Professors
Permanent Professors
Alexandre da Silva Costa
Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and member of its Graduate Program in Philosophy (PFI-UFF). Graduated in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (1994). Holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998), a PhD in Philosophy from the Universität Osnabrück, Germany (2009) and a second PhD in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2010). He also holds a postdoctoral degree from the FAPESP Regular Postdoctoral Program at the Department of Music at USP-Ribeirão Preto in the area of musical theory in Antiquity. This research was supported by a one-year internship at the Institut für klassische Philologie of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, as a FAPESP BEPE Postdoctoral Fellow. Member of the OUSIA Laboratory (IFCS/UFRJ) for research in Ancient Philosophy and of the Aporia Laboratory, Center for Ancient Philosophy (ICHF/UFF). In the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PFI-UFF) he works in two lines of research: a) History of Philosophy; and b) Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. He has experience in the area of philosophy, with an emphasis on ancient philosophy (and the relationship that contemporary thought establishes with it), aesthetics, phenomenology and ethics.
Email: kaligraphia@yahoo.com.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6766767734740923
Alice Bitencourt Haddad
Graduated in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2001). Holds a Master’s degree (2003) and a PhD in Philosophy (2008) both from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in the Graduate Program in Logic and Metaphysics at UFRJ and in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Member of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (Associação Latino-americana de Filosofia Antiga – ALFA) and of the research groups PRAGMA (UFRJ) and Zétesis (UFRRJ).
Email: alicecorreio@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6118912392644123
André Constantino Yazbek
He holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Philosophy from the Graduate Studies Program in Philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), the institution where he began his teaching career. He is dedicated to the study of the main schools of thought in contemporary French philosophy, with emphasis on the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault. Author of the books “Itinerários Cruzados: os caminhos da contemporaneidade filosófica francesa nas obras de Jean-Paul Sartre e Michel Foucault” (EDUC/FAPESP, 2010) and “10 Lições sobre Foucault” (Vozes, 2012), in addition to several articles published in specialized magazines.
Email: andre.yazbek@yahoo.com.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5671347362352390
Bernardo Barros Coelho de Oliveira
He holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at UFRJ (1992) and a PhD in Philosophy from the same institution (1997). His thesis, in the area of modern aesthetics, was entitled “O que significa orientar-se pela arte: uma leitura da Crítica da Faculdade do juízo”. He published the book “Olhar e narrativa: leituras benjaminianas” (Edufes, 2006). He works in teaching and researching aesthetics, philosophy of art and history of philosophy. Authors studied: H. G. Gadamer, P. Ricoeur, W. Benjamin and I. Kant (3rd critique). Member of the Aesthetics GT (work group) of ANPOF and CEFA (Center for Studies in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at UFF).
Email: bernardobarros@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2075193036797100
Carla Rodrigues
Professor at the Department of Philosophy at UFRJ, researcher at the Graduate Programs in Philosophy at UFF and UFRJ. She works as a CNPq and FAPERJ scholarship holder. She coordinates the laboratory Filosofias do Tempo do Agora (Philosophies of the now-time), catalogued in the CNPq Research Groups Directory. PhD and Master in Philosophy from PUC-Rio. Author, among others, of “O luto entre clínica e política: Judith Butler para além do gênero” (Autêntica, 2021). Member of the Forum do Campo Lacaniano – Região dos Lagos section.
Email: cr@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1849437854243808
Carlos Diógenes Tourinho
He has a degree in Psychology from UFF (Bachelor’s Degree and Psychologist Training) and in Philosophy from UFRJ (Bachelor’s Degree). Specialist in Contemporary Philosophy from PUC-RIO. Master’s in Philosophy from PUC-RIO. PhD in Philosophy from PUC-RIO. He completed an Internship for recent PhDs in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UFRJ. He held the position of assistant professor in the Department of Pedagogical Foundations (SFP)/ Faculty of Education at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), teaching classes in the areas of philosophy of education and history of philosophy (modern and contemporary). He is currently an associate professor II in the Department of Philosophy (GFL) at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), teaching courses in the area of history of modern and contemporary philosophy, more specifically, courses in theory of knowledge and epistemology. He is a permanent member of the faculty in the Knowledge and Language line of research, linked to the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PFI/UFF). He is also associated to the Origins of Contemporary Philosophy Research Group (PUC-SP), in addition to being the current leader of the “Metaphysics in Contemporary Philosophy” Research Group (CNPq / UFF). He is also a member of the Support Center of the Contemporary French Philosophy Working Group and of the Support Center of the Phenomenology Working Group of the ANPOF. His research focuses on Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, the reflections of Husserlian thought in French phenomenology, and the relationships between phenomenology and the Human Sciences.
Email: cr@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4439167668298111
Celso Martins Azar Filho
PhD in Philosophy from UFRJ, he is currently an associate professor at UFF and a Collaborating Professor at the PPGF of IFCS-UFRJ. Leader of the Laboratory of Renaissance Studies (LERen).
Email: cazarf@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9921840384692043
Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1975), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1977) and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews (1980). In 2008, he was associate director of studies at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris, France), in 2009 he was a visiting researcher at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA and in 2011 (January-February) he was a professeur invité at the Université de Paris-X. He is currently an associate professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (part-time) and a full professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He was president of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences from 2010-2012. He works mainly on the following topics: philosophy of language (pragmatics and discourse analysis), history of skepticism in modern philosophy, applied ethics. Coordinator of the Philosophy/Theology area at Capes (2011-2014). Coordinates the interdisciplinary project Ethics and Current Reality with funding from FINEP/FAPERJ/CNPq (www.era.org.br).
Email: dmsf@uol.com.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1920110904979912
Diogo de França Gurgel
He is an associate professor of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a teaching degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2005), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (2008) and a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2012). He has teaching experience in Secondary and Higher Education (undergraduate and graduate) in the area of Philosophy, with an emphasis on language and theory of knowledge. He is currently researching contemporary theories of metaphor.
Email: diogo.gurgel@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5905837304320715
Dirk Greimann
He holds a bachelor’s, master’s, PhD and habilitation (postdoctoral degree with venia legendi) in Philosophy from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, a CNPq Researcher (level 1D), and one of the leaders of the CNPq research group “Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics”. He works in the area of Analytical Philosophy, with an emphasis on Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic and Metaphysics/Ontology. The authors he mainly studies are Frege, Quine, Carnap, Goodman, and Tarski.
Email: dirk.greimann@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3324269321537765
Fabrina Magalhães
She holds a degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (1999), a master’s degree (2001) and a PhD (2006) in Social History of Culture from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, a postdoctoral degree in Philosophy from PUC-Rio (2010) and another postdoctoral degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2016). She began her postdoctoral studies at the Department of Literary Theory and History – IEL, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, under the supervision of Carlos Eduardo Ornelas Berriel, in March 2022. Since 2010, she has been a History professor at UFF-PUCG, working in the areas of Modern History, Political History and Renaissance Philosophy. Her research focuses on the Italian Renaissance, Humanism and Religious Reforms, with an emphasis on authors such as Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni and Erasmus of Rotterdam. She is the author of several articles and essays on the Renaissance, including the presentation of the new translation of Elogio da Loucura (RJ: Edipro, 2015). She organized 4 volumes on the period: the first, Philosophy of the Renaissance, hosted in the magazine O que nos faz pensar, number 27 (2010), with professor Danilo Marcondes; the second, the thematic dossier Italian Renaissance, published by the magazine Crítica Histórica, in 2015, with professor Flávia Benevenutto; the third entitled Filosofia, Política e Cosmologia: ensaios sobre o Renascimento, by the publisher UFABC, in 2017; and the fourth, by the magazine Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition, she organized the dossier Pensamento Político na Renascença (vol. 7, n. 2). She is currently dedicated to translating and analyzing the political texts of the Florentine Chancellor Leonardo Bruni. She is a member of LERen: Laboratory of Renaissance Studies, and coordinates LER (Laboratory of Republican Studies), together with Luís Falcão, at UFF. She is a member of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UFF.
Email: fabrinamagalhaes@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0342630078480911
Felipe de Oliveira Castelo Branco
PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He also holds a PhD in Psychoanalysis from the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He developed part of his doctoral research at Université Paris XIII – Paris Nord, in France. He has a master’s degree in Psychoanalysis from UERJ. He has a degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and in Social Communication from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). He works fundamentally with the articulation between philosophy and psychoanalysis and with ethics, language and political philosophy. He was a professor in the Philosophy Department at PUC-Rio; and he was a temporary professor in the Philosophy department at UFRJ (IFCS/UFRJ) and also at UERJ (FFP/UERJ). Psychoanalyst associated with Corpo Freudiano, Rio de Janeiro section. He works with the following themes: Ethics, Language, Otherness and reason, Modernity(ies), Political philosophy, Cosmopolitanism, Post-Colonialism, Politics and State, Melancholy, Psychoanalysis.
Email: felipeoliveiracastelobranco@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3977291565020273
Fernando de Sá Moreira
Graduated (2009) and Master’s (2011) in Philosophy from the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná. PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (2015), with a doctoral internship at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Department of Pedagogical Foundations at FEUFF. Member of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UFF. Member of the Board of the Rouanet Institute. He develops research on African and Afrodiasporic Philosophy, Racism and Philosophy, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and the dynamics of race and gender in Brazilian graduate studies.
Email: fernandosm@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2269235326367932
Guilherme Wyllie
PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2004) with postdoctoral degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2007) and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2015). He is a faculty member of the philosophy department at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where he has been teaching since 2009. He works in the areas of logic and medieval philosophy, dedicating himself especially to the study of the history of scholastic logic.
Email: guilhermewyllie@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3554332085592369
Julia Telles de Menezes
PhD in Philosophy from the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main (2016). She was a Professor and a Researcher at the same University between 2018 and 2020. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She works in the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, with emphasis on the following themes: phenomenal consciousness, materialism, semantics, and mental content.
Email: juliatelles@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2778073868131207
Luis Felipe Bellintani Ribeiro
PhD in Philosophy from the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main (2016). She was a Professor and a Researcher at the same University between 2018 and 2020. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She works in the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, with emphasis on the following themes: phenomenal consciousness, materialism, semantics, and mental content.
Email: lfbribeiro@id.uff.br
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2878997371982189
Marcus Reis Pinheiro
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1996), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1999), a PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2004), a postdoctoral degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2005) and another postdoctoral degree in philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with the line of research “Críticas à escrita e convivência filosófica em Platão” (Criticism of writing and philosophical coexistence in Plato) (2009). He was a professor (recent PhD) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with the line of research “Cosmologia e Ética no Helenismo” (Cosmology and Ethics in Hellenism), analyzing especially the texts of Plotinus. He is currently an associate professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has experience in the area of Philosophy, with an emphasis on Ancient Philosophy, working mainly on the following themes: Plato, mythology, neoplatonism, Hellenism, Philosophy as a Way of Life and Philosophy of Religion.
Email: marcusreispinheiro@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2938199219647514
Mariana de Toledo Barbosa
She holds a degree in Psychology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2004), a master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Theory from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2007) and a PhD in Philosophy (2012), carried out under a co-tutorship regime between the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (formerly Université Paris X – Nanterre). She completed her postdoctoratal studies in the Graduate Program in Psychoanalytic Theory at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2013) and in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (2014). She is currently a professor of Contemporary Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Throughout her career, she participated in research in psychoanalysis and philosophy. The three main themes to which she dedicates herself are: the thought of Gilles Deleuze; ethics in philosophy; psychoanalytic practice and ethics. She has professional experience in psychoanalytic clinic.
Email: mari_tb@hotmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0360247935656905
Patrick E. C. Pessoa
Patrick Pessoa holds a PhD in Philosophy from UFRJ/Universität Potsdam (Germany), with two Post-Doctoratal degrees in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (PUC-Rio, 2008; USP, 2015). He is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UFF. In addition to being a teacher, he is a playwright, theater critic and editor of the Revista Viso: Cadernos de Estética Aplicada (www.revistaviso.com.br). As a playwright, he has collaborated with directors Aderbal Freire-Filho (Na selva das cidades, 2011), Malu Galli and Bel Garcia (Oréstia, 2012), Marcio Abreu (Nômades, 2014), Daniela Amorim (Labirinto, 2015), Jörgen Tjon A Fong (Invisível, 2016), Marco André Nunes (Mar de ressaca, 2016) and Adriano Guimarães (O imortal, 2018). As a theater critic, he collaborated with the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Questão de Crítica, in addition to having been a judge for the Shell and Questão de Crítica Awards. He has published six books – A segunda vida de Brás Cubas: A filosofia da arte de Machado de Assis (Rocco, 2008), finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti de Teoria e Crítica Literária (Jabuti Prize for Literary Theory and Criticism); A História da Filosofia em 40 filmes (Nau, 2013), Oréstia: Dramatic Adaptation (Giostri, 2013) and Labirinto (Giostri, 2017), in partnership with Alexandre Costa; Nômades (Cobogó, 2015), in partnership with Marcio Abreu; and Dramaturgias da crítica (Cobogó, 2022) – as well as several essays on literary, film and theater criticism in specialized magazines.
Email: patrickpessoa@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8424738025426018
Pedro Süssekind
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1997), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2000) and a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2005). He did doctoral research at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He currently holds a CNPq Research Productivity scholarship (level 2), is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department at the Universidade Federal Fluminense and a collaborator in the Master’s Degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. He has experience in the area of philosophy, with an emphasis on aesthetics, history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy, working mainly on the following themes: German aesthetics, poetics, philosophy of history and critical theory.
Email: pedrosuss@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1350524299762443
Tereza Cristina B. Calomeni
She holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, a PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and a Postdoctoral degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ). She works mainly in the areas of history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy, philosophy of culture, aesthetics and philosophy of art, ethics and political philosophy, researching authors such as Nietzsche and Foucault. Her doctoral thesis is entitled A redenção da temporalidade: a trágica intuição do eterno retorno, and she is currently researching “A singularidade do trágico-dionisíaco e a crítica nietzschiana da cultura” (The Singularity of the Tragic-Dionysian and the Nietzschean Critique of Culture).
Email: terezaccalomeni@gmail.com
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4461357085947634
Vladimir Vieira
PhD in Philosophy from UFRJ/PPGF (2009) and associate professor at the Philosophy Department at UFF. He works in the areas of aesthetics and modern philosophy, with special emphasis on Kantian aesthetic doctrine, its precursors and developments. He developed research and published articles on authors such as Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Hume. Since 2007, he and Patrick Pessoa have been editing the scientific journal Viso: Cadernos de Estética Aplicada. His doctoral thesis, Entre a razão e a sensibilidade: a estética pós-kantiana e o problema da cisão entre o sensível e supra-sensível, received the Capes Thesis Award/2010 in the area of philosophy.