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Manuel Curado

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Manuel Curado is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minho, namely in the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Ancient Philosophy and Philosophy in Portugal. He has delivered over 300 conferences in many countries, from Moscow, Russia (MGLU and MGIMO), to Brasilia, Brazil (UnB), and was Erasmus Professor in Padua, Italy. He is the author of several books, including the first critical edition of an eighteenth-century manuscript written by a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Portuguese Jewish doctor Dr. Isaac S. Samuda, MD (The Viriadas of Dr. Samuda, IUC/Coimbra University Press, 2014). Along with his philosophical activities, he has a literary taste for promoting the edition of Portuguese-language classics, such as D. Francisco Manuel de Mello (First Treaty of Cabala, Círculo de Leitores, 2018), Teixeira de Queiroz (Complete Works, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2020-2024) and João da Rocha (The Wisdom of Patience, and the critical edition of the book of philosophical tales Anguishes, both published by C.M.V.C., 2021), because he glimpses in them signs of perennial wisdom. He re-edited Rear-Admiral José Maria Dantas Pereira’s Memoir of a Pasigraphy Project (1800), having promoted since the 90s the knowledge of this pioneer of the utopia of the perfect language and universal machine translation. He re-edited the works on philosophical psychology and logic written by the Portuguese logician Edmundo Curvelo, as well as his unpublished texts, in collaboration (Complete Works of Edmundo Curvelo, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2013; A Portuguese Genius: Edmundo Curvelo (1913-1954), University de Coimbra, 2013). He was member to several ethics committees, and expressed his bioethical thinking in the book Health and Cyborgs: Caring in the Biotechnological Era (Edições Esgotadas, 2019).Manuel Curado is also Corresponding Member to the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy.

Professional category

  • Assistant Professor

Education

Manuel Curado is doctor sobresaliente cum laude (University of Salamanca, Spain) having previously obtained a master’s degree in Philosophy (New University of Lisbon). He obtained several other titles, namely that of National Defense Auditor (Ministry of Defense, Lisbon) and Senior Management Course for Public Administration (University of Minho/INA).

Research interests

  • Platonic roots of the current philosophical debate about political paternalism.
  • Nineteenth-century representations of the mind (philosophical, literary, theological).
  • The hard problem of consciousness and philosophy of information.
  • Portuguese Philosophy and Culture.

Institutional positions

Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (1991-1992)

Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Minho (1992-2024)

Publications

Manuel Curado, As Viríadas do Doutor Samuda. Edição Crítica da Epopeia Setecentista Inédita dos Médicos Isaac Samuda e Jacob de Castro Sarmento. Prefácio de † Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira. Nota de Apresentação de Annabela Rita. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014, 688 pp.

Curado, Manuel, “A Mão Que Salva: Um Ensaio Inútil”, in Manuel Curado, Luciano Coutinho e Dennys Garcia Xavier, orgs., Medicina e Psicologia na Antiguidade: Estudos de Pensamento Antigo. V. N. Famalicão: Edições Húmus, 2019, pp. 21-92.

Manuel Curado, “A Eugenia Platónica: Um Ensaio Prudencial”, in Dennys Garcia Xavier, Luciano Coutinho e Manuel Curado, orgs., Filosofia Antiga: Reflexões da Vida Cósmica e da Vida Social. Brasília-DF: Tanto Mar Editores, 2017, pp. 187-246.

Manuel Curado, “O Cesto de Papéis de Platão: Ensaio sobre a Vaidade dos Filósofos”, in Luciano Coutinho, Edrisi Fernandes e Manuel Curado, eds., Cura e Desencantamento: Política, Razão e Ciência. Brasília DF: Tanto Mar Editores, 2017, pp. 55-82.

Curado, Manuel, “Superpaternalismo Médico: Um Ensaio Cínico”, in Manuel Curado e Ana Paula Monteiro, coords., Saúde e Cyborgs: Cuidar na Era Biotecnológica. (Col. Saúde e Bioética, n.º 1.) Lisboa, Porto e Viseu: Edições Esgotadas, 2019, pp. 73-158.

Manuel Curado, “O Mito da Responsabilidade: Contributos do Pensamento Olvidado”, in Manuel Curado, André Dias Pereira e Ana Elisabete Ferreira, orgs., Vanguardas da Responsabilidade: Direito, Neurociências e Inteligência Artificial. (Col. Centro de Direito Biomédico, 27.) Forte da Casa e Lisboa: Petrony, 2019, pp. 39-86.

Manuel Curado, A Sabedoria da Paciência: Antologia do Centenário de João da Rocha (1868-1921). Viana do Castelo: Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo, 2021, 432 pp.

Manuel Curado, “An Essay against Philosophy of Mind: Reading Unloved Theories”, in Manuel Curado e Steven Gouveia, eds., Automata’s Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind. Wilmington DE: Vernon Press, 2019, pp. 362-380.

Manuel Curado, “Taking-off from Primary Impressions: An Essay about the Metaphysical Constraints of Predictive Processing”, in Manuel Curado and Steven Gouveia, eds., Predictive Minds: Old Problems and New Challenges. Wilmington, Delaware (DE): Vernon Press, 2023, pp. 43-71.

Manuel Curado, “A Utopia Brasileira do Visconde de Figanière (1827-1908)”, in Bernhard Sylla, Pedro Páscoa Martins, Alberto Paz-Félix, Carlos Pazos-Justo e Manuel Curado, orgs., Identidade e Diferença: Atas do XII Simpósio Luso-Galaico de Filosofia. Braga: UMinho Editora, 2024 (no prelo).

Projects

PLATO IN THE FUTURE: THE INTELLECTUAL ROOTS OF CONTEMPORARY PATERNALISM