Research Projects
Underway
- Intention, Action, and The Philosophy of Art: New boundaries in a Theory of Action: This project focuses on theory of action and inquiry on the structures of intention and practical thought, combining it with philosophical debates about art, in what we might dub as 'action-theoretical aesthetics.
Funded by FCT: PTDC/FIL-FIL/116733/2010. Project website. Related activities: Seminar on Intention, Seminar on Action Theory, Seminar on Theory of Art, Seminar for Original Papers.
- Estranging Pessoa: An Inquiry into the Heteronymic Claims: This project proposes a throrough revision of the role of the concept of 'heteronym' in the work of Fernando Pessoa, and a thorough treatment of its philosophical implications.
Funded by ELAB. Submitted in 2010: PTDC/CLE-LLI/119065/2010. Project website. Related activities: 1st Open Seminar; 2nd Open Seminar; 3rd Open Seminar; 4th Open Seminar.
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- Literature and Art in the Space of Reasons: This project aimed to clarify the ways in which a discussion about literature and art should conform to what Wilfrid Sellars called “the logical space of reasons”. Ensuing from the "Models of definition of art: reconsidering contextualism in Analytic Aesthetics" project, this project was a preparatory step of "Intention, Action, and The Philosophy of Art: New boundaries in a Theory of Action" (above).
Funded by IFL (IFL-S-1). Related activities: Pittsburgh at Lisbon Seminar; Philosophy of Music Seminar; Seminar on Fiction; Arthur Danto: Art and Mere Things;
- Models of definition of art: reconsidering contextualism in Analytic Aesthetics: Focusing on the contemporary debate concerning the definition of 'art' in analytic philosophical aesthetics, the project aimed to examine meta-methodological issues in the available definitional projects.
Funded by IFL. Description. Submited in 2008: PTDC/FIL-FIL/103999/2008. Related: Seminar of Analytic Aesthetics; Seminar on definitions of 'art'.
