ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Organizing committee will be responsible for all matters relating to this meetings. Please contact them for any subject relating to the event to the oficial email: [email protected]
This year's organizing committee is:
This year's organizing committee is:
Alexandra Abranches
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches (BA, University of Porto; PhD, University of Minho, Braga) is Auxiliary Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho. She has taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Her research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. Her PhD dissertation focused on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She has published a book on the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, Sentimentalismo Filosófico: a Noção de Comunidade no Pensamento de C. S. Peirce, Braga, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 2004. She also translates, and is responsible for the translation into portuguese of Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Investigation of the origin our ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, which has been published by ed.70. She is responsible for coordinating investigation in the area of Applied Ethics of the Centre for Ethics and Political Philosophy. She is a member of the Directive Comission of the Doctoral Course in Philosophy offered by the Philosophy Department. She is currently involved in an european project concerning women philosophers, and may soon be involved in another project,on Populism, pending funding.
Her contacts are:
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches
Professora Auxiliar
Departamento de Filosofia
Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]
Gabinete 2008 - Telefone 253 601 621
Universidade do Minho
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches (BA, University of Porto; PhD, University of Minho, Braga) is Auxiliary Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho. She has taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Her research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. Her PhD dissertation focused on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She has published a book on the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, Sentimentalismo Filosófico: a Noção de Comunidade no Pensamento de C. S. Peirce, Braga, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 2004. She also translates, and is responsible for the translation into portuguese of Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Investigation of the origin our ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, which has been published by ed.70. She is responsible for coordinating investigation in the area of Applied Ethics of the Centre for Ethics and Political Philosophy. She is a member of the Directive Comission of the Doctoral Course in Philosophy offered by the Philosophy Department. She is currently involved in an european project concerning women philosophers, and may soon be involved in another project,on Populism, pending funding.
Her contacts are:
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches
Professora Auxiliar
Departamento de Filosofia
Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]
Gabinete 2008 - Telefone 253 601 621
Universidade do Minho
Eze Paez
email: [email protected]
I was granted an FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho (CEHUM), starting in 2016. I have been a lecturer in legal theory, moral and political philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), where I recently got my PhD. I also received an MA and a BA in Law from the same university. I have been a visiting student at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, at the University of Oxford. My interests are in normative and applied ethics. I have previously written on the ontological and normative aspects of abortion. I have been working on questions related to the badness of death and interspecies comparisons of happiness. I am now interested in several theoretical and applied problems in population ethics, in particular, how the consideration of nonhuman interests might affect decisions regarding which beings shall come into existence.
email: [email protected]
I was granted an FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho (CEHUM), starting in 2016. I have been a lecturer in legal theory, moral and political philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), where I recently got my PhD. I also received an MA and a BA in Law from the same university. I have been a visiting student at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, at the University of Oxford. My interests are in normative and applied ethics. I have previously written on the ontological and normative aspects of abortion. I have been working on questions related to the badness of death and interspecies comparisons of happiness. I am now interested in several theoretical and applied problems in population ethics, in particular, how the consideration of nonhuman interests might affect decisions regarding which beings shall come into existence.
