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Jorge D. M. Mateus is a researcher specialising in Philosophy and Ethics, with a focus on Social and Political Philosophy, the History of Political Thought, and Neuroethics. He earned his PhD in Political Philosophy from the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho in 2024, following a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy (2015) and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations (2013). Jorge has an extensive research background, having published articles and presented at numerous academic conferences. His doctoral research examined the ethics of human enhancement and theories of well-being, while his earlier work explored distributive justice and property rights. From 2016 to 2018, he was a researcher at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester, where he focused on theories of justice and relational equality. He later pursued a PhD at the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, investigating the philosophical dimensions of transhumanism and the ethics of human enhancement. His current research explores the ethical and philosophical implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Internet of Bodies (IoB), particularly in relation to autonomy, agency, creativity, and memory. His work critically examines how these technologies contribute to the evolving redefinition of human identity and human nature. Jorge also has teaching expertise in Ethics, Political Philosophy, the History of Political Thought, Theories of Well-Being, and Philosophical Anthropology.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jorge Daniel Martins Mateus

Citation names

  • Mateus, Jorge

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B712-28B3-52E0

Email addresses

  • jorge.dm.mateus@gmail.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Ethics
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Ethics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10/01 - 2024/05/14
Concluded
 Filosofia (Doutoramento)
Major in Filosofia Política
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Well-Being and Human Enhancement: Towards Human Nature Developmentalism" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 "Very Good" by unanimous vote
2016/09 - 2018/08
Attended
 Politics (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2015/11
Concluded
 Filosofia Política (Mestrado)
Major in Filosofia Política
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Uma teoria da justiça libertarista: contribuições de Nozick e Steiner" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2011/09 - 2013/07
Concluded
 Political Science and International Relations (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good (16)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Mateus, Jorge. "A abordagem desenvolvimentalista ao melhoramento humano". In Identidade e Diferença: Actas do XII Simpósio Luso-Galaico de Filosofia, 173-190. UMinho Editora, 2025.
    In press
  2. Mateus, Jorge; Pedro Góis Moreira. "Filosofia política segundo João Cardoso Rosas". In Ciência Política à Portuguesa. Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2020.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Mateus, Jorge. "Saga". In E-Dicionário de Termos Literários, edited by Carlos Ceia. Carlos Ceia, 2019. https://edtl.fcsh.unl.pt/encyclopedia/saga/.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Mateus, Jorge. "Are Brain-Machine Interfaces the Real Experience Machine?: Exploring the Libertarian Risks of Brain-Machine Interfaces". AI&Society (2025):
    Open access • Published
  2. Mateus, Jorge. "Flesh as Trauma: First Thoughts on the Transhumanist Traumatic view of the Human Body". Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía 74 (2025):
    Open access • In press
  3. Mateus, Jorge. "Counselling as a Procedural Safeguard for Brain-Machine Interfaces". Pandemos 2 (2024): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.13125/pan-6484.
    Open access • Published
  4. Mateus, Jorge. "The Binomial Relation Virtù-Fortuna in Machiavelli's Ethical and Political Thought". Argumentos - Revista de Filosofia 16 (2015): 137-144. http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/argumentos/article/view/19149/29867.
    Open access • Published
  5. Mateus, Jorge. "A Reading on the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 12 (2015): 95-110.
    Published
  6. Mateus, Jorge. "Considerations on Representation: The Threshold of Sovereignty and Democracy in Rousseau and Sieyès". Problemata 5 2 (2014): 68-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v5i2.21249.
    Open access • 10.7443/problemata.v5i2.21249
Newspaper article
  1. Mateus, Jorge. "O Admirável e Inquietante Mundo Novo das Interfaces Cérebro-Máquina", Observador, 2024, https://observador.pt/opiniao/o-admiravel-e-inquietante-mundo-novo-das-interfaces-cerebro-maquina/.
Online resource
  1. Mateus, Jorge. John Rawls: A New Paradigm of Political Organisation. 2013. http://www.lusosofia.net/textos/20131017-mateus_martins_2013_john_rawls.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Mateus, Jorge. "A Libertarian Theory of Justice: Nozick's and Steiner's Contribution". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2015. https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/disse-1.pdf.
Working paper
  1. Mateus, Jorge; Ramalho, Tiago. 2013. "The Party System in Portugal". https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/9838/1/CIES-WP151_Ramalho.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/04/16 Ética da Inteligência Artificial X Encontro da Casa das Ciências
Casa das Ciências (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)
2024/12/10 Should we be concerned about enhancing our nature? “Book workshop: The Quest for Human Nature: What Philosophy and Science Have Learned by Marco J. Nathan”
CEPS
2024/09/19 No space for privacy in the era of brain-machine interfaces
University of Sassari (Alghero, Italy)
2024/09/13 Towards a moral and political framework for genetic interventions: Balancing well-being and access Bioethics & Social Justice: Phenomenological & Analytical Perspectives
The Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics (IRLaB); The Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Institute of Philosophy; Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)
2023/06/29 The Developmental approach to Human Enhancement XII Simpósio Luso-Galaico de Filosofia
Universidade of Minho (Portugal)
2023/03/31 The Politics of Gene Editing: A Developmental Approach XI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política
Universidade da Beira Interior
2023/03/14 Inteligência Artificial: Ameaça ou Oportunidade? XXV Jornadas da Comunicação
Universidade of Minho
2023/02/15 Educação Superior na Era da Inteligência Artificial 2.º Fórum + Educação Superior
Universidade do Minho & Centro IDEA UMinho (Portugal)
2023/02/03 Gene Editing, Politics, and Well-being Technopolitics: Charting the Unknown
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2022/10/11 Re-Envisioning Freedom: Ethical and Political Agency in our Times of Ecological Disaster CEPS Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy
CEPS
2022/06/27 A Recipe to finish baking our Human Nature 12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Universidade of Minho (Portugal)
2022/04/28 Why We Need to Genetically Enhance Our Human Nature II Conferência Internacional Novos Investigadores em Estudos Políticos
Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)
2019/04/12 Socialism and Anarchism: Social Philosophies of the 19th Century
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2017/10/25 The Ontological Foundations of C. B. Macpherson’s Creative Individualism Seminar on C. B. Macpherson
The University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2016/02/11 Despised Freedom? Tension between principles in Hillel Steiner's thinking VIII Congress of the Portuguese Political Science Association
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/06/09 Freedom and Property, a perverse binomial in Anarchy, State and Utopia VI Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2014/07/15 Predistribution and Basic Income as the Libertarian Shortcut to Replace the Welfare State Summer-School in Political Philosophy & Public Policy: Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2014/07/11 Unconditional Basic Income: can it be a paternalistic policy? Unconditional basic income: a new human right?
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/06/05 Negative and positive conceptions of individual rights: Nozick and Kropotkine 1st Meeting of Graduate Students and Young Researchers in Philosophy, Communication, and Information
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/06/26 - 2024/06/28 14th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy (2024/06/26)
Conference
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/06/27 - 2024/06/27 “Remembering Robert Nozick: 50 Years After the Publication of "Anarchy, State, and Utopia"”. 14th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy. (2024/06/27 - 2024/06/27)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/06/16 - 2023/06/16 Ethical challenges of biotechnologies (2023/06/16 - 2023/06/16)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28 The Ethics of Human Enhancement (2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12 Brave New World 2018 (2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2015/04/09 - 2015/04/09 The Other Rights (2015/04/09 - 2015/04/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015/03/26 - 2015/03/26 Libertarian Thought: Past, Present and Future II (2015/03/26 - 2015/03/26)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014/05/07 - 2014/05/07 Basic Income: Unconditional? - Dignity and Freedom (2014/05/07 - 2014/05/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2014/03/27 - 2014/03/27 Libertarian Thought: Past, Present and Future (2014/03/27 - 2014/03/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2014/02/26 - 2014/02/26 Commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Niccoló Machiavelli's "The Prince" (2014/02/26 - 2014/02/26)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/12/16 - 2013/12/16 The main features of the ecological movement (2013/12/16 - 2013/12/16)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/12/10 - 2013/12/10 II Open Day of Political Science and International Relations (2013/12/10 - 2013/12/10)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/05/30 - 2013/05/30 Debating Youth Participation in Politics: new challenges for the future (2013/05/30 - 2013/05/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2013/04/14 - 2013/04/14 Brief considerations on the need to rethink citizenship, democracy and justice in the 21st century (2013/04/14 - 2013/04/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/03/18 - 2013/03/23 Study Visit to the European Parliament (Brussels) (2013/03/18 - 2013/03/23)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/03/14 - 2013/03/14 Plural identities in a plural and unequal world (2013/03/14 - 2013/03/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/03/12 - 2013/03/12 Democratisation of Justice (2013/03/12 - 2013/03/12)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2012/11/21 - 2012/11/21 Alternative views: another path for Portugal (2012/11/21 - 2012/11/21)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2012/10/23 - 2012/10/23 Screening of the documentary “Donos de Portugal” and discussion with the director (2012/10/23 - 2012/10/23)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2012/10/12 - 2012/10/12 Open Day for Political Science and International Relations (2012/10/12 - 2012/10/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2012/05/29 - 2012/05/29 Screening of the documentary “48” and discussion with the director (2012/05/29 - 2012/05/29)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2012/05/22 - 2012/05/22 Revolution: Freedom, Breakdown, or Conservation (2012/05/22 - 2012/05/22)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2012 - 2016 Grupo de Estudos Políticos da Universidade da Beira Interior [Political Studies Group - University of Beira Interior] Membro-Fundador
2013 - 2014 CCDAC - Coletivo Cidadania e Desenvolvimento - Associação Cívica [Citizenship and Development Collective - Civic Association] Membro

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/06/09 Estamos a moldar os animais à nossa imagem? Jornal de Notícias/Notícias Magazine
2024/02/11 Desafios Éticos das Interfaces Cérebro-Máquina e implantes cerebrais Notícias Magazine
2013/05/31 Limiting the mandate of local authorities Rádio Cova da Beira

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/04/04 - 2023/04/04 Jornal da Tarde, RTP1 Desafios Éticos da Inteligência Artificial e o ChatGPT

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/12/01 - 2019/01/31 Journal Reviewer
Distinctions

Other distinction

2013 Merit Recognition Award for best finalist student in the Political Science and International Relations course
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal