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Maria Adriana Sequeira da Silva Graça June 2006 1. Personal · Born December 11, 1960. · Citizen of Portugal. · Married with two children. 2. Present Appointment · Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts (Faculdade de Letras), University of Lisbon, since March 1, 2000 (granted tenure on December 2004). 3. Institutional Addresses · Department of Philosophy, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal · Tel. (351) 217920000 · Fax (351) 217960063 · e-mail: adrianasg@netcabo.pt 4. Degrees · First Degree (Licenciatura) in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 1985. · M.A. (Mestrado) in Philosophy/Philosophy of Language and Logic, University of Lisbon, 1991. · D. Phil. (Doutor) in Philosophy/Philosophy of Language, University of Lisbon, 2000. (Title of thesis: “Reference and Denotation. An Essay on the Sense and the Reference of Proper Names and Definite Descriptions”; supervisor: Manuel Lourenço). 5. Awards and Honours · Founding member of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy, 2004- · Fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Oxford, 1994-95. · Senior Researcher, Glossary Project (sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) Centre for Logic, Language and Cognition, Portuguese Philosophy Society, 1993-1997. · Member of the research team of the research project titled “From Vienna Circle to Contemporary Analytic Philosophy”, Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2001-03. · Member of the research team of the research project titled “Propositional Attitudes and Cognitive Dynamics”, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2001-02. · Director of the research project titled “Project on Content”, Philosophy Centre, University of Lisbon, 2005-2008, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. . Grant from Fundação Luso-Americana, for the academic year 2006-07, to do philosophical research at UCLA. . Visiting Scholar at UCLA (2006-07). 6. Previous Appointments · Probationary Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 1988-91. · Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 1991-2000. 7. Publications Books · Referência e Denotação. Um Ensaio acerca do Sentido a da Referência de Nomes e Descrições. Lisboa, F.C. Gulbenkian, F. Ciência e Tecnologia, 2003. . Translation
and Introduction to Bertrand Russell, Introduction
to Mathematical Philosophy, F.C. Gulbenkian (forthcoming). Edited Books · (Ed.) Linguagem, Mente e Acção. Actas do Seminário de Filosofia Analítica (2002-03). Lisboa, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2003. Chapters of books, Papers and Reviews (selection) · “Fenomenalismo e Teoria Causal da Percepção”, in Argumento 5/6, 1993. · “Referência e Denotação. Duas Funções Semânticas Irredutíveis”, Disputatio 12, 2002: 3-21. · “Critérios de Identificação do Conteúdo”, in Graça, A.S. (ed.) Linguagem, Mente e Acção. Actas do Seminário de Filosofia Analítica (2002-03). Lisboa, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2003: 161-178. · “Terra Gémea, Sentido e Referência” in Saagua, J. (ed), Proceedings of Mind and Action III. The Explanation of Human Interpretation. Lisboa, Colibri, 2004: 381-388. · “Níveis de Compreensão de Termos para Espécies Naturais”, in Ribeiro, A.J. (ed.) Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica 1, Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 2003: 23-32. · “O Modo Analítico de Fazer Filosofia. O Sinn de Frege”, Philosophica 17/18, 2001: 269-298. · “Referência e Descrições” in A. Zilhão (ed). From Vienna Circle to Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming). · “A Lesson to Learn from Referential Uses of Definite Descriptions”. (Under submission). . “Referential Descriptions Revisited”, in Miguens, S. (ed.), Análises, Actas to 2º Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica, Porto, 2004: 42-47. 8. Recent Talks · “Referential Descriptions Revisited”, presented at SIFA 4 Congress “Filosofia Analítica e Cultura Europea”, Genova, September 23-25, 2004. · “On What is Said. An Account of Referential Descriptions” – Presented at the “Meinong versus Russell Conference”, Hamilton, May 14-18 2005, at the Workshop on “Meaning and Communication” (invited), Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, June 4-7 2005 and at the “Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy” (ECAP 5), Lisbon, August 27-31, 2005. · “The Semantic Relevance of Speakers’ Linguistic Intentions” – presented at Logos Workshop with Saul Kripke “Meaning and Use” (invited), Barcelona, December 19-21 2005. . “About Speakers’ Linguistic Intentions” – presented at the 3º Encontro Nacional de Filosofia Analítica, Lisboa, June 2-4, 2006, at the Joint Session – Mind and Aristotelian Society – Southampton, July 7-9, 2006 and at the 1st Workshop on Semantics, Lisbon, October 6-7, 2006.
9. Editorial Appointments · Editorial Board of Philosophica. · Editorial Board of Disputatio, International Journal of Philosophy 10. Organization of Philosophy Conferences and Meetings · “Workshop on Definite Descriptions” – special workshop on the Fifth European Congress for Anatytic Philosophy (ECAP 5), Lisbon, 2005. · Permanent Seminar of Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, 2002-03. · Permanent Seminar of Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, 2005-06. . Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2006 – Professor David Kaplan (UCLA) on Meaning and Comprehension. Lisbon, June 29-30, 2006. 11. Prospective Research · Empty Names. · Semantic significance of the speakers’ linguistic intentions. · Semantic vs. Pragmatic distinction – where to draw the borderline. · The content of sentences containing singular terms (singular definite descriptions, proper names and singular indexical terms). |