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Academic degree:
Doutoramento
Professional category:
Prof. Auxiliar
Research group(s):
Ética Aplicada
E-mail: alexandra@ilch.uminho.pt
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Institutional address:
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga Portugal
Short bionote:
As lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minho, Prof. Alexandra Abranches taught courses on Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Social and Political Ideas, Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics. Her doctoral dissertation focused on David Hume's moral philosophy. She published the book Sentimentalismo Filosófico: a Noção de Comunidade no Pensamento de C. S. Peirce (Braga, CEH, 2004) on the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, as a version of her master thesis. She co-authored a book on the History of Philosophy with the title As Questões que se Repetem: uma Breve História da Filosofia (Lisboa, D. Quixote, 2012). She also translated into Portuguese Burke's A Philosophical Investigation of the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (Lisbon, Ed.70, 2013). Research Interests: Prof. Abranches's research interests include the History of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions deriving from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions that culminate in Hume; themes in meta-ethics, in particular moral psychology and moral motivation; the metaphysics of free will; classical pragmatism. She is now expanding her interests, both in teaching and research, to include the history of women's thought and feminist philosophy. She is working on a funding proposal for a project aiming at producing critical editions, translated into portuguese, of important philosophical texts written by women in the XVIIth and XVIIIth century. Formation:(2015) Ph. D. in Philosophy, (Institute of Letters and Humanities of University of Minho); (2001) Master in Philosophy (Institute of Letters and Humanities of University of Minho); (1990) Major in Philosophy (College of Arts at the University of Porto) . Professional experience: from 2015/12/09 to the present- Assistant Professor, Institute of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Minho; 2013 - 2015/12/08 - Lecturer, Institute of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Minho; 1996/09/01 - 2013 Guest Assistant Professor, at University of Minho Institute of Letters and Humanities, Portugal Positions:2018/05/01 - Currently, Director of the Major in Philosophy, University of Minho; 2018/05/01 - Currently Deputy Director of CEPS, University of Minho, Portugal 2017/09/01 - Currently Editor of the Ethics, Politics and Society Journal - Currently Member of the Committee of the PhD in Philosophy, University of Minho
Research interests:
Os meus interesses de investigação incluem a História da Ética, em particular as tradições naturalistas e racionalistas que derivam de Hobbes e as tradições naturalistas e sentimentalistas que culminam em Hume; temas de meta-ética, particularmente psicologia e motivação moral; a metafísica do livre-arbítrio; e o pragmatismo clássico. Estou a expandir os meus interesses, tanto de leccionação como de investigação, para incluírem a história do pensamento das mulheres e a filosofia feminista..
Education:
2015 Filosofia (Doutoramento), Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2001 Filosofia (Mestrado), Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
1990 Filosofia (Licenciatura), Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Professional experience:
2015/12/09 - Atual Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário), Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2013 - 2015/12/08 Assistente (Docente Universitário), Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1996/09/01 - 2013 Assistente Convidado (Docente Universitário), Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
Institutional positions:
2018/05/01 - Atual Directora de Curso da Licenciatura em Filosofia, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/05/01 - Atual Directora-adjunta do CEPS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/09/01 - Atual Vogal da Comissão de Curso do Doutoramento em Filosofia, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
