Elton Junior Martins Marques (9E1E-573D-C0A7)

Curriculum Vitae

Elton Junior Martins Marques

Elton Marques has a PhD from the University of Lisbon, with a thesis on ‘eternism’ and ‘determinism’. The author has two post-doctorates from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and teaching experience at the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Catholic University, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Specializing in the philosophy of time, the author's research and publications also cover topics linked to his main theme, such as the history and philosophy of science, time travel, the ontological status of space and time, fatalism, the problem of free will, the problem of contingent futures, Occamism and other solutions to contingent futures, the debate between substantivists and relationalists, the relationship between time and the concept of infinity, the philosophical consequences of theories of relativity, the relationship between determinism and laws of nature, philosophy of technology, etc. He currently teaches at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, participates in events in Brazil and abroad, and continues to research the above topics.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Elton Junior Martins Marques

Citation names

Marques, Elton

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9E1E-573D-C0A7
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9191-5315

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025 Concluded	Pós-doc Júnior (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2024 Concluded	Pos-doc FCT Researcher (Pós-doutoramento) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2022 Concluded	Pós-Doc - FCT Researcher (Pós-doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2020/01/01 Concluded	Philosophy (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Departamento de Filosofia, Brazil
2013/09/05 - 2018/10/27 Concluded	Filosofia (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Metafísica Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Sobre determinismo e eternismo: argumentos e relações possíveis entre teses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com distinção
2010/10/01 - 2012/10/01 Concluded	Philosophy (Master) Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil "Espaço-tempo metafísico e espaço-tempo cosmológico. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/05/25 - Current	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Centro de Ciencias Humanas Letras e Artes, Brazil

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09/19 - Current	Investigador	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
2019/05/15 - 2022/05/14	post doc fellowship	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/12/01 - 2019/05/14	Post doc fellowship	Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (bolseiro CNPq, Brazil
	Parque Tecnológico da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013/09/05 - 2018/09/27	P.h.D. position	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2024	Determinism without Laws of Nature 4581332190215222 Post-doc Fellow Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil
2019 - 2020	The metaphysics of the tree of Time 2390528077612055 Post-doc Fellow Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/09/17 - 2024	Causal processes, complex systems and emergence Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, grant number UIDB/00683/2020 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal	Ongoing
2019/05/15 - 2022/05/15	Online Companion to Problems in Analytic Philosophy FCT (PTDC/FER-FIL/28442/2017) Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Marques, Elton. "Einstein and Wittgenstein's ladder". In Space-Time conference 2022, 53-70. Montreal, Canada: Minkowski Institute Press - MIP, 2023. Published Marques, Elton. "Eternalism, hybrid models and strong change". In The Metaphysics of Time: Logic and Philosophy of Time, Vol. IV (International Denmark), edited by Peter Øhrstrøm, Per Hasle and David Jakobsen, 7-455. Aalborg, Denmark: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2020. Published Marques, Elton. "The truth about Osmo". In Logic and philosophy of time: themes from Prior. (Internacional Denmark), edited by Per Hasle, Patrick Blackburn, and Peter Øhrstrøm. Denmark: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2017.
Encyclopedia entry	Marques, Elton. "Eternismo Metafísico (Nacional)". In Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica. Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2021. http://compendioemlinha.letras.ulisboa.pt/eternismo-metafisico-elton-marques/. Published
Journal article	Marques, Elton. "A new grounding problem for presentism". Logic and Philosophy of Time: themes from Prior V (international Denmark) 5 (2023): Published • https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7859 Marques, Elton. "What is Moving Right Now? (Internacional, Italia)". Philosophy Kitchen (internacional, Italia) 13 (2020): https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/13.2020. Published Marques, Elton. "O fatalismo relativístico (Internacional, Brasil)". Principia: an international journal of epistemology (Scopus, ERIH, etc) 23 2 (2019): 231-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2019v23n2p231. 10.5007/1808-1711.2019v23n2p231 Marques, Elton. "Time and truth: on the relationship between some metaphysical and semantic theses. (Internacional, Espanha)". Disputatio: philosophical research bolletin (Scopus) 7 8 (2018): 001-16. https://disputatio.eu/vols/vol-7-no-8/marques-tempo/. Published Marques, Elton. "A relatividade da simultaneidade e suas possíveis consequências filosóficas. (Internacional, Brasil)". Principia: an international journal of epistemology (Scopus, ERIH) 21 3 (2018): 391-409. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n3p391. 10.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n3p391 Marques, Elton. "RELACIONISMO, EXIGÊNCIAS EMPIRISTAS E RELATIVIDADE (Internacional, Argentina)". Prometeica - Revista de Filosofía y Ciencias 15 (2017): 5-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24316/prometeica.v0i15.190. 10.24316/prometeica.v0i15.190
Thesis / Dissertation	Marques, Elton Junior Martins. "Sobre determinismo e eternismo : argumentos e relações possíveis entre teses". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/36416.

Other

Other output

A unidade da Proposição.. Article to Compendium, Translation.. 2019. Marques, Elton. http://compendioemlinha.letras.ulisboa.pt/a-unidade-da-proposicao-manuel-garcia-carpintero/.
https://doi.org/10.51427/cfi.2021.0080
Entidades Ficcionais. Article to Compendium, Translation.. 2013. Fiora Salis. http://compendioemlinha.letras.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Entidades_Ficcionais_Salis_DOI.pdf.
https://doi.org/10.51427/cfi.2021.0025

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09/18	Oral presentation at a conference	Emerging Ideas in Philosophy of Science
2023/08/14	Principia 2023: talk	Simpósio Principia
2022/11/05	God is just fine: A reply to De Marco.	3rd World congress on Logic and Religion Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India)
2022/07/17	Is it a time travel?	LEME SEMINAR UFRJ (Brazil)
2020/10/16	Session 3 16 October 2020 What is Moving Right Now? Elton Marques (LanCog, University of Lisbon)	LanCog Seminar
2019/09/18	Conferência Sophia Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy Palestra: What is fatalism?	Sophia Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy
2019/05/30	VII Issues On the Impossible, Talk: What is Fatalism?	VII Issues On the Impossible
2019/04/19	The Methaphysics of Time: Themes from Prior: Eternalism, hybrid models and strong change	The Methaphysics of Time: Themes From Prior
2017/11/22	The logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior Palestra: The Truth About Osmo.	The Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior
2017/09/13	Congresso Sophia 2017 Palestra: A Thought Experiment about Demons	Sophia 2017
2016/09/08	Congresso da SPF Palestra: Fatalismo Relativístico.	2º Congresso Português de Filosofia
2015/09/10	Enfa - Encontro Nacional de Filsosofia Analítica. Time and truth: on the relationship between some metaphysical and semantic theses.. 2015. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Comunicação).	Sexto Enfa - encontro nacional de filosofia analítica.
2014/09/05	Congresso Português de Filosofia Sobre Determinismo e Eternalismo: a concepção Rietdijk-Putnam e as relações possíveis entre doutrinas. 2014.	Congresso Português de Filosofia
2011/08/11	Simpósio Principia. Palestra: Três autores contra a correlação entre tempo e movimento.	Simpósio Principia

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - 2025	O que é presente? Co-supervisor	Master Degree (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/09/05 - 2033/07/06	Presidente of the committee, Main Organizer. (2023/06/02 - 2033/06/05) Congress	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2022/11/20 - 2023/03/08	Membro do Comitê Organizacional (2022 - 2023/03/08) Conference	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
2017/07/24 - 2017/07/26	Lancog Lectures in Metaphysics, Invite and promote those Lectures Lancog Lectures in Metaphysics: Lecture 1: The dynamic theory of Time and the travel to the past; Lecture 2: The Open Future. (2017/07/24 - 2017/07/24) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/11/04 - 2022/11/07	Talk at The 3rd World Congress on Logic and Religion Congress	The 3rd World Congress on Logic and Religion Indian Institute of Technology BHU Varanasi, India
2022/09/12 - 2022/09/15	Talk: 'In Defence of Einstein' - Sixth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime	Sixth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime Institute for Foundational Studies Hermann Minkoski , Canada
2022/08/29 - 2022/09/01	IV Urbino Summer School in Epistemology Meeting	IV Urbino Summer School in Epistemology Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
2019/09/02 - 2019/09/04	Summer School: The Metaphysics of Time and Continuum. Imperia Italy	The Metaphysics of Time and Continuum
2018/08/27 - 2018/09/02	Time, time, time - Summer School 2018. Meeting	Time, Time, Time, Summer School. Universite de Geneve, Switzerland

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/06	A irrealidade do tempo e o devir: o argumento de John McTaggart à luz da crítica C. D. Broad. (Thesis) Main arguer	Jackson Batista de Faria Ferreirra. (Other) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2024/07	O Argumento do Quarto Chinês à Luz do Naturalismo biológico de John Searle. (Thesis) Main arguer	Gabriel de Albuquerque Barbosa Baumann (Other)
2024/01/23	Principal arguente nas provas de mestrado do aluno Gabriel Lee Mac Fadden Santos, Lisboa 2024. (Thesis) Main arguer	Gabriel Lee Mac Fadden Santos (Master) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/12/20	Banca de qualificação para doutoramento: Gustavo Emmanuel Alves Vianna de Lyra, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Thesis) Main arguer	Gustavo Emmanuel Vianna de Lyra (PhD) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021/04/28	Phd defense, Tiago Ponti, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Thesis) Main arguer	Tiago Ponti (PhD) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - 2024	Manuscrito (0100-6045)	UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Centro de Lo´gica, Epistemologia e Histo´ria da Cie^ncia
2022/01/14 - 2022/01/14	Princípios: (0104-8694)	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
2019/01/15 - 2019/01/15	International Journal Principia: an international journal of epistemology (1414-424)	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/09/05 - 2023/09/07	1th Colloquium 'Emergence and Time'.	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Braga

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2025/03 - 2025/07	Seminários de Metafísica e Lógica III	Filosofia (Doctor of Philosophy)	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2025/03 - 2025/05	Seminários de Metafísica e Lógica II	Filosofia (Doctor of Philosophy)	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2024/09 - 2024/12	Seminários de Metafísica e Lógica I	Filosofia (Doctor of Philosophy)	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2023/09 - 2023/11	Temas Avançados de Filosofia e Ciência	Doutoramento (Doutoramento)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2021/11/03 - 2021/11/24	Classes taught in Metaphysics: introduction to the philosophy of time.	1 ciclo (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2018	P.h.D thesis approved with distinction. Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal