Livros / Books

1. Gerner, A. & Costa, S. “On Strata”_ Sérgio Costa´s series “Strata-a geopictorial collection.” Lisbon. (Forthcoming 2014)
2. Gerner, A. Philosophical Investigations of Attention. Heidelberg (upcoming thesis 2014)
3. Gerner, A, Gonçalves, J.(Eds.). Altered Self and Altered Self experience. London (forthcoming 2014)
4. O. Pombo, A. Gerner (Eds.). Studies in Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis. College Publications (=Studies in Logic 24, Logic and Cognitive Systems) London 2010
5. O. Pombo, A. Gerner (Eds.) Abduction and the Process of Scientific Discovery. Lisbon  (CFCUL): Publidisa. 2007. 383p.

Capítulos de Livros / Book Chapters

1. Gerner, A.(2014). Pensando o não estratificado com Sérgio Costa Strata//Thinking the Non-Stratified with Sérgio Costa's >Strata<" edição bilingue Inglês/ português. Arte Laguna Prize 2013/2014. Catalogue Text of the Arte Laguna Prize Exposition >Strata< at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea. Musaeum Edit/ Editore in Arte: Veneza, p.16-23 [Catálogo]
2. Gerner, A. (2014). "Strata Desterramento e Virtualização na "Wunderkammer" de Sérgio Costa". Museu Geológico Lisboa, Academia das Ciências, 5 de Abril-3 de Meio; texto curiatorial. Catálogo: Lisboa [Poster]
3. Gerner, A, Guerra, M (2014) "The Cinematic Self. Cinematic experience as "Out-of-Body" experience? In: Gerner, A, Gonçalves, J.(Eds.). Altered Self and Altered Self experience. London
4. Gerner, A, Gonçalves, J. (2014) "Introduction" in , ibid. Altered Self and Altered Self experience. London
5. "Conceptual Personae of the >attentional self<" in: Fonseca, J. Gonçalves, J., (eds.), "Philosophical Perspectives on the Self", Peter Lang Frankfurt 2014
6. "Diagrammatic thinking". [Encyclopedia entry] In: Vít Havránek/tranzit (eds.) Atlas of Transformation: jrp-ringier Zürich 2011, 173-184.
7. "Notes on Diagrams and Maps". In: O. Pombo, A. Gerner (Eds.). Studies in Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis. College Publications (=Studies in Logic 24, Logic and Cognitive Systems) London 2010, 167-190
8. Olga Pombo and Alexander Gerner (2010). "Preface". In: Olga Pombo and Alexander Gerner (Eds.). Studies in Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis, London: College Publications, i-v
9. "Critical notes on two forms of reductionism: some shortcomings of both strong conceptual and strong neuroaesthetic accounts of aesthetics". In: Olga Pombo, Silvia Di Marco, Marco Pina (Eds.). Neuroaesthetics. Can science explain art? Lisbon: Fim de Século 2010, p.139-163

Peer Reviewed Articles/Abstracts with International Circulation

1. Gerner, A (2013) "The relation of attention, pain and perspective-taking in integrative medicine: "enhanced distraction techniques of attention", Psychother Psychosom 2013;82 (suppl 1:34), 122 ICPM peer reviewed in: Barbosa, A, Cosci, F. (2013) Psychotherapy and Psychsomatics Abstracts: Psychosomatic Assessment and Integrative Care. 22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine, Lisbon September 12-14,2013 [blind peer reviewed abstract published as article (international circulation; Impact Factor of publication 7.230 in 2012].
2. Gerner, A (2013) "Towards a philosophy of cognitive enhancement (PCE). Techno-philosophical, epistemological and neuroethical challenges for an expanded and altered self experience" SPT2013 18th International World Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology at ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal July 4-6, 2013 Accepted Abstract (Blind Peer reviewed) international blind reviewed abstract published online.

Artigos / Articles

Peer reviewed

1. 2008 "Pontes diplomáticos e a arte politica. Alkantara 2008". Sinais de Cena 10/2008, 103-106

other publications

1. 2010 >Threshold(ing)<. Cracks in the "landscape of experience" (2010) Catalogue of the Exhibition >Thresholding< of Sérgio Costa at the Pedro Serrenho Gallery Lisbon 2011.
2. "Visita guiada no jardim do >aqui e agora<" (Guided Tour in the Garden of "Here and Now". Exhibition Catalogue of the Exposition of Miguel Rondon >aqui e agora< (2010).
3. "Visions of Europe. Notes on the activation of the Lisbon treaty" (activação do Tratado de Lisboa) (2009) bilingual English/portuguese.
4. "Quantas dimensões têm a sombra?" (How many dimensions has the shadow?) Catalogue of the Exhibition of Miguel Rondon: "Pintar a Sombra" Cultural Center Estremoz (2009)
5. "On `My Paradoxical Knives" by Ali Moini" (2009)
6. "Precarious Giants of the Upside Down" (2009)

Traduções / Translations

1. "Praça dos Heróis" (Heldenplatz), de Thomas Bernhard, leitura encenada c/ Francisco Luís Parreira, Eterno Retorno, Lisboa_ co-translation, lecture

Comunicações / Talks

1. Notes on epistemic enhancements by "moving (pictures) gestures of thought" Comunicação de Alexander Gerner no âmbito do Simpósio Body Diagrams. On the Epistemic Kinetics of Gesture integrado no 14th International Congress of the German Society of Semiotics, 24 de Setembro, 10h, University of Tübingen, Alemanha. [Cartaz] [Programa] [Abstract]
2. Can we enhance attention? Towards a semiotics of attention State University of S. Paulo, Marilia 10-13.12.2013 VII Colóquio Internacional de Filosofia da Mente, "Informação e Ação: Novos Paradigmas no estudo da Mente" Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP Campus de Marília
3. Can we enhance love? Philosophical notes on "Love magic" in the time of pharmacological "neuroenhancements" and "neuroethics" of love and intimate relationships, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway, Love Magic international workshop 6-7.12 2013
4. "Eternal Sunshine in 'spotted minds'? On the enhancement of forgetting and optogenetic control mechanisms" at the symposium "Science" and "Control" in the 21st century. Critical approaches towards techniques, technologies and "enhancements" of the mind" organized by Alexander Gerner (CFCUL, Portugal), S4 4th of December 2013, at the international conference "Philosophy of Science in the 21st century – Challenges and Tasks, 4-6 December 2013 | Lisbon | Portugal, Faculty of Science, Room C6.2.52 14h50-16h50 with Alexander Gerner , Sean A. Hays (Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway, and Nuno Nabais (CFCUL, Portugal)
5. "Diferentes Noções de (Des-)encarnação/Different Notions of (Dis)embodiment" ,13/11/2013 Hospital Julio de Matos (Centro Hospitalar Psiciátrico Julio de Matos), Conference in the Permanent Seminary of "Cognitive Foundations of Self" and the Formation of the medical speciality of Psychiatry, Av. De Brazil 53, Room 29 9-11h
6. "Notes on the "pharmakon" and the self. Can we enhance the existential feeling of self?" presented at Theories of Self. Workshop organized by Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) and J. Gonçalves (IFL FCSH-UNL) no âmbito do projecto de investigação FCT "Cognitive Foundation of Self" PTDC/FIL-FCI/110978/2009 at the Foundation of the Faculty of Science Auditorium C1, Floor 3,
7. "The relation of attention, pain and perspective-taking in integrative medicine: "enhanced distraction techniques of attention"14.9.2013, Marriott Hotel Lisbon at the Panel "Philosophy and Psychsomatic Medicine" at the international 22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine, of Psychosomatic Assessment and Integrative Care Lisbon September 12-14,2013
8. "Towards a philosophy of cognitive enhancement (PCE). Techno-philosophical, epistemological and neuroethical challenges for an expanded and altered self experience" 18th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, "Technology in the Age of Information" SPT 2013 congress, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon Portugal July 4-6, 2013 [Webpage]
9. "On Strata, Maps and Smoke" Workshop of Alexander Gerner and Sérgio Costa, Deleuze Camp 1st of July 2013 Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon 14-17h
10. "The Techno-Human Condition in the XXI. Century" Symposium with presentations of Hermínio Martins, José Luís Garcia, Alexander Gerner, Nuno Nabais and José Bragança –Miranda, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, 26 of June 2013 21h30 organized by Alexander Gerner and Nuno Nabais
11. "Anthropotechnics and Biopolitics II , "Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement" with N. Nabais , A. Gerner and N. Melim, CFCUL, 5.6.2013 Room 8.2.23 15h-17h
12. "Enhancement as >widening the zone of exercises<. Notes on Sloterdijks acrobatic ethics of hyperbolic tension and excessive repetition." Anthropotechnics and Biopolitics I, CFCUL 29th May 2013 8.2.20 15-17h
13. "Cinematic Experience as Out-of-Body Experience" by Gerner, A., Guerra, M. International Workshop "Altered Self and Altered Self Experience", IFL , New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social Science and the Humanities, 30-31 of May 2013 asase2013.weebly.com IFL, FCSH-UNL, 10-18h organized by A. Gerner & J. Gonçalves
14. "Towards a philosophical framework of Cognitive Enhancement" 24.4.2013 CFCUL Sala 8.2.16 (Edifício C8, 2 andar, Sala 16)||15h-17h Introductory Session_
15. "Outlook on the project "Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement" presentation at the workshop "Meeting with the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (University of Bergen) and ISCTE: Activities, papers, projects" CFCUL, 16th of April 2013 Room 3.2.16 14-18h organized by Alexander Gerner (CFCUL)
16. "Thomas Fuchs notion of schizophrenia as self- disorder of disembodiment" permanent seminary "Cognitive Foundations of the Self" 05/04/2013, Room 1.05, IFL-FCSH-UNL, New University of Lisbon 11h-13h

17. “Am I looking at my “self”? Notes on the notion of self in different “autoscopic  phenomena”“ WORKSHOP: ALTERAÇÕES DA EXPERIÊNCIA DE SI” 30th of January 2013, 16:45 - 17:30, Sala 1.06, IFL, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, Avenida de Berna, nº 26, Lisbon

18. "Philosophical Issues of «Cognitive Enhancement»" 8th of January 2013. conference organized by SAHFC (Secção Autónoma de História e Filosofia das Ciências) Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon FCUL, Edifício C8, Sala 8.2.19, 13h - 14h30
19. "What is a cartographic thinking?" Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona for the exhibition "Cartografías contemporáneas. Dibujar el pensamiento" invite of Helena Tatay (curator) 1/2 of May 2012 (talk projected as part of the exhibition from 25.7-26.10.2012
20. "Sentient Gestures"? Notes on effordless attentional self, IFL, New University of Lisbon, "Thinking with Shaun Gallagher. Workshop with Shaun Gallagher on the Philosophy of Embodiment, Self and Agency" 1st-2nd of March 2012, Room M3, 4th floor I&D building

21. "Philosophical Investigations of Attention". Postgraduation Workshop SAHFC Fundação da Faculdade das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa 19.1.2012

22.  “On Attentional Mapmaking”. First Lisbon International Conference of Philosophy . University of Lisbon, Thinking the Twentieth Century: Philosophy and its Conditions Faculty of Letters, Auditório I, FLUL, 29th of October 2011
23. Roundtable panel moderation „Philosophy of Image“ with Prof. Ernst Pöppel (Neuroscience LMU Munich) and Prof. Lambert Wiesing (Philosophy; University of Jena) „Image in Science and Art“ Conference 17th of February 2011 Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon
24. „Notes on Thomas Metzinger: >The Ego Tunnel and non-standard self experiences<“. IFL, 7th of January 2011 („Cognitive Foundation of Self“)
25.  “Metaphorology of Attention”. II Jornada de pós-graduação. Apresentação de Investigação em curso.15th January 2010 CFCUL, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon 8.2.13
26. "Beyond the myth of "the" self and its (self-)model: Notes on a cartographic self". International Workshop of the research project „Consciousness, Self and Emotion“:  "Metaphysics of Self", New University of Lisbon (Institute of Language Philosophy IFL) 11th of December 2009
27. "Notes on diagrammatic knowledge in contemporary map art". International interdisciplinary Workshop "Diagrammatology and Diagrammatic Praxis“ 24th of March 2009, CFCUL, Amphitheatre of the Foundation of the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon
28. "Distractions of habitual attention routines: Notes on attending in aesthetic and art-object experience" , 9th of March 2009, International Workshop "Neuroaethetics", CFCUL, Anfiteatro da Fundação da FCUL University of Lisbon
29. "Philosophical Investigation of Attention", 1st Meeting of postgraduation of the Center of Philosophy of Science CFCUL 4th of March 2009, FCUL
30. "On Attention Metaphors", 4th Iberic Peninsular Meeting of Philosophy of Science, Logics and Language at the University of Sevilha (Spain) 24th February
31. "On the philosophy of >Attention< in Hans Blumenberg“ . 2nd Internacional Meeting of the project Phenomenology and Neokantism.“Caverns of Modernity. In turn of Hans Blumenberg“ University of Évora, Portugal.  17th of November 2008
32. “Pilots of complex relations. On Diagrams and Conceptual Mappings in Contemporary Art“ Conference in the CFCUL Workshop – Diagrammatic Reasoning with Michael Hoffmann (Giorgia Institute of Technology, USA) 3th of June 2008, 10h (3.1.10), FCUL
33. "Mergulhar, Responder, Gritar: Para uma poética da atenção em Paul Celan e Paul Valéry". (Dive, respond, scream: Aproximation towards a Poetics of Attention in Paul Celan and Paul Valéry”)  Workshop"Poéticas"(Poetics) CFCUL, 28th of May 2008
34. “Para uma farmacologia da imagem” (For a pharmacology of the image). Lisbon Fábrica Braço de Prata, Ciclo Deleuze 3rd of April 2008
35. "Aufmerksamkeitsdiagramme. Anmerkungen zur diagrammatischen Erkenntnisentwicklung" („Attention Diagrams. Notes on the diagrammatic knowledge development“)Junges Forum für Bildwissenschaft III  Masslose Bilder. Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBVA), Berlin Germany,  in collaboration with the Schering Foundation of Art & Science, 27th- 28th of March 2008, Invited Talk of the international Expert-Workshop of the research project "The World as Image". (Accepted peer-reviewed abstract)
36. "`(...) a wider sense than is usual´“. The diagram and the process of diagrammatic reasoning in Peirce"; 10th of March 2008; "Image in Science and Art" Research group, CFCUL University of Lisbon. FCUL, 1.3.29

Organização de Conferências / Conference Organization

1. Co-organizador de The Actuality of Peirce's Thought. The Lisbon Centennial (1839-1914) Peirce Workshop 2014 no âmbito da Linha de Investigação Filosofia das Tecnologias do Humano, 11 de Novembro, 10h - 18h, Auditório da Fundação da FCUL.
2. Co-organizador do simpósio Body Diagrams. On the Epistemic Kinetics of Gesture integrado no 14th International Congress of the German Society of Semiotics, 23 a 26 de Setembro de 2014, Universidade de Tübingen, Alemanha.

3. Co-organizador da conferência "The phenomenology and development of social perspectives" proferida por Thomas Fuchs - Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations no âmbito do grupo de Investigação Cognitive Foundations of Self, 17 de Julho de 2014, das 10h00 às 13h30 no Edifício ID, sala Multiusos 3 da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

4. Co-organizador da conferência "The Self and Schizophrenia" proferida por Thomas Fuchs - Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations no âmbito do grupo de Investigação Cognitive Foundations of Self, 16 de Julho de 2014, das 14h30 às 18h30 no Edifício ID, sala Multiusos 3 da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

5. Organizational Committee of the international conference Philosophy of Science in the 21st Century – Challenges and Tasks 4-6 December, 2013 | Lisbon, CFCUL, Portugal [Website]

6. Scientific Board and Co-organizer “Theories of Self”. Workshop organized by Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) and J. Gonçalves (IFL FCSH-UNL) no âmbito do projecto de investigação FCT “Cognitive Foundation of Self” PTDC/FIL-FCI/110978/2009 at the Foundation of the Faculty of Science Auditorium C1, Floor 3

7. Organizational committee of the Deleuze Studies Conference 2013 http://deleuze2013.fc.ul.pt/ The Territory in –between 8-10 July 2013 Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon and Panel chair “Strata, maps and Smoke” Deleuze Camp 2013 1-5 of July 2013, and Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon.

8. Organizational Team 18th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, “Technology in the Age of Information” SPT 2013 congress, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon Portugal July 4-6, 2013 [Website]

9. Co-Organizer “The Techno-Human Condition in the XXI. Century" Symposium with presentations of Hermínio Martins, José Luís Garcia, Alexander Gerner, Nuno Nabais and José Bragança –Miranda, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, 26 of June 2013 21h30organized by Alexander Gerner and Nuno Nabais

10. Co-Organizer “Anthropotechnics and Biopolitics I & Anthropotechnics and Biopolitics II”, CFCUL 29th May 2013 8.2.20 15-17h with  N. Nabais , A. Gerner and N. Melim, CFCUL, 5.6.2013 Room 8.2.23 15h-17h

11. Scientific Board, Organization, chairman, co-coordination with Jorge Gonçalves of the International Workshop “Altered Self and Altered Self Experience”, IFL, New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social Science and the Humanities, 30-31 of May 2013 asase2013.weebly.com IFL, FCSH-UNL, 10-18h

12. Responsible Organizer “Meeting with the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (University of Bergen) and ISCTE: Activities, papers, projects” CFCUL, 16th of April 2013 Room 3.2.16 14-18h

13. Scientific Programm Committee ISELL2012 International Symposium of Epistemology, Logic and Language University of Lisbon, 29-31st October 2012 Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Amphitheatre, 3.2.15

14. Scientific Programm Commitee, Organisation, Moderation and co-coordination of the International Workshop with Olga Pombo “Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis” 23th-24th March 2009, Foundation of the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon. [Website]

Exposições / Exibithions

1. Strata Exposição de Sérgio Costa comissariada por Alexander Gerner, de 5 de Abril a 3 de Maio 2014 no Museu Geológico [Press Release] [Poster]