Organizing Committee
The school is organized by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, in cooperation with the course in History of Ideas of the major in International Relations.
J. A. Colen
University of Minho
José A. Colen is now doing research and writing on religious freedom, immigration ethics, and human rights philosophy. He previously published on Cold War political thought and recent analytical moral philosophy.
Colen holds an MBA by IESE Business School (Barcelona) and a Ph.D. in Political Science by Institute for Political Studies (Lisboa) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He is currently Permanent Researcher at CEPS of Minho University. He has been a recurrent Guest Professor of the Institute for Political Studies at Portuguese Catholic University and Guest Researcher at the CESPRA of the École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He was also Visiting Scholar at Notre Dame University (Indiana) in 2014 and for 2 years conducted studies at the Special Collections of the University of Chicago. He was also Visiting Scholar or Guest Researcher at the University of Vienna (Fall 2105), and Universidad de Navarra (Winter-Spring 2016), James Madison Fellow at Princeton University (2016-2017) and Visiting Researcher at the University of Navarra 2017-2018. http://www.ceps.ilch.uminho.pt/researchers/2/en |
Thomas Whittaker
Harvard University Thomas Whittaker does research on the History of Christianity in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He also serves as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies for the concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion. His dissertation, entitled “The Missionary Republic: Providence, Civilization, and the Quest for a Christian Nation, 1789–1830,” examines the culture of missions in the early American republic and the problem of tolerance.
https://studyofreligion.fas.harvard.edu/people/thomas-edward-ian-whittaker |
Alexandra Abranches
University of Minho Alexandra Abranches (BA, University of Porto; PhD, University of Minho, Braga) is Auxiliary Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho. She has taught Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Her research interests include the history of Ethics, in particular the naturalist and rationalist traditions stemming from Hobbes and the naturalist and sentimentalist traditions culminating in Hume; issues in contemporary meta-ethics; the metaphysics of free will; and classical pragmatism. Her PhD dissertation focused on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She is Director of the Center for Applied Ethics of the Centre for Ethics and Political Philosophy.
http://ceps.ilch.uminho.pt/researchers/5/en |