Investigadores

Alexandra Maria Lafaia Machado Abranches

Grau académico: Doutoramento

Categoria profissional: Prof. Auxiliar

Grupo(s) de Investigação:

E-mail: alexandra@elach.uminho.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 6C15-5FE6-D2CD

ORCID: 0000-0002-8068-2499

Morada institucional:

Escola de Letras e Ciências Humanas
Campus de Gualtar
Braga

Nota biográfica:

I have taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern
and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and
Metaphysics. My research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the
naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and
sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the
metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. My PhD dissertation focused on the
moral philosophy of David Hume. I have published a book on the American pragmatist
Charles Sanders Peirce as a result of my research for my master’s degree. I am also a
translator, and have been involved in the translation into portuguese of Edmund Burke's
A Philosophical Investigation of the Origin our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful,
which has been published by ed.70. I am expanding my research and teaching interests to include the history of feminism and feminist philosophy.

Interesses de investigação:

History of moral and political philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Classical Pragmatism, Feminist Philosophy.

Formação:

Licenciatura em Filosofia - Universidade do Porto

Mestrado em Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea - Universidade do Minho

Doutoramento em Filosofia - Universidade do Minho

Experiência profissional:

91-96 - Docente do Ensino Secundário

96-presente - Docente do Ensino Superior

Cargos:

Membro do Conselho de Escola