E-mail: dsantoro@elach.uminho.pt

I am FCT Senior Researcher within the Institutional Scientific Stimulus Program (CEEC-Inst) at the University of Minho – Portugal. I currently serve as Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society (CEPS), and I am affiliated faculty in the Philosophy Department. Before the current position, I held an adjunct professorship at Luiss “Guido Carli” University of Rome.

I received a PhD in Philosophy of Law from the University of Padua. In 2014-2015 I was a Resident Fellow at IMèRA – Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, and a Hoover Chaire Honorary Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain. In 2015-16 I held a Research Fellowship at the National Research Council of Italy – Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS – CNR).

Since October 2020, I am editor-in-chief of Ethics, Politics & Society, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, and a member of the Editorial Board of APhEx.

My interests are in constitutional rights, the justification of dissent, and the epistemic aspects of rights and justice. My contributions on these and related subjects have appeared in Social Epistemology, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophia, Philosophical Topics, and in edited volumes for Routledge and Continuum. I am the author, with Manohar Kumar, of Speaking Truth to Power – A Theory of Whistleblowing, published by Springer International in 2018, a systematic analysis of the civic and political dimension of whistleblowing.

In 2022-24, I was the Principal Investigator of the project entitled “The Public Interest. A Politico-Philosophical Investigation” funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.