Nuno Fonseca
Nuno Fonseca is a Post-Doc Researcher (FCT) at Ifilnova, Nuno Fonseca is currently working on the aesthetic, epistemological and ethical issues of the use of sound and sound experience in the context of contemporary artistic practices. As a member of the CulturLab he has been contributing with work on Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience, mainly focusing on questions pertaining to the experience of the city.
He has completed his PhD (2012) in Philosophy (Epistemology and Philosophy of Knowledge) with a thesis on issues concerning perception and representation, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He graduated both in Philosophy (2004) and Law (1998), at the Universidade de Coimbra.
He has lectured on "Rhetoric and Argumentation" at the Communication Sciences department and the seminar "Art and Experience" for the master's degree in Philosophy-Aesthetics at FCSH-UNL.
Academic Expertise and Research Interests:
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Aesthetic experience in artistic practice and everyday life; Philosophy of Perception; Epistemology; Ontology of sound, auditory perception and sonic experience, Sound studies, Urban Experience; Port-Royal «Logic»; History of Rhetoric and Argumentation Theory.
Publications:
Books
Antoine ARNAULD & Pierre NICOLE (2016), A Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, tradução, apresentação e notas de Nuno FONSECA, col. «Textos Clássicos», Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2016 ISBN: 978-972-31-1590-1
Molder, Maria Filomena, Soeiro, Diana & Fonseca, Nuno (Eds.) (2013), Morphology: Questions of Method and Language, Lisbon Philosophical Studies – Uses of Language in Interdisciplinary Fields, Vol. 3, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag des Wissenschaften, 2013 ISBN:9783035105599 https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/46024
Articles
Fonseca, Nuno (2016) “Hitting the ‘Play’ Button: the aesthetic values of videogame experience” in Itinera - Rivista di filosofia e di teoria delle arti, nº 11 (2016), ISSN 2039-9251, pp. 75-96.
Fonseca, Nuno (2015) “Dar a ouvir a cidade: o valor estético das paisagens sonoras quotidianas”in Interact: Revista Online de Art, Cultura e Tecnologia, # 22-23 (Fevereiro a Julho 2015) ISSN: 2182-1402.
Book Chapters
Fonseca, Nuno (2017) “Aesthetic Values Before and Beyond the Evaluation of Artworks”, in A. Marques, J. Sáàgua, Essays on Values and Practical Rationality – Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 307-322 (in the press).
Fonseca, Nuno (2016) "Metaphysics and Science: With or Without? - Clearing up for an inclusive disjunction” in Pombo, O. & Santos, G. (Org.) Philosophy of Science in the 21st Century – Challenges and Tasks, «Documenta 9», Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2016, pp. 37-52, ISBN: 978-989-8247-72-8
Fonseca, Nuno (2014) "Soundscapes and the Temporality of Auditory Experience" in Castro, Raquel & Carvalhais, Miguel (eds.) Proceedings of Invisible Places / Sounding Cities. Sound Urbanism and Sense of Place, Viseu, 2014, pp. 523-534. e-ISBN: 978-989-746-048-7
Fonseca, Nuno (2013) "«Light, shade and colour»: the texture of landscape" in Molder, Maria Filomena, Soeiro, Diana & Fonseca, Nuno (Eds.), Morphology: Questions of Method and Language, Lisbon Philosophical Studies – Uses of Language in Interdisciplinary Fields, Vol. 3, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag des Wissenschaften, 2013, pp. 91-106.
