Sandra Escobar

Research Group: Praxis

Sandra Escobar is graduated in Philosophy and holds a Master degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Currently is a PhD candidate in Philosophy of Nature and the Environment with a FCT’s grant at Faculty of Letters of University of Lisbon. She studied at the University Tor Vergata in Rome (1998-1999), was a high school Philosophy teacher (2001/2011) and invited assistant at Portuguese Open University (2011/2012). Is a student member of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon and member of Sociedade de Ética Ambiental. Her main areas of research are Aesthetics, Environmental Ethics, Bioethics and Gender Studies.

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Selected Publications

FLUSSER, Vilém (2010), Uma Filosofia do Design. Tradução de Sandra Escobar. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água.

ESCOBAR, Sandra (2015), “The Experience of the Negative Sublime: a Terror Heuristic of the Anthropic Action Effects on the Environment “. In Facing Our Darkness: Manifestations of Fear, Horror and Terror, Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and Ferenc Mújdricza (ed.). Oxford: Inter-disciplinarypress, pp. 173-182.

ESCOBAR, Sandra (2016), “Adriana Cavarero: a Subjectividade Feminina na Teia de Penélope”. In Marginaliade e Alternativa. Vinte e Seis Filósofas para o Século XXI, Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira e Fernanda Henriques (Coord.). Lisboa: Edições Colibri, pp. 67-75.

ESCOBAR, Sandra (2017), “Para Uma Heurística do Sublime Negativo”. In Um Pensar Para o Outro. Desafios Éticos Contemporâneos. Homenagem a Cristina Beckert. Filipa Afonso, José Luís Pérez, Lavínia Pereira, Maria José Varandas, Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira, Sandra Escobar, Viriato Soromenho-Marques (coord.). Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, pp. 261-267.