at Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna 2015

University International Postgraduate Award
Mind and Cognition
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts,
Building 19. Office 2064
University of Wollongong,
NWS 2522
Australia
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E-mail: imh729@uowmail.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0) 410 017 620

I am a postgraduate student of Philosophy (BPhil, 2010; MPhil, 2012; PG Cognitive Science, 2015) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. My main research topics fall under contemporary trends in embodied cognitive science in perception, and non-reductive metaphysics of the cognitive processes.

My main areas of specialty are philosophy of mind and cognition, phenomenology of perception, and philosophy of mathematics. I am also interested in philosophy of psychiatry and mental illness.

​The major topics of my research include phenomenal perception, abstract qualities, ontology of life-mind, neurophenomenology, free-energy principle, predictive brain models, first- and third-person methodological debate, metaphysics of the hard problem, and all topics in E cognition.

I have been honored over 15 awards and scholarships from institutes and universities around the world, including the University of Oxford (2015), the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (2015), and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Government (2011). I have published over 10 articles (Wiley, Elsevier, De Gruyter; Ontos Verlag; Springer), I am  co-editing 3 books, I have contributed to more than 50 international scientific meetings, and have co-organized events in Portugal and Australia. I am a founding member of Lisbon Mind & Cognition Group of Nova University of Lisbon; a founding member of the Molecular Cognition Group of Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health Portuguese Catholic University; a member of Gestalt Structure and Phenomenology Group in University of Edinburgh (John Templeton Foundation funded project), a project member of  Hilbert 24th problem  (FCT funded project) at the Centre for Mathematics and Applications of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, of Nova University of Lisbon, and a Junior Researcher at LIMMIT lab of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Lisbon. I am also a member of the British Wittgenstein Society and of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

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Previous Positions

Junior Research, Laboratory of Experimental Phenomenology, University of Trento, Italy (2016).

Grant Research Fellow, Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Nova University of Lisbon, at the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) funded Project “The Notion of Mathematical Proof” (2014-2015).

Grant Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy of Nova, Nova University of Lisbon, at the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) funded Project “The Cognitive Foundations of the Self” (2013-2014).

Grant Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy of Nova, Nova University of Lisbon, at the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) funded Project “Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: Re-evaluating a project” (2013)

Image by Nam June Paik, I Never Read Wittgenstein... (1997)