Abel Lassalle Casanave
Supervises projects in the philosophy of formal sciences (logic and mathematics), with special reference to the philosophy of mathematical practice.
Acylene Maria Cabral Ferreira
Supervises topics in Contemporary Philosophy with an emphasis on phenomenology and hermeneutics. She is available to supervise projects that address the relationship between phenomenology and/or hermeneutics and art, truth, freedom, science, language, love, critique of Modernity, technique, technology, and artificial intelligence.
André Luis Mota Itaparica
Supervises topics in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly in relation to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. He has a special interest in themes related to naturalism and moral psychology.
Carlota Ibertis
Supervises projects on the conception of the subject and subjectivity in Freudian theory and in 18th-century French sensualist thought, and their connections with literature and art.
Daniel Tourinho Peres
Supervises topics in Modern Philosophy. Kant and German Idealism. Enlightenment. Historicism. Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of History. Political Theory, Social Theory, and Theory of History. Critical Theory. Ideology and Critique of Ideology.
Flávio Vieira Curvello
Supervises topics in Contemporary Philosophy, especially in the phenomenological tradition (with an emphasis on Edmund Husserl), authors from the Brentano school (with an emphasis on Brentano himself), hermeneutics (Schleiermacher and Dilthey), and the dialogue between Philosophy and Psychology (with an emphasis on the Psychology of Perception and Gestalt theory).
Genildo Ferreira da Silva
Available for supervision in Political and Social Philosophy, with an emphasis on Modern Philosophy. His main focus is on Ethics and Political Philosophy, especially contractualist theories that underpin the modern notion of legitimacy and the organization of the State. At the same time, he maintains a constant interest in Enlightenment thought, understood as a fundamental milestone in affirming the ideals of reason, freedom, equality, and education, which have had profound repercussions on contemporary philosophical, legal, and political traditions.
Giovanni Rolla
Supervises topics in the philosophy of cognitive sciences, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Specific research topics include: enactivism, ecological psychology, critiques of classical cognitivism and modular theories of mind, critiques of computationalism, emergentism, the mind-body problem, self-knowledge, and knowledge of other minds.
Gislene Vale dos Santos
Supervises topics in ancient philosophy, especially Plato and the pre-Platonic tradition—sophistry and the pre-Socratics. Currently, her research focuses on the invisibility of women in ancient philosophy from two main perspectives: 1. the presence of women in the works of male philosophers and 2. philosophical compositions by women. She has a particular interest in reflections that aim to decolonize the interpretation of ancient thought through the lenses of gender (Mary Ellen Waithe) and race (Muniz Sodré).
Henrique Antunes Almeida
Supervises topics in mathematical logic, particularly non-classical logics—especially free, paracomplete, and paraconsistent logics. Also supervises topics in ontology, particularly analytical ontology, ontology of mathematics, and neo-Meinongian theories.
Jarlee Oliveira Silva Salviano
Supervises topics in Ethics, Theory of Knowledge, and Metaphysics, within Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche).
João Carlos Salles Pires da Silva
Supervises projects in epistemology and philosophy of language, in both modern and contemporary philosophers. In modern philosophy, he is particularly interested in classical empiricism. In contemporary philosophy, he supervises work directly related to Wittgenstein and his most direct interlocutors. He is also available to supervise topics related to Ernest Sosa’s virtue epistemology, hinge epistemology, and the issue of deep disagreements. Finally, he is interested in the opposition between rationalism and irrationalism, especially as it relates to the relationship between science and democracy.
Juliana Ortegosa Aggio
Supervises topics related to race, gender, sexuality, class, feminisms, and their intersections from a philosophical perspective.
Kleverton Bacelar Santana
Mainly supervises topics related to the works of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Foucault. In the field of philosophy of law, topics related to the work of Hans Kelsen. In the history of the philosophy of education, only topics concerning major works of modern and contemporary philosophers.
Leonardo Jorge da Hora Pereira
Supervises topics in ethics, social and political philosophy, especially critical theory, democratic theory, theories of justice, and critiques of modernity. In recent years, he has supervised research focused on authors such as Hegel, Marx, Habermas, Lefort, Castoriadis, Arendt, Fanon, Althusser, Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Angela Davis, and Achille Mbembe. More recently, he has also shown interest in Latin American philosophy, especially the thought of Enrique Dussel, Ruy Fausto, and other approaches to critical theory in Latin America. He is currently conducting research on the fate of the universalist perspective within critical theory in light of post- and decolonial critiques.
Malcom Guimarães Rodrigues
Supervises topics in the history of sexuality, neoliberalism, and governmentality. Also supervises themes of subjectivity, archaeology, and genealogy in Foucault and his critical readers, such as Mbembe and Butler. Supervises topics in ethics and politics in contemporary French authors, such as Foucault, Sartre, and Fanon (Martinique). Also supervises topics in the philosophy of psychoanalysis, particularly in the dialogue between Lacan and philosophy. Supervises existential themes in authors like Sartre, Heidegger, and Camus.
Marco Aurélio Oliveira da Silva
Supervises topics in medieval philosophy, especially theory of knowledge and metaphysics, in authors from the Aristotelian tradition such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and Robert Kilwardby. He has a particular interest in the philosophy of science and mathematics in the medieval period, influenced by the reception of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.
Mariana de Almeida Campos
Supervises topics in the history of modern philosophy, especially in metaphysics and theory of knowledge, with a focus on Descartes and Spinoza.
Olival Freire Júnior
Supervises topics in the philosophy of modern physics, understood as the philosophical problems raised by relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He prioritizes approaches that combine philosophical analysis with the resources of the history of science. He also supervises studies on the relationship between Marxism and the natural sciences.
Pedro Augusto da Costa Franceschini
Supervises, in general, topics related to aesthetics and the philosophy of art in the 18th and 19th centuries, with research focused on German authors of the period and their relationship with the literature of Goethe’s era. He also researches broader themes of modern philosophy related to this context, such as the critique of reason, the problem of system, philosophy of history, mythology, and critique of modernity—especially in Kant and authors of Romanticism and Idealism. Finally, he is interested in the contemporary developments and shifts of these issues in authors such as Lukács, Benjamin, Heidegger, Adorno, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière.
Rafael Lopes Azize
Supervises topics in aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of art, especially in the following areas: identification, ontology and properties; expression and subjectivity; aesthetic judgment and experience; modernity, autonomy, and instrumentalism; meaning, interpretation, and pragmatics; fiction, cognition, and narrative; philosophy of criticism. Authors of interest for the treatment of these topics include Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, John Dewey, Kendall Walton, Richard Wollheim, John Austin, and the later Wittgenstein.
Roberta Magalhães Miquelanti
Supervises work in medieval philosophy, with an emphasis on topics related to logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of nature.
Rosa Gabriella de Castro Gonçalves
Supervises topics in modern and contemporary aesthetics, especially Kant, Schopenhauer, and Danto, as well as 20th-century art theories and art criticism.
Silvia Faustino de Assis Saes
Supervises topics in aesthetics, philosophy of language, poetics, rhetoric, and philosophy of cinema. She is currently conducting research on aesthetic perception in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film theory.
Vinícius dos Santos
Supervises authors and themes in the areas of existentialism and Marxism, particularly on topics such as subjectivity, alienation, and contemporary social experience. In the first case, the focus is on figures from the French tradition (Sartre, Beauvoir, Fanon, Camus, Merleau-Ponty); in the second, beyond Marx, philosophers and thinkers from Critical Theory and its developments within Marxist thought.
Wagner Teles de Oliveira
Supervises within the scope of philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of science, with special emphasis on contemporary thought and, more specifically, on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, its immediate theoretical context, and occasionally on philosophical works developed from his ideas. He also supervises research in the field of legal epistemology and theories of law grounded in the philosophy of language.
Waldomiro José da Silva Filho
Supervises topics on skepticism and neo-Pyrrhonism (classical and contemporary—especially Sextus Empiricus, Michel de Montaigne, David Hume, Barry Stroud, Robert Fogelin, and Oswaldo Porchat) and contemporary epistemology, notably Social Epistemology and Virtue Epistemology (issues surrounding “testimony,” “epistemic disagreements,” and “epistemology of democracy”). He is currently conducting research in the field of the Epistemology of Conversation.