Vasco Correia

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, ArgLab, IFILNOVA, FCSH-UNL

vasco.correia75@gmail.com

Academic degrees

PhD in Philosophy (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne)

MA in Philosophy (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne)

Research interests

Argumentation, heuristics and biases, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, rationality.

Current research projects

• Arguments and decisions in contexts of uncertainty (SFRH/BPD/101744/2014) FCT-funded individual post-doctoral project.
• Argumentation, Communication and Context (PTDC/FIL–FIL/10117/2009) – FCT-funded institutional project in ArgLab.  

Latest publications

Books

• Correia (2010) La duperie de soi, Editions Universitaires Européennes, Saarsbruck. ISBN-13: 978-6131500602

Peer-reviewed articles

• Correia (2014) “From Self-deception to self-control”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, vol. XIV, nº 3, p. 309-323.
• Correia (2012) “The Ethics of Argumentation”, Informal Logic, vol. 32, nº 2, p. 222-241.
• Correia (2012) “L’irrationalité (est) naturelle: comment la réduire”, Archives de Philosophie du droit, nº 55, p. 165-177.
• Correia (2011) “Biases and fallacies”, Cogency, vol. 3, nº 1, p. 107-126.

Book chapters

• Correia (forthcoming) Akrasia and self-control .In S. Silva (ed.) Morality and emotion, London: Routledge.
• Correia (2015) “The Division of the Mind: Paradoxes and Puzzles”. In J. Fonseca & J. Gonçalves (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on the Self, Frankfurt, New York, Peter Lang, pp. 147-165.
• Correia (2014) “Biased argumentation and critical thinking”. In S. Oswald & T. Herman (Eds.) Rhetoric and Cognition: Theoretical perspectives and persuasive strategies, Bern, Peter Lang, pp. 89-110.

Book Reviews

• Correia (2013) Review of Van Eemeren & Garssen’s Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory, Cogency, vol. 5, nº 2.

Latest presentations

• (2015) “Present and future self: Mr Spock versus Homer Simpson”, Ontology of subjectivity: Selves, persons, organisms, S. Petersburg, 1-3 September.
• (2015) “Arguments and decisions in contexts of uncertainty”, European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 9-12 June.
• (2014) “Biases of self-perception”, Workshop the self and the social, 6-7 Mars, Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem, Lisbon.
• (2013) “Weakness of will and self-control: The role of emotions in impulsive behaviour”, Morality and Emotion, FCSH, Lisbon.
• (2013) “Akrasia, inconsistent preferences and the virtues of self-restraint”, Seventh Workshop in Decisions, Games and Logic, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
• (2013) “Argumentation, rationality and reasonableness”, Arglab Research Colloquium, May, IFL, Lisbon.
• (2013) “Disputes irrationnelles: biais de raisonnement et pensée critique”, Rencontres et confrontations, July, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpelier.