ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Organizing committee will be responsible for all matters relating to this conference. Please contact them for any subject relating to the event to the official email: [email protected]
This year's organizing committee is:
This year's organizing committee is:
Alexandra Abranches
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches (BA, University of Porto; PhD, University of Minho, Braga) is Auxiliary Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho. She has taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Her research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. Her PhD dissertation focused on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She has published a book on the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, Sentimentalismo Filosófico: a Noção de Comunidade no Pensamento de C. S. Peirce, Braga, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 2004. She also translates, and is responsible for the translation into portuguese of Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Investigation of the Origin our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, which has been published by ed.70. She is adjunct director of the Center for Applied Ethics of the Centre for Ethics and Political Philosophy. She is a member of the Directive Comission of the Doctoral Course in Philosophy offered by the Philosophy Department.
Her contacts are:
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches
Professora Auxiliar
Departamento de Filosofia
CEPS / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]
Gabinete 2008 - Telefone 253 601 621
Universidade do Minho
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches (BA, University of Porto; PhD, University of Minho, Braga) is Auxiliary Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho. She has taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Her research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. Her PhD dissertation focused on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She has published a book on the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, Sentimentalismo Filosófico: a Noção de Comunidade no Pensamento de C. S. Peirce, Braga, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 2004. She also translates, and is responsible for the translation into portuguese of Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Investigation of the Origin our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, which has been published by ed.70. She is adjunct director of the Center for Applied Ethics of the Centre for Ethics and Political Philosophy. She is a member of the Directive Comission of the Doctoral Course in Philosophy offered by the Philosophy Department.
Her contacts are:
Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches
Professora Auxiliar
Departamento de Filosofia
CEPS / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]
Gabinete 2008 - Telefone 253 601 621
Universidade do Minho
Catia Faria
Catia Faria is a postdoctoral researcher of the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho and the coordinator of the Research Group in Applied Ethics of the same centre. She is also a board member of the Centre for Animal Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and has been a lecturer in Ethics and Sustainability at the same university.
She works in normative and applied ethics, in particular, in how they relate to the consideration of nonhuman animals. Moreover, she is interested in how distributive principles apply to nonhuman animals and what this entails regarding our reasons to improve their well-being. She is currently in-terested on the impact of our current decisions on future sentient individuals, especially in what regards risks of astronomical suffering. She is also more broadly interested in analytic approaches to the wrongness of discrimination as well as to other moral issues concerning gender and sexuality.
Her latest publications include “It’s Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible” (with Eze Paez), American Behavioral Scientist (2019), “A flimsy case for the use of non-human primates in research: a reply to Arnason”, Journal of Medical Ethics (2017), and “Why we should not postpone awareness of wild animal suffering”, Animal Sentience (2016).
She has a master’s in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Porto. She has been a visiting student at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Eth-ics at the University of Oxford and at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Her contacts are:
Catia Faria
PosDoc Researcher
CEPS / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]
Catia Faria is a postdoctoral researcher of the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho and the coordinator of the Research Group in Applied Ethics of the same centre. She is also a board member of the Centre for Animal Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and has been a lecturer in Ethics and Sustainability at the same university.
She works in normative and applied ethics, in particular, in how they relate to the consideration of nonhuman animals. Moreover, she is interested in how distributive principles apply to nonhuman animals and what this entails regarding our reasons to improve their well-being. She is currently in-terested on the impact of our current decisions on future sentient individuals, especially in what regards risks of astronomical suffering. She is also more broadly interested in analytic approaches to the wrongness of discrimination as well as to other moral issues concerning gender and sexuality.
Her latest publications include “It’s Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible” (with Eze Paez), American Behavioral Scientist (2019), “A flimsy case for the use of non-human primates in research: a reply to Arnason”, Journal of Medical Ethics (2017), and “Why we should not postpone awareness of wild animal suffering”, Animal Sentience (2016).
She has a master’s in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Porto. She has been a visiting student at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Eth-ics at the University of Oxford and at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Her contacts are:
Catia Faria
PosDoc Researcher
CEPS / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas
[email protected]