Book Launch and Round Table: Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness. Urban Culture, Technology and Post-Humanism | Centésima Página Bookshop (Braga)

Date: 28/03/2025

Time: 18:30

Place: Livraria Centésima Página, Braga

Organization: Passeio (CECS) | LIHAM – Limiares Humano/Animal/Máquina (Grupo de Investigação 2i/CEHUM)

Presenters: Paulo Castro | Artur Galvão

 

Synopsis: The recent book “Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness”, edited by Helena Pires (CECS/Universidade do Minho), Zara Pinto-Coelho (CECS/Universidade do Minho) and Luísa Magalhães (CEFH – Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos/Universidade Católica Portuguesa), launched in December 2024, is part of the “Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication” series and explores a series of ways of communicating and reinventing otherness. Based on a bold approach that focuses on both human and non-human alterities, such as plants, rivers and digital and technological environments, the book features a series of essays written by a diverse and international group, including artists and researchers. Following a post-humanist and post-phenomenological framework, the meaning of becoming other is expanded through a new paradigm that combines 1) a theoretical-essayistic mode, supported by illustrative cases, with 2) the description of artistic processes and literary production. At this event, the book and its themes will be presented and discussed through the eyes of philosophers Paulo Castro (University of Coimbra) and Artur Galvão (Portuguese Catholic University).

 

Biographical Notes:

 

Paulo Castro

Paulo Alexandre e Castro Cardoso, developed postdoctoral research in Digital Arts/Cyber Literature at the Fernando Pessoa University under the guidance of Prof. Doctor Rui Torres, with a pioneering project of “Generative Textual Philosophy”. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from ILCH-University of Minho, with the thesis «Homo Intimus. Neurophilosophy and Contemporary Culture ». Master in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities-Lisbon University with «Metaphysics of Imaginative Consciousness or the Imagination in Sartre». Degree in Philosophy in 2000 by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities-Lisbon University. He also took the «Doctoral Course in Language and Communication Sciences» and the «Doctoral Course in Philosophical Studies» at FCSH-New University of Lisbon in April 2007, in addition to other formations such as «Ethics of AI» (Helsinki University), «Theoretical Neuroscience» (Catholic University of Portugal), «Digital Humanities» (Autonomous University of Barcelona) or «Painting» (IADE). He is visiting professor at the University of Caxias do Sul (Brazil). He taught as Invited Adjunct Professor at the Polythecnic University of Viseu, as assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine-Arts (Lisbon University), as lecturer in ELACH-University of Minho and International University of Lisbon. He argued several master’s and PhD thesis and co-supervises 3 master’s theses. He is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Studies of the University of Coimbra and colaborator and in CIAC (University of Algarve). He published 35 articles in specialized magazines and more than 50 book chapters. He has 15 published book (s) and has presented over 110 communications at international congresses and colloquia. It organized 8 event (s). He received 5 award (s) and / or honors. He participates and / or participated as an Investigator in 8 project (s) and 2 more project (s). He works in the Humanities area (s) with an emphasis on Philosophy and Aesthetics-Philosophy of Art. In his professional activities, he interacted with more than 50 collaborator (s) in co-authoring scientific works. Within the framework of his activities at the IEF, his research focuses on the strategic priorities “Care, Politics, and Ethics” and “Care, Technology, and Aesthetics” (https://www.uc.pt/en/fluc/ief/research/).

 

Artur Galvão

Artur Ilharco Galvão is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga). He teaches Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Informal Logic and Argumentation and Guided Research 1 and 2. He teaches multiple optional units and seminars in areas such as Philosophy and Love, Philosophy in Cinema, Philosophy of Action, Theories of Rationality, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences, etc. He has done research in the field of pragmatism and Thomistic thought, specializing in the philosophical thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty. He is a member of CEFH – Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies. He is a member of the Board of RPF – Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia [Portuguese Philosophy Journal]. He organizes and participates in national and international congresses, as well as numerous training courses for teachers and business professionals. In this regard, he regularly collaborates with APEFP – Associação Portuguesa de Ética e Filosofia Prática (Braga) [Porutuese Association of Ethics and Practical Philosophy] and APF – Associação de Professores de Filosofia (Coimbra) [Portuguese Association of Philosophy Professors]. He has given lectures and workshops in secondary schools all over the country.