ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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This year's organizing committee is:
This year's organizing committee is:
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Departamento de Filosofia CEPS / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas Gabinete 2008 - Telefone 253 601 621 Universidade do Minho |
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 adjunct director of the Center for 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.
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António Luís Baptista
Dr. António Baptista received his PH.D Summa Cum Laude in Political Theory from the University of Lisbon in 2013 with the thesis “Isocracy: Foundations, Principles and Consequences of the Democratic Ideal”. Previously, he had obtained a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics/Political Science from the Institute of Social Sciences of University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) and a Law Degree (B.A.) from Lisbon’s Nova Law School (FDUNL). From February 2014 to February 2016, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP) on the topic of theories of representation and the notion of political legitimacy, during which time we was the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship (funded by the Brazilian higher research entity, CAPES). He has published several articles on representation, property-owning democracy and law in different journals and received the “Special Award Análise Social – FLAD” for his article “democracia e representação democrática” (best article by a young researcher in 2011).
As of February 2019 he is a junior researcher at Minho University and full member of the CEPS-UM research group.
While his long-standing and main research interests have been, among others, Democratic Theory, Political Equality, Distributive justice and Luck Egalitarianism, his research will now focus on Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism and the reforming of the Legal International Order. As the unipolar world of the post-cold war era seems to be waning with the emergence of new powers and the (still moderate) decline of US hegemony, and the rising of new global problems (mass migration, climate change, international terrorist networks, growing militarization and military tension, as well as renewed secessionist tendencies within formerly stable nation-states), it is fundamental to re-assess the philosophical conundrums and proposed solutions to issues of human rights, (legitimate) interventionism and the reforming of international institutions. It is important that this reflection, unlike what happens in much of the existing literature, does not abstract too much from or ignore the real world complexities of existing international relations. On the other hand, it must also avoid addressing the most immediate “pressing issues” of the day (e.g., humanitarian crises and mass migrations) in an isolated fashion. Rather, a sound and “non-ideal” theory of international justice ought to take a more holistic approach, connecting these specific problems to other issues intrinsically related with them (globalization, neoliberal policies, unbridled military, political and economic interventionism) and with the real international order, as well as taking in consideration both the root causes of those problems and the various probable consequences of each of the proposed solutions.
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Pedro Miguel Martins
Desde a pós-graduação que as minhas áreas de interesse, estudo e investigação se centraram no domínio da política. Durante o mestrado desenvolvi pesquisas sobre a história do pensamento político conservador em Portugal e na Europa. Escrevi uma tese de doutoramento sobre o pensamento republicano português que foi premiada e publicada em livro. Publiquei diversos artigos sobre o pensamento social e político conservador, em especial Edmund Burke e, mais recentemente, Auguste Comte.
Desde 1995 que tenho lecionado, na Universidade do Minho, Unidades Curriculares a cursos de licenciatura e mestrado, fundamentalmente em dois campos complementares (história das ideias e filosofia, em especial filosofia política), como as seguintes: Mentalidades e Cultura Portuguesa, Pensamento Político Português, História das Ideias Políticas, Teorias da Democracia, Filosofia em Portugal e Filosofia Política.
Mais recentemente, tenho desenvolvido investigação no âmbito da filosofia política contemporânea, designadamente sobre “mérito e merecimento nas teorias da justiça” e sobre o populismo e a redefinição das teorias democráticas.
Oriento, de momento, cinco estudantes de doutoramento em filosofia política e uma estudante no domínio da história das ideias em Portugal.
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