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Academic degree:
Doutoramento
Professional category:
Prof. Auxiliar
Research group(s):
Ética Aplicada
E-mail: jcrmendes@ilch.uminho.pt
Phone: +351253604188
Website(s):
http://ceps.ilch.uminho.pt/organization
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Institutional address:
Centro de Ética, Política e Sociedade ILCH - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar P-4710-057 Braga
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João Ribeiro Mendes is tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH), University of Minho (UM), Braga, Portugal. He teaches graduate and postgraduate courses on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, and Science, Technology and Society. He is Deputy-director of the Department of Philosophy at UM since 2014 and elected member of the IAH Council (since 2016), Scientific Council (since 2016) and Pedagogical Council (since 2017). He was director of the Master in Political Philosophy between 2016 and 2018. He has been supervising several PhD and Master students. He is research fellow and current Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at UM, after have been for almost two decades researcher of the Centre for Humanistic Studies and Coordinator of its Research Line on Philosophy and Culture between 2012 and 2016. He is author and co-author of several academic books, proceedings and journal volumes, and also has published numerous articles, critical reviews and book chapters in Portuguese and English on diverse topics. He is editor of Ethics, Politics & Society. A Journal in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy and was chief-editor of Diacrítica-série Filosofia e Cultura, a journal of Humanities, between 2012 and 2016. He is the Principal Investigator of two research projects: (a) SFIDA: Philosophical Innovative Solutions to the Anthropocene Challenge (2018-2022); (b) Reflexive Engineers - A Critical Approach to the Engineering Thought Tradition about Technology (2014-2020). He was visiting professor at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland) in 2014, Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai, China), and Middle-East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). He is founding member and current president of the Philosophical Society of the Galicia-North of Portugal since 2014, and member of the following Scientific Societies: Portuguese Philosophical Society (since 2012); Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (since 2012); Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (since 2013); Political Science Association-Portugal (since 2017); Interuniversity Society of Philosophy (since 2017), International Association of Hispanists (since 2018). He regularly publishes op-ed articles for the newspaper Correio do Minho. He plays tennis at the Braga Tennis Club.
Research interests:
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology (Technoethics), Anthropocene Studies.
Education:
Ph.D. in Logic and Moral Philosophy (Philosophy of Science) from University of Santiago de Compostela (with the thesis Realism and Rationality in Science. A critique of the New Experimentalism)
M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy from UM (with the dissertation Herbert Alexander Simon: project for an Anthroposcience)
B.A. in Philosophy from Portuguese Catholic University at Lisbon
Professional experience:
2017-03-23 to present | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) (Department of Philosophy)
2012-04-10 to 2017-03-22 | Assistant Professor (with exclusivity) (Department of Philosophy)
2008-09-01 to 2012-04-09 | Assistant (with exclusivity) (Department of Philosophy)
1998-09-01 to 2008-08-31 | Invited Assistant (with exclusivity) (Department of Philosophy)
Institutional positions:
Director of CEPS; Deputy-director of the Department if Philosophy
2017 - ... (Coordenador)
SFIDA-Soluções Filosóficas Inovadoras para o Desafio do Antropoceno
2016 - 2018 (Coordenador)
A tecnoética líquida de Günther Anders, Peter Sloterdijk e Hans Blumenberg
O Realismo Experimental e os seus críticos [Experimental Realism and Its Critics]. Famalicão: Húmus.
Lúcio Craveiro da Silva: Homem de Pensamento e Acção. Actas do Colóquio-Homenagem em 2014 [Lúcio Craveiro da Silva: Man of Thought and Action. Proceedings of the Homage-Symposium in 2014], with Manuel Gama and Maria Xavier. Braga: Conselho Cultural da Universidade do Minho/Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade do Minho.
Pensando as crises (séculos XX-XXI) desde a cultura galaico-minhota. Atas do XI Simpósio Internacional Galaico-Minhoto de Filosofia [Thinking Crises (20th-21th centuries) from Galicia-Minho Culture. Proceedings of the 11th International Galicia-Minho Symposium in Philosophy], with Manuel Gama, José Alves and Luís Teixeira. Vila Verde/Braga: ATAHCA/Departamento de Filosofia da UMinho/Sociedade de Filosofia da Eurorregião Galiza-Norte de Portugal.
What kind of kind is “idiot”? In C. Álvares, A. Curado & S. Sousa (Orgs.), Figuras do Idiota. Literatura Cinema Banda Desenhada (pp. 17-27). Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus/CEHUM.
Peregrinações Espirituais e Turismo Sacro. Atas do I Colóquio Internacional “A Religião em Movimento” (17 de Outubro de 2013) [Spiritual Pilgrimages and Sacred Tourism. Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium “Religion in Motion” (October 17, 2013)], with Manuel Gama, José Alves and Luís Teixeira. Vila Verde/Braga: ATAHCA/Departamento de Filosofia.
Perigosa é… a Ecologia. Ecofascismo. Ecoterrorismo. Antropoceno. [Dangerous is... the Ecology. Ecofascism. Ecoterrorism. Anthropocene]. In A. Rita & I. Ponce de Leão (Coord.), Periogoso é… (pp. 143-152). Lisboa: Edições Esgotadas.
A visão ecocrítica de Dipesh Chakrabarty sobre a condição humana no Antropoceno: Análise e crítica [Dipesh Chakrabarty's Ecocritical View of the Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Analysis and Critique]. In I. Leão, M. Mendes & S. Lira (Eds.), Ecocriticism 2018. Proceedings of the International Conference on Literatute, Arts and Ecological Environment (pp. 123-129). Barcelos: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development.
Ensaio preambular. B. Sylla & J. Mendes (Eds.), Friedrich Dessauer. Filosofia da Técnica (pp. 9-34). [Friedrich Dessauer. Philosophy of Technology]. Famalicão: Húmus.
Da ética do possível. É moralmente aceitável realizar bioficções? [Ethics of the possible. Is morally tolerable to create biofictions?]. In C. Álvares, A. Curado, I. Mateus & S. Sousa (Orgs.), Figuras do animal. Literatura, cinema e banda desenhada (pp. 169-180). Famalicão: Húmus.
Tecnoética: uma disciplina filosófica para o século XXI [Technoethics: a philosophical discipline for the 21st century]. In: A. Manso & C. Martins (Orgs.), Ensino da Filosofia em Portugal. Tradição e Actualidade da Formação (pp. 35-45). V. N. Famalicão: Húmus.
A teoria do tecnoconstrutivismo de Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh [Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh`s theory of Technoconstructivism]. In A. Macedo, C. Sousa, & V. Moura (Orgs.), XVII Colóquio de Outono: Outros Mapas. Linguagem, Migração, Diáspora (pp. 177-187). Braga: Húmus/CEHUM.
A epistemologia fabulatória de Flusser-Bec [Flusser-Bec`s Fabulatory Epistemology]. In C. Álvares, A. Curado & S. Sousa (Orgs.), O imaginário esotérico. Literatura, cinema e banda desenhada (pp. 145-154). Famalicão: Húmus.
O reino esquecido por Kant: elementos da filosofia da tecnologia de Friedrich Dessauer [Kant`s Forgotten Kingdom: Themes of Friedrich Dessauer`s Philosophy of Technology]. In O. Oubiña, R. Blanco, & M. Fénandez (Eds.), O discurso filosófico: da poética á política (pp. 111-121). Santiago de Compostela: Seminario de Estudos Galegos-Departamento de Filosofia (USC).
Rapidez é poder. Uma reflexão sobre a teoria da guerra de Paul Virilio [Speed is Power. A Meditation on Paul Virilio`s Theory of War]. In A. Macedo, C. Sousa, & V. Moura (Orgs.), XVI Colóquio de Outono: Conflito e Trauma (pp. 453-460). Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus/CEHUM.
A Cratera Roden: Um inquérito ontológico [The Roden Crater: An Ontological Inquiry]. In I. Ponce de Leão, M. Mendes & S. Lira (Eds.), As Artes e as Ciências em Diálogo/Arts and Sciences in Dialogue (Atas do Congresso Internacional 2015/Proceedings of the International Conference 2015 – Porto, 23-24 Fevereiro) (pp. 195-204). Barcelos: Green Lines Instituto para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável.
A primeira sociedade filosófica eurorregional [The First Euroregional Philosophical Society]. In M. Gama, M. Alves, J. Mendes & L. Pereira (Orgs.), Pensando as crises (séculos XX-XXI) desde a cultura galaico-minhota. Atas do XI Simpósio Internacional Galaico-Minhoto de Filosofia (pp. 79-90). Vila Verde/Braga: ATAHCA/Departamento de Filosofia da UMinho/Sociedade de Filosofia da Eurorregião Galiza-Norte de Portugal.
Sinopse [Synopsis].. In M. Gama, M. Alves, J. Mendes & L. Pereira (Orgs.), Pensando as crises (séculos XX-XXI) desde a cultura galaico-minhota. Atas do XI Simpósio Internacional Galaico-Minhoto de Filosofia (pp. 198-201). Vila Verde/Braga: ATAHCA/Departamento de Filosofia da UMinho/Sociedade de Filosofia da Eurorregião Galiza-Norte de Portugal.
Ian Hacking`s view of the disunity of the sciences: Borgesian dream or Galilean nightmare?. In A. Macedo, C. Sousa, & V. Moura (Orgs.), XV Colóquio de Outono: As Humanidades e as Ciências. Disjunções e Confluências (pp. 455-462). Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus-CEHUM.
Epítome [Epitome]. In M. Gama, M. Alves, J. Mendes & L. Pereira (Orgs.), Peregrinações Espirituais e Turismo Sacro. Atas do I Colóquio Internacional “A Religião em Movimento” (17 de Outubro de 2013) (pp. 208-201). Vila Verde/Braga: ATAHCA/Departamento de Filosofia.
To engineer is to risk and to err. Aspects of Henry Petroski`s philosophy of engineering In N. van Hattum-Janssen et alii (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education (PAEE`2013) (Closing the Gap between University and Industry, Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e), 8-9 July) (ID2.1-8.). Guimarães: University of Minho.
Preface to the book A cosmogonia chinesa numa visão comparada [The Chinese Cosmogony in a Comparative View], by João Marcelo Mesquita Martins, Famalicão, Húmus.
