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146Fenomenologia e Estética Comparativa:antropometrias e (in)visibilidades nos Corpus. Para um diálogo entre Yves Klein e Merleau-PontyRevista Philia Filosofia, Literatura e Arte 2 (1): 485-509. 2020.Este ensaio estabelece uma comparação estética e fenomenológica entre os pensamentos de Yves-Klein e Merleau-Ponty. Se o pintor materializou as suas reflexões e concepções em obra pictórica, o fenomenólogo francês dissertou na escrita filosófica o resultado da sua reflexão. Da análise conjunta entre um e outro resulta esta fenomenologia e estética comparativa que apresenta alguns conceitos fundamentais que alimentaram essas reflexões, tais como a visibilidade, o corpo, o mundo. Assim, para além …Read more
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383Cruzeiro Seixas: Weird Corpses andWhy the Portuguese Surrealism Did Not DieEuropean Journal of Fine and Visual Arts 1 (2): 1-5. 2023.Cruzeiro Seixas is one of the main representatives of Portuguese and European surrealism, despite having initially started with neo-realism. Alongside figures such as Mário Cesariny, Carlos Calvet, António Maria Lisboa, Pedro Oom or Mário Henrique Leiria, the artist created a very unique style that allows immediate recognition of his work. If it is true that this recognition depends a lot on the pictorial, stylistic, artistic presentation, it is no less true that this happens due to the permanen…Read more
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1274The Frankenstein Paradigm: More than human, less than nothingInternational Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 6 (2): 35-39. 2021.This paper begins with the examination of some premises of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, and briefly revisits some of the concepts or ideas that she had adapted and that will allow to determine the premises that characterize what we named as Frankenstein Paradigm. Such a paradigm, as we suggested, allows us to perceive, on the one hand, the avant-garde vision of Mary Shelley about human condition (regardless of literary immersion in gothic subjects), and on the oth…Read more
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338Is there an Aesthetic Brain? A brief Essay on the Neuroaesthetic Quantification of beautyIn Joaquim Braga & Simone Guidi (eds.), Quantifying Bodies and Health. Interdisciplinary Approaches, Instituto De Estudos Filosóficos. pp. 127-138. 2021.It is possible today to determine, with some precision (according to the most recent studies in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology), the areas of the brain and the neural networks involved when an individual contemplates art, when feeling pleasure, or when judging about aesthetic experience. However, many questions remain open. First, the philosophical question about the subjective nature of this kind of judgments. Then, what happens in the mind (or should it be said, in the brain?) of the…Read more
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Challenges of the Technological Mind: Between Philosophy and Technology (edited book)Springer. 2024.This book presents a set of texts that reflect different approaches to the relationship between mind and technology. In today’s increasingly technological world, a myriad of different and dizzying challenges face humanity: the ever-closer relationship between man and machine, the exponential development of Artificial Intelligence, man's relationship with virtual worlds, the relationship with new realities such as the neuro potentiation of his capacities, the appearance of robots in everyday life…Read more
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686Ways of seeing filmsIEF. 2021.Contents Preface - ix I. Scientific fiction movies: is there any place for God?! 1. A brief introduction about the birth of science fiction - 15 2. Religious beliefs vs Science Fiction - 18 3. Is there any place for God?! - 20 II. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan) and The Giver (Phillip Noyce) or why utopia is (im)possible 1. Some utopian notions. Remembering Thomas More - 29 2. The Village and The Giver. Some remarks on ideal societies - 34 3. Notes about the possible and impossible of utopia -…Read more
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8Ensaios (modernos) de Filosofia AntigaEdições Esgotadas. 2019.O livro Ensaios (modernos) de Filosofia Antiga reúne três ensaios filosóficos que se apresentam escritos de forma clara e descomprometida, não descurando, contudo, a composição académica que deve nortear os trabalhos de investigação. Assim, o primeiro ensaio aborda sem complexos a questão da vivência da sexualidade na antiguidade grega e resgata uma reflexão crítica para a interpretação moderna que pode ser definida como arte da sexualidade. O segundo ensaio destaca uma figura e um tema pouco …Read more
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Mark Rothko and Romy Castro (edited book)Thephilosophersbookcompany & Createspace. 2014.This book is about what Mark Rothko and Romy Castro think about painting. The bottom line placed here is: what is matter for a painter? What they want to communicate with their art? And how they do it? This book seeks to uncover some of the secrets that are in minds painters. In the backgrond, waht unites, apparently, two such different artists is the way they establish intimacy with matter, even that a concept of matter or intimacy may assume and be used in different interpretations.
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19O Conceito de “Subst'ncia” na Metafísica e nas Categorias de Aristóteles / The concept of substance in Metaphysics and Categories of AristotleConjectura: Filosofia E Educação 25 020005. 2020.Resumo: Procurar analisar um conceito como o de Substância é, por si mesmo, entrar no coração da metafísica. Quando este conceito se situa no Corpus Aristotelicum a tarefa ganha outra dimensão pois implica uma leitura conjunta das suas obras principais, a saber, As Categorias e a Metafísica. Tal leitura conjunta levanta desde logo vários problemas: a autenticidade, a articulação entre os seus próprios livros, e sobretudo, a questão fundamental: se é possível fazer uma tal leitura. O propósito do…Read more
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31Happiness and Are You Lost in the World Like Me? A Brief Philosophical Analysis of Steve Cutts’ Animated FilmsPhilosophy Study 12 (3). 2022.
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48Lying, computers and self-awarenessKairos 24 (1): 10-34. 2020.From the initial analysis of John Morris in 1976 about if computers can lie, I have presented my own treatment of the problem using what can be called a computational lying procedure. One that uses two Turing Machines. From there, I have argued that such a procedure cannot be implemented in a Turing Machine alone. A fundamental difficulty arises, concerning the computational representation of the self-knowledge a machine should have about the fact that it is lying. Contrary to Morris’ claim, I h…Read more
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15On the Foundations of Eurhythmic Physics: A Brief Non Technical SurveyInternational Journal of Philosophy 5 (6): 50. 2017.