Nythamar de Oliveira is Full Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the School of Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University at Porto Alegre, Brazil (PUCRS), since 1999, Coordinator of the Assessment Area of Philosophy at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), 2018-22, and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Fellow, since 1995. Dr De Oliveira undertook undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology from Aix-en-Provence (1985) and a Master's in Theology from Aix-en-Provence (1987), before earning a Master's in Philosophy from Villanova University (1990…
Nythamar de Oliveira is Full Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the School of Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University at Porto Alegre, Brazil (PUCRS), since 1999, Coordinator of the Assessment Area of Philosophy at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), 2018-22, and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Fellow, since 1995. Dr De Oliveira undertook undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology from Aix-en-Provence (1985) and a Master's in Theology from Aix-en-Provence (1987), before earning a Master's in Philosophy from Villanova University (1990) and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994). He conducted postdoctoral research at the New School for Social Research (1997-98), London School of Economics (2004-05), University of Kassel (2005, 2012), the University of Toledo, OH (2007-08), and the University of Miami (2015-16). He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2004-05 and has teaching experience and expertise in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Human Rights and Neurophilosophy. Professor De Oliveira is the founder of the Brazilian Center for Research in Democracy, Coordinator of the PUCRS Center for Applied Ethics and of the Research Group in Neurophilosophy at the Brain Institute (InsCer), and a member of the Clinical Bioethics Committee at S. Lucas Hospital, PUCRS. He authored 5 books and co-edited 9 volumes, having published over 50 articles and supervised 30 Masters' and 25 PhD students in Philosophy, leading to the public defense of their theses and dissertations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Veritas, Brazil's oldest philosophy journal.