Wagner Barbosa de Barros

I currently serve as a Substitute Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), in São Carlos, Brazil. I am also a Postdoctoral Researcher at UFSCar, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy (DFil) and the research group Kant and the History of Philosophy, where my current research focuses on the concept of friendship in Kant’s philosophy. I hold a PhD (2023), MA (2017), and BA (2014) in Philosophy from UFSCar. During my undergraduate studies, I conducted research on the relationship between subjectivity and Enlightenment in Kant’s Philosophy of History, with support from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). During my master’s studies, I investigated the concept of unsocial sociability in Kant’s Philosophy of History, also with support from CNPq. In my doctoral research, I examined the limits of moral progress in Kant’s Philosophy of History, with funding from the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). In 2021, I obtained a teaching degree in Philosophy from Centro Universitário Claretiano. I taught Philosophy for eight years at INFISTA – Instituto de Filosofia Santo Tomás de Aquino, in São Carlos. In 2026, I served as a Substitute Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the School of Sciences and Letters (FCLAr), São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Araraquara.