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João Lemos works as a postdoc research fellow at the University of Turin, where he is currently developing a two-year research project, ‘Kant’s Theory of Art in Context’, funded by the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo. His main research activity revolves around Kant, aesthetics and philosophy of art. His articles have been published in leading journals in his field, including the British Journal of Aesthetics and Kantian Review. Before moving to Turin, he taught at NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Porto, and the Catholic University of Portugal. His record also includes stays in Rijeka, Bergen, Vechta, Cambridge, São Paulo, and at NYU. Lemos currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the European Society for Aesthetics.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Rodrigues Lemos

Citation names

  • Lemos, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2D18-0D84-0F2B
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6184-9815

Email addresses

  • joaorodrigueslemos@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Education
Degree Classification
2015
Concluded
 Philosophy (Doutoramento)
Major in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Whether and how a work of art can be beautiful - on the conditions of the possibility of the notion of beautiful art in Immanuel Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 unanimously approved summa cum laude
2008
Concluded
 Philosophy (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"no thesis/dissertation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2004
Concluded
 Sound and Image (Licenciatura)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
"no thesis/dissertation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/04/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione, Italy
2019/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/11/24 - 2024/12/08 Visiting Researcher (Research) Sveucilište u Rijeci Filozofski Fakultet, Croatia
2019/03/01 - 2019/05/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2017/10/01 - 2018/03/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho Câmpus de Assis Faculdade de Ciências e Letras, Brazil
2017/06/03 - 2017/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) New York University, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - 2024/01/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/13 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2023/05/18 - 2023/05/24 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universität Vechta, Germany
2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/01/30 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2016/07/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025 - Current Secretary European Society for Aesthetics, Switzerland
2022/07 - Current Coordinator of the Lisbon Kant Group Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/04/01 - Current Kant's Theory of Art in Context
123490
Principal investigator
Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione, Italy
 Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
Ongoing
2019/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Repor-do-Sol
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0090
Principal investigator
Concluded
2017/10/01 - 2018/03/31 On Taste / Do Gosto
EN17PD1620
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 Manchester Metropolitan University
Concluded
2008/09/01 - 2015/05/29 Whether and how a work of art could be beautiful / Se e como poderá uma obra de arte ser bela
SFRH/BD/47180/2008
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - Current Research Fellow
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0090
Research Fellow
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2017/06/03 - 2017/07/17 Institute on U.S. Culture and Society
João Rodrigues Lemos
Other
New York University, United States
 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Lemos, João. "Um gosto de considerações morais". In Kant: experiências, atitudes, valores. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, IFILNOVA, 2020.
    Published
  2. Lemos, João. "Da educação, do carácter cultivável, exercitável e corrigível do gosto e do carácter aguçável da faculdade do juízo". In Estética, arte y política. 2020.
    Published
  3. Lemos, João. "Moral Aspects' Aesthetic Relevance". In Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. 2020.
    Published
  4. Lemos, João. "A Filosofia a partir da Experiência Estética da Pintura". In Filosofia e as Artes. 2016.
    Published
  5. Lemos, João. "Do Sublime em Kant à Figura em Longino". In Cartografias: Estética(s) e Arte(s). 2012.
  6. Lemos, João. "Ser em Parménides". In Porque nos interessa a Filosofia?. 2010.
    Published
Book review
  1. Lemos, João. "B. Dörflinger, C. La Rocca, R. Louden, U. R. A. Marques (eds.), Kant's Lectures / Kants Vorlesungen". (2018): https://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/40563/1/JoaoLemos_Philosophica_51.pdf.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Lemos, João; António Marques; Cadilha, Susana, ed. Kant: atitudes, experiências, valores. 2020.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Lemos, João. "‘Kant on the Deceitful Art of Rhetoric’". British Journal of Aesthetics 65 2 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayae023.
    Published • 10.1093/aesthj/ayae023
  2. Lemos, João. "Kant and Recent Philosophies of Art". Kantian Review 26 4 (2021): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/kantian-review/article/abs/kant-and-recent-philosophies-of-art/C24F998E812BEA67362E38C5ECCA75F3.
    Published
  3. Lemos, João. "Volná umelecká krása: textová podpora pre hypotézu". Studia Philosophica Kantiana 10 2 (2021): https://www.unipo.sk/public/media/40915/SPhK_2_2021_08_Lemos.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  4. Lemos, João. "Belleza Libre Artística: soporte textual para una hipótesis". Con-Textos Kantianos - international journal of philosophy 14 (2021): https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/article/view/622/1033.
    Open access • Published
  5. Lemos, João. "A taste of moral concerns". Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 43 4 (2020): http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/JCLA-43.3-Autumn-2020_Joao-Lemos.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  6. Lemos, João. "Restrictions, Incitements, and Aesthetic Value: the role of historical sciences in art production and the aesthetic appreciation of art". The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 59 4 (2020): https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/documents/138618288/146704340/pja-59-1-lemos.pdf/b9909c84-7bab-4b82-b969-6352fc874525.
    Open access • Published
  7. Lemos, João. "Limitações, Incitamentos e Valor Estético: o papel das ciências históricas na produção artística e na apreciação estética da arte". Estudos Kantianos 8 2 (2020): https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/ek/article/view/10713.
    Open access • Published
  8. Lemos, João. "From Beautiful Art to Taste". Con-Textos Kantianos - international journal of philosophy 5 (2017): https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/article/view/230/250.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Lemos, João. "Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics - special issue on Kant and Art". Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 62 2 (2025): https://estetikajournal.org/41/volume/62/issue/2.
    Published • Invited editor
  2. Lemos, João. "Con-Textos Kantianos, 19, 2024 - dossier Kant 300 PT". Con-Textos Kantianos - international journal of philosophy 19 19 (2024): https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KANT/article/view/96152.
    Published • Invited editor
  3. Lemos, João. "Estetica. Studi e Ricerche - monographic section L'Estetica Negativa di Kant". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 14 3 (2024):
    Published • Invited editor
  4. Lemos, João. "Con-Textos Kantianos, 12, 2020 - special issue on Kant's Aesthetic Theory". Con-Textos Kantianos - international journal of philosophy 12 (2020): https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista/issue/view/16.
    Published • 10.1515/kant.2008.99.issue-3 • Invited editor
Online resource
  1. Lemos, João. Short Videos on Kant. 2023. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr-n0eWVyQwCp5EQFqhEjZg1AclWEirKK.
  2. Lemos, João. Kant Reading Group: videos. 2021. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr-n0eWVyQwCGlABy7ancLlrlNK5tYJyC.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Lemos, João. "Kant and Art: introduction". Preface to Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. 2025.
    Published
  2. Lemos, João. "Kant 300 PT - Grupo Kant Lisboa / Lisbon Kant Group". Preface to Con-Textos Kantianos. 2024.
    Published
  3. Lemos, João. "Kant's Aesthetic Theory: key issues". Preface to Con-Textos Kantianos - international journal of philosophy. 2020.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. João Rodrigues Lemos. "Se e como poderá uma obra de arte ser bela. Acerca das condições de possibilidade da noção de bela arte na Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo de Immanuel Kant". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2015. https://ctkebooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Se-e-como-poder%C3%A1-uma-obra-de-arte-ser-bela-Joao-Lemos.pdf.
Translation
  1. Lemos, João; MIGUENS, Sofia. Charles Travis' 'The Silence of the Senses'. 2010.
    Published
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/09/15 - 2025/09/15 organizer of 'Kant, la teoria dell’arte e il suo rapporto con le arti' (kickoff public event of the project Kant’s Theory of Art in Context) (2025/09/15)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione, Italy

Circolo dei Lettori Torino, Italy
2024/07/08 - 2024/07/08 organizer of the Lisbon Kant Group session of the Virtual Kant Congress with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (2024/07/08 - 2024/07/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Princeton University, United States

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Campus Brussel, Belgium

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/06 - 2024/07/08 co-organizer of the Kant Reading Group (2019/06)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2024/03/11 - 2024/03/12 organizer of 'Kant, Art, and Beautiful Art' (Lisbon's Annual Conference on Kant's Aesthetics, 3rd edition) (2024/03/11 - 2024/03/12)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/06/06 - 2023/06/07 co-organizer of 'Kant and Negative Aesthetics' (2023/06/06 - 2023/06/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03/20 - 2023/03/21 co-organizer of 'Kant's Aesthetics: Life and Animation' (Lisbon's Annual Conference on Kant's Aesthetics, 2nd edition) (2023/03/20 - 2023/03/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/12/16 - 2022/12/16 co-organizer of EPLab Masterclass Series: Reidar Maliks, 'Kant and the French Revolution' (2022/12/16 - 2022/12/16)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/06/24 - 2022/06/24 organizer of EPLab Masterclass Series: Alice Pinheiro Walla, 'Ius Peregrinandi e Direito Cosmopolita' (2022/06/24 - 2022/06/24)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/04/04 - 2022/04/05 co-organizer of 'Kant: Concepts, Imagination, and Aesthetic Appreciation' (Lisbon's Annual Conference on Kant's Aesthetics, 1st edition) (2022/04/04 - 2022/04/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2021/06/15 - 2021/06/16 co-organizer of the international workshop 'Kant's Logic of the Pathological: Aesthetics and Politics' (2021/06/15 - 2021/06/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/11/29 - 2019/11/29 organizer of EPLab Masterclass Series: Martín Fleitas González, 'Notes for a Normative-Constitutivist Approach to the Problem of Happiness in Kantian Ethics' (2019/11/29 - 2019/11/29)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/11/07 - 2019/11/08 co-organizer of the conference 'Kant: Atitudes, Experiências, Valores' (2019/11/07 - 2019/11/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/06/21 - 2019/06/21 organizer of EPLab Masterclass Series: Nuria Sánchez Madrid, 'Linhas de fuga da comunidade estética e política em Kant (morte, exclusão, compaixão): um diálogo com Blanchot e Rancière' (2019/06/21 - 2019/06/21)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/05/23 - 2019/05/23 co-organizer of the workshop 'Disinterestedness' (University of Cambridge) (2019/05/23 - 2019/05/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 University of Cambridge Faculty of Philosophy, United Kingdom

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 co-organizer of the seminar 'Modalities of Research in Psychoanalysis' (São Paulo State University) (2018/03 - 2018/03)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Assis, Brazil
2017/11 - 2017/12 co-organizer of the seminar 'On Taste' (São Paulo State University) (2017/11 - 2017/12)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Assis, Brazil
2017/03/24 - 2017/03/25 co-organizer of the conference 'Indivíduo' (2017/03/24 - 2017/03/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - Current reviewer for the British Journal of Aesthetics
2024 - 2024 reviewer for Con-Textos Kantianos
2021 - 2021 reviewer for The Philosophical Quarterly
2021 - 2021 reviewer for Pli - the Warwick Journal of Philosophy
2021 - 2021 reviewer for Studia Philosophica Kantiana
2020 - 2020 reviewer for Con-Textos Kantianos
2016 - 2016 reviewer for Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025 - Current member of the European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) member
2024 - Current member of the ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought member
2022 - Current member of the UK Kant Society (UKKS) member
2019 - Current founding member of Red Iberoamericana Kant: Ética, Política y Sociedad (RIKEPS) founding member
2018 - Current member of Sociedad de Estudios Kantianos en Lengua Española (SEKLE) member
2018 - Current member of Kant-Gesellschaft, e.V. member
2015 - Current member of the North American Kant Society (NAKS) member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2025 - Current member of the executive committee - secretary
Member
 European Society for Aesthetics, Switzerland

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2010/09/01 - 2018/12/31 trainer in Ethics in Healthcare Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/01 Methodology of the Philosophical Work Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/09/15 - 2023/02/01 Methodology of the Philosophical Work Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/02/01 Topics of Contemporary Philosophy: Kant in contemporary philosophy Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/09/09 - 2022/02/01 Questions in Philosophical Anthropology (in English) Political Philosophy (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/02/01 Questions in Philosophical Anthropology (in English) Political Philosophy (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2020/06/30 History of Ethics (in English) Political Philosophy (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/06/30 Aesthetics and Arts Philosophy (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/09/15 - 2017/02/01 Aesthetics and Semiotics Sound and Image & Conservation and Restoration (Licenciatura) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2016/06/30 Aesthetics and Arts Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11/23 - 2024/12/08 academic stay (research/teaching) at the University of Rijeka, Croatia Sveucilište u Rijeci Filozofski Fakultet, Croatia
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/13 teaching staff, blended intensive programme on 'Kant and German Idealism' at the University of Bergen, Norway Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2023/05/18 - 2023/05/24 teaching staff, blended intensive programme on 'Kant and German Idealism' at the University of Vechta, Germany Universität Vechta, Germany
Distinctions

Award

2024 MSCA Seal of Excelence
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
2024 Trapezio - paving the way to research excellence and talent attraction
Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy
2008 Award of Merit
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2005 Incentive Prize
Universidade do Porto, Portugal