I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oslo under the supervision of Joey Pollock and co-supervision of Catarina Dutilh-Novaes.
My research project, Structural oppression and deep disagreement: communication beyond argumentation, is part of the New Models of Knowledge Communication project, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
My CV is available here.
Research summary
Structural oppression is a widespread and complex phenomenon. I take social epistemology as a starting point to identify its roots in social deep disagreements, which are caused by global hermeneutic domination and structural epistemic injustice. Then, for a broader understanding, I turn to the philosophy of attention to talk about these disagreements in terms of perspectival clashes and discuss how structural oppression is related to salience biases. Final steps involve investigating issues in communication from the argumentation theory point of view, analyzing cases of structural racism in the Americas and Europe drawn from social anthropology and political history, and considering non-argumentative ways to change inherently harmful perspectives in light of recognition theory, standpoint theory and social movement theory.
Areas of research
Areas of Specialization:
Social & Political Epistemology • Philosophy of Language • Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Competence:
Social & Political Philosophy • Argumentation Theory • Philosophy of Education
Academic background
I have a BA and MA in Philosophy from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil). My master's thesis investigated to what extent there was a defense of a type of foundationalism Wittgenstein's On Certainty. I argued for an anti-foundationalist reading through an analysis of the twelve key metaphors from the book.