Nara M. Figueiredo

Funded by CNPq

At The Federal University of Santa Maria

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My name is Nara M. Figueiredo, I'm a researcher and professor at the department of philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and collaborating researcher at the Center of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, at the Estate University of Campinas (CLE- Unicamp). 

My research focus is on the Philosophy of mind and brain, more specifically on Enactivism and Language. My academic history is mainly on the philosophy of language, metaphilosophy and epistemology. 

Since 2015 I have been dedicated to the philosophy of cognitive science. Firstly in post-doctoral research at the University of São Paulo - FFLCH-USP, when I worked on mental representations in cognitive neuroscience. Then, when I worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics - CINN, at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom (June 2017 to June 2018), developing empirical and theoretical research focusing on visual perception and enactive perspectives. During this period, I also worked on encouraging interdisciplinary research. In 2019, as a researcher at Unifesp, I delved into the enactive understanding of human cognition and some epistemological issues. 

I have a bachelor's degree from the State University of Campinas - IFCH / UNICAMP, a master's and doctor's degree in Philosophy from the State University of São Paulo - FFLCH / USP (2015). My areas of expertise are: philosophy of mind and language, visual perception, representation and content, radical versions of embodied / enactive cognition, 4E cognition; reference, meaning, use, private language, following rules, normativity. I also work on issues of epistemology and metaphysics.



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"I choose my friends not by their skin or other archetype, but by the pupil.They have to have questioning shine and unsettled tone.I'm not interested in the good spirits or the ones with bad habits.I'll stick with the ones that are made of me being crazy and blessed.From them, I don't want an answer, I want to be reviewed.I want them to bring me doubts and fears and to tolerate the worst of me.But that only being crazy.I want saints, so they daunt doubt differences and ask for forgiveness for injustices.I choose my friends for their clean face and their soul exposed.I don't just want a man or a skirt, I also want his greatest happiness.A friend that doesn't laugh together doesn't know how to cry together.All my friends are like that, half foolish, half serious.I don't want foreseen laughter or cries full of pity.I want serious friends, those that make reality their fountain of knowledge, but that fight to keep fantasy alive.I don't want adult or boring friends.I want half kids and half elderly.Kids, so they don't forget the value of the wind blowing on their faces and elderly people so they're never in a hurry.I have friends to know who I am.Then seeing them as clowns and serious, crazy and saints, young and old, I will never forget that 'normalcy' is a sterile and imbecile illusion."
(Oscar Wilde)