Consciousness and Subjectivity

Sofia Miguens is Associate Professor (Professora Associada com Agregação) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Porto. Her Mphil and PhD studies were supervised by Fernando Gil (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)), Paris / New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL). She was a Visiting scholar at New York University (Fall 2000) and a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Jean Nicod-Paris (2007-2008). She was President of the Portuguese Philosophical Association (Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia, SPF) (2004-2006) and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Porto (2008-2010). She has been a member of the Board of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto since 2007 (2007-2008) (2008-2010) (2010-2014). She is the Founder and Principal Investigator of MLAG (Mind, Language and Action Group), a research group of the Institute of Philosophy of Porto, which she now coordinates with Charles Travis (King's College - London). She is author of five books (Uma Teoria Fisicalista do Conteúdo e da Consciência - D. Dennett e os debates da filosofia da mente, 2002; Racionalidade, 2004; Filosofia da Linguagem - uma introdução (2007); Será que a minha mente está dentro da minha cabeça? (2008) and Compreender a Mente e o Conhecimento (2009)) and editor of several others, among them Aparência e Realidade (2010), Aspectos do Juízo (2011) and Acção e Ética - Conversas sobre Racionalidade Prática (2011). She has published numerous articles, review articles and book chapters in Portuguese, English and French. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Preyer is professor of sociology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Among his publications are Intention and Practical Thought (2011), Donald Davidson's Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2012) and Interpretation, Language and the Social. Philosophical Articles (2005). He edits ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research www.protosociology.de