João Constâncio

João Constâncio, Ph. D., Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Prof. Auxiliar, Departamento de Filosofia, FCSH/ IFL

His research focuses mainly on issues of Aesthetics, Ontology and Moral and Political Philosophy. He has published on Plato, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He lectures at the Philosophy Department of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 1996; currently, he also lectures at the Communication Sciences Department, and a part of his research focuses on the theme of "Film and Philosophy". He is a member of GIRN (Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche) and of the Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano (Centro Colli Montinari). He directs the research project "Nietzsche and the contemporary debate on the Self", which is funded by FCT (PTDC/FIL-FIL/111444/2009), and he is the Director of the Nietzsche International Lab (NIL), at IFL.

Books

Nietzsche on Instinct and Language (ed. with Maria João Branco), Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2011

As the Spider Spins; Essays on Nietzsche's Critique and Use of Language (ed. with Maria João Branco), Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2012 (forthcoming)

Some Recent and Forthcoming Articles

On Consciousness: Nietzsche's Departure from Schopenhauer, "Nietzsche-Studien" 40, 2011, pp. 1-42

Instinct and Language in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, in Constâncio, J./ Branco, M.J.M. (eds.), Nietzsche

On Instinct and Language, Berlin/ New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, pp. 80-116

Nietzsche on Will, Consciousness, and Choice: Another Look at Nietzschean Freedom, in Dries, M. (ed.),

Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, Berlin/ New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2012 (forthcoming)

Darwin, Nietzsche e as Consequências Filosóficas do Darwinismo, "Cadernos Nietzsche" 26, São Paulo, Brasil, 2010

Ironia Socrática e Ironia Platónica , in Brito, H. (org.), "Filosofia e Literatura" 1, Lisboa, IFL/ UNL, pp. 147-157

Recent Presentations

"Towards an ‘enlarged way of thinking': On Kant's sensus communis and Nietzsche's concept of ‘objectivity' in GM III. 12", The 18th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Queen's Mary College, London, UK, 2011

"Nietzsche y Schopenhauer sobre los conceptos y los signos", SEGUNDO CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE NIETZSCHE (SEDEN), Málaga, Espanha (2011)

"Nietzsche on Language and Truth", Jornada Internacional, Teorías e prácticas de la verdade en F. Nietzsche, Universitat de Valencia, Valência, Espanha (2011)

“Nietzsche on Freedom as Autonomy”, Workshop “Nietzsche the Kantian? Reading Nietzsche and Kant on the Sovereign Individual, Freedom and the Will”, University of Leiden, Holand, 2011

“Begriffe und Zeichen bei Schopenhauer und Nietzsche”, Internationale philosophische Arbeitstagung der Nietzsche-Forschungsgruppe, Greifswald, University of Greifswald, Germany, 2010

“Porquê Nietzsche? Notas sobre decadência, niilismo e pessimismo”, International Conference “Goethe and Nietzsche: On Decadence”, UNL/ FCSH/ IFL, 2010

“Nietzsche’s Concept of Freedom in TI Skirmishes 38”, International GIRN Conference, “Letture del Crepuscolo degle Idoli”, Pisa, Italy, 2010

“As noções de sujeito e carácter na obra de Nietzsche”, XXVIII Encontros Nietzsche, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brasil, 2010

“A noção Nietzschiana de liberdade e o sujeito-multiplicidade”. II Colóquio Internacional “A Pesquisa Nietzsche em Portugal e no Brasil”, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brasil, 2010

“Nietzsche e a crítica do conceito de carácter”, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil, 2010

“Nietzsche, Subjectividade e Criação”, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brasil, 2010

Career & Education

2005- : “Prof. Auxiliar”, Philosophy Department, UNL/ FCSH

1996-2005: “Assistente”, Philosophy Department, UNL/ FCSH

2005: Ph.D, “Imagens e Concepções da Vida Humana em Platão, Investigações sobre Bios e Psyche” — Muito Bom com distinção e louvor

2001: Scholarship Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, King’s College London

1996: MA (“Mestrado”), “Percepção e compreensão em Platão: Um estudo fenomenológico com especial referência ao Teeteto” — Muito Bom

1994-1996: DAAD Scholarship, Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg (Germany)

1993: BA (“Licenciatura”), Philosophy UNL/ FCSH — 18 Valores

Conference Organization

“Goethe and Nietzsche: On Decadence”, UNL/ FCSH/ IFL/ NIL, Lisbon, December 2010 (with Maria Filomena Molder and Maria João Branco)

“Nietzsche on Instinct and Language”, UNL/ FCSH/ IFL/ NIL, Lisbon, December 2009 (with Maria João Branco and Marta Faustino)

Research Projects (FCT)

As PI: “Nietzsche and the Contemporary Debate on the Self”, PTDC/FIL-FIL/111444/2009

As research team member: “Film & Philosophy: Mapping an Encounter”, PTDC/FIL-FIL/098143/2008

Research Interests

History of philosophy; Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche; Plato.

Aesthetics; Ontology; Moral and Political Philosophy.

Film & Philosophy.

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