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Alexandra Dias Fortes is a full member of the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and holds a PhD in Philosophy – Aesthetics (2016) from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). After earning her degree in Philosophy in 2005 (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto), she taught “Introduction to Philosophy” in several High Schools in the Lisbon area (2005-2010). She then enrolled in the doctoral studies program at NOVA FCSH and received a PhD scholarship from FCT (SFRH/BD/81290/2011) to write a thesis on Wittgenstein’s thought: The importance of aesthetics for Wittgenstein (Philosophy, method and style). With an abiding interest in Wittgenstein, she also researches questions, authors, and concepts that are connected with and are integral for her investigations as part of the working group “Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience" – CultureLab (Culture and Value Laboratory) – IFILNOVA – NOVA FCSH, and as a team member of the FCT funded Project “Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: Experiencing the city between art and philosophy” The field – and the idea – of religious naturalism is other of her subjects of study, arising from a long-standing curiosity in finding out what Wittgenstein meant when he talked about “a religious point of view”, and due to her being a team member of the FCT funded Project “Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World”. Yet, her main areas of research and interest are: aesthetics, philosophy of language and philosophical methodologies, conceptual vs. empirical questions, especially in Wittgenstein – criss-crossing with urban aesthetics, and, more recently, with literature, especially with the work of Maggie Nelson. She has presented and discussed her work at the annual International Wittgenstein Symposia in Kirchberg, Austria, since 2012, at Birkbeck College, London, at the Nordic Wittgenstein Society Conference in Odense, Denmark, and in Lisbon at IFILNOVA, where she also co-organized two conferences/graduate workshops dedicated to Wittgenstein, aesthetics, culture and values.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandra Dias Fortes

Citation names

  • Dias Fortes, Alexandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8B19-6DD9-F0A6
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2337-2758

Email addresses

  • alexandramdias@gmail.com (Professional)
  • alexandrafortes@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
  • alexandra.fortes@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Campus de Campolide - Colégio Almada Negreiros , 1099-032, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/11/07
Concluded
 Filosofia (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Estética
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
""A importância da estética para Wittgenstein (filosofia, método e estilo)"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/01 - 2022/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/01 - 2015/12 As questões conceptuais e estéticas na filosofia de Wittgenstein, à luz da filosofia de Nietzsche
SFRH/BD/81290/2011
 Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/04/01 - 2021/12/15 Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: Experiencing the city between art and philosophy
PTDC/FER-FIL/32042/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World
PTDC/FER-FIL/32203/2017
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "“Nova Iorque: a segunda vida de Walter Benjamin” [New York: Walter Benjamin's second coming]". In Planos de Pormenos. Lisboa, Portugal: Húmus, 2021.
    In press
  2. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "“The world and life are one: Sense and value in early Wittgenstein”". In Aesthetics and Values, Contemporary Perspectives,, edited by Nélio Conceição; Claudio Rozzonni, 121-142. Milano, Italy: Mimesis, 2021.
    Published
  3. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "Styles of thinking, ways of writing: Wittgenstein and Maggie Nelson". In Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2021.
    In press
  4. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "Panoramic Presentation: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects". In Conceptual Figures of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration, edited by Alexandra Dias Fortes; Maria Filomena Molder; Nélio Conceição; Nuno Fonseca; Gianfranco Ferraro, 207-237. Lisbon, Portugal: IFILNOVA, 2021.
    Published
Book review
  1. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "recensão de Antonia Soulez, Détrôner l’Être. Wittgenstein Antiphilosophe ? (En réponse à Alain Badiou), Les Discours Philosophique, Paris : Lambert-Lucas, 2016. [Book review of Antonia Soulez, Détrôner l’Être. Wittgenstein Antiphilosophe ? (En réponse à Alain Badiou), Les Discours Philosophique, Paris : Lambert-Lucas, 2016]". Review of Philosophica no 50, peer-reviewed journal of the Department of Philosophy & the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (2017): http://revistaphilosophica.weebly.com/2017.html.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "“A method has now been found: Wittgenstein vs. Frazer”, in Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events, Contributions of the 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Anne Siegetsleitner, Andreas Oberprantacher, Marie-Luisa Frick (Eds.), Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society: Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.". Paper presented in 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2019.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Conceptual Figures of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration. Lisbon, Portugal: Ifilnova. 2021.
    Published • doi.org/10.34619/526h-q85n • Editor
Journal article
  1. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. "Aldo Rossi: ‘My architecture stands mute and cold". Croatian Journal of Philosophy: Themes in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics XXI 61 (2021): 25-38.
    Published
Working paper
  1. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. 2016. ""Reading the Tractatus and seeing the world rightly", in "Aesthetics Today: Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Art", Contributions of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Volume XXIX, Stefan Majetschack, Anjan Weiberg (Eds.), Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, pp.54-56.".
  2. Fortes, Alexandra. 2015. ""'Übersichtliche Darstellung' as synoptic presentation in Philosophical Investigations, I, §122", in "Realismus - Relativismus - Konstruktivismus", Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, Band XXIII, Christian Kanzian, Josef Mitterer, Katharina Neges (Hrsg.), Kirchberg am Wechsel, pp. 71-73.".
  3. Dias Fortes, Alexandra. 2015. ""'Übersichtliche Darstellung' as synoptic presentation in Philosophical Investigations, I, §122", in "Realismus - Relativismus - Konstruktivismus", Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, Band XXIII, Christian Kanzian, Josef Mitterer, Katharina Neges (Hrsg.), Kirchberg am Wechsel, pp. 71-73.".
  4. Fortes, Alexandra. 2012. ""Doing justice to what there is: a wittgensteinian motto?", in "Geist – Gesellschaft – Politik", Beiträge des 35. Internationales Wittgenstein Symposiums, Band XX, Martin G. Weiss, Hajo Greif (Hrsg.), Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, pp. 78-79.". http://www.sudoc.fr/17809014X.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/07/29 ‘From a Religious Point of View’: Wittgenstein on Nature and Belief 2nd ERB Project Workshop: Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion
IFILNOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/12/13 Wor(l)d cities: Translating writing into built form Translation and the urban landscape: The afterlife of the Arcades”
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06/18 Aldo Rossi, ‘My architecture stands mute and cold' Philosophy of the City 2019: Summer Colloquium, Urban Aesthetics
University of Helsinki (Helsinki)
2019/06/06 Apresentação panorâmica: Aspectos conceptuais e metodológicos de uma sinopse (da vida urbana) [Panoramic Presentations: Conceptual and methodological aspects of a synopsis (of urban life)] Seminar Conceptual Figures of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration
IFILNOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/05 Anyone who understands me: Affinity and Metalepsis in Wittgenstein Colóquio Internacional Metalepse e Transmedialidade [Metalepsis and Transmediality Colloquium]
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/02/26 Styles of thinking, ways of writing: Wittgenstein and Maggie Nelson International Conference on Practices of Philosophy as Experimentation and Dissidence
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/06/21 Wax and Wane: Wittgenstein and Smithson Art of Living / Art of Dying: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/03/22 Passagens de Walter Benjamin: Goldsmith, Kishik (em colaboração com Bruno C. Duarte) [Walter Benjamin's Arcades: Goldsmith, Kishik (in collaboration with Bruno C. Duarte)] Session 4 of the Cycle Seminar "Critical readings of the experience of the city"
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/11/23 Problemas da vida moderna: uma leitura d’A metrópole e a vida mental de Georg Simmel Session II of the Seminar "Critical readings of the experience of the city"
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06/16 Finding the right perspective: Wittgenstein on images and art International Seminar, "Florence-Lisbon": "Natureza e vida da imagem perante os desafios da arte contemporânea
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/02/09 The world and life are one: ethics, aesthetics and style from a tractarian point of view Seminário Internacional, Estética dos Valores: Perspectivas de Investigação [International Seminar, Aesthetics of Values: Research Perspectives]
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/08/10 Reading the Tractatus and seeing the world rightly 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria)
2015/08/15 Darstellung as presentation in Philosophical Investigations, I, § 122 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria)
2014/02/27 Solipsismo em Wittgenstein: continuidade e descontinuidade no seu pensamento [Solipsism in Wittgenstein: continuities and discontinuities in his thought] 6 Ideias on Solipsism
IFILNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/09 Untimely writing: Wittgenstein, philosophy and style The Too Early Wittgenstein?
Birkbeck College (London, United Kingdom)
2013/08 Misleading parallels: Wittgenstein, analogy and philosophical problems 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria)
2012/08 Doing Justice to what there is: a wittgensteinian motto? 35th International Wittgenstein Symposium
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria)
2012/06/08 Understanding, meaning and learning, in the light of Wittgenstein’s philosophy 3rd Nordic Wittgenstein Society Conference: Wittgenstein, the philosophy of education and the education of philosophy
University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/03 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: THINKING THE CITY THROUGH FRAGMENTATION AND RECONFIGURATION: AESTHETIC AND CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES | 1-3 JUNE 2022, LISBON (COLÉGIO ALMADA NEGREIROS, NOVA FCSH) | IN THE FRAME OF THE FCT-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT [PTDC/FER-FIL/32042/2017]: FRAGMENTATION AND RECONFIGURATION: EXPERIENCING THE CITY BETWEEN ART AND PHILOSOPHY (2022/06/01 - 2022/06/03)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/10/18 - 2021/10/21 Ciclo de cinema “Filmar a Catástrofe”: Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, 18-21 Outubro 2021. https://experienciadacidade.com/ciclo-filmar-a-catstrofe-na-cinemateca-portuguesa (2021/10/18 - 2021/10/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
2020/03/03 - 2021/06/16 Organização do ciclo de seminários: A experiência da cidade entre arte e filosofia. [Organisation of the seminar cycle: Experiencing the city between art and philosophy; session dedicated to Cinema, with the participation of Filipa Reis e João Miller, Leonor Noivo, Luís Correia, João Nisa, João Rosas, Paula Carvalho (NOVA FCSH), Paulo José Miranda, Manuel Mozos, Susana Nascimento Duarte (NOVA FCSH), Susana Viegas (NOVA FCSH)] (2020/03/03 - 2021/06/16)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/06/24 - 2020/06/24 Organisation + moderation: Seminário: Fragmentação e Reconfiguração, A experiência da cidade entre arte e filosofia, Sessão Especial [Seminar "Fragmentation and Reconfiguration, Experiencing the city between art and philosophy: Special Session] (2020/06/24)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
2019/12/13 - 2019/12/13 International Conference "Translation and the urban landscape: The afterlife of the Arcades" (2019/12/13)
Conference
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/06 Co-organização do Ciclo de Seminários: Figuras conceptuais da Fragmentação e Reconfiguração [Co-organisation of the Seminar Cycle: Conceptual Figures of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration] (2019/01 - 2019/06)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2016/05/02 - 2016/05/02 International Colloquium "Wittgenstein, Culture and Values" (2016/05/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2015/02/12 - 2015/02/12 International Seminar: Wittgenstein and Aesthetics (2015/02/02)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/10/19 - 2021/10/19 Conference participation: “Limits made clear and beauty laid bare: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, literary form, and philosophy”
Conference
 Conference Wittgenstein on Culture and Civilization: Aesthetics, Ethics and Religion
2019/08/30 - 2019/09/01 Invited Discussant at the International Conference: “Culture and Values after Wittgenstein”, Org. by Sebastian Sunday Grève and Ondrej Cerný, 30 August – 1 September 2019: The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Conference
 Culture and Values after Wittgenstein
University of Oxford Queen's College, United Kingdom

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018/11/28 - 2018/11/28 Co-organização da Conferência Inaugural do projecto “Fragmentação e Reconfiguração: A experiência da cidade entre arte e filosofia”: António Guerreiro, "A gramática generativa da cidade: tipologias linguísticas, representações literárias e topografias políticas" [Co-organisation of the Inaugural Conference of the Project "Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: Experiencing the city between art and philosophy: António Guerreiro: "The generative grammar of the city: linguistic tipologias, literary representations and political topographies":]
Other
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal