Postgraduate Program in Philosophy

Abilio Azambuja Rodrigues Filho

Practice areas: Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Frege.

Alice Mara Serra

PhD in Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität/ Husserl-Archiv Freiburg, Germany; "Experienced Researcher" (Erfahrene Wissenschaftlerin) by Alexander von Humboldt and CAPES Foundations.

Description: She supervises master's and doctoral studies in: Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; French Post-structuralism (with an emphasis on Deconstruction and its intertextualities); Philosophy of Image; Contemporary Philosophy and Anthropology.

Amaro de Oliveira Fleck

Practice areas: Social theory and political philosophy, especially within the scope of critical theory of society.

André Joffily Abath

Andre J. Abath received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield. His teaching and research engage the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind (including phenomenological approaches) and philosophy of language. Topics of interest include concepts, the semantics and pragmatics of knowledge attributions, ignorance and the work of John McDowell and Merleau-Ponty.

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/andreabath

Carlo Gabriel Kszan Pancera

Practice areas: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Italian Renaissance, and Republicanism.

Daniel Oliveira Pucciarelli

Eduardo Soares Neves Silva

Practice areas: Dialectic and Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Honneth) and Philosophy of Social Sciences (Marx, Weber).

Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos

Practice areas: Philosophy of Language, History of Medieval Philosophy (focusing on philosophy of language and epistemology in the 14th century), Epistemology.

Fernando Eduardo de Barros Rey Puente

Practice areas: Metaphysics and physics in Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, as well as the reception of ancient philosophers in modern (Schelling) and contemporary thinkers (Simone Weil).

Giorgia Cecchinato

Practice areas: Aesthetics of German Idealism (Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller etc.).

Guilherme Domingues da Motta

Helton Machado Adverse

Practice areas: Political Philosophy, Republicanism, Italian Renaissance Philosophy and Contemporary Political Philosophy (Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault).

Ivan Domingues

Practice areas: Philosophy of human and social sciences; Philosophy of technology; French Philosophy (Foucault, Ricoeur).

Joãosinho Beckenkamp

Practice areas: Criticism, Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy, in addition to Philosophy of Natural Law and Critique of Political Economy.

José Raimundo Maia Neto

Leonardo Alves Vieira

Practice areas: Metaphysics and dialogues between Western and Eastern philosophy with an emphasis on their non-dualist traditions. German Idealism.

Leonardo de Mello Ribeiro

Practice areas: Metaethics, contemporary normative ethics, and history of British moral philosophy.

Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho

Practice areas: Greek Rhetoric (Sophists, Plato and/or Aristotle) and the reception of Greek classics in cinema and/or theater.

Mauro Luiz Engelmann

Practice areas: History of Analytical Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Moore, Carnap, Quine and Wittgenstein.

Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto

Practice areas: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, its reception and transmission in Antiquity, as well as its dialogue with the different traditions of ancient medicine.

Newton Bignotto de Souza

Patrícia Maria Kauark Leite

Practice areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Kantian Philosophy, Philosophy of Physics, in particular Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics.

Rodrigo Antônio de Paiva Duarte

Practice areas: Aesthetics of Critical Theory of Society (T.W. Adorno, W. Benjamin, H. Marcuse), Contemporary Aesthetics (A. Danto, V. Flusser, John Dewey, among others).

Rogério Antonio Lopes

Practice areas: History of Moral Philosophy, covering authors and problems of modern Moral Philosophy (from Hume to Nietzsche) and in normative ethics, with an emphasis on theories of justice.

Tadeu Mazzola Verza

Practice areas: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature in the following traditions: Arabic (Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali and Averroes), Jewish (Maimonides and Gersonides) and Christian (Thomas Aquinas).

Telma de Souza Birchal

Verlaine Freitas

Practice areas: Greek aesthetics (Plato and Aristotle), Aesthetics of German Idealism (Kant, Schelling and Hegel), Contemporary aesthetics (Fr. Nietzsche and Jean Baudrillard), Aesthetics of Critical Theory of Society (T.W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin) and Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis (Freud and Laplanche).

Walter Romero Menon Júnior

Practice areas: Contemporary aesthetics and dialogue with other areas of Philosophy (A. Danto, N. Goodman, E. Gombrich, R. Wolhin, G. Dickie, N. Carroll, among others). Philosophy of technique (G. Simondon, A. Leroi-Gourhan, Heidegger, A. Gehlen; J. Poulain).