Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Erich Herrmann Rast
Citation names
- Rast, Erich
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- AC13-0AE8-3A8E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3067-1353
Email addresses
- erast@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- 217908300 Ext.: 40311 (Professional)
Websites
- https://erichrast.com (Personal)
- https://philpapers.org/s/Erich%20Rast (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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German (Mother tongue) | |||||
Portuguese | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) |
Danish | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Japanese | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Latin | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2003/09/01 - 2006/08/31
Concluded
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Ph.D. in the Humanities, Philosophy and Science Studies (Doutoramento)
Roskilde Universitet, Denmark
"Reference and Indexicality" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1994/04/01 - 2002/06/01
Concluded
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M.A. in Philosophy (1. Main Subject) and General Linguistics (2. Main Subject) (Licenciatura)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
"Indexikalität und Referenz. Untersuchung zu den referentiellen Eigenschaften indexikalischer Ausdrücke." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1.0 with honours |
1992/03/01 - 1994/04/01
Concluded
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Zwischenprüfung (B.A. level) in Philosophy (1. Main Topic) and General Linguistics (2. Main Topic) (Bacharelato)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Philosophische Fakultät, Germany
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2.0 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/02/01 - 2025/01/31 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
2008/02/01 - 2019/02/01 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2012/02/01 - 2019/01/31 | Understanding Each Other: Meaning and the Contextualist Challenge
SFRH/BPD/84612/2012
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/03 - 2014/09 | Argumentation, Communication and Context
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2007/10 - 2010/09 | Context and Communication
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2008/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Ciencia 2007 Fellowship
Ciencia 2007
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2003/09/01 - 2006/08/31 | Reference and Indexicality
Danish Research Council Fellowship
PhD Student Fellow
Danish Research Council, Denmark
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/01/01 - 2023/10/01 | ANTIDOTE - ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine
Researcher
COMUE Université Côte d'Azur, France
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Ongoing
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2019/10/01 - 2022/08/31 | European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis [APPLY]
COST Action CA17132
Researcher
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology |
2016/02/01 - 2019/08/31 | Values in Argumentative Discourse (PTDC/MHC-FIL/0521/2014)
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Dictionary entry |
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Journal article |
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Report |
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Working paper |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/02/24 | How Objective Is Value Disagreement? | IFILNOVA Open Seminar
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/05/19 | Word Meaning: The Question of Internalism vs. Externalism | Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/05/04 | (Metalinguistic) Value Disagreement | Ethics and Political Philosophy Reading Group
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/03/19 | Contextual Meaning and Theory Dependence | IFILNOVA Open Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon)
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2022/03/11 | Does "better than" have a common scale? | IFILNOVA Open Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/09/22 | On "Harman (1965): The Inference to the Best Explanation." | ANTIDOTE Lisbon Reading Group
EU Antidote Project, Lisbon Group (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/03/03 | On "Karl Dieter Opp (2013): Norms and Rationality" | Ethics and Political Philosophy Reading Group
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon)
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2020/06/26 | Metalinguistic Disputes and Externalist Meaning | IFILNOVA Value Seminar / Open Seminar
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon)
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2020/03/04 | On Sven Ove Hansson's overview article "Formal Investigations of Value" | Ethics and Political Philosophy Reading Group
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/11/22 | The Theory Theory of Metalinguistic Disagreement. | IFILNOVA Value Seminar
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/07/11 | Some Remarks About Theory Change and Topic Continuity | MERELY Workshop on Metalinguistic Negotiation and Conceptual Engineering
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/05/17 | A Multidimensional Approach to 'better than' | Uppsala Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)
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2019/04/12 | Does Collective Action Require We-Intentions? | IFILNOVA Value Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/02/05 | Multidimensional 'better than' | ArgLab Colloqium
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/01/23 | Discussion of Klocksiem (2016): "How to accept the transitivity of 'better than' | Ethics and Political Philosophy Reading Group
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/12/19 | Multidimensional 'better than' and Decision Making | CFCUL Reasoning Group
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/09/28 | Reasons for the Occasional Illusion of Faultless Moral Disagreement | ArgLab Colloqium
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/05/24 | Value Disagreement and Meaning | Ethics and Political Philosophy Reading Group
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/03/16 | Lexicographic Principles in the Theory of Value Structure | IFILNOVA Value Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/12/15 | Passing the Buck the Right Way | IFILNOVA Value Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/06/09 | Argument Strength for Bipolar Argument Graphs | IFILNOVA Value Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/05/14 | Value Disagreement and Dual Aspect Semantics | Philang 2017
University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)
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2016/10/21 | Implicit Value Disagreement | Langcog Group
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016/09/23 | Value Disagreement and Different Aspects of Meaning | ArgLab Colloqium
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016/06/16 | Perspectival Disagreement | 3rd International Conference Economic Philosophy (PhiloEco2016)
GREQAM (Aix-en-Provence, France)
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2016/02/23 | Is There Nonsymmetric Disagreement? | Research Colloquium
Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/06/17 | Making up one's mind: from values to value judgments | Decisions, Games and Logic 2015
London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
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2015/06/10 | Comment on Hitchcock's "All Things Considered" | 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/09/05 | How tenable is Negative Utilitarianism? | Congresso Português de Filosofia da SPF 2014
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / SPF (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/07/08 | Order-based values - their scope and their limits | Encontro IFL
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013/04/08 | Evaluating time-continuous action alternatives from the perspective of Negative Utilitarianism | GV-Conf 2013
University of Žilina (Prague, Czech Republic)
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2012/12/11 | Soft moral choice | IFL Running Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/03/16 | Disagreement and understanding what has been said | Knowledge and Disagreement
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2011/07/07 | On the interplay between subjective plausibility and default reasoning in the context of interpreting natural language utterances | IFL Research Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2011/05/13 | Nonindexical context-dependence and the interpretation as abduction approach | PhiLang 2011
Lodz University (Lodz, Poland)
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2010/11/03 | Plausibility revision in higher-order logic with an application in two-dimensional semantics. | LogKCA-10
University of Donostia (Donostia)
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2010/06/09 | Some argument against epistemic contextualism | OFA 6
SPF - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2009/11/12 | Context as assumptions | Epiconfor
University of Nancy/MSH Lorraine (Nancy, France)
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2009/09/18 | Whose context anyway? | ENFA 4
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2009/07/15 | Classical possibilism and fictional objects | IFL Research Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2009/06/18 | Possibilia and the description theory of reference | BW6
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
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2009/05/08 | Context and interpretation | SPR09
University of the Basque Country (Donostia, Spain)
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2009/02/21 | Description theory and identifying reference | OFA5
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2008/11/26 | Quantifier Domain restriction in categorial grammar | IFL Research Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2008/02/22 | Indexicality and information II | IFL Research Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2008/02/08 | Indexicality and information I | IFL Research Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2007/12/19 | Pragmatic context | Emotion, Cognition, Communication
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2007/05 | Logische Aspekte der Bezugnahme | Series of talks given at Humboldt-University by invitation of PD Dr. Uwe Scheffler
Humboldt-University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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2005/07/01 | Deskriptivismus und modale Aspekte der Existenz | Talk given at Humboldt-University by invitation of PD Dr. Uwe Scheffler
Humboldt-University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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2004/11/06 | Modest possibilism | 3rd PHIS Graduate Conference
Danish Society for Philosophy (Odense, Denmark)
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2003/09/19 | Are essential indexicals really essential? | RUC Friday Seminar Series
Roskilde University (Roskilde, Denmark)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/09/01 - Current | Open Seminar series of research in progress meetings (2019/09/01)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2022/01/01 - 2022/05/20 | Conference Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism with keynote speakers Delia Belleri, David Plunkett, Mark
Richard, and Sarah Sawyer - organization together with Pedro Abreu and Giulia Terzian (2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2016/03/01 - 2019/08/01 | Value Seminar (2016/03/01 - 2019/08/01)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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2018/08/01 - 2018/12/07 | Conference Values and Uncertainty (LVU18) with keynote speakers Sven Ove Hansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and
Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) - organization together with Daniele Chiffi and Javier Gonzales de Prado Salas
- https://sites.google.com/view/lvu18lisbon (2018/12/06 - 2018/12/07)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2017/06/01 - 2017/11/10 | Conference Value Disagreement with keynote speakers Gunnar Björnsson (Stockholm University), Max Kölbel (University of Vienna),
and Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Nicod) - organization together with Bianca Cepollaro (2017/11/09 - 2017/11/10)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2017/06/28 - 2017/06/29 | Conference Values in Argumentation - Values of Argumentation with keynote speakers Jason Stanley and Christopher Tindale -
role: scientific panel member, organized by Dima Mohammed and Marcin Lewinski (2017/06/28 - 2017/06/29)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2009/12/03 - 2009/12/04 | Conference Context and Levels of Locutionary Content with keynote speakers Kent Bach, Emma Borg, Isidora Stojanovic, and François
Recanati - organization together with Luiz Baptista (2009/12/03 - 2009/12/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2009/03/02 - 2009/03/06 | 3-day Workshop Reasoning About Uncertainty with Stig Andur Pedersen - event organization (2009/03/02 - 2009/03/06)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2019 | Member of PhD committee for thesis by Diogo Andrade Ribeiro Fernandes: Problema de Newcomb: Solução evidencialista ou causalista?,
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
(Thesis) Arguer
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Diogo Andrade Ribeiro Fernandes (PhD) |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20 | Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic Externalism | Universidade de Lisboa |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2013/10/01 - 2014/01/31 | Seminar Problems of Meaning (together with P. Abreu) | Problems of Meaning (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2010/10/01 - 2011/01/30 | Logic for Linguists | (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2005/02/10 - 2005/07/31 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Language | Philosophy (Licenciatura) | Roskilde Universitet, Denmark |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2011/02/15 - 2011/08/01 | Ph.D. Tutoring of Specialization in Logic and Philosophy of Language (seminário especialidade lógica e filosofia da linguagem) | Pedro Abreu |
Distinctions
Award
2002 | M.A. with Honours
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Other distinction
2014 | FCT Research Project "Values in Argumentative Discourse" PTDC/MHC-FIL/0521/2014 |
2012 | Postdoctoral Fellowship by FCT
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
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2008 | Ciência 2007 Fellowship
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
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2003 | International Doctoral Fellowship
Danish Research Council, Denmark
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