José Filipe (Pereira da) Silva was born in Porto, Portugal (1975). Studied Philosophy at the University of Porto and in 2004 moved to Finland with a scholarship from the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT) to work under the supervision of Prof. Simo Knuuttila. He completed his doctoral degree in 2009 on Medieval Philosophy. Afterwards he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä as part of the Centre of Excellence in Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics (2009-2011); and was appointed Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium (2011-2014). In 2014, he was awarded first a senior researcher fellowship from Kone Foundation and then a European Research Council Starting grant for his project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550 (2015-2020), followed by an Academy of Finland research project on Augustinian Natural Philosophy in Oxford and Paris ca. 1277(2020-2024). He has been Professor of Medieval Philosophy since 2020. More recently he was responsible, as vice dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki, for preparing the (successful) application for the Research Council of Finland Profiling action 8 Diversity of Society and Life (2025-2030). His research interests include philosophy of perception, rationality theory, and medieval metaphysics.
José Filipe Silva ja Mikko Yrjönsuuri (ed.): Active Perception in the History of Philosophy: From Plato to Modeoimrn Philosophy. Berliini: Springer, 2014.
Brian Glenney ja José Filipe Silva (ed.): The Senses and the History of Philosophy. Abingdon, Englanti: Routledge, 2019.
José Filipe Silva: Robert Kilwardby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Ritva Palmén ja José Filipe Silva (toim.): History of Mind: Studies in the Philosophy of Simo Knuuttila. Oldenbourg, Saksa: de Gruyter, 2024.
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