Sofia Miguens is Full Professor (Professora Catedrática) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Porto, where she teaches (mostly) epistemology, philosophy of mind and language and contemporary philosophy. Her MPhil and PhD studies were supervised by Fernando Gil (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris and New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL)). She was a Visiting scholar at New York University (Fall 2000), a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Jean Nicod-Paris (2007-2008), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney – Australia (2013) and a Visiting Professor at Amiens (2017).
She is author of nine books (…
Sofia Miguens is Full Professor (Professora Catedrática) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Porto, where she teaches (mostly) epistemology, philosophy of mind and language and contemporary philosophy. Her MPhil and PhD studies were supervised by Fernando Gil (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris and New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL)). She was a Visiting scholar at New York University (Fall 2000), a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Jean Nicod-Paris (2007-2008), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney – Australia (2013) and a Visiting Professor at Amiens (2017).
She is author of nine books (Uma Teoria Fisicalista do Conteúdo e da Consciência – D. Dennett e os debates da filosofia da mente, 2002; Racionalidade, 2004; Filosofia da Linguagem – uma introdução (2007); Será que a minha mente está dentro da minha cabeça? (2008) and Compreender a Mente e o Conhecimento (2009); John McDowell – uma análise a partir da filosofia moral (2014, com S. Cadilha), Uma leitura da filosofia contemporânea - Figuras e movimentos (2019) e Que coisa é o mundo (2021, com M. J. Monte) and Arte Descomposta - Stanley Cavell, a estética e o futuro da filosofia (2022). She is editor of several others, among them Aparência e Realidade (2010), Aspectos do Juízo (2011), Acção e Ética (2011), Consciousness and Subjectivity (2012), Conversations on Human Action and Practical Rationality (2013) and The Logical Alien (2020). She has published numerous articles, review articles and book chapters in Portuguese, English and French on several topics in philosophy of mind and language; epistemology and cognitive science; moral and political philosophy and history of 20th century philosophy (phenomenology and analytic philosophy).
She has been, at different times, President of the Portuguese Philosophical Association, Head of the Philosophy Department at FLUP, Director of the Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral Programmes and Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto (the last between 2019-2022). She is the Founder and Principal Investigator of MLAG (Mind, Language and Action Group), a research group of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto.
