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    Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (edited book)
    with Edmundo Balsemão Pires
    Springer International Publishing. 2015.
    This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action…Read more
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    In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form, a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but which always point to an observation of society from the perspective of human vulnerability.
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    [Recensão a] Oswald Schwemmer, Das Ereignis der Form. Zur Analyse des sprachlichen Denkens (review)
    Revista Filosófica de Coimbra 21 (42): 669-671. 2012.
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    Formas imagéticas e formas discursivas
    Revista Filosófica de Coimbra 19 (37): 149-176. 2010.
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    Negação e virtualização em Niklas Luhmann
    Revista Filosófica de Coimbra 24 (48): 463-496. 2015.
    Com este texto pretende-se articular dois conceitos que fazem parte da reflexão de Niklas Luhmann sobre os processos de formação de sentido. Trata ‑se dos conceitos de “negação” e “virtualização”, que, na teoria dos sistemas luhmanniana, contribuem, de forma decisiva, para a caracterização das operações dos sistemas psíquicos e dos sistemas sociais. Tendo em vista a compreensão do desempenho operatório das possibilidades de sentido inactualizadas no interior dos dois sistemas, um dos objectivos …Read more
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    Conceiving Virtuality: From Art to Technology (edited book)
    Springer. 2019.
    This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the analysis of the concept of “the virtual” to areas of knowledge that, until today, have not been fully included in its philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with regard to the main premises of Western thought. Given its…Read more
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    The use of digital tracking technologies is a widespread phenomenon. Millions of people around the world now track, document, and analyse their physical activities, vital functions, and daily habits through wearable devices, apps, and platforms. The aim is to assess and improve health, productivity, and wellbeing. The current Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the uptake of tracking technologies. At the heart of this trend lies the quantification of the body, deemed as a key element in medical pr…Read more
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    In a first approach, “caring” can be understood as a way of articulating time in full agreement with the need of others. Therefore, and thanks to care, we profit with the access to a peculiar consciousness of time which transcends the practical time of caring and simultaneously fosters and frames our own perception of time itself. Nevertheless, we know that in several care institutions there is a kind of “economic time” which is necessary both to the meeting with the most urgent needs as to fill…Read more
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    Quantifying Bodies and Health. Interdisciplinary Approaches (edited book)
    Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos. 2021.
    How are the contemporary conceptions of the living body and health related to numerical systems? Addressing the contemporary practice of quantification of bodies and health, such a question is bound to arise. As a discipline historically positioned amidst natural sciences, technology, and art, medicine has always been sensitive to theories and apparatuses able to quantify and reshape the living body, as well as to the practical possibility of operating on it. This is why, in the era where teleco…Read more
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    Any criticism that can be made of philosophy necessarily implies knowledge of the nature of its symbolic structures. Accordingly, in this paper, I argue that the reflective value of philosophy in the understanding of reality must start by taking into account the peculiar features of the symbolic elements, which compose and support its epistemic structures. The representative core of these elements is, to that extent, the philosophical concept. Through it, as I will try to bring to light, the hum…Read more
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    In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form, a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but which always point to an observation of society from the perspective of human vulnerability.
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    This text attempts to analyze and inquire the relationship between virtuality and imagination in Susanne Langer’s art theory. One of my main purposes is to know whether the “actual-virtual” binomial can be applied, without any theoretical concern, to artistic objects and art in general. Since, in Langer, the symbol theory is directly connected with a theory of perception, it remains to scrutinize how aesthetic experiences mediated by the several artistic modalities imply the transformation of wo…Read more
  •  5
    Michel Foucault e os Discursos do Corpo (edited book)
    with Rafael Fernandes and Ismara Tasso
    Pontes Editores. 2020.
    "É por uma gama de temas diversos, que mereceram o olhar cuidadoso desse historiador e filósofo que esta obra reserva aos leitores, interessados em compreender Foucault, seu pensamento e seu modo particular de (d)enunciar os modos cruéis de exercer o poder soberano ou as relações de poder, numa sociedade que ainda guarda muito do poder disciplinar e se abre, de forma extravagante, ao poder pelo controle, pois quem não se sente hoje controlado, vigiado para ser punido ou para ser protegido, ainda…Read more
  •  5
    Centrada na reflexão sobre as diversas formas culturais que geram o liame simbólico entre homem e mundo, a filosofia cassireriana está, simultaneamente, comprometida com uma “antropologia da individuação”, através da qual é possível vislumbrar as possibilidades de formação da consciência humana face ao universo mediado pelo símbolo. Tal como Cassirer inúmeras vezes reitera, é no interior desse universo que devem ser procurados os principais nexos individuantes subjacentes à energia criadora do e…Read more
  •  5
    Da convergência figurativa entre corpo e imagem
    Acta Scientiarum Language and Culture 41 (2): 1-9. 2019.
    Com este artigo são trazidas à reflexão duas temáticas que, desde longa data, animam o pensamento filosófico ocidental, a saber: a representação imagética do corpo e as suas potencialidades simbólicas discursivas. Tendo em vista a articulação conceptual de ambas, no quadro geral de uma teoria estética da sensibilidade afecta aos novos meios tecnológicos, será aqui introduzido e desenvolvido o conceito de ‘convergência figurativa’, do qual se partirá para repensar as dinâmicas emergentes da repre…Read more
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    Sensibilidade e Matéria no Pensamento de Denis Diderot (edited book)
    with Fabiana Tamizari
    IEF. 2020.
    A filosofia diderotiana consubstancia, na perfeição, um enraizamento das possibilidades da razão na vasta teia estética tecida pelas relações sensíveis que o ser humano mantém com as suas construções culturais, sejam estas as da própria linguagem ou as do universo artístico. Aliás, se há imperativo teórico que pode ser retirado da multifacetada obra de Diderot, é o que pressupõe uma reconciliação epistémica da filosofia com a estética, compreendida esta última não, apenas, como fonte inigualável…Read more
  •  4
    Imagination, Multimodality, and Sound
    In Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen & Martin Knakkergaard (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1, Oxford Handbooks. 2019.
    Joaquim Braga deals with the role of sound in multimodal environments and multimodal surfaces. He argues that imagination not only bridges sensory dimensions that are absent from perception but also is central to “the relationship of presence,” that is, the connection between presently perceived sensory input. This involves assessing both the individuating dimension and the relational disposition of sound, which allows sound—through the activation of imagination—to develop sensory relations. Cen…Read more
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    Não há um objecto, único e último, a que possamos chamar “imagem”. A formação de cada médium obedece a processos de configuração – tanto materiais quanto cognitivos –, cuja essência abarca as relações que são geradas com os demais. A imagem é um médium. Um médium, ainda que necessariamente provido de materialidade, é um objecto para a percepção. A questão é, pois, sempre dupla: saber como são gerados para e geridos pela nossa percepção os meios simbólicos e o respectivo universo simbólico a que …Read more
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    More than a matter confined to Mandevillean thought, the discourse on the relationship between imagination and sensibility is a significant theoretical framework of eighteenth-century philosophical thought. Sensibility and imagination appear in Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees as antithetical concepts, because they are fully articulated according to a natural and deterministic criterion of the expression of passions. Such a materialist understanding of the passions places a premium upo…Read more
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    O fenómeno da corrupção não pode ser pensado sem a inclusão das suas potencialidades simbólicas. A informação que, pela acção dos mass media, aparece construída sob a forma de escândalo, acaba por determinar a própria construção da sua natureza factual. Logo, aqui impera a questão de saber por que é que as práticas corruptas favorecem o discurso do escândalo, bem como a legitimação dos mass media como instrumentos de objectivação dos comportamentos ilícitos. Procurar-se-á ponderar essas questões…Read more
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    The texts in this collection are revised versions of presentations given at the Coimbra International Conference on the Semantics of Culture, held on November 24-25, 2011. Their common theme is the idea that the phenomenon of culture cannot be reduced to a substantialist vision of the diversity of manifestations of society and human beings. However, if one were to accept the concept of culture as a starting point for observing these manifestations, then it should also be adopted as a starting po…Read more
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    Comentário Pseudomorfose e convergência em Theodor Adorno
    Trans/Form/Ação 43 (spe): 341-344. 2020.
    Num parágrafo do seu artigo “Max Weber e Adorno, sobre o conceito de progresso: Contrastes da racionalização técnica na música e na pintura”, dedicado à interpenetração estética entre composições musicais e composições picturais, Luis Felipe de Salles Roselino refere-se ao conceito adorniano de pseudomorfose aplicado à pintura. Por ser um conceito-chave na teoria estética do filósofo frankfurtiano e contribuir para a elucidação das principais teses que, no presente artigo, são elencadas, creio q…Read more
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    This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body throughout the early modern, modern and early contemporary age, the authors contextualise important issues of both medical and philosophical significance, with chapters focusing on the quantification of temperaments and fluids, complexions, funct…Read more
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    Leituras da Sociedade Moderna. Media, Política, Sentido (edited book)
    with Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho
    Grácio Editor. 2013.
    Nesta publicação se reúnem contribuições que abarcam algumas das principais questões que a Sociedade Moderna continua a colocar ao trabalho filosófico, rejeitando respostas pré-formatadas e exigindo novos modos de observar, reflectir e ler a realidade. É esse o desafio a que correspondem individual e colectivamente estes ensaios em torno de media, política e sentido.
  • Ausgangspunkt für diese Kritik des Bildbegriffs ist das triadische Grundverhältnis von Bild, Wahrnehmung und symbolischen Formen. Aus dem Grunde geht die thematische Richtung des Werks vor allem von einem kulturphilosophischen Kriterium des Bildbegriffs – das Kriterium der symbolischen Artikulation – hin zu einer Bestimmung der Individualität des Bildes als Kunstwerk und dadurch auch zu einer normativen Bestimmung des Bildbegriffs selbst. Es ist genau die Cassirersche Beziehung zwischen dem Begr…Read more
  • In a first approach, “caring” can be understood as a way of articulating time in full agreement with the need of others. Therefore, and thanks to care, we profit with the access to a peculiar consciousness of time which transcends the practical time of caring and simultaneously fosters and frames our own perception of time itself. Nevertheless, we know that in several care institutions there is a kind of “economic time” which is necessary both to the meeting with the most urgent needs as to fill…Read more
  • This volume sets out to chart a path at the intersection between the histories of medicine and philosophy concerning a topic that is prominent in contemporary debates, i.e. the translation of physiology, and accordingly pathology, into numerical terms. In particular, the book discusses and contextualizes issues that are simultaneous of medical and philosophical import, such as the quantification of temperaments and complexions, the quantification of life processes and physiology, the quantificat…Read more