Rafael Antunes Padilha is a scholar whose interdisciplinary expertise spans social sciences, anthropology, and philosophy. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2016, conducting research on the economic and kinship anthropology of rural families with a CNPq scholarship at the Hybris Political Anthropology Research Group. He further advanced his studies with a Master’s in Labor and Global Workers' Rights from Pennsylvania State University, where he researched the Indian Garment Industry and the Oaxacan Teachers' Union at the Centre for Global Workers' Rights. Additionally, he earned a Master’s…
Rafael Antunes Padilha is a scholar whose interdisciplinary expertise spans social sciences, anthropology, and philosophy. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2016, conducting research on the economic and kinship anthropology of rural families with a CNPq scholarship at the Hybris Political Anthropology Research Group. He further advanced his studies with a Master’s in Labor and Global Workers' Rights from Pennsylvania State University, where he researched the Indian Garment Industry and the Oaxacan Teachers' Union at the Centre for Global Workers' Rights. Additionally, he earned a Master’s in Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Porto, with a thesis titled 'O conceito de 'cultura' como questão metodológica na antropologia,' under the supervision of Prof. Sofia Miguens. Currently, as a PhD candidate at the University of Porto and a member of the Mind, Language and Action group, he holds an FCT Doctoral Scholarship for his ongoing thesis “Making Sense of Alterity: relativism and representationalism in cultural anthropology,” which aims to provide a philosophical therapeutic approach to the questions of description, ontology, and representation in anthropology through the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and neopragmatism. His research interests encompass the philosophy of noise and subjectivity in urban contexts, the philosophy of anthropology and alterity, ontological relativism and phenomenology, and the theoretical intersections between analytic and continental traditions in philosophy.
