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  • University of Barcelona
    Department of Logic, History, and the Philosophy of Science
    C/ Montalegre 6-8, 4th floor. Office 4090.
    08001, Barcelona.

    E-mail: dpcouto (at) ub(dot)edu or at gmai(dot)com

     

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    I'm a PhD student at the University of Barcelona (CCiL Program / Research Line: Analytic Philosophy). Before joining LOGOS in 2018, I completed a BA (2014) in Philosophy at the University of Porto (Portugal) and a MA also in Philosophy at the same institution. Since then, I've been a member of the Mind, Language, and Action Group (MLAG), a research group of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto.

    My main research interests lie within the Philosophy of Mind and its intersections with the Philosophy of Language, Epistemology and Metaphysics. In particular, I'm currently interested in the role phenomenal concepts play in some of the most challenging metaphysical and epistemological debates in the contemporary Philosophy of Mind. This is the main subject of my research, focused on the so-called Phenomenal Concepts Strategy, in which I've been working on since April 2018 under the supervision of Manuel García-Carpintero (U.Barcelona) and Sofia Miguens (U.Porto). In this project, drawing inspiration from Wittgenstein's ideas on meaning and privacy, I will try to outline a new — and more satisfactory among contemporary philosophers of mind — account of the nature of phenomenal concepts.

    In addition, I'm also deeply interested in a wide range of other topics, such as Aesthetics, Philosophy of Action and History of Philosophy.

    My research is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (grant ref.: SFRH/BD/129112/2017).

Projects

List of Publications

Diana Couto   |   2022
Can There be Thought Without Words?—Donald Davidson on Language and Animal Minds 

Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy. 

Diana Couto, Sílvia Bento   |   2019
(Book Review) Sofia Miguens, Uma Leitura da Filosofia Contemporânea. Figuras e Movimentos. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2019. 433 pp., Isbn: 978-972-442-1612. 

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2019, Vol. 75 (3): 1979-1996. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2019_75_3_1979.

Diana Couto, Sofia Miguens & João Alberto Pinto   |   2019
Filosofia da Mente: Uma Antologia

Porto: University of Porto Press

Diana Couto   |   2019
(Re-)Interpretando "Thought & Talk": Donald Davidson acerca das mentes animais

Sofia (Brazil), 8(1), pp. 81-107. In: César Meurer, Nara Figueiredo & Raquel Krempel (eds.), Special issue “Philosophy of Mind and Language”. 

Diana Couto   |   2018
Del cartesianismo de Quine hacia el giro epistemológico intersubjetivo

In: L. Valls, A. Meléndez, B. Fernández & A.L. Batalla. (edits.). Nuevas tendencias en la Filosofía Contemporánea. Valencia, pp. 21-43. ISBN: 987-84-09-00418-8.

Diana Couto, Brena Fernandez, Luís Veríssimo   |   2017
Em busca de boas razões.

In: B. Fernandez, L. Veríssimo, D. Couto (edits), 2017. Por que Razão? Razões para acreditar, para agir e para preferir. Col. MLAG Discussion Papers, Vol. 8. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 5-14.

Diana Couto   |   2018
Donald Davidson: subjetivo-objetivo. O retorno ao cogito.

Col. MLAG Discussion Papers, Vol. 10. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 208. ISBN: 978- 989-54030-1-1.

Diana Couto, Brena Fernandez, Luís Veríssimo   |   2017
Por que Razão? Razões para acreditar, para agir e para preferir. 

Col. MLAG Discussion Papers, Vol. 8. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 200. ISBN: 978-989-99854-7-6.

Diana Couto   |   2017
Monismo. Anómalo?: Donald Davidson e o Problema da Causalidade Mental.

Kínesis, 9(20), pp. 61-86.

Diana Couto   |   2016
(Book Review) D. Dahlstrom, A. Elpidorou, W. Hoop. (edits.). Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches, Routledge 2016.

Revista de Filosofia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 354-364. ISSN: 2183-6892. DOI: 10.21747/21836892/fil33r3.

Diana Couto   |   2015
Finalidade e funções da linguagem em Agostinho de Hipona.

Civitas Augustiniana, 4, pp. 11-29. ISSNe 2182-7141. DOI: 10.21747/civitas/42015a1.

Diana Couto   |   2014
O Amor como Fundamento da Justiça em Agostinho de Hipona.

Civitas Augustiniana, 3, pp. 9-32. ISSNe: 2182-7174. DOI: 10.21747/civitas/32014/a01.

Diana Couto   |   2014
Is attention necessary for consciousness? A consideration of Prinz’s proposal. (Work in progress.)