Pedro Abreu (0713-5E51-EA23)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Abreu

Pedro Abreu is a researcher at the Laboratory of Argumentation, Cognition and Language (ArgLab) of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, where he coordinates the Philosophy of Language and Argumentation (PHILA) research group, and invited professor at the Department of Philosophy of The NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Pedro holds a PhD degree in Philosophy (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2018). Since 2023, he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy. He specializes in the philosophy of language, with a particular focus on metasemantics and interpretation.

Read full resume ↓

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro Abreu

Citation names

Abreu, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0713-5E51-EA23
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5063-0516

Telephones

Telephone

217908300 (Professional)

Addresses

Campus de Campolide - Colégio Almada Negreiros , 1099-032, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.ifilnova.pt/en/pages/pedro-abreu (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018 Concluded	Philosophy \| Logic and Philosophy of Language (PhD) (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014 Concluded	Visiting Research Student (Outros) Rutgers University Department of Philosophy, United States
2009 Concluded	Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2003 Concluded	Design Gráfico e Multimédia (Bacharelato) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

2018 - 2019	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017 - 2018	Ecological reasoning and decision making in innovation-oriented industry sectors at the periphery of Europe TUBITAK/0010/2014 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2015/01/01 - 2016	I&D FCSH / IFILNOVA / FIL/00183 I&D FCSH / IFILNOVA / FIL/00183 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011 - 2015	The Rationalization of Utterances SFRH / BD / 72674 / 2010 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008 - 2009	Filosofia da Linguagem e da Comunicação BII2008-FCSH-IFL Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/04 - Current	Inteligência artificial explicável para a medicina digital apoiada em argumentação CHIST-ERA/0002/2019 Post-doc Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2018 - 2022	European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis [APPLY] COST Action CA17132 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Horizon 2020 Ongoing
2017 - 2019	Ecological reasoning and decision making in innovation-oriented industry sectors at the periphery of Europe TUBITAK/0010/2014 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016 - 2019	Values in Argumentative Discourse PTDC/MHC-FIL/0521/ 2014 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Lewinski, Marcin; Abreu, Pedro. "Arguing About “COVID”: Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts as a “COVID-19 Death”". In The Pandemic of Argumentation, 17-41. Springer International Publishing, 2022. 10.1007/978-3-030-91017-4_2 Abreu, Pedro. "Temperate Semantic Conventionalism". In Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics, edited by Stalmaszczyk, Piotr, 225-250. De Gruyter, 2019. 10.1515/9783110628937-011
Journal article	Pedro Abreu; Giulia Terzian. "Introduction: Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism". Topoi (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09948-9. 10.1007/s11245-023-09948-9 Pedro Abreu. "Metalinguistic Negotiation, Speaker Error, and Charity". Topoi (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09910-9. 10.1007/s11245-023-09910-9
Journal issue	Abreu, Pedro; Terzian, Giulia. "Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism". TOPOI 42 4 (2023): Published • Coeditor
Thesis / Dissertation	Abreu, Pedro. "The Rationalization of Utterances.". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/32550.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/10/25	Metalinguistic Disagreement and Speaker Error	VII SBFA Conference - VII Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy Conference Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2022/09/09	Challenging Verbal Disputes	15th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy – SIFA Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (Italy)
2022/09/08	Challenging the Verbal and the Non-Verbal Distinction	ENFA 8 - 8th National Meeting in Analytic Philosophy Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/19	The borders and objects of metalinguistic disagreement	Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism - International Conference
2021/10	Challenging the Verbal and Non-Verbal Distinction	Agreement and Disagreement Beyond Ethics and Epistemology Kent University (United Kingdom)
2020/10/23	Verbal Disputes: Two Challenges	ArgLab Open Seminar Ifilnova
2020/10/01	Verbal Disputes and Public Arguments	Norms for public argument — COST Action APPLY: Budapest workshop Working group 2 “Norms of Public Argument: Concepts and Methods” of COST Action CA17132 – APPLY – European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (Budapeste, Hungary)
2019/12/13	Metasemantics and Metalinguistic Intervention	Values Research Seminar Meeting IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de FIlosofia (LISBON, Portugal)
2019/12/07	Disputes, Indeterminacy and the Social Nature of Meaning	MERELY — Meanings: Enduring, Revising, Engineering \| Lisbon 2019 Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA)
2019/03/29	Meaning Disputes and Indeterminacy	Values Research Seminar Meeting IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (Portugal)
2018/11/23	On Peter Pagin’s “What is Communicative Success?”	Values Research Seminar Meeting IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (Portugal)
2018/11/07	On Christian List's "Deliberation and agreement"	Ethics and Political Theory Reading Group IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia
2018/06/22	Misunderstanding, DIsagreement and Successful Communication	Misunderstanding, Disagreement and Manipulation IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (Portugal)
2018/01/26	Davidson and (Standard) Social Semantic Externalism	Discussing Davidson - an international colloquium on the philosophy of Donald Davidson IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (Portugal)
2017/05/13	Indeterminacy, Underdetermination, and Principle of Charity	PhiLang 2017 University of Lodz, Poland (Poland)
2017/05/05	Indeterminacy within Charitable Limits	Values Research Seminar Meeting IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia
2017/04/27	The Constitutive Radical Interpretability of Thoughts and Meanings	The Legacy of Donald Davidson, Graduate Conference York University, Toronto (Canada)
2016/10/27	Rationality and Charity	Values Research Seminar Meeting IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia
2016/06/14	Rationalization and Convention	Arglab Research Colloquium IFILNOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia
2014/09/18	Essentially but not Exhaustively Rule-Governed	Prague International Colloquium, Nature of Rules and Normativity Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
2014/06/06	Essentially Rule-Governed within Reasonable Limits	Cracow Workshops in Analytical Philosophy, Normativity of Meaning, Belief and Knowledge Polish Academy of Sciences, Jagiellonian University Institute of Philosophy and Department of Legal Theory (Poland)
2012/09	Available Evidence for Interpretation	10th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) (Italy)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/09 - Current	ArgLab Open Seminar (2020/09) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/09 - Current	Lisbon Circle Reading Group (2020/09) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/09 - Current	Values Research Seminar (2016) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20	Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism - International Conference (2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/07/11 - 2019/07/12	MERELY — Meanings: Enduring, Revising, Engineering \| Lisbon 2019 (2019/07/11 - 2019/07/12) Workshop	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2018/06/22 - 2018/06/22	Misunderstanding, Disagreement, Manipulation (2018/06/22 - 2018/06/22) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2018/01/26 - 2018/01/26	Discussing Davidson - An international colloquium on the philosophy of Donald Davidson. (2018/01/26 - 2018/01/26) Conference	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022/10 - Current	Sociedade Brasileira de Filosofia Analítica	member
2022 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia Analítica

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/07/10 - 2024/07/12	ENFA 9 - 9th National Meeting in Analytic Philosophy	Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (SPFA)
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20	Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism - International Conference	Lisbon
2022 - 2022	4th European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2022

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Filosofia da Linguagem	Filosofia (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/02 - Current	Temas de Lógica	Filosofia (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019 - Current	Temas de Lógica	Filosofia (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018 - Current	Lógica	(Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Problems of Meaning	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	American Philosophical Quarterly (0003-0481)
2022 - Current	Topoi (0167-7411)	Springer Nature
2019 - Current	Linguistics and Philosophy (1573-0549)	Springer-Verlag

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022/06 - 2022/06	Research Grant for Post-Doctoral Fellow - ANTIDOTE: ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine” (CHIST-ERA/0002/2019)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/06/01 - 2021/08/31	IFILNOVA PhD Research Studentships	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal