Currently I’m working on a Situational Theory of Emotion developing a new approach to philosophy of emotions by taking them as dynamic and active situational occurrences.

The Situational Theory of Emotions will provide a novel hypothesis for the understanding of emotions while, simultaneously, construct a theoretical scheme to evaluate the various available theories of emotion. In addition, this research of Deweyan inspiration, aims at elaborating a critical interpretation of the philosophy of emotions clarifying: on the one hand, (1) the different methodological approaches to emotions; on the other hand, (2) the topics that surround reflection upon emotion. Among other things, the project aims to continue constructing the commented bibliography and a research database on philosophy of emotion (see personal webpage).

Under this research strategy I hope to show what is the most fruitful way to think about the nature of emotions, its puzzles and its connections to other major concepts of philosophy of mind.

Some activities:

• Coordenation of the Webpage resource on Philosophy of Emotions from Philosophical Archipelago, which aims to provide a variety of information (see IFL site)
• Maintaining the Reading Seminar on Theory of Emotions in order to promote the community of inquiry at Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem. Sharing reading and discussion about the texts creates an ongoing dialogue among the various researchers of the Institute, for it creates a space where the different researchers share critical tools of thinking and their different philosophical interests.
• Coordenation of Projects in Philosophy for Children (see projects of IFL)

Prizes, fellowships, memberships & Others

• 2007 Post-doctoral fellowship by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
• Project: “Situational Approach to Emotions” (BPD/34818/2007)
• Colaboratiion with Philosophical Counsil in Coreographic Project “A Preguiça Ataca?” of Aldara Bizarro, produzed byJangada de Pedra
• Research Fellowship of Project “Extensional Semantics” (nov.06-May07)
• 2006 Scientific Coordenator of Philosophy for Children for the teaching of Philosophy for Children in School groups of Loures and Moscavide.
• Member of Executive Board of Portuguese Society of Philosophy
• Coordenator of the webpage on Emotions from Institute of Philosophy of
  Language (http://www.ifl.pt)
• E-Learning training course at New University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Member of the Finance Council of the Society of Portuguese Analytic
  Philosophy.
• Organizer of Symposium on Emotions for ENFA 3 with Peter Goldie, Anthony
  Hatzimoysis, Michael Lacewing, Dina Mendonça. In Third Portuguese
  Meeting of Analytic Philosophy (IIIº Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica.
• Research Member of the project “Emotion, Cognition and Communication”
  (POCTI/FIL/58227/2004) in Philosophy of Language Institute
• 2004 Organizing Reading Seminar on Philosophy of Emotions at IFL
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• Founding Member of Society of Portuguese Analytic Philosophy.
• 2003 Post-Doctoral Fellowship granted by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
  (BPD/14175/2003) (FCT) in Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
  Philosophy of Language Institute) of New University of Lisbon.
• 9/03 – 3/04 Research member of the project “The Explanation of Human Interpretation:
  Formal Tools and Philosophical Analysis” (POCTI/FIL/34455/99) in
  Philosophy of Language Institute
• 2003 Member of Philosophy of Language Institute, New University of Lisbon,
  Portugal.
• 2000 Member of APA.
• 8/98 - /02 Ph.D Fellowship: Praxis XXI, granted by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for University of South Carolina, USA.
• 98 Award of Best Graduate Student of PH.D. Program of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA.

Papers and Reviews

• 2006 “Normativity of emotions” Cadernos de Filosofia, Proceedings of Symposium on Emotions for ENFA 3 with Peter Goldie, Anthony Hatzimoysis, Michael Lacewing, Dina Mendonça. in Third Portuguese Meeting of Analytic Philosophy (IIIº Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica (ENFA3). (forthcoming)
• 2006 “Let’s talk about emotions” Thinking – The Journal of Philosophy for Children.
  (forthcoming)
• “Abduction and Emotional Processes – a taxonomy of emotional processes in scientific discovery” (with Isabel Serra) Proceedings of the International Conference in Abduction and the Process of Scientific Discovery, Centro de Filosofia das Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, (forthcoming)
• “Pattern of Emotion – Following a Deweyan Suggestion” (Submitted to Charles Sanders Peirce Transactions, presently under revision)
• Encyclopaedia article on “Emotivism” for Dictionary of Social and Political Philosophy, ed. António Marques, (forthcoming)
• 2005 “Dewey and the Public Space: Rethinking Pragmatism” Proceedings of International Seminar Public Space, Power and Communication, Dec. 5-6, University of Coimbra, Portugal. (Ed. Edmundo Balsemão Pires) Lisboa: Edições Afrontamento, 2007. pp. 107-124
• “Drawing the Person; Emotions and the Self” Proceedings of the International Congress of Philosophy: Person and Society, Perspectives for the XXI Century, Catholic University of Braga, Portugal (forthcoming).
• Review of Emotions. A Brief History (2004), by Keith Oatley http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2504
• Review of The New Brain. How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind (2003), By Richard Restak http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2413
• “Pattern of Emotion and Emotional Growth” Analyses - Proceedings of the Second Portuguese Meeting of Analytic Philosophy (II Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica ) ENFA2, (ed. Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto, & Carlos Mauro) Porto, Portugal: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006: 144-152.
• 2004 "Experience as Reason: Emotions and Values in the Construction of Rationality" in Trólei. Revista de Filosofia Moral e Politica, nº4-2004
• Review of From Passion to Emotion (2003), by Thomas Dixon. http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2219
• Review of Between Emotion and Cognition: The Generative Unconscious (2003) by Joseph Newirth. (http://mentalhelp.net/books/book.php?type=de&id=2077)
• Review of The Upheavals of Thought: The intelligence of Emotions (2001) by Martha Nussbaum in Cadernos de Filosofia, IFL, ed. Colibri, nº 14 (2004).
• 2003 “Human Nature in the Making” in Cadernos de Filosofia, IFL, ed. Colibri, nº 13 (2003): 29-41.
• 2000 “Imaginação como passagem secreta da Experiência—Exposição da imaginação no pensamento filosófico de John Dewey” (Imagination as the secret door of experience―Imagination in John Dewey’s Philosophical Work) Proceedings of #37 Congresso dos Jovens Filósofos, Lisbon, Portugal, April.
• 1996 “Matemática e Filosofia - Práticas estimulantes” (with Isabel Serra) (Mathematics and Philosophy – Some Possible Activities) PROFMAT 96 (Published in proceedings), Almada, Portugal.
• 1993 “Matemática e Filosofia, Um Diálogo Possível” (with Isabel Serra) (Mathematics and Philosophy, a possible dialogue) Proceedings of PROFMAT 93, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.

Presentations - Conferences and seminars 2007

• “What is mixed about mixed Feelings” International Conference Emotions, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas , Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, June 18-20, 2007
• Comentator in OFA II, June 5 -6, 2007 Critical comment of “A impossibilidade da irracionalidade na acção” by Carlos Mauro and Susana Cadilha (FLUP)
• 2006 “Normativity of emotions” Symposium on Emotions for ENFA 3 with Peter Goldie, Anthony Hatzimoysis, Michael Lacewing, Dina Mendonça. in Third Portuguese Meeting of Analytic Philosophy (IIIº Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica (ENFA3), Lisbon, 2-4 June.
• “Situational approach to emotions and the role of philosophy for the study of emotion” Seminar Session of MALG at University of Porto, Department of Philosophy, May12th.
• “Abduction and Emotional Processes – a taxonomy of emotional processes in scientific discovery” (with Isabel Serra) International Conference in Abduction and the Process of Scientific Discovery, Centro de Filosofia das Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, May 4-6.
• Presentation of “Emotion Norms, Emotion Work, and Social Order” by Peggy A. Thoits, Reading Seminar Session at Philosophy of Language Institute, March.
• Presentation of “The Subject of Emotion” by Marcia Cavell, Reading Seminar Session at Philosophy of Language Instittute, October.
• 2005 “Dewey and the Public Space: Rethinking Pragmatism” International Seminar Public Space, Power and Communication, Dec. 5-6, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
• “Drawing the Person; Emotions and the Self” International Congress of Philosophy: Person and Society, Perspectives for the XXI Century, November 17-19, Catholic University of Braga, Portugal.
• “The Experimental Answer to the Paradox of Fiction” ECAP5 – Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, August, University of Lisbon, Humanities Department, August, Lisbon, Portugal.
• “Pattern of Emotion and Excess. On Advantages of Being on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” Conference on Emotions, Other and the Self, August, Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turko Finland.
• “Narrative Structure of Emotion” Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference, Narrative and Understanding Persons, July, University of Hertforshire, U.K.
• “Do we need an independent semantic treatment for emotions?» Conference Meaning and Communication, June, Philosophy of Language Institute, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
• “O que Representa a Emoção? Análise do Problema do Paradoxo da Ficção e a Solução Experimentalista” (What Does Emotion Represent? Analysis of the Paradoxo f Fiction and the Experimental Solution) Seminar Session of Advanced Studies on Representation Organized by Prof. Doutour Diogo Pires Aurélio, May, Philosophy of Language Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Presentation of “What is An Emotion?” de William James, Seminar session of Reading seminar at Philosophy of Language Institute, February.
• 2004 “Pattern of Emotion and Emotional Growth” IIº Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica (II Portuguese Meeting of Analytic Philosophy) ENFA2, October, University of Porto, Portugal.
• “Pattern of Emotion – Following a Deweyan Suggestion” SPP-EUROSPP Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July.
• 2004 “Politics and Emotions” Seminar Session at Philosophy of language Institute, May.
• “Emotion in Dewey’s Democracy – The Political Character of An Experience” Conference on Politics and Emotions by the Centre for Critical Theory, University of West of England, Bristol, U.K., April.
• “Holism and Emotion” Seminar Session at Philosophy of Language Institute, January.
• 2003 “When Heads Happen – Exploring the Deweyan Conception of Mind” SIFA 2003, Vietri, Italy, October.
• “Human Nature in the Making” Seminar Session at Philosophy of Language Institute, July.
• “Philosophical Anatomy of Emotion” (with João Fonseca) Seminar Session at Philosophy of Language Institute, June
• “Philosophical Anatomy of Emotion” (with João Fonseca) Poster for III International Conference “Emotion and the Brain” at Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa, Portugal, May.
• 2002 “Human Nature in the Making” Fifth Annual Conference for the Society for European Philosophy, Cork, Ireland, September.
• 2000 “Imaginação como passagem secreta da Experiência—Exposição da imaginação no pensamento filosófico de John Dewey” (Imagination as the secret door of experience―Imagination in John Dewey’s Philosophical Work) Proceedings of #37 Congresso dos Jovens Filósofos, Lisbon, Portugal, April.
• 1996 “Á Espera do Eco―sobre a importância do Diálogo na Educação Ambiental” (Waiting for Echo―about the importance of dialogue in Environmental Education) (with Susana Rodrigues) VIII Encuentro Hispano-Português de Formadores de Professores de Filosofia para Niños, Murcia, Espanha.
• “Matemática e Filosofia - Práticas estimulantes” (with Isabel Serra)(Mathematics and Philosophy – Some Possible Activities)PROFMAT 96, Almada, Portugal.
• 1993 “Matemática e Filosofia, Um Diálogo Possível” (with Isabel Serra) (Mathematics and Philosophy, a possible dialogue)PROFMAT 93, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.