Desidério Murcho

Desidério Murcho
Born (1965-05-18) 18 May 1965
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
Main interests
 Logic · Ethics · Philosophy of religion

Desidério Murcho (born 18 May 1965) is a Portuguese philosopher, professor, and writer. He teaches at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Desidério Murcho got his BA in philosophy in 1992 from Lisbon University and his MA in 2000 from the same university. He is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the King's College London since 2000.

He is founding member of the Centro para o Ensino da Filosofia da Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (Center For the Teaching of Philosophy of the Portuguese Philosophy Society).

He was the director of the online journal Crítica. He wrote a column in the Os Meus Livros magazine and wrote a weekly chronicle in the Público daily paper. He was managing editor of the Disputatio journal.[1]

He has worked in the training of secondary education philosophy teachers in Portugal.

Murcho is a vegetarian.[2]

Publications

Author of:

  • Essencialismo Naturalizado (Angelus Novus, 2002)
  • A Natureza da Filosofia e o seu Ensino (Plátano, 2002)
  • O Lugar da Lógica na Filosofia (Plátano, 2003)
  • Pensar Outra Vez: Filosofia, Valor e Verdade (Quasi, 2006).

He is co-author of A Arte de Pensar (for the 10th and 11th grades) (Didáctica Editora, 2003 and 2004).

He edits, together with Guilherme Valente, the Filosofia Aberta series from Gradiva.

He translated several philosophy works (including Logics, by William Newton-Smith, and The Last Word, by Thomas Nagel).

He organized with João Branquinho the Enciclopédia de Termos Lógico-Filosóficos (Encyclopedia of Logical and Philosophical Terms) (Gradiva, 2001; Martins Fontes, 2006).

He published articles and reviews in the Revista Filosófica de Coimbra (Coimbra Philosophical Journal) and in Philosophica.

Notes

  1. ↑ Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy
  2. ↑ "Colóquio sobre Ética e a Defesa dos Animais" [Colloquium on Ethics and the Defense of Animals] (in Portuguese). Centro Vegetariano. 30 November 1999. Retrieved 15 June 2011. 'O consumo de animais é supérfluo, não há razão para continuar a comê-los quando é tão fácil ser vegetariano', comentou Desidério Murcho, filósofo e vegetariano convicto ['The consumption of animals is unnecessary, there is no reason to continue to eat them when it is so easy to be vegetarian,' said Desidério Murcho, philosopher and vegetarian]


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