CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I have a degree in philosophy from the University of São Paulo (1986), master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Campinas (1991), doctorate in philosophy from the University of São Paulo (1998), Habilitation in philosophy from the Universidade Estadual Paulista ( 2008), Visiting Researcher in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst supervised by Lynne Rudder Baker (10/2010-3/2011) and Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of California San Diego under the supervision of Patricia Churchland (11/2013-02/2014). Professor at the University of São Paulo State Bauru since 1992, giving Philosophy classes to undergraduate courses, especially Psychology, and I am also accredited teaching at the Philosophy Post Graduation Program at University of São Paulo State Marilia teaching courses and guiding research in Philosophy of Mind area. I developed research on the thought of the philosopher Henri Bergson and I dedicate nowadays to the study of contemporary approaches in Philosophy of Mind themes such as "mind and body", "personal identity" and "free will and determinism," with a particular interest in Neurophilosophy. In this context, I have been dedicating to the developing of a "Double Face View" of the mind-brain relationship. I have been coordinating the Group of Work on Philosophy of Mind of the National Association of Post Graduation in Philosophy (ANPOF) (2013/2014 and 2015/2016). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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I propose a non-reductive physicalist account of the mind-brain relationship according to which the mind is an emergent property of the brain, which make possible the action on the brain itself and the interaction with the physical and socio-cultural environment. According to this view, in order to understand the vast majority of human phenomena it is essential to consider the two insepar…
My purpose is to analyze the use of the notion of "person" to make compatible the free will and moral responsibility with some of the contemporary results of behavioral neuroscience. I privilege the Lynne Rudder Baker compatibilist view, inspired in Harry Frankfurt, who define "person" in terms of the mental capacity of self-consciousness or strong first person perspective. I will show wh…
The problem of consciousness remains one of the biggest philosophical problems, resulting in many hypotheses both reductionist and non-reductionist. In the current research we will adopt a neurophilosophical perspective to the consciousness study, i.e., that is not possible to discuss and analyze consciousness in a complete way by abstaining neuroscientific data. Therefore, we will make u…
We intend to investigate the use of the notion of intentionality as distinctive property of the mind. Starting with Franz Brentano ideas of intentionality we will investigate the view of the contemporary philosopher of mind John Searle analyzing in special his definition of intentionality, the basic forms of intentionality and the relations between intentionality and language, intentional…
Our objective in this research is, from the debates on contemporaneous Philosophy of Mind, to discuss the issue of psychic or mental causation in the period of the constitution of the Freudian theory, that is, the moment that precedes the book "The interpretation of dreams". By understanding that the mental causation issue appears only from the distinction between mental processes and bra…
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Interpreting results of neuroscientific research, I am assuming a "double face view" of mind-brain relationship. First, I am considering the conscious mind as brain, what means that the structural and functional organization of the brain is the cause not just of the existence, but also of the properties - form and content - of the conscious mind. Second, I am considering the brain as cons…
Interested in Philosophy of Mind and motivated by contemporary developments in Neuroscience, my purpose is to study the problems of free will and moral responsibility considering the question of self-control under the approach of neuroscientific studies related to decision-making process and brain lesions. Following Patricia Churchland, who defends that the study of self-control under a n…
Some materialist philosophers think, against the dualism of substance, that the mind cannot exist separated from a body and from the environment in which it is situated. That is what the philosopher of mind Lynne Rudder Baker defends in her Constitution View. Baker says that she prefers facing the problem of the relationship between persons and bodies to facing the problem of the relation…
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