Philosophy

VISION

To be an internationally recognized center of excellence dedicated to re-search, production, and dissemination of philosophical knowledge.

MISSION

Train human resources toward the development of research in Contemporary Philosophy, with the aim of producing highly qualified professors, researchers, and citizens with ethical and social commitment.

Aurora Philosophy Review

Objectives

• Develop academic research excellence in the field of Philosophy;
• Promote training for researchers in Philosophy;
• Promote training for students at the master’s and doctorate levels to work in Higher Education in Philosophy, to enable the improvement of Elementary and High School teachers.
• The academic master’s degree aims at fostering research and philo-sophical discussions, providing master’s students with conceptual and methodological mastery over the field of Philosophy, and training stu-dents to conduct research in and teach Philosophy.
• The academic doctorate’s degree aims at incorporating the objectives of the master’s level of study, the course also offers doctorate level training toward producing original research, and training for researchers and teachers to work in the field of Philosophy. In addition, the doctorate program aims at deepening the symmetric internationalization of the program’s research lines, that is, an intensification of post-doctorate in-ternships for the PPGF faculty in foreign universities, consolidation and expansion of the visiting professor program at PPGF, realization of a “sandwich” scholarship for PPGF students, expansion of agreements and exchanges with foreign universities, and the intensification and ex-pansion of publications at the international level.

History

The Graduate Program in Philosop hy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, linked to the School of Education and Humanities and the Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation, was established after receiving approval from the University Council of the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) through Resolution 44/2003 of June 23, 2003. It was rec-ommended by the Technical and Scientific Council of CAPES (MEC) in a meeting held on September 15 and 16, 2003. The history of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia (PPGF) is linked to the Philosophy Graduate pro-gram at PUCPR, which has been active since 1953. This 50-year history be-tween the creation of the undergraduate program and the master’s program can be revisited with a focus on three different phases. The first phase starts with the beginning of the programs in 1953 and extends until the creation of the Department of Philosophy in 1974. This period was characterized by train-ing in philosophy in preparation for theology. At that time, the students were mostly from religious congregations and the faculty were members of the cler-gy. The next phase began in the second half of the 1970s and extended until the 1980s. This period was characterized by the presence of non-religious professors in the program and by greater participation on the part of the lay public. During this period, especially in the 1980s, religious training, which was still a part of the program, gained a new orientation following the Church’s tendencies, especially those linked to what is currently known as Liberation Theology. During this period, there was greater focus on the training of profes-sors, who began to take graduate programs at PUCPR (lato sensu) and other urban centers (stricto sensu) mainly in São Paulo, to broaden their horizons by expanding on the topics covered and giving new shape to the idea of studying and teaching philosophy. Both shifts were reflected in the contents addressed in the program, which began to contemplate, alongside classical topics, issues particular to Contemporary Philosophy, such as the problem of existence, power, the subject, and language. The third period, which extended from the beginning of the 1990s until the first years of the new millennium, was marked by an even more pronounced presence of contemporary topics in the Philoso-phy program. This period also saw the progressive consolidation of the role of research alongside teaching. Students’ interest in research and participation in events at PUC and beyond was also enhanced. In the third phase, markedly from 1998 onward, the tendency to restructure the program by connecting teaching and research took shape in the reformulation of the Pedagogical Pro-ject, which was carried out as a result of the changes in the federal legislation for undergraduate programs (New LDB – Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Edu-cação Nacional). The program operating since then has the History of Philos-ophy as its central axis. It unfolds in two lines of research: Ethics and Episte-mology. As a result of the work carried out at the undergraduate level and the research projects that were developed there, specialization programs in phi-losophy with a concentration in Ethics and Epistemology are offered regularly. During this period, Ethics and Epistemology were also offered to other mas-ter’s students at PUCPR, which served as an opportunity for them to pursue higher studies on these lines, and to engage in dialogue with other areas of knowledge that were also being deepened within the field of Philosophy. The proposal for a master’s degree in philosophy by PUCPR, with two lines of re-search, namely Ethics and Epistemology, meant the unfolding of this historical process and the continuation of activities pertaining to undergraduate, re-search groups, lato sensu graduate programs, and exchanges with other stric-to sensu graduate programs. Therefore, it translates the tendency to deepen the research initiated in the undergraduate program with support from re-search groups and additional development in graduate activities.

In its first three-year period, 2004-06, the PPGF worked to consolidate the lines of research, especially through the development of research projects. Since its first triennial, the PPGF opted for nuclear projects that provided an integrated body of research and guidance for professors engaged in the program. Each nuclear project was structured by the thematic intersections of individual pro-fessors’ research, and was coordinated by a professor and welcomed the work developed at PPGF in the form of individual research, guidelines, events held, dossiers published in scientific journals, etc. In the first three-year period, the PPGF established a solid partnership with the PPGF at PUC-SP, which result-ed in the exchange of professors, the organization of joint activities, and publi-cations in partnership with Aurora Philosophy Review, in addition to joint work in the areas of Logic and Philosophy of Science, the publication of books, and teaching and research activities. Another productive partnership that dates back to the initial years of the PPGF, which continues to remain active to date, was built with the PPGF of UNICAMP, mainly because of the connections that the professors at the PPGF of PUCPR had with those at this Higher Education Institution (HEI). This link resulted in the publication of articles, translations, reissues of works, publishing of journals, participation in study and research groups, and organization of events and congresses.

This trend in dialogue and integrated work with other graduate programs in Brazil and abroad intensified during the second triennial, that is, 2007-09. Dur-ing this period, five PPGF professors undertook post-doctorate internships that lasted up to one year at Brazilian and foreign universities, especially in the USA and Germany. PPGF began to welcome visiting professors to collaborate in research and other guidance activities. From September 2008 to August 2010, Professor Valério Rohden worked as a Visiting Researcher at PUCPR’s PPGF. At the end of the second triennial, with the aim of structuring the Pro-gram to meet new demands, the PPGF restructured its research lines with the creation of the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis line and changed the Ethics and Epistemology lines to the Political Ethics and Philosophy and Ontology and Epistemology lines, respectively. This strengthened PPGF’s connections in the field of Contemporary Philosophy and made it possible to locate research pro-jects in the area with more philosophical accuracy, thus strengthening the in-tegration of the work and individual research of professors. These changes also took place in response to new research proposals developed at PPGF. First, with the inclusion of new professors, at the end of the first three-year pe-riod, the faculty consisted of 9 professors.

In 2009, the PPGF had 13 permanent professors. This restructuring represent-ed continuity, as it was born out of the deepening of the first research projects of the PPGF. The three lines of research that remain today were structured ac-cording to the density and impact of these pioneering projects, as a direct re-sult of the production and guidelines developed by professors. From the per-spective of the training of human resources, the PPGF awarded 69 master’s degrees in its first two trienniums. Allied to this vocation to guide and train master’s students, PPGF professors produced consistent and relevant re-search in the field of Philosophy in the first two years. This manifested in the form of the translation of texts and classical works into Portuguese, and the publication of books, chapters in books, and articles in journals ranked by CAPES. The second triennium was marked by the consolidation of the Pro-gram through its opening and insertion in the national and international philo-sophical scene.

The 2010-12 triennium was characterized by exchanges with other programs in Brazil and the beginning of the doctorate program. In 2013, PUCPR’s PPGF, together with UFES and UFSCAR PPGFs, concluded several research activi-ties with approval from Programa de Cooperação Acadêmica (PROCAD). These partnerships resulted, for example, in the permanent engagement of students in partner universities and vice versa, research missions by profes-sors in different HEIs, and the improvement of research output. In addition to PROCAD, other exchange activities with national researchers were common, many of which were financed by projects linked to PPGF Research Groups and other partner institutions. Both approaches followed in the 2010-12 trien-nium, at PUCPR’s PPGF were directly associated with the qualification and expansion of the Program with the opening of the Doctorate in Philosophy by CAPES in 2011 and activities beginning in 2012. From that point onward, PUCPR began offering complete training in the field of Philosophy: Bachelor’s degrees, specializations, master’s degrees, and doctorate programs. As a re-sult of this comprehensive training, the program grew increasingly attractive, and hosted several master’s and doctorate students from HEIs from other parts of Brazil.

In this quadrennium, the PPGF expanded its extension activities. We can high-light the organization and its regular offering of eight study groups coordinated by PPGF professors, dedicated to Michel Foucault, Hans Jonas, Rousseau, Edith Stein, Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and Freud. PPGF offered several regular mini-programs to discuss issues and problems pertaining to the teaching of Philosophy with undergraduate students and high school teachers. In 2013, PPGF promoted the XI Congress of Contemporary Philoso-phy around the topics linked to its three lines of research. That year, it orga-nized, in partnership with the French Alliance of Curitiba, the Café Philosophique, aimed at the community in general, with monthly meetings and the collaboration of professors from PUCPR and UFPR. In 2013, PPGF profes-sors (Eládio Craia and Jelson Oliveira) participated in the creation of the Na-tional Technological Studies Network, which brings together national re-searchers from several Brazilian universities (including PUCPR, UFPel, USP, UFMG, UFU, UFJF, UFABC, and UFPI), and also collaborated with GT Deleuze and GT Hans Jonas, from ANPOF, in projects that were coordinated at that time by PUCPR Professors Eládio Pablo Craia and Jelson Oliveira, re-spectively. The increase in international research activities by PPGF profes-sors is also noteworthy. Some of these included conferences at universities in France, Portugal, Colombia, and Argentina and post-doctorate internships abroad with funding from CAPES (Ericson Falabretti at the University of Lyon III). At the end of 2013, the PPGF had 24 doctorate students and 46 master’s students. In 2014, PPGF continued its study groups and expanded its exten-sion activities, linking them with the historical moment of Brazil and Latin America. An edition of Café Philosophique focusing on the topic of the 50 years of the military dictatorship in Brazil was presented around the time. With the aim of promoting reflections on the political memory and the actuality of Human Rights in Brazil and in Latin America at large, the XII Congress of Con-temporary Philosophy, together with the International Congress on Human Rights of PUCPR, was organized around the topic “Policies of Memory and Policies of Oblivion.” Professors, researchers, and students from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, England, Uruguay, and several states in Brazil participated in the Congress. In 2014, continuing with the permanent policy of updating their professors, Professors Francisco Bocca and Cesar Candiotto undertook, with CAPES’ support, a post-doctorate internship in France, at the Universities of Paris VII and Paris Est-Créteil, respectively. Since 2014, the flow of the PPGF faculty has undergone important changes. The first was the voluntary depar-ture of three professors who took up civil service exams and were approved by public universities in Brazil. As a result of this movement, with the support of PUCPR, PPGF launched public notices calling for replacements for these pro-fessors, with the aim of strengthening its lines of research and continuing its existing projects and works of guidance, publication, translation, national and international cooperation, etc. As a result of these notices, in July 2014, Pro-fessor Federico Ferraguto (PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome) joined the program as a permanent professor in the Ontology and Epistemolo-gy line. At the end of 2014, the PPGF had 39 doctorate and 29 master’s stu-dents. In the selection process for 2015, PPGF approved 12 and 10 students for the master’s and doctorate levels, respectively. That year, two professors from the Philosophy program who were already collaborating with the PPGF were accredited through the incubator program for young researchers: Léo Peruzzo Júnior (doctor at UFSC) and Eduardo Ribeiro da Fonseca (doctor at USP). In September 2015, Professor Alexandre Franco de Sá (PhD in Philos-ophy from the University of Coimbra) was integrated into the PPGF faculty in the line of Ethics and Political Philosophy, as a permanent professor. In 2015, the PPGF had 1 collaborating professor and 16 permanent professors across the 3 lines of research. This way, the program, always supported by the uni-versity, responded very quickly to the biggest challenge posed at the begin-ning of the quadrennium, which was teaching flow. This restructuring, in addi-tion to strengthening the lines and research projects, ensured the continuity of all master’s and doctorate guidelines, and as planned, fostered new interna-tionalization activities like the formation of new agreements and research net-works. In 2015, the XIII Congress of Contemporary Philosophy at PUCPR, held in honor of Professor Zeljko Loparic, promoted a reflection on the concept of man and ipseity in the main contemporary philosophical approaches. Café Philosophique, in turn, reflected on the topic of women and philosophy. In 2015, the Aurora Philosophy Review, which at that time, already had interna-tional reference indexes, became a quarterly publication and rose to the A2 level in the QUALIS CAPES classification. In this quadrennium, as part of the policy of internationalization, the PPGF maintained the tradition of welcoming visiting professors from foreign universities. In May 2015, the PPGF received Professor Roberto Tibaldeo from Turin, who was recognized for his work with the philosophy of Hans Jonas. In July 2015, the PPGF received and hosted Professor Robert Hanna, an expert on Kant’s work, for a year. The same year, the PPGF, together with the Graduate Program in Theology at PUCPR, began to cooperate in the training of students and professors in the fields of Philoso-phy, Theology, and Portuguese Language of East Timor, having established, with support from PUCPR and Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), an agreement with the Institute of Philosophy and Theology Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart from the city of Dili in East Timor. To prepare the Institute’s professors to develop master’s and/or doctorate research projects, and to deepen the training of the Institute’s students, PPGF Professors regularly engaged in col-laborations with the Institute, guiding professor and student research projects and teaching intensive programs in Dili. Within the scope of student activities, the excellent use of PPGF students from the CAPES PSDE program stands out. In 2014-15, 9 PPGF students took up doctorate internships in universities in France, Germany, Canada, Italy, England, and Portugal.

In 2015, the PPGF held its first doctorate defense, awarding the first Doctorate in Philosophy in Paraná to Carlos Eduardo de Carvalho Vargas. PPGF professors have sub-stantially increased their participation in international activities when com-pared to previous periods. PUCPR’s PPGF became part of the COOPERA pro-ject involving universities in France, Italy, and the USA. In addition to partici-pating in doctorate boards in France (Ericson Falabretti – Paris 8), and publish-ing articles and book chapters in international journals, PPGF professors par-ticipated in conferences in France, England, Belgium, Chile, China, Italy, Ger-many, and Portugal. In 2016, the last year of the quadrennium, the PPGF or-ganized the XIV Congress of Contemporary Philosophy at PUCPR and the IX edition of Café Philosophique, which discussed the topic of the seven deadly sins. The Aurora Philosophy Review maintained its usual periodicity at the end of the quadrennium, publishing impactful articles for reference written by na-tional and foreign researchers. After the work missions by Professors Bortolo Valle, Kleber Candiotto, and Ericson Falabretti, PPGF deepened its interna-tionalization process and cultivation of solidarity with the Institute of Philoso-phy and Theology Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart from Dili in East Timor. In 2016, the PPGF also established several research partnerships with Brazilian and foreign universities. Led by PPGF by Professors Eládio Craia and Jelson Oliveira, the Technological Studies Network, formed by several national and foreign universities was consolidated. The increase in research activities around the work of Maine de Biran involved professors from PPGF (Falabretti, Bocca), University Coimbra, and Le Conservatoire national des arts et metiers (Cnam) in Paris. Professor César Candiotto participated in the project titled “TaFac” (Travailler avec Foucault: approches contemporaines), which was an international research network involving researchers from France, Brazil, and Belgium. In 2016, research on the work of Hans Jonas, conducted by Profes-sor Jelson Oliveira, also gained international attention. Professor Oliveira led an international research network around the philosophy of Hans Jonas, with professors from Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Chile, South Africa, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, and United States, in addition to representatives from eight universities in Brazil. In the same year, Professor Jelson Oliveira, with a CAPES scholarship, took up his post-doctorate internship at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. In 2016, continuing his research on German philoso-phy, Professor Federico Ferraguto participated in an international research project on Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s “Gesammelte Schriften,” in cooperation with the University of Rome “Sapienza” and “Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften.” Over the entire quadrennium (2013-2016), PPGF professors participated actively in events world over, in approxi-mately 50 conferences at universities and HEIs of recognized academic excel-lence in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. This international inflection of re-search was directly reflected in the flow of student training, whether through the participation of foreign professors in doctorate and master’s degree pro-grams, or in carrying out doctorate and post-doctorate internships abroad, or even in other research activities and academic cooperation (co-orientation). In the 2013-2016 quadrennium, the PPGF awarded 52 master’s degrees and 7 doctorates. The dissertations and theses defended were of a high quality. They were always evaluated by recognized specialists in the area. Further, 2016 was prodigious for the PPGF in terms of the production of articles, book chapters, publication of authorial works, and organization of collections. Re-search developed at PPGF during the quadrennium stood out for its visibility and articulation involving PPGF students and professors and peers from other HEIs.

In 2017, largely owing to a healthy renewal of the permanent faculty, the quali-ty of the research cited in the publication of articles, chapters, and books, and the excellent dynamics in the highly qualified training of human resources (master’s and doctorate levels), the PPGF achieved 5 credits from CAPES, and stood out as a reference program in the field of Philosophy. We saw substan-tial growth in the first year of the quadrennium in areas of social inclusion, sol-idarity, and internationalization (Café Philosophique, Timor-Leste, PhD in Mozambique); the leading role of the Aurora Philosophy Review (A2 in Qualis CAPES) in the field, the maintenance of the Contemporary Philosophy Con-gress at PUCPR as one of the most important events in the field in Brazil, the deepening of the formation of national and international research networks, the international insertion of PPGF professors through publications, presenta-tion of papers at conferences, and covenants and agreements. In 2017, the PPGF expanded its extension activities to undergraduate and graduate stu-dents and to the community in general, mainly through the regular offer of the following study groups coordinated by PPGF professors: Psychoanalysis and Art; A Thousand Plateaus; Metapsychology: Metaphysics and Antimetaphys-ics; French phenomenology; Hans Jonas; Edith Stein; Wittgenstein; Lacan; and Freud. That same year, the PPGF organized and promoted The XV Con-gress of Contemporary Philosophy at PUCPR, titled “Phenomenology of Life,” discussing topics involved in the internal research of PPGF in the field of phe-nomenology by authors such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Hans Jonas. In 2017, the tenth edition of Café Philosophique was organized on the topic “Left thinking: History, legacy, and current events.” In addition to the publication of relevant articles in the continuous flow, the Auro-ra Philosophy Review published dossiers on Edith Stein’s thought and its re-percussions in the field of phenomenology; Carl Schmitt and the political prob-lem of representation; and Deleuze and the Powers of Thinking. In 2017, the PPGF continued to promote the teaching of philosophy, offering lectures on entrance exam books, study groups, and short programs on the teaching of philosophy, titled “Phenomenologists in the Classroom.” In 2017, the PPGF expanded its solidarity and internationalization activities. Thus, in 2020, the research, orientation, and classes continued with the Institute of Philosophy and Theology Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart from Dili, East Timor. In 2020, from a partnership involving Philosophy, Theology, Human Rights, and Bioethics at PUCPR, PPGF began to integrate – as part of the proposing and training insti-tution – activities as part of the first Doctorate Program in Humanities at the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM), approved and recognized by the Ministry of Education of Mozambique; it aims to deepen a transversal training profile, combining several disciplinary areas such as theological and philo-sophical foundations, bioethics issues, and the issue of Human Rights. In ad-dition to encouraging the establishment of international research networks in the south-south direction, the Doctorate Program in Humanities in Mozam-bique, considering the activities developed by PPGF professors, namely struc-turing a new doctorate, classes, seminars, doctorate guidance, places the PPGF at a new level in the internationalization process, as a form of human resources training that is simultaneously the agent and promoter of research with an international impact. In 2017, in addition to activities with East Timor and Mozambique, the PPGF deepened various research partnerships with Brazilian and foreign universities such as: i) dual degree agreements with the University of Coimbra; ii) continuation of the work of the National Technologi-cal Studies Network, led by PPGF Professors Eladio Craia and Jelson Oliveira; iii) continuation of the work related to the “TaFac” project (Travailler avec Fou-cault: contemporary approaches), involving researchers from France, Brazil, and Belgium, led by Professor César Candiotto; iv) Professor Federico Fer-raguto (PPGF) continued the international research project on Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s “Gesammelte Schriften,” in cooperation with the University of Rome “Sapienza” and “Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes-und Sozialwissen-schaften;” and v) training of the Revolución Research Network, involving re-searchers from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Spain, and France. Led by Professors Ricardo Lolas (PUC-Valparaíso) and Francisco Bocca, the main objectives of the Revolución Network are to bring together researchers from the southern zone and from Latin-speaking countries; to leverage research based on the strengthening and international circulation of discourse and knowledge that were found in the field of southern epistemologies, to contribute toward the training of master’s and doctorate students based on exchange and mobility agreements, and to promote publications, etc. In 2017, the PPGF promoted a review of its research projects. New projects on phenomenological orientation on Philosophy and Human Rights and on Technical Philosophy, among oth-ers, were incorporated into the three lines of research of the PPGF.

In 2018, the PPGF consolidated itself as a reference in Philosophy research based on the lines and research projects developed, with an emphasis on ac-ademic production, the internationalization process, and social inclusion. The professors confirmed the program’s vocation as being lean and qualitatively productive. The production of students was also relevant, as a result of en-couraging research and the participation and dynamics of research groups. In 2018, there were 8 in all, around topics and authors such as French phenom-enology, political philosophy, Hans Jonas, Edith Stein, Wittgenstein, Lacan, Freud, Althusser, and Marx. The Aurora Philosophy Review, already consoli-dated in the area, with a rank of A2 on Capes, published 3 dossiers that re-flected the research and academic exchanges of the program’s professors, namely the 3 issues that Volume 30 dealt with: “Schopenhauer reader of Kant,” “Body, phenomenology and the challenges of politics,” and “Karl Leon-hard Reinhold: representation, reason, language” (first dossier published in Brazil about one of the fathers of German idealism and the result of the re-search of Professor Federico Ferraguto, who had been working on the topic and, in 2018, completed his post-doctorate studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he worked on an edition of Reinhold’s critical work). The work will be published by the Swiss publisher Schwabe, with support from Schweizerisches Akademie der Wissenschaften. Therefore, this work is an example of the internationalization of research developed at PPGF and is part of the project of international philosophical interactions focused both on mak-ing a fundamental resource for expanding the historical discussion on the de-velopment of post-Kantian reflection, and on participation in the most current theoretical debate on the relationship between the mind and the world. Anoth-er example of this internationalization effort is the study of the Philosophy of Technique and Technology, led by professors Jelson Oliveira and Eládio Craia from the Technical Studies Center, which is articulated nationally through the working group on Philosophy of Technique and Technology (of which Professor Oliveira is the current coordinator) and, internationally, through the Technique Research Network, which brings together people from Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries. The PPGF consolidated re-search on the philosophy of Hans Jonas and officially created the Hans Jonas Chair and the Hans Jonas Brazil Center in 2018, which is now coordinated by Professor Oliveira in line with the ANPOF GT Hans Jonas and the international network of researchers on Jonasian thought (which held an international event in Siegen, Germany in 2018). The Foucault Research, which was developed by Professors César Candiotto and Fabiano Incerti, represents this interna-tionalization strategy well. In 2018, in addition to several national and interna-tional events, Professor Candiotto served as a visiting professor at the Univer-sity of Lille, as part of works produced under approches contemporaines.

In the field of internationalization, the partnership for a double degree with the University of Coimbra is noteworthy. In 2018, three doctorate students were in Portugal (for six months to a year), which strengthened the links between the programs, as noted by the organization of the First Portuguese-Brazilian Col-loquium on Hans Jonas. In 2018, the PPGF continued its effective participation in the Political Philosophy Research Network called Revolución, which in-volves researchers from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Spain, and France. This year, three PPGF professors participated in the event held in Valparaíso-Chile. In 2018, the PPGF received Professor Luiz Eduardo Prado de Oliveira (Universi-té de Paris 7 – Denis Diderot) as a visiting professor. As part of its international-ization effort articulated with social insertion, the PPGF consolidated its part-nership with the Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart Theology Institute in Dili, East Ti-mor, and with the National University of Timor, in addition to continuing its support in the creation and maintenance of the Doctorate in Humanities, opened in the city of Quelimane, Mozambique (in 2018, three PPGF profes-sors acted as doctorate thesis supervisors in that program, where one [Jelson Oliveira] was a visiting professor). In the context of social insertion, the continu-ity in the realization of Café Philosophique should be mentioned. In 2018, the topic was “Sexuality and Freedom,” and it served as an opportunity to debate and present the research developed at PPGF to the external community. An-other highlight in 2018 was the XVI Congress of Contemporary Philosophy, during the I Humanitas Congress, organized in partnership with three other graduate programs at the School of Education and Humanities at PUCPR (Theology, Education, and Human Rights). The event, which centered on “The Future of the Humanities,” brought together over 1,000 people and consolidat-ed the articulation between graduate and undergraduate programs. These and other activities, guided by research lines and projects, helped train of 14 new doctorate and 10 new master’s students in 2018, whereas another 10 doctorate and 12 master’s students joined the program. All this confirms the quality of the research, the dynamics, and the core vocation of PUCPR’s PPGF.

In 2019, the PPGF consolidated itself as a program focusing on research quality in contemporary philosophy, with an emphasis on teaching production, the quality of student works, and program internationalization. The most signif-icant innovation in 2019 was the creation of a joint doctoral program between the PPGF of PUCPR and the University of Ferrara in an event held at PUCPR with the participation of professors from both institutions. Another innovation was the opening of the Erasmus Program in partnership with the Catholic Uni-versity of Austria, in Linz, resulting in the transfer of one PPGF master’s student (another in theology) and the offering of four scholarships for students and two for professors, and the establishment of a co-tutoring program in partnership with the University of Coimbra. In addition, it lead to the expansion of the soli-darity partnership with the Catholic University of Mozambique (for the Doctor-ate in Humanities), the Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart Institute of Philosophy and Theology from the city of Dili, and the National University of East Timorin 2019, PPGF received three master’s students and two doctoral students, and two PPGF professors carried out academic activities in East Timor); the continuity of “TaFac” (Travailler avec Foucault: approches contemporaines), in partner-ship with the University of Lille; the NoSoTros political philosophy research group holding an event in Spain in 2019, with the participation of Professors Francisco Bocca and Eladio Craia from PPGF; and the consolidation of works around the Philosophy of Technique. The year 2019 was also marked by the activities carried out by the WG and Centro Hans Jonas Brasil: four national events honoring S Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart (in São Paulo, Curitiba, Brusque, and Teresina), and three international events (in Belgium, Chile, and Portugal) to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Jonas’ book, The Impera-tive of Responsibility. Other important events were the beginning of a partner-ship with the publisher of the University of Caxias do Sul and the launch of the editorial imprint of the collection Filosofia Contemporânea: Contemporary Phi-losophy, coordinated by PPGF, which published six books in 2019. Further-more, in 2019, the PPGF continued its policies to encourage international pro-duction (three articles, one book in French, the organization of one book, and four chapters published abroad); participation in events (18 conferences abroad); and the presence of foreign professors in dissertation and thesis de-fenses, seminars, and conferences. Professor Roberto Formisano, a visiting progressor from the University of Strasbourg, participated in various program activities at University of Ferrara, including the 17th Congress of Contempo-rary Philosophy at PUCPR and the short course “La doppia vita dei fenomeni. Una introdione alla phenomenologia di Michel Henry,” held between October 31 and November 7, 2019. This time was also marked by the offer of a course in English, part of the English Semester, which was promoted in partnership with the other School programs (Theology, Education, and Human Rights). In 2019, we also sent students abroad for joint doctorate programs: One went to Germany and other to Belgium. The strong internationalization of PPGF was a result PUCPR’s efforts and incentive policies, and the outcomes are evident: In 2015–2016, the PUCPR joined the list of the 17 Brazilian universities ranked by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, reaching the fifth place, together with 12 other public and private institutions. In this edition, PUCPR was ranked first among Brazilian institutions in the “number of cita-tions” category (30% of the relative weight of the ranking). In 2019, Clarivate Analytics evaluated the scientific production of Brazilian universities from 2014 to 2018: The PUCPR was the only nonpublic university among the 50 universi-ties in the list. Recently, PUCPR has become one the country’s top 10 institu-tions in terms of patents filed. In this sense, the PPGF benefits from a consoli-dated, longstanding, medium- and long-term plan, implemented by the PUCPR. In 2019, we held several research events, including the Congress of the Fichte International Society, held during the 17th PUCPR Philosophy Con-gress; the Colloquium on the 40 years of the Hans Jonas’ The Imperative of Responsibility; the VI Wittgenstein Workshop, whose theme was “Frontiers of the Post-human,” with the participation of professors from eight universities (Freie Universität de Berlin, New York University, Universidad Veracruzana: Mexico, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, and the Instituto Federal do Para-ná). This workshop was supported by CAPES/CNPQ and offered social-inclusion activities, including Café Philosophique (organized by Professor Er-icson Falabretti, who addressed the theme alterities: faces, borders, and walls). In 2019, the articulation with the undergraduate degree continued be-cause graduate professors act as professors, teaching undergraduates and guiding their final projects and research. PPGF’s eight study groups and four research groups provide spaces for articulation with the program and the greater community, which participates in the meetings. In addition, the effective participation of PPGF professors in the area committees and the coordination of the ANPOF working groups were also notable; currently, Jelson Oliveira co-ordinates the working group on the Philosophy of Technology and Technique, and Professor Eduardo Fonseca coordinates the one on Psychoanalysis. The quality of the Aurora Philosophy Review improved in 2019, with the publica-tion of three dossiers: 2019/1: “Michel Foucault, um pensamento em mo-vimento”; 2019/2: “Fenomenologia”; and 2019/3: “The Philosophy of Emotions” (with the collaboration of teachers from eight countries). The PPGF used a civil service exam to hire two professors. From 25 applicants (16 Brazilians and nine foreigners, including 12 with an international doctorate), the PPGF se-lected Professor Oswaldo Giacoia Jr. and Professor Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo to join it in 2020. Furthermore, in 2019, 12 master’s and nine doctoral students completed their studies at PPGF, consolidating the program as a research center of excellence in contemporary philosophy. In addition, the research team included a PNPD–CAPES postdoctorate graduate, and the program re-ceived several postdoctoral students from other Brazilian universities (UFAM, Unicentro, UEL, PUC-SP, and UFVJM).

In 2020, the Philosophy Graduate Program (PPGF) continued its mission of training masters and doctors with excellence, focusing on the quality of research in contemporary philosophy, with emphasis on teaching and student production, internationalization, and social inclusion. The Program was challenged by the coronavirus disease pandemic, which forced students and faculty to develop new and innovative education and research strategies. As of March, the Program’s activities have been conducted synchronously and remotely, using specific platforms acquired through Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR).

The PPGF offers an international doctorate (joint PhD) with the Università degli Studi di Ferrara. In addition to the four students already enrolled, another three were selected: two from Italy and one from Brazil. This joint doctorate enhances the mobility of students and faculty (virtually only in 2020), with international co-advising on theses, international boards, international publications, and interaction with other European centers and Brazilian universities through conferences, workshops, and study journeys.

The program maintains solid partnerships with the University of Coimbra, with three participating students, and the University of Lille, its partner in the ViiP Project -Vie, Violence, Power. In 2020, the PPGF signed a new cooperation agreement with Universidad Villa Mercedes, from Argentina. This year, a partnership was established with the Catholic University of Mozambique (in the Doctorate in Humanities, where two doctoral theses were tutored by PPGF faculty). The PPGF received one master’s degree student from the Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart Philosophy and Theology Institute and one master’s degree student and a PhD student from the National University of Timor Leste. There are three more master’s degree students and two more PhD students from these universities with ongoing studies at the PPGF.

The Erasmus Mundus Program is still ongoing, with a partnership with the JKU (Katholische Privat Universität Linz, Austria), which started in 2019, with one master’s degree student. In 2020, two students took virtual courses in philosophy and bioethics that were taught in English. The Program expects to grant four more scholarships to students and to fund two faculty members in the next 2 years, depending on the situation with regard to the coronavirus disease pandemic. Moreover, as part of the internationalization activities, two students completed their International Doctoral Program (PDSE – Programa de Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior) partly abroad, in Belgium and Germany. A third student could not be sent to France due to the pandemic.

In the second half of 2020, the PPGF enhanced its training activities, exposing its students to a broader international perspective. In conjunction with other PPGs of the School of Education and Humanities, it offered the English Semester, with the theme Brazil and the World Today: Contemporary Topics in Humanities. Courses were offered in partnership with researchers and students from the Universidad de Villa Mercedes, Argentina (Topics of Ethics I), Université Paris VIII (Topics of Philosophy of Psychoanalysis II), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Topics of Ontology II), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Topics of Ontology IV), and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Topics of Ontology III). In addition, the Program offered the Challenges of Democracy extension course, with the participation of renowned faculty from the Universidade de São Paulo, Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidade de Coimbra.
In 2020, the PPGF organized several international events involving its three lines of research (Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ontology and Subjectivity, and Ethics and Political Philosophy). The XVIII International Congress of Contemporary Philosophy at PUCPR, integrated with the second Humanitas Colloquium, brought together researchers from the NoSoTros Network (USA, Central America, South America, and Europe) under the theme “Rights, Borders, Nations, and the State.” As part of the Joint PhD, Transcendental Philosophy History and Forms, two events were organized: in May 2020, the Seminar of Doctoral Research Presentations, by PPGF and the University of Ferrara, and on November 12 through November 14, 2020, the I Italian-Brazilian Workshop on Transcendental Philosophy, History, and Forms, bringing together 23 presentations by researchers and students from various countries, especially Brazil and Italy. PPGF, the Hans Jonas Brazil Center, and the Technical Studies Center held several events in 2020: Hans Jonas Minicourse: Philosophical Profile, on July 27 through 29; the Hans Jonas and Economy Symposium, on April 3, 2020; the International Seminar on Transhumanism: What It Is, Who We Are Going to Be, on November 12 and 13, 2020, with speakers from Europe, the United States, and Latin America; the Symposium Philosophy of Technique: Its Authors and Their Problems, on May 8, 2020; and the first Hans Jonas Day at PUCPR, with 8 weekly meetings; the VII Workshop Wittgenstein: Reality, Language and Cognition, held annually, which in 2020 included international researchers; the Second Schopenhauer International Journey at PUCPR, which was organized by the Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Research Line (PPGF) and ANPOF’s Schopenhauer’s working group (WT), with the support of the University of Lecce, Italy, on June 24-26, 2020, as a part of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft international network; the Second Psychoanalysis History Journey at PUCPR, which took place from December 2 through December 4, 2020, and was promoted by PUCPR; the Winnicott Institute, and ANPOF’s Philosophy and Psychoanalysis WT; the Second Reinhold Journey, organized as part of the activities of ANPOF’s Fichte’s WT in cooperation with São Carlos Federal University, the São Paulo Research Foundation, and the University of Ferrara; and the Fichte Gesellschaft on December 14 and 17, 2020.
The international events organized by PPGF correlate with the high number of presentations and works published abroad, indicating the reciprocity of its internationalization activities. In the past 4 years, 85 conferences were held in different countries, 16 articles were published in high-profile magazines, 35 book chapters were featured in international collections, 2 books were published in English and French, and 1 book was published collaboratively in German. In 2020 alone, 29 articles were published by the Program’s 13 permanent faculty, of which 27 were published with A1 to B1 classification grades. Last year, the Program’s faculty published 8 books, 1 with an alumna/alumnus and the other with a researcher from Germany. Five books and 35 book chapters were published, of which 5 were international and 1 in collaboration with students. The students published 35 articles, 12 book chapters, 1 book and 1 edited book last year.

In 2020, the philosophy magazine Revista de Filosofia Aurora continued to publish international dossiers, translations, reviews, and interviews. The issues were as follows: 2020/1: V. 32, N. 55 (2020) – Transhumanism and artificial intelligence, edited by Prof. Dr. Kleber B.B. Candiotto; 2020/2: V. 32, N. 56 (2020), Relevance of Spinoza’s philosophy: matter and form, edited by Professors Dr. Eladio Craia (PUCPR) and Dr. Ricardo Lolas (PUC Valparaíso-Chile); 2020/3: Hans Jonas and the Imperative of Responsibility: 40 years later (2020, v.32, n.57), edited by Professors Dr. Eric Pommier (PUC Chile), Dr. Helder Carvalho (Universidade Federal do Piauí), and Dr. Jelson Oliveira (PUCPR). Registered in the main international indexes, such as Scopus and Web of Science and currently ranked by Qualis Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel; CAPES) A2, the magazine has great impact on the field of philosophy.

As part of its strategic planning for the strengthening and reconfiguration of its lines of research for the next quadrennium (2021-2024), the PPGF conducted an international faculty search for two faculty members at the end of 2019. As a result of this process, in 2020, Professors Oswaldo Giacóia Júnior, who is in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis research line, and Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, who is in the Ontology and Subjectivity research line, were hired as permanent faculty. In order to maintain the balance between the three lines, Prof. Ericson Falabretti became part of the line of research in Ethics and Political Philosophy at the end of the same year. Also, in the second semester, the Program approved a new regulation based on the new resolutions of PUCPR and CAPES. Last August, Prof. Cesar Candiotto took over the coordination of the Program, continuing the previous coordination efforts of Profs. Ericson Falabretti and Jelson Oliveira.

In 2020, the PPGF continued to train faculty, as it has done almost every year of its history. Prof. Léo Peruzzo Júnior completed his postdoctoral stay at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, despite the limitations caused by the pandemic. The Program has also been highly sought after by researchers for postdoctoral study under the supervision of its faculty: in 2017, four postdoctoral degrees were awarded; six in 2018; seven in 2019; and four in 2020. Most postdoctoral students are faculty from other institutions who participate in the Program’s activities and research from 6 months to 1 year. Graduates and recent doctors from other institutions, including foreigners, are also welcomed through the junior postdoctoral student selection notices of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, PNPD-CAPES, or the Araucária Foundation.

In 2020, PPGF faculty coordinated the expansion of social inclusion activities, by offering regular study groups which were open to the community and were largely conducted by the students or alumni themselves under the supervision of the professors. The themes and authors studied were the following: philosophy and gender, philosophy and artificial intelligence, Canguilhem, transcendental philosophy, Hans Jonas, Biopolitics, and Franz Fanon. The Program organized the 13th edition of the Café Philosophique under the curatorship of Professor Ericson Falabretti and in partnership with the Alliance Française of Curitiba, under the theme: “The Narratives of the End.” It was attended by PhD students from PPGF and researchers in the fields of History, Theology, and Philosophy. In March and April 2020, the PPGF held a cycle of reflections on the pandemic, entitled Philosophical Pandemic open to the general public. Several professors also participated in the cycle of conferences, followed by debates, under the title Philosophy & Hope, promoted by the Science and Faith Institute. In addition to the traditional events of other universities open to the general public, to which PPGF professors were frequently invited, most of them were very solicitous to the unprecedented initiatives of channels dedicated to the dissemination of philosophy on social networks during the pandemic, such as “Philosophical Conversations” and “Contemporary Agencies.” The professors also wrote in widely circulated local, regional, and national newspapers, in addition to high profile magazines on different themes, especially education, philosophy, politics, and the pandemic.

Not only are PPGF faculty members involved in many international associations in the area, they are also acknowledged for their activity in the academic agencies and national associations such as ANPOF, CAPES, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. Jelson Oliveira continued as coordinator of the Philosophy of Technology and Technique WT; Eduardo Fonseca coordinates the Philosophy and Psychoanalysis WT. Cesar Candiotto is part of the ANPOF Board of Directors, which was elected in 2020 for the 2021-2022 biennium. Prof. Fonseca is also a member of the Dissertations and Theses in Philosophy WT and was a member of the 2020 CAPES Best Philosophy Thesis Award Committee; Leo Peruzzo Júnior and Jelson Oliveira are part of the Journals’ WT. Oswaldo Giacóia Júnior was a member of the CAPES Grand Prize committee for the “Bertha Koiffmann Becker” Thesis, in Applied Social Sciences, Linguistics, Humanities, Arts, and Interdisciplinary Studies, promoted by CAPES. Several of the PPGF’s initiatives have always received great support and recognition from other bodies, such as the School of Education and Humanities; the Dean of Research, Graduate Studies, and Innovation; and the University Council itself. An example of this was the approval of the Hans Jonas Chair at PUCPR in 2020, led by the research of Professors Jelson Oliveira, Anor Sganzerla (from the Masters in Bioethics) and Geovani Moretto (alumnus and Philosophy Course coordinator). Linked to the PPGF and the Centro Hans Jonas Brasil, it was the first chair to be approved at the School and the third to be made official at the higher levels of PUCPR.

As one of the most important results of the Program, in 2020, the PPGF achieved nine dissertations and eight defended theses. Due to the negative effects of the pandemic among their family members and the difficulties of studying in their own home environment, some students failed to complete their work within the scheduled time. At the end of the year, PPGF’s selection process accepted 54 applicants, distributed in the three lines of research, which is evidence of the Program’s strength and attractiveness, and its leadership and excellence in research and training.

The results achieved in the 2017-2020 four-year period position the PPGF as an excellence program in its area of concentration and in the research areas that comprise it. The Program is always committed to its students’ education, supporting its alumni, the updating of its professors, in addition to bibliographic and technical productions characterized by strong internationalization, impact on society and capacity to gain visibility at all levels (local, regional, and national).

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Philosophy

Philosophy

VISION

MISSION

Objectives

History

1. ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY

Faculty

Alexandre Guilherme Barroso de Matos Franco de Sá

Bortolo Valle

César Candiotto

Eduardo Ribeiro da Fonseca

Eládio Constantino Craia Pablo

Ericson Sávio Falabretti

Fabiano Incerti

Federico Ferraguto

Francisco Verardi Bocca

Halina Macedo Leal

Jelson Roberto de Oliveira

Kleber Candiotto

Léo Peruzzo Júnior

Oswaldo Giacoia Jr

ROBERTO TIBALDEO

Courses

Dissertation Seminar I and II

Independentes Studies

Project Seminar

Thesis Seminar I (Doctorate)

Thesis Seminar II (Doctorate)

Topics of Contemporary Philosophy

Topics of Epistemology

Topics of Ethics

Tópics of History of Philosophy

Topics of Ontology

Topics of Political Philosophy

Topics of History of Psychoanalisis

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