Researcher

Fernando M. F. Silva

Fernando Manuel Ferreira da Silva, born 1981. Post-Doctoral fellow and member of the Center of Philosophy, University of Lisbon. PhD in 2016, on Novalis’ critique of identity, as expounded in the «Fichte-Studien». Chief concerns: Kantian Aesthetics and Anthropology, German Idealism and Romanticism, in authors such as Baumgarten, Kant, Fichte, Novalis, Fr. Schlegel or Hölderlin, having published on and translated several of them. Main publications: ‘The poem of the understanding is philosophy’. Novalis and the art of self-critique, in Mimesis Verlag, Germany (t. b. p. in 2019); Escritos Políticos de Kant (1775-1795). Apres., trad. e notas Fernando M. F. Silva, Posf. de Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos, Nova Vega, Lisboa (t.b.p. in 2019); «“Das Unsterbliche mit dem Sterblichen zu verbinden“. Sobre o pensamento principal da filosofia de Platão segundo Schelling», in Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2017; «Um “secreto procedimento da alma dos homens”: Kant sobre o problema das representações obscuras», in Con-textos Kantianos, 2017; “«The combined force of sensory impressions»: Kant’s view on the benefits of Poetry to Philosophy”, in Kant’s shorter writings: Critical paths outside the Critiques. Kant shorter writings, ed. Robert Hanna, Robert Louden et. al., UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp. 68-82.