Philosophy
Philosophy
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I teach Philosophy at the University of New Orleans.
Here is a selection of my published work:
Books
Books
Rendimento Básico Incondicional, National Basic Income, A Defense of Freedom. The book won the best essay first prize from the Portuguese Philosophy Society.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
"No Dog’s Body: The Sub-Mission/Submarine Solution," Sex Pistols and the Trajectory of Punk Rock, McFarland, Studies in Punk, 2026
"Do Side Effects Matter?" Determining the Value of Universal Basic Income, Political Feasibility, Ecological Impact, Economic Realities, and Research Methodologies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026
Papers
Papers
Free Will and A Clockwork Orange: A Polythetic View of Free Will, Ethical Perspectives, 29, n. 2, p. 171-185, 2022
"The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Unconditional Basic Income, Inequality and Emancipation" (in Portuguese "Quarta Revolução Indústrial e RBI, Desigualdade ou Emancipação") with Gonçalo Marcelo, Ética, Economia e Sociedade, Questões Cruzadas, Eds. Sandra Lima Coelho e Gonçalo Marcelo, Universidade Católica de Editora, Porto, 2019
"Philosophy of Mind" in Philosophy, and Introduction by Subject (in Portuguese, "Filosofia da Mente", Filosofia, Uma Introdução por Disciplinas,) Edições 70, Editor Pedro Galvão, 2014
"Acting and the Self", Gerner, A. & Gonçalves J. (eds.), Altered Self and Altered Self Experience, Peter Lang, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014
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 Circulo de Viena a Filosofia Analitica Contemporanea), Areia Editores, 2007
Film and Philosophy
Film and Philosophy
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
14 Hours — Sexism and Homophobia in Hollywood, Medium, July, 2021
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
Philosophy
Banana Eagle’s Alibi Syllogisms, a New Mnemonic Device, Medium, July 2023
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Philosophy Now, December 2021
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, March, 2020
The Trolley Problem - Origins, Medium, March, 2020
Basic Income and Minimum Wage, USBIG, July, 2018
Hillary Clinton and Basic Income, PoliticsMeansPolitics.com, The new platform for citizen response, 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
A Hertzian interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Eidos, n. 13, 2010
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Basic Income, A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Van Parijs and Vandergorght, Ethical Perspectives, 2017
Mental Mechanisms, William Bechtel, Disputatio, 25, 2008
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