Seminars
Underway
- Seminar for Original Papers
- Seminar on Anscombe's Intention
- Seminar on Action Theory
- Seminar on Theory of Art
Previous
- Seminar on Topics From Anscombe 2011-2012, First semester.
- Seminar on Literary Theory 2011-2012, First semester.
- 2010-2011Pittsburgh at Lisbon Seminar (org. by Ana Almeida, Alberto Arruda, Humberto Brito). A seminar dedicated to studying the work of three philosophers from the University of Pittsburgh: Robert Brandom, John McDowell and Michael Thompson.
- 2010-2011 Philosophy of Music Seminar (org. Sara Eckerson, Humberto Brito). A seminar focused on texts and themes on the topic of the philosophy of music, namely texts in the philosophy of music, beginning with Kant and Hegel, as well as on concepts frequently discussed in the philosophy of music such as: representation, absolute music, and musical analysis.
- 2010-2011 Seminar on Fiction (org. Carlos A. Pereira, Humberto Brito). A Seminar focused on philosophical and literary texts on the nature and function of fiction.
- 2010-2011 Arthur Danto: Art and Mere Things (org. Nuno Amado, Humberto Brito). Seminar devoted to reading and to discuss influent texts about art written by Arthur C. Danto, focusing on the question: what is it that distinguishes a work of art from a mere real object?
- Seminar on Definitions of Art: open seminar focusing on the vexata quaestio of aesthetics in the analytical tradition: “What is ‘art’?”
- 2009-2010 Seminar of analytic aesthetics (org. Humberto Brito) preparatory seminar focusing on texts and problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, namely problems concerned with the definition of art.
