Research

Philosophy of Film and Aesthetics

Slacker, Answering the True Call: Essays on Linklater’s Cult Classic, co-edited with Melissa Remark, Bloomsbury Academic (under contract)

“Ozu’s Every-Minute Zen” (under review)

Slackers Against Narrativity, APA Film and Philosophy Blog, October 2025

Eo and Animal Ethics, Philosophy of Film section of the American Philosophical Association Blog, April 2023

Free Will and A Clockwork Orange: A Polythetic View of Free Will, Ethical Perspectives, 29, n. 2, p. 171-185, 2022

Hotel Rwanda, Kant and Moral Agency, Medium, October 2019

Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and Moral Status, Medium, September 2019

“Acting and the Self,” Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience, Gerner, A. & Gonçalves, J. (eds.), Norderstedt: BoD, pp. 59-73, 2014

Philosophy of Music and Popular Culture

“Elvis, from Eros to Agape,” Elvis and Philosophy: Essays Concerning the King, eds. Joshua Heter and Richard Greene, Wallace & Jacobs Press (forthcoming 2026)

“Is a Punk Republican an Oxymoron?” Philosophy of the Ramones, ed. Christopher M. Innes, McFarland (forthcoming 2026)

“No Dog’s Body: The Sub-Mission/Submarine Solution,” Sex Pistols and the Trajectory of Punk Rock, McFarland, Studies in Punk, 2026

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships: AI Friends and Companions, editor, Brill, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence series (under contract)

Rawls’ Cake - Justice as Fairness, Medium, March 2021

The Doll Test - Racism and Sexism, Medium, April 2020

Abortion - An Ethical Discussion, Medium, April 2020

The Trolley Problem Now, Medium, March 2020

Kantian Ethics - An Introduction, Medium, March 2020

The Trolley Problem - Origins, Medium, March 2020

Women in Philosophy

Women Philosophers: A Dictionary, with an accompanying digital archive (in progress). See also Women in Philosophy, a website that is currently being created by the students as part of a student project in my Women in Philosophy class.

Review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Philosophy Now, December 2021

Basic Income and Political Philosophy

Rendimento Básico Incondicional (Basic Income, A Defense of Freedom), with Roberto Merrill, Gonçalo Marcelo, and Jorge Pinto, Edições 70, 2019. The book won the best essay first prize from the Portuguese Philosophy Society in 2019.

“Do Side Effects Matter?” Determining the Value of Universal Basic Income, Political Feasibility, Ecological Impact, Economic Realities, and Research Methodologies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Unconditional Basic Income, Inequality and Emancipation,” with Gonçalo Marcelo, Análise Social, Vol. 54, No. 231, 2019

Review of Basic Income, A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Van Parijs and Vanderborght, Ethical Perspectives, 2017

Roosevelt Institute Report Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of UBI, Basic Income News, 2017

Harper Lee, Success, Creativity and Basic Income, Medium, March 2017

We are Keynes’ Grandchildren, Medium, March 2017

George Orwell and Useless Work, Medium, February 2017

Wittgenstein, Logic, and Philosophy of Mind

A Hertzian interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Eidos, n. 13, 2010

“Wittgenstein and Hertz,” From the Vienna Circle to Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (in Portuguese: Do Círculo de Viena à Filosofia Analítica Contemporânea), Areia Editores, 2007

“Philosophy of Mind,” Philosophy, an Introduction by Subject (in Portuguese: “Filosofia da Mente,” Filosofia, Uma Introdução por Disciplinas), Edições 70, ed. Pedro Galvão, 2014

Review of Mental Mechanisms, William Bechtel, Disputatio, 25, 2008

Review of Impostures Intellectuelles, Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, Disputatio, 6, 1999

Review of The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, Disputatio, 3, 1997

Banana Eagle’s Alibi Syllogisms, a New Mnemonic Device, Medium, July 2023

Talks

“Ozu’s Every-Minute Zen,” Popular Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, April 2026

“Diverting the Trolley,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Papers in Progress Workshop, Baltimore, January 2026

“The Philosophy of Slacker,” Popular Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, April 2025 and Chicago, March 2024

“AI Consciousness in the Movies,” Making Philosophy Pop, Mississippi Philosophical Association, University of Southern Mississippi, February 2025

“Longlegs, Moral Infantilization in Religion,” Faith, Film, and Philosophy Seminar, Gonzaga Faith and Reason Institute, Gonzaga University, October 2024

“Acting and the Self,” The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience Workshop, New University of Lisbon, May 2013