2021 President of teh Board)

Editor

• Director Filosofia. Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (2010- )
• Director Mediaevalia. Textos e estudos (2013- )
• Director of the collection "Imago Mundi. Filosofia em texto e tradução" (2012- ), Edições Afrontamento
• Director of the collection "Textos e estudos de Filosofia Medieval" (2010- ), Edições Húmus

Former positions

• 2015-2018; 2019-2022: Member of the University of Porto Ethics Committee
• 2016-2019; 2019-2022: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Sports
• 2019-2022: Deputy president of the Comissão de Ética da Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e da Alimentação da U.Porto
• 2008-2017: Diretor / Coordenador científico do Instituto de Filosofia UI&D 502 (2008-2017.04.18)
• 2017-2019; 2012-2014, 2003-2006: Director/President Philosophy Departament
• 2015-2019: Director of the Graduation in Philosophy
• 2007-2014: Director of the PhD Program in Philosophy
• 2010-2014: Elected member of the Scientific Council FLUP
• 2009-2013: Elected member of the Senate of the Universidade do Porto
• 2007-2008: Elected member of the Assembleia Estatutária da Universidade do Porto
• 2003-2013: General secretary of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales
• 2004-2013: Coordinator of the Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM, Rome)

Áreas de Interesse

1. Humanities > History > History of philosophy > Medieval philosophy
2. Humanities > Philosophy > Epistemology
3. Social sciences > Political sciences > Governance
4. Social sciences > Cultural studies > Middle Ages studies