Luís António Umbelino
University of Coimbra – Portugal
Curriculum Vitae (short version)
Academic degrees:
PhD in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (2008) Suma cum laude
Master in Contemporary Philosophy (2000)
Degree in Philosophy (1995)
Professional information:
Full professor at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information of the
Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (since 2008).
Assisatent professor at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information
of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2001-2007)
Invited Professer at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra (since 2010).
Invited Professer at the University of Rennes, France, for a Seminar on Hermeneutics in
the Master degree course on Philosophy (2010)
Invited Professer at the Faculty of Sciences of Sport and Physical Education for a PhD
Seminar on Philosophy of the body (since 2009).
Invited Professor at the University of Toulouse le Miral, France (2006).
Research activities:
Member of the I&D Research Unit “Language, Interpretation and Philosophy”
(FCT/Portugal)
Collaborator of the I&D Research Unit “Center for Classical Studies” (FCT/Portugal)
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Papers presented in international congresses and colloquiums:
- “A Questão do Espaço no Le Visible et L’Invisible de M. Merleau-Ponty”. / The
Problem of Space in Le Visible et L’Invisible by M. Merleau-Ponty. International
congress of the Portuguese Association of Phenomenological Studies 17/18 October
2002
- “O Espaço da Saúde / L’espace de la santé” / The space of health. International
Workshop on “Body, Health and Public Space”, Coimbra, 18 January 2003
- “Condição Subjectiva. Presença de Maine de Biran no projecto ricoeuriano de uma
fenomenologia da vontade”. / The subjective condition. Maine de Biran’s presence in
Ricoeur’s project of a phenomenology of will. International congress on Subjectivity
and Rationality, Porto, 28/2 February, 2005
- “O Corpo do Esforço. Maine de Biran e a Fenomenologia”. / The Body of the effort.
Maine de Biran and Phenomenology. Second International congress of the Portuguese
Association of Phenomenological Studies, Coimbra 10/11 Mach 2005.
- “Percursos da Alteridade em Sartre. Notas sobre o corpo no contexto de um diálogo
impossível com Maine de Biran”. / On alterity in Sartre. Notes on an impossible
dialogue between Sartre and Maine de Biran. International Colloquium Jean-Paul,
Lisboa, 27 / 28 October 2005.
- “Dualidade e Mediação: Raízes reflexivas da hermenêutica de P. Ricoeur.” / Duality
and Mediation: The reflexive roots of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics. International Congress
on The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur, Évora, 3/5 November 2005.
– “O Corpo do Movimento. Aproximações Fenomenológicas”. / The body of
movement. Iberic congress of Phenomenology, Lisboa 19/21 January 2006.
– « Corps et santé chez Maine de Biran” / Body and Health in Maine de Biran. Second
International Workshop on “Body, Health and Public Space”, Coimbra 3 March
– “Ideias Directrizes para uma Somatologia”. / Ideas for a Somatology. Third
International congress of the Portuguese Association of Phenomenological Studies, 5/8
December 2007.
– « Mélancolie et aliénation chez Maine de Biran ». / Melancholy and alienation in
Maine de Biran. Journée Maine de Biran, pensée et aliénation, organized by ANR
Subjectivité et psychopathologie, Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail, 19 May 2008.
- « Eros Ideológico : Amor, Família e Género em Destutt de Tracy”. / Ideologic Eros.
Love, Family and gender in Destutt de Tracy. International congress on Normative
Discourses on Family and Gender, Coimbra, 23/24, Juin 2008.
- “Raízes Biranianas da Hermenêutica da Condição Humana de P. Ricoeur”. / Biranian
roots of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the human condition. Permanent Séminar on
“Hermeneutic rationality”, 19 September 2008.
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- Fenomenologia e Ontofenomenologia da Profundidade em M. Merleau-Ponty”.
Comunicação ao Colóquio Internacional Actualidade de Merleau-Ponty (No centenário
do nascimento), Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, 30 e 31 de Outubro de 2008.
- “Imagens do Corpo em São Paulo. A propósito de algumas referências paulinas no
Journal de Maine de Biran”. / Images of the body in Saint Paul. Conference cycle
CADC, Coimbra, 11 Februrary 2009.
- “Um excesso de Sentido. O Corpo demonstrado à maneira dos Estetas” / An excess of
meaning. The body demonstrated by ways of aesthetics. Seminar of the Capuchos
Lisboa, 30 May 2009.
- “Ricoeur lecteur de Maine de Biran” / Ricoeur reader of Maine de Biran, Les journées
du Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, 28 September 2009.
- « Ricoeur’s hermeneutic turn in french reflexive tradition ». International Colloquium
“The Hermeneutic Rationality”, Coimbra, ½ October 2009.
- “Do homo simplex in vitalitate, duplex in humanitate ao modelo hermenêutico de
compreensão” / From the homo simplex in vitalitate, duplex in humanitate to the
hermeneutic model of understanding. 12th International Conference for Philosophy &
Psychiatry – Understanding Mental Disorders, Lisboa, 22 /24 de October 2009.
- “Os Poderes Desconhecidos do Corpo” / The unknown powers of the body. Seminar
of the ESIPL, Leiria, .2009.
- «Herméneutique et architecture des lieux de mémoire». International congress
«Reading Ricoeur once again : Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy / Relire Ricoeur
à notre tour: herméneutique et philosophie pratique”, Lisboa, 7/10 Jully 2010.
- “O Corpo Perseverante: Spinoza e Maine de Biran”. The persevering body. Spinoza
and Maine de Biran. International colloquium on Spinoza. To be and to act, Évora,
28/30 October 2010
- « Le Cogito integral chez Maine de Biran ». Seminar on “Les métamorphoses du
cogito” (org. Jérôme Porée) Rennes, 7 December 2010.
- “Filosofia do Espaço e Arquitectura” / Philosophy of space and Architecture. The
Artes of the College, Conference cycle, Coimbra 14 January 2011.
- “Merleau-Ponty: uma anti-antropologia?” / Merleau-Ponty: an anti-anthropology?
International congresso on Phenomenology and NeoKantism, Évora, 28/29 January
2011.
- “Space and Narrative. P. Ricoeur and the Project of a Hermeneutics of Space”.
International Congress “Hermeneutics – Ethics – Education – Media”, Warsow, 5/8
September 2011.
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- “The Melody of Life. Readings of Merleau-Ponty”. “IV OPO Conference”, Segóvia
10/14 September 2011.
- “Ciência e Ontologia em M. Merleau-Ponty”. / Science and onthology in MerleauPonty. Fourth International congress of the Portuguese Association of
Phenomenological Studies, Évore 10/14 October 2011.
Publications:
Books:
Subjective Somatology. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2011, 550 pp.
Other publications:
- “O Olho e o Espaço. Fenomenologia e Ontofenomenologia do espaço em M. MerleauPonty” / Eye and Space. Phenomenology and onto-phenomenology of Space in M.
Merleau-Ponty, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, vol. 9, nº 18 (2000), pp. 448-450.
- Scientific revision of the portuguese translation of ATLAN, H., AUGÉ, M. et alii,
“Human Cloning”, ed. Quarteto, Coimbra, 2001.
- “A Questão do Espaço no Le Visible et l’invisible de M. Merleau-Ponty” / The
questiono f space in Le Visible et l’invisible by M. Merleau-Ponty, in SANTOS, J.M.,
ALVES, Pedro M. S., BARATA, André (coord.) A Fenomenologia Hoje. Actas do
Primeiro Congresso Internacional da Associação Portuguesa da Filosofia
Fenomenológica, Phainomenon, ed. U.B.I., Lisboa, 2003, pp. 311-323.
- “A Natureza em Merleau-Ponty: Prolegómenos a uma leitura das Notes de Cours du
Collège de France, 1956-1960” / The idea of Nature in M. Merleau-Ponty. Readings of
the Notes de Cours du Collège de France, 1956-1960, in Revista Portuguesa de
Filosofia, T. LIX, fasc. 3 (2003), pp. 713-730.
– Presentation of Wiercinski, Andrzej (Editor) Between Suspicion and Sympathy. Paul
Ricoeur’s Unstable Equilibrium, ed. The Hermeneutic Press, Toronto, 2003”, in Revista
Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 25 (2004), pp. 289-293.
- “Introduction” in the portuguease translation of BERGSON, Henri, As Duas Fontes
da Moral e da Religião, (trad. Port.), ed. Almedina, Coimbra, 2005, pp. 7-21.
– Presentation of “VINCENT, Gilbert, (direc.) Le corps, le sensible et le sens, Presses
Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2004 », in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 27 (2005),
pp. 227-232.
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- «Phenomenology of the Inside of Space. Readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty”, in
WIERCIŃSKI, Andrzej (ed), Between Description and Interpretation. The Hermeneutic
Turn in Phenomenology, The Hermeneutic Press, Toronto, 2005, pp. 113-124.
- “Percepção e Imagem: O exemplo do Cinema no contexto da meditação
fenomenológica de Merleau-Ponty sobre a experiência perceptiva” / Perception and
Image: Cinema in the context of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological analysis of
perceptive experience, in Phainomenon, nº 10 (2005), pp. 47-61.
- “Notas sobre o corpo no contexto de um diálogo impossível entre Sartre e Maine de
Biran” / Notes on the body in the context of an impossible dialogue between Sartre and
Maine de Biran, in REIMÃO, Cassiano (coord), Jean-Paul Sartre. Uma Cultura da
Alteridade – Filosofia e Literatura, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, 2005,
pp.129-143.
- “Condição subjectiva. Presença de Maine de Biran no projecto ricoeuriano de uma
fenomenologia da vontade” / The subjective condition. Maine de Biran’s presence in
Ricoeur’s project of a phenomenology of will, in CANTISTA, Maria José,
Subjectividade e Racionalidade. Uma abordagem fenomenológico-hermenêutica,
Campo das Letras, Porto, 2006, pp.193-212.
- “Maine de Biran and the Société Médicale de Bergerac. Contributions to a history of
the idea ob health » in Cadernos L.I.F. Corpo, Saúde e Espaço Público, Vol. 2, Ariadne,
Coimbra, 2006, pp. 25-37.
- “Dualidade e Mediação. Raízes Reflexivas da Hermenêutica de Paul Ricoeur” /
Duality and Mediation: The reflexive roots of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics, in HENRIQUES,
F., (coord.), A Filosofia de Paul Ricoeur, Ariadne, Coimbra, 2006, pp.93-107.
- “O Corpo do Movimento. Aproximações Fenomenológicas” The movement of the
body. A phenomenological approach, in Phainomenon, nº 14 (2007), pp. 195-208.
– “Pode ser que nos guie uma ilusão. O Tecido Narrativo da Imaginação”, Maybe we
are simply guide by an illusion. The narrative fabric of imagination, in Via Latina,
Coimbra, 2008.
- “Sobre a Experiência da Vida Consciente. Leituras biranianas” / On the conscious
experience. Readings on Maine de Biran, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 33
(2008), pp. 79-108.
– “O Espaço da Saúde: contributos merleau-pontyanos para um debate” / The space of
health. Contributions for a debate, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 33 (2008), pp.
223-232.
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– “Amor, Família e Género em de l’Amour de Destutt de Tracy” / Love, Family and
gender in Destutt de Tracy’s de l’Amour, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 34 (2008),
pp. 495-507.
– Presentation of “MARTÍN, María del Cármen Paredes, Teorías de la Intencionalidad,
Editorial Sintesis, Madrid, 2007”, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, nº 34 (2008), pp.
611-616.
- “Da Stimmung. Biranismo e Fenomenologia” / On Stimmun. Maine de Biran and
phenomenology, in Arbor, ed. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid,
vol. CLXXXV, nº 376 (2009), pp. 437-448.
– “Percepção e Desejo. Leituras de R. Barbaras” / Perception and Desire. Readings of
R. Barbaras, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 35 (2009), pp.135-160.
– Presentation of “FERRAZ, Marcus Sancrini, Fenomeologia e Ontologia em MerleauPonty, ed. Papirus, Campinas, São Paulo, 2009, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 35
(2009), pp.205-208.
-“Fenomenologia e Ontofenomenologia do Tempo em M. Merleau-Ponty” /
Phenomenology and onto-phenomenology of time in M. Merleau-Ponty, in Reflexão,
Campinas, v. 34, nº 95 (2009), pp. 33-43.
- “Imagens do Corpo em São Paulo. A propósito de algumas referências paulinas no
Journal de Maine de Biran” / Images of the body in Saint Paul, following Maine de
Biran’s Diary, in Itinerarium, 193 (2009).
– “Apercepção e Representação em Maine de Biran” / Apperception and Representation
in Maine de Biran, in Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 37 (2010), pp. 67-84.
– Portuguese translation of the “Vocabulaire Paul Ricœur” (“Vocabulário P. Ricoeur”,
Minerva, Coimbra, 2010)
– “La Nature indirecte et les couleurs de l’Invisible. À propos du projet ontologique de
M. Merleau-Ponty », in Chiasmi International, 12 (2010), pp. 273-285
– “O Enigma do Espaço. Fenomenologia e Ontofenomenologia da Profundidade em M.
Merleau-Ponty” / The enigma of space. Phenomenology and onto-phenomenology of
Depth in M. Merleau-Pony (in print)
Organization of scientific events:
Colloquium on French Philosophy/Jornadas de Filosofia Francesa #3 - Pour une
herméneutique critique (2010)
Colloquium on French Philosophy/Jornadas de Filosofia Francesa #2 – Bergons entre
immanence et difference (2009)
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Colloquium on French Philosophy/Jornadas de Filosofia Francesa # 1 - G. Deleuze. Une
anti-phénoménologie (2009)
International Colloquium 'The Hermeneutic Rationality' (2010)
Seminar on The hermeneutics of style in "Temps et Récit" (2009)
Seminar on Norm and value in Max Scheler (2009)
Conference to present the Réseau euro-méditerranéen de Phénoménologie et
d'herméneutique pour le dialogue entre les cultures (2008)
Seminar on Parcours de la reconnaissance by Paul Ricoeur (2008)
Seminar on Phronesis as a Model of Hermeneutic Rationality - Gadamer's contribution
(2008)
Seminar on Why to remember of the historic pass. (2008)
Other informations:
- Member of the editorial board of the Revista Filosófica de Coimbra (Coimbra’s
Philosophical Journal)
- Member of the Portuguese Association of Phenomenological
- Portuguese correspondent of the Collège International de Philosophie.
- Founding member of the Réseau Euro-méditerranéen de Phénoménologie et
d’Herméneutique pour le dialogue entre les cultures.
- Junior associated fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics.
- Member of the Portuguese association of Professors of Philosophy
- Member of the Association Paul Ricoeur.
- Director of the Council for teaching of the Faculty of Arts of the University of
Coimbra.
- Director of the first degree course on Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the
University of Coimbra.
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