Nythamar Hilario Fernandes de Oliveira Junior
Nythamar Hilario Fernandes de Oliveira Junior
Introduction
Full Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, National Council Researcher (CNPq, since 1995), Visiting Professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio (since 2007), and former Coordinator of the Assessment Area of Philosophy at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES, 2018-22). After earning a Ph.D. in Philosophy (State University of New York, 1994), Nythamar de Oliveira conducted postdoctoral research at the New School for Social Research (1997-98), London School of Economics (2004-05), Universität Kassel (2005, 2012), University of Toledo, Ohio (2007-08), University of Miami (2014-15), and Université Paris 8 (2022). He was associate professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, 1994-99) and has been a fellow researcher of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (2004-05, 2012). He currently coordinates the AI Ethics research groups RAIES (Network for Ethical and Safe AI) and RAIP (Responsible AI Platform), respectively funded by FAPERGS and CNPq.
Areas of interest
Themes
Concentration Areas and Lines Research
Communication Practices and Culture
- Processos comunicacionais, políticas dos corpos e interseccionalidade
Ethics and Political Philosophy
- The State and Theories of Justice
Systematic Theology
- Theology and Contemporary Thinking
Research Structures
Research Center
- Brazilian Democracy Research Center
Research Group
- Grupo de Pesquisa em Neurofilosofia
Research Group
- Interdisciplinary Research Group in Theory of Justice and Political Culture