João Pinheiro

Bio | Situação no CFCUL | Produção Científica | Nos media | CV

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Bio || Bio

I’m very much motivated by all issues pertaining to Cosmopolitanism, but right now I’m especially interested in how (1) sociocultural identity, (2) value pluralism, (3) the globalizing process, and (4) expressions of moral cosmopolitanism relate to each other. My own approach to these issues often builds on the insights from the sciences of Ethics, in particular from Evolutionary Biology, Human Behavioural Ecology, Moral Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Sociocultural Anthropology. This is the website for the FCT research project to which I contribute with these studies: https://cosmopolites.wixsite.com/cosmopolitanism/

I’m also interested in how evolutionary theories and cognitivist approaches to Science can shed some light on our understanding of its predictive success as a natural phenomenon. My MPhil’s aim was to demystify the so called "Darwin's horrid doubt" & "Wallace's paradox" (which isn’t really a paradox), and like-minded wonderings. Naturalism and Scientific realism quite often become promiscuous partners as I read and write on these matters. My next step in this line of research is at the intersections of Cognitive Anthropology and Naturalistic Metaphysics: I wish to understand how cognitive & sociocultural evolution bear on the Metaphysics of Science.

I probably won’t say no to requests to review papers tackling any of these issues. Feel free to ask!

Áreas de Interesse || Current Research

  1. Scientific Realism
  2. Naturalism
  3. Unity of Science
  4. Relational Metaphysics
  5. Evolution of Cognition
  6. Cosmopolitanism

  7. Sciences of Ethics

Situação no CFCUL || Position at the CFCUL

Non-PhD integrated member

 

Grupos de Investigação || Research Groups

Filosofia das Ciências da Natureza (Membro)

Área de Investigação Emergência e Metafísica Relacional (Membro)

 

Linhas Temáticas || Thematic Lines

Unidade da Ciência e Interdisciplinaridade (Membro)

 

 

 

 

Participação em Projectos || Participation in Projects

Philosophical Inter Views (Science-Art-Philosophy Lab)

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Contactos || Contacts

joaopinheiro@hotmail.com

Produção Científica (Selecção) || Scientific Production (Selection)

Publicações || Publications

Livros / Books
  1. (in progress) Evolution & the Sciences and Technologies of Human Enhancement, Springer Series on Interdisciplinary Evolution Research [http://www.springer.com/series/13109],
    Co-editor for this volume.
Actas / Proceedings
  1. (in progress) Proceedings of the Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science. Co-editor.
Publcações Digitais / Digital Publications
  1. 23/09/2016. «Anti-hierarquismos naturalmente violentos ou Pela transformação do H. sapiens» in Caliban – Revista de Letras, Artes e Ideias [https://caliban.pt/] https://revistacaliban.net/anti-hierarquismos-naturalmente-violentos-ou-pela-transforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o-do-h-sapiens-ffd754f5981c

Reuniões Científicas || Scientific Meetings

Colóquios / Colloquia
  1. (forthcoming) 21-3/Sept/2018. (with Gil C. Santos), «The Relational-Integrative Model of Explanation», in “Unity/disunity of Science”, The POND - Philosophy Of Science Around the Mediterranean, Lisbon. 6-7/Sept/2018 «Three consequences of evolutionary theory for the nature of moral norms, justification, and values», 3rd International Congress of Philosophy, (org.) Portuguese Philosophy Society, Covilhã.
  2. 13-5/Sept/2018. «The Science of Ethics and Evolutionary Moral Realism», in ENFA 7, the Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon.
  3. 10-2/Sept/2018. «The Science of Ethics and Evolutionary Moral Naturalism», in “Insides of Nature: Causalities, Causal Processes and Conceptions of Nature Borders”, International Conference of Philosophy of Science, in Braga.
  4. 10-2/Sept/2018. (with João L. Cordovil) «Metametaphysical challenges to the naturalists’ meaning of physics», in “Insides of Nature: Causalities, Causal Processes and Conceptions of Nature Borders”, International Conference of Philosophy of Science, Braga.
  5. 26/6/2018. «Cosmopolitanism, the Normativity of Roots, & the Roots of Normativity», in Break-Out Session of the Research Centre of the Institute of Political Studies, Estoril Political Forum 2018, “Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism & Democracy”, IEP, Portuguese Catholic University.
  6. 18/10/2017. «Metametaphysics of Physics» (with João L. Cordovil), in Colloquium «What is a Physical Entity?», host institutions: Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon & Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
  7. 13/10/2017. «The true-fit thesis and its prime corollary», LanCog Seminar, Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
  8. 10-3/10/2017. «The Natural Reason of Cosmopolitan Moral», in von Humboldt-Kolleg Colloquium “Cosmos”, Org. Soraya Nour Sckell, the Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
  9. 06-09/09/2017. «Interactivist Biosemantics: Success Semantics Naturalized», in 17th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, in Exeter, UK [http://philsci.eu/epsa17]
  10. 21-26/08/2017. «Interactivist Biosemantics: Success Semantics Naturalized»
    Event: The ninth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 9) of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP), in Munich [http://analyticphilosophy.eu/ecap9/]
  11. 18/07/2017. «The Natural Reason of Cosmopolitan Sentiment», in IVR World Congress "Peace Based on Human Rights", in Lisbon.
  12. 24/05/2017. «Compatibilidades do Cosmopolitismo Enraizado de Kwame Anthony Appiah» [The Compatibilities of K.A. Appiah’s Rooted Cosmopolitanism], in Simpósio «Cosmopolitismo: entre Cultura, Cidadania e Justiça». Organizing Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
  13. 20-21/04/2017. «The Ontic Relational Unity of Science at the Foundations of Epistemic Integrative Pluralism» & «Commentary on Barbara Osimani, Jürgen Landes & Roland Poellinger's "Probabilistic Causal Inference through Evidence Amalgamation"»
    in The Annual Workshop-Style Meeting of the Nordic Network for the Philosophy of Science, in Copenhagen [https://nnpscience.wordpress.com/meetings/copenhagen-2017/]
  14. 9-10/02/2017. «Interactivist Biosemantics: Ramsey’s Principle Naturalized»
    Event: Oficina de Filosofia Analítica [https://ofanalitica.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/ofa-11-programme-now-available/]
  15. 14-16/12/2016. «On the internal relation between true contents and their evolutionary success conditions», in Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science [http://lisbonicpos.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/]
  16. 7-9/09/2016. «Is our cognition a successful predictor of the World in virtue of its evolved truth-tropism?», in 2nd International Congress of Philosophy, (org.) Portuguese Philosophy Society, Porto.
  17. 24-6/06/2016. «A systems-theoretical approach to Evolutionary Arguments», in Inaugural Conference of the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science, Sofia [https://sites.google.com/site/eastnetworkphilsci/eenps-2016]
  18. 22/2/2016. «Two working hypothesis from Evolutionary Epistemology about Truth and Epistemic Justification», in Philosophy and its Questions, 4th Edition
    Organizing Institution: Post-graduate section of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon
  19. 2/10/2015. «Integrative Pluralism and Ontic Relational Unity of Science», in International Workshop on Causal Powers and Structural Realism. Organizing Institution: Research group on Emergence and Relational Metaphysics of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. Program and abstract: cfcul.fc.ul.pt/workshops/CausalPowers2ProgramaCompleto2Out2015.pdf
Workshops
  1. 2/10/2015. «Integrative Pluralism and Ontic Relational Unity of Science»
    Event: International Workshop on Causal Powers and Structural Realism
    Organizing Institution: Research group on Emergence and Relational Metaphysics of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
    Program: cfcul.fc.ul.pt/workshops/CausalPowers2ProgramaCompleto2Out2015.pdf
Comunicações / Talks
  1. 6/3/2018. «Globalização e Cosmopolitismo» [Globalization and Cosmopolitanism], Invited lecture for the High School Daniel Sampaio, Portugal, Ana Paula Cosme (org.).
  2. 10/11/2015. «Pluralismo Integrativo e Unidade ôntico-relacional da Ciência»
    Event: CFCUL's Permanent Seminar on Philosophy of Science
  3. 15/11/2016. «Truth Fits»
    Event: CFCUL's Permanent Seminar on Philosophy of Science.
  4. 04/02/2017. «On some distinctions of Cosmopolitanism»
    «Intervenant» in the «La justice cosmopolite» seminar of the Collège International de Philosophie [http://www.ciph.org/spip.php?page=activite-detail&idevt=575]
Organização de Eventos / Event Organization
  1. 2/10/2015. Event: International Workshop on Causal Powers and Structural Realism
    Organizing Institution: Research group on Emergence and Relational Metaphysics of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
  2. 7/4/2016. Conferences in Philosophy of Sciences
    Michael Friedman, «Kant on the Mechanical Determination of Quantity of Matter»
    Organizing Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
  3. 14-16/12/2016. Event: Third Lisbon Philosophy of Science International Conference: Contemporary Issues
    Organizing Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
  4. 7/4/2016. Conferences in Philosophy of Sciences
    Michael Friedman, «Kant on the Mechanical Determination of Quantity of Matter»
    Organizing Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.
  5. 05/2017. Simpósio «Cosmopolitismo: entre Cultura, Cidadania, e Justiça» [Simposium «Cosmopolitanism: between Culture, Citizenship, and Justice»]
    Organizing Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon with the support of the Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon and of the Collège International de Philosophie.
  6. 13-4/12/2017. (Co-org.) Conference Human Enhancement and Evolution; host institution: Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

Divulgação || Outreach

Imprensa / Press
  1. 1/11/2015. «Interview with Stathis Psillos» (pp.55-71), Kairos, nº14, 2015.
    http://kairos.fc.ul.pt/nr%2014/Interview%20with%20Stathis%20Psillos.pdf
  2. (forthcoming) «Interview with Elliott Sober», Kairos, nº18, 2017.