Joana Ines started following the work of Clara Morando, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Filosofia.
Joana Ines started following the work of Sérgio Lagoa, Universidade Aberta, Education and Distance Learning.
Joana Ines In the last month I had a big conference about race in Barcelona. This month I have a conference about Public life vs private life at University of Lisbon. My PhD is growing to a new stage: I have to slow down, stop with the traveling around the wo... more
Joana Ines A new mission is coming.. this time I´m going to the USA to visit a Institute of Health and do a course on " Responsible Conduct of Research".
PhD Research Fellow, Philosophy of Science
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Letters
Thesis Title: The concept of "Race": Scientific, Ethical and Epistemological challenge.
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Maria Manuel Araújo Jorge
Jorge Sequeiros |
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My project seeks, through the development of new strategies and tools in philosophy of biology to examine the recent social, ethical and political dimensions emerging of biomedical and genetic research related to race. From the
exploration of the scientific controversies and conceptual constructions of race, especially the challenge to its biological design, the main objective of this project is to investigate: i) the constructions and arguments underlying the use and abuse of "race" in science; ii) which definition it tends: "reality with empirical validity" or folk-culture concept; iii) if the race is a useful category to describe human biological variation, and iv) the epistemological, conceptual, ethical and metaphysical implications of the science of genomics related to race, including the recent studies in the search for "genetic markers" between groups, especially diseases related to "race" and "genes" that can be based on biological mechanisms of intelligence.
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