ABOUT ME 

Maria Carolina M. de Resende

I am an philosopher (currently looking for a postdoc position) specialized in both Kantian philosophy and analytic epistemology, with a focus on perception and knowledge representation. I hold a Master's degree and a PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil), including a semester as a Visiting Student Researcher at the University of California - Berkeley. My research centers on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, particularly in relation to contemporary debates on perception, mind, and normativity.

My master’s thesis examined the role of space and time, as a priori forms, in the content of intuitions. In this work, I advanced a version of Kantian non-conceptualism by reconstructing the argument for the transcendental ideality of space and time, with particular attention to its connection to the problem of incongruent counterparts first introduced in Kant’s 1768 essay, “Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space”.  You can find my master's thesis here. But I don't agree anymore with this version of non-conceptualism that I defended there. This version could be called a kind of relational non-conceptualism, which, in my PhD dissertation, I completed disagree with it. 

During my Ph.D., I continued to research this discussion from a different perspective, and I defended on my dissertation that space and time can frame the non-conceptual content of intuitions within a normative theory of perception. The point that I have defended is specially focused on the epistemic normativity of the apriority forms of intuition. My dissertation will be published by Editora PPGFIL - UFMG and will be available soon.

I also have taught undergraduate courses in epistemology, modern philosophy, and the philosophy of science. 

I am a member of the Brazilian Kant Society, of the REDD research network (Studies on Democracy and Disinformation) and of CLEA (Cognition, Language, Enactivism, and Affectivity).