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Full Professor, Department of Philosophy.

AOS: philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of action, contemporary philosophy

Sofia Miguens is Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She is author of nine books (most recently A Filosofia Contemporânea – Figuras e movimentos, Edições 70, 2023) and editor of several others (most recently The Logical Alien, Harvard University Press, 2020). She has published widely in Portuguese, English and French, mostly on philosophy of mind and language and history of contemporary philosophy. Some recent articles: The Human Face of Realism Putnam and Diamond on the ethical gulfs between us (The Monist, 2020), Animal Brains and the Work of Words Daniel Dennett on natural language and human minds (Topoi, 2021), The Quest for a Voice - The importance of Cavell’s notion of claim for ethics and aesthetics (Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2021), Being a Direct Realist – Searle, McDowell and Travis on ‘seeing things as they are’.

She has been a Visiting scholar at New York University and the Institut Jean Nicod – Paris, a Visiting researcher at the University of Sydney – Australia, a Visiting Professor at the Université de Picardie JV and the Université de Paris – Sorbonne. She has lectured, gave talks, and had research visits in Austria, Australia, Brasil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Mozambique, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom, among others.

At the University of Porto she has been Director of the Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral Programs in Philosophy, as well as Head of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Research Unit (Institute of Philosophy). She is also the founder and Principal Investigator of MLAG, the Mind, Language and Action Group (Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto).

She is a former President of the Portuguese Philosophical Association, a member of the Scientific Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and a member of the Scientific Committee of Novos Talentos Programme of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. She has worked as evaluator for A3ES and FCT in Portugal as well as for several research agencies outside the country.

 
Books in Portuguese:

Uma Teoria Fisicalista do Conteúdo e da Consciência – Daniel Dennett e os debates da filosofia da mente (2002), Racionalidade (2004), Filosofia da linguagem (2007), Será que a minha mente está dentro da minha cabeça? Da ciência cognitiva à filosofia (2008), Compreender a mente e o conhecimento (2009), John McDowell – Uma análise a partir da filosofia moral (2014), Uma leitura da filosofia contemporânea – figuras e movimentos (2019) e Que coisa é o mundo? O estado dogmático (2021) e Arte Descomposta – Stanley Cavell, a estética e o futuro da filosofia (2022), A Filosofia Contemporânea - Figuras e movimentos (2º edição, 2023).

Some articles:

“The Human Face of Naturalism – Putnam and Diamond on the ethical ‘gulfs between us’” The Monist, 2020, 103, 404–414 

“What is the difference between Hamlet and me? Fiction, metaphysics and the nature of our moral thinking”. In Concha Martinez and Jose Luis Falguera eds., 2020, Abstract Objects: For and Against, Synthese Library. Berlin, Springer, 239-252

“Animal Brains and the Work of Words – Daniel Dennett on natural language and human minds”, Topoi 41 (3):599-607 (2021).

’The Thing Before Us’ – Agreement and disagreement between Ayers and Travis”, com Naomi Osorio Kupferblum, Grazer Philosophische Studien. 98 (4):584-599 (2021)

The Rational Wolf – Moral philosophy as key to John McDowell’s liberal naturalism” in The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism, Mario de Caro and David Macartur eds. London, Routledge, 2022, pp. 339-348

Being a Direct Realist – Searle, McDowell, and Travis on ‘seeing things as they are’. Topoi 43, 201–210 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09965-8

Williams’ Relativism and the Moral Point of View: A Challenge by Cora Diamond. Topoi 43, 537–547 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09989-0

O auto-conhecimento e a tragédia shakespeareana em Stanley Cavell, Philosophica, 31 (2), 2023