Dictatorship of Failure - Opening of the Symposium

This is a video (I start at 6:28) of the introductory remarks of a Symposium I organized with my colleague Alejandro Lorite-Escorihuela (at the HCAS) on the European financial crisis, called Dictatorship of Failure.

We invited fellows and international scholars from over ten departments and disciplines – philosophy, geography, accounting, journalism, sociology, economics, law, world politics, etc. – and had a proper debate about why Europe cannot be efficient and fair and democratic?

I still feel that we made our contribution as academics to the promotion of a better disciplinary and interdisciplinary understanding of our society and the challenges it faces.

José Filipe Silva

José Filipe Pereira da Silva
Born October 5, 1975

Teacher Training (specialisation in philosophy) 1999; Master of Arts (medieval philosophy); PhD (Philosophy) 2009, University of Porto

PhD scholarship 2004–2008, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Research Assistant (Medieval Philosophy) 2007–2008, University of Minho
Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Jyväskylä) 2009–2011
Fellow (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies ) 2011–2014
Associate Professor in Medieval Philosophy (University of Helsinki) Tenure Track 2015–

Research interests: History of Philosophy, especially medieval, the mind/soul-body relationship, the philosophy of mind, epistemology and political philosophy

Publications, projects and other scientific activities

Prizes and Awards:
Kone Foundation Experienced Researcher (2015)
European Research Council Starting Grant (2015–2020) for the project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250–1550

Photo: Veikko Somerpuro
Written by José Filipe Silva (Tiia Niemelä, ed.)
Revised by Matthew Billington