SARSAW PROJECT
Self article statistical analysis webtool
João Fonseca (Principal Investigator)
João Fonseca is a Post-doc researcher at Institute for the Philosophy of Language (IFL) holding a grant from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation.
His main research interest is Philosophy of Neuroscience. He has been developing a taxonomical model framework for Behaviour Neuroscience. He has also been interested in topics such as: the critical assessment to the mainstream Neuro-behavior explanation of fear-conditioning, the quest for the evolutionary origins of self and consciousness and the links between Phenomenology and Neuroscience.
He published some papers on these topics and is co-editor (with Jorge Gonçalves) of the forthcoming volume "Philosophical Perspectives on the Self", Peter Lang Editions .
Jorge Gonçalves (Researcher)
Jorge de Almeida Gonçalves - I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 25th April 1960. I graduated first in Psychology (1988) and after in Philosophy (1997), both in Lisbon. I have a Masters degree in Philosophy (2002) and a PhD (2007) also in Philosophy (“Consciousness and Natural Order”).
Between 1988 and 1999 I worked in Psychology (educational, mental retarded, chronic mental illness). I currently work at Institute of Philosophy of Language (New University of Lisbon) where I am main researcher in a Project called “Cognitive Foundations of the Self”. My currently research interests are Consciousness and Self Studies, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Philosophy of Film.
I am Founder Member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Clínica, Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia Analítica, and Centro Português de Psicanálise-Associação Lacaniana Internacional.
Vera Pereira (Research Fellow)
Born in Lisbon in 1981.
Has a Ph.D in Evolutionary Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon and is also graduated in Clinical Psychology from the same institution.
Her PH.D thesis was about the psychological origins of afterlife beliefs. She applied an evolutionary and interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious thought in line with current work done in the field of Cognitive Science of Religion.
She is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Association for the Study of Mind, an association founded in 2010 in Lisbon with the goal of promoting the study of mind’s nature and functioning from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering diverse approaches such as: philosophical, scientific, artistic and religious.
Her research skills include experience in the application of qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques, using software such as NVIVO and SPSS.
Research interests: Self phenomenology, Techniques for enhancing self-experience; Intuitive mind-body dualism, Evolution and ontogenetic development of the Self, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Science of Religion, Evolutionary psychology.
Daniel Ramalho (Ph.D student)
Associate member of the IFL and a PhD student in Philosophy at the FCSH/UNL. He received his BA in Philosophy (2007) and his MA in Contemporary Philosophy (2011) at the same university, with a thesis on the psychosemantic theory of Paul Churchland. His main research interests are focused on Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. His work is currently centered on Paul Churchland’s connectionist model of the cerebral cognitive architecture (both human and nonhuman) and its implications for the role of language in cognition.
Luís Sousa (Ph.D)
I have taken my Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in the Faculty for Social and Human Sciences at the New University of Lisbon. I finished the first year of the Master’s degree in Aesthetics in the same faculty. Meanwhile, in 2007, I was awarded with a PhD scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology for my research project concerning the concept of subject in Schopenhauer. In that same year I became part of the Institute for the Philosophy of Language (IFL).
In the following years, I gave several talks concerning Schopenhauer. In 2012, in the context of my participation in the IFL’s research project “Nietzsche and the contemporary debate on the self”, I published an article on the relation between Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s essay “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”.
In 2013 I finally finished my PhD thesis.
My actual research interests lie in the investigation of self-consciousness at the interception between the transcendental and phenomenological traditions and the cognitive sciences.
