PhD IN PHILOSOPHY
University of Minho
School of Arts and Humanities
Department of Philosophy
About
Throughout their research, the PhD candidate receives personalized support from one or more supervisors and is integrated into the activities of one of the School's two research centers, the Center for Ethics, Politics and Society or the Center for Humanistic Studies. At the end of the three-year period, the PhD candidate must have written a thesis that, once successfully defended in public, will confer the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The PhD in Philosophy has a faculty and researchers composed of specialists with a strong presence in the national and international university system. There is also the possibility of co-supervision by professors/researchers of recognized merit from outside the University of Minho.
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This information does not exempt the consultation of the Academic Regulations of the University of Minho and other official documents.
Prerequisites:
a) Hold a master's degree in Philosophy or related areas;
b) Or hold a bachelor's degree in Philosophy or another area, provided that the candidate has a curriculum recognized by the Scientific Council that qualifies him/her to undertake a Doctorate in Philosophy;
c) Or hold a foreign higher academic degree considered appropriate, provided that the candidate has a curriculum recognized by the Scientific Council that qualifies him/her to undertake a Doctorate in Philosophy;
Cumulatively with a) and/or b) or c):
(i) Carry out a research project, including the indication of the sources to be used and the timeline, with a favourable opinion from a staff member from the study cycle who may be appointed by the Scientific Council of the Svhool as supervisor (see the profiles of the staff on this website to find the most suitable one depending on the topic of the thesis);
(ii) Present a CV that attests to sufficient maturity to undertake the PhD in Philosophy;
(iii) If necessary, conduct an interview with a view to clarifying aspects that the course director considers relevant in relation to questions (i) and (ii).
STAFF
João Cardoso Rosas
PhD Director / Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Contemporary theories of justice, especially Rawls; liberal authors of the mid-20th century, especially Popper; analysis of political ideologies; philosophy of human rights; conceptions of the public interest and public philosophy.
Vítor Moura
Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Aesthetics and philosophy of art; aesthetics of music; aesthetics of architecture; image theory; aesthetics of the moving image; aesthetics of theatre; contemporary philosophy.
Bernhard Sylla
Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Philosophy of language; phenomenology (especially Heidegger); philosophy of technology (including Anthropocene Studies); philosophy of the digital; philosophy of trauma.
Manuel Curado
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: Ancient philosophy; philosophy of literature; philosophy of mind and consciousness; Luso-Brazilian philosophical thought.
Pedro Martins
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: Contemporary theories of justice (in particular issues related to merit) and democracy (in particular issues related to right-wing and left-wing populisms); contemporary republicanism and the history of republican ideas; ideologies and political thought/doctrines (especially from the right-wing spectrum: conservatisms, authoritarianisms, fascisms and right-wing populisms); political philosophy and the history of political philosophy/political ideas in Portugal. *** Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) ***
Alexandra Abranches
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: History of Western philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century, more specifically a) topics of metaphysics, moral philosophy or ethics, political philosophy and b) revision of the canon, women philosophers of the Modern Age. Contemporary philosophy: pragmatism, moral psychology, virtue ethics, moral emotions, feminist philosophy, gender and identity issues.
João Ribeiro Mendes
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: Philosophy of technology - engineering tradition: E. Kapp, F. Dessauer, G. Simondon, H. Petroski, P. Haff, etc.; humanities tradition: M. Heidegger, G. Anders, J. David García Bacca, etc.; philosophy of science - classic: G. Bachelard, K. Popper, T. Kuhn, I. Lakatos, L. Laudan, etc.; neo-experimentalist: I. Hacking, N. Cartwright, P. Galison, A. Franklin, R. Giere, R. Harré, etc.; philosophy of nature - problem of the Anthropocene. *** Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) ***
Roberto Merrill
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: The legitimacy of political power (state neutrality, public reason, political perfectionism, reasonable pluralism); issues of social justice (pre-distributive justice, owners' democracy, liberal socialism, unconditional basic income, state as employer of last resort); questions of metaethics (in particular in the fields of ontology and epistemology), normative ethics (in particular contractualist theories) and applied ethics (relations between art and morality, citizens' conferences, the ethics of love, paternalism, access to health care); some themes in the field of metaphysics, in particular questions about personal identity, the meaning of life and the philosophy of time. *** Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) ***
Daniele Santoro
Assistant Researcher
Areas of interest: The idea of public interest; whistleblowing and state secrecy; epistemic issues related to justice, democracy and public policy; normative foundations of constitutional rights; moral psychology of justice and inequality; theories of responsibility and causality in Philosophy of Law; inference in law.
Giuseppe Ballacci
Junior researcher
Areas of interest: Theories of democracy, representation and populism; theories of recognition and identity politics; rhetoric and politics; political ideologies; history of political theory (modern and especially 20th century).
José Colen
Junior researcher
Areas of interest: History of political thought; Cold War philosophers: Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Leo Strauss, Karl Popper; ethics and recent moral philosophy: Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, T. M. Scanlon; Thomas Nagel, Philippa Foot, Elisabeth Anscombe, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty; philosophical anthropology and aesthetics.
António Baptista
Junior researcher
Areas of interest: Theories of democracy - and within this broad area the following topics in particular: a) political representation; b) populism; c) political equality; d) economic inequalities and their effect on democracy; e) property-owning democracy and liberal socialism; f) constitutionalism, courts and democracy; 7) deliberative democracy. Human rights in general (but in particular, and in relation to authors, with greater emphasis on: Moyn; Buchanan; C. S. Niño; Henri Shue). History of ideas (by authors): John Stuart Mill; Rousseau; 18th century French-speaking political philosophy; Hobbes' political philosophy; Locke; Marx and Marxism (but only certain authors and topics). *** Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) ***
