Florian Franken Figueiredo

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

E-mail: florianfigueiredo@fcsh.unl.pt

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Bio note

Florian Franken Figueiredo was FAPESP scholar from 2016 to 2019 and postdoctoral fellow during that time at the State University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil and at the University of Reading, UK. He received his doctorate degree (Dr. phil.) from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, in 2014 with high honours (magna cum laude). He is the author of ‘Praxis und Gründe‘ (‘Practice and Reasons’) that argues for a new approach regarding the  understanding of practical reasons and action explanations. Since November 2019 he works as Research Assistant in the FCT project ‘Philosophy for Children and the Dawn of Moral Intuition: Values and Reasons in Rationality and Reasonability’ headed by Dina Mendonça at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The project develops research in the field of Ethics in Philosophy for Children showing how the philosophical field greatly contributes to ethical development of citizens because the methodology enables growth in argumentative skills by promoting critical thinking embedded in an ethical dimension as well as establishing a solid interconnectedness between Philosophy for Children and Argumentative Theory. In the project he is working on philosophical issues that regard the teaching of the P4C programme (e.g., questions regarding metaphilosophy, language, argumentation, critical thinking, cognitive abilities, etc.) addressing those question with an analytical approach. 

Academic Expertise and Research interests

Despite of his research interests in the FCT project he is interested in the field of Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Psychology, The History of Analytic Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.    

Publications

Books

• Figueiredo, F. F. (2017) Praxis und Gründe. Zu den normativen Grundlagen praktischer Rationalität. Perspektiven Analytischer Philosophie, Münster: Mentis-Verlag.

Peer-reviewed journal articles (last 5 years)

• Figueiredo, F. F. (2019) Können Zwecke als Grundlage für eine Bedeutungstheorie dienen? Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (5), 764-788. doi: 10.1515/dzph-2019-0056
• Figueiredo, F. F. (2019) Wittgenstein and Brandom: Disagreements on how to be in agreement with a rule. Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 8 (9). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3236898
• Figueiredo, F. F. (2019) Wittgenstein and Tomasello on understanding intentions. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 12 (2). doi:  10.4396/20180210
• Figueiredo, F. F. (2018) Function as Use. Wittgenstein’s Practical Turn in the Early Manuscripts. Philosophical Investigations 42 (1), 66-96. doi: 10.1111/phin.12212
• Franken, F. (2015) Überreden und Überzeugen. Eine Verhältnisbestimmung aus der Perspektive des späten Wittgenstein. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 63 (1), 58-86. doi: 10.1515/dzph-2015-0003

Book Chapters 

• Figueiredo, F. F. (2015) Doubt and Acknowledgement. In. Arley R. Moreno (ed.), Wittgenstein e seus aspectos 39, Coleção CLE, 255-278.