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Tomás Correia

PhD Candidate

Tomás Correia is a researcher, university lecturer, and PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He conducts his research at PRAXIS – Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Culture as a Research Fellow funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), where he is a member of the Ethics and Politics Working Group (GTEP) and actively collaborates in organizing international scientific events. At UBI, he teaches the undergraduate course in Social and Economic Philosophy. He is also an Associate Member of Observatório Político, serves on the editorial board of the international peer-reviewed journal Filozofski Savjetnik, and acts as a peer reviewer for several academic journals in philosophy and the social sciences.

His academic background is rooted in an interdisciplinary trajectory spanning International Relations, Political Science, and Continental Philosophy. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from ISCSP – University of Lisbon and a Master's degree in Political Philosophy from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University Lisbon, with a dissertation entitled "The Emptying of the Metanarrative: Foucault's Archaeology and Genealogy in the Study of Normativity". Currently, he is developing his PhD dissertation, "Towards a (Post)Modern Justice – Foucault's Epistemology as the Groundwork for Justice", at the University of Beira Interior, focusing on the intersection of post-structuralist critical epistemology and the foundations of contemporary justice.

His research and scholarly output are structured around four main conceptual axes. The first centers on Foucauldian epistemology and ethics, exploring the reconfiguration of biopolitical and biopower dispositifs, parrhesia, and the self-constitution of the subject in journals such as the Balkan Journal of Philosophy, Brolly, and Natureza Humana. The second critical axis addresses post-structuralist political theory and the critique of human nature, interrogating behavioral architectures, normativity, and authority in venues such as Filozofski Savjetnik and Social Lens. The third axis examines the emergence of societies of control and technological governability, analyzing surveillance networks and digital control in the journal Digital Social Sciences. Finally, the fourth domain develops a post-colonial critique of alterity, tracing the conceptual shift from classical Orientalism to Neo-Orientalism and revisiting the foundations of contemporary political theory in the Journal of Law, Society and Authority.

Email: tomas.correia@ubi.pt

Main Publications

Main publications

  • CORREIA, Tomás (2027). "Beyond Polarities: Intersecting Parrhesia and Public Reason in Modern Democracy". Balkan Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 1313-888X | eISSN 2367-5438 (in press).

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). "The Endless Mesh: Life in the Societies of Control". Digital Social Sciences. ISSN: 3078-4980 | E-ISSN: 3078-4972. (in press).

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026).  “On The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism”. Social Lens 3 (2): 71-76. ISSN: 3078-3941 | E-ISSN: 3078-3933. DOI

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). "The Architecture of Behavior: A Post-Structuralist Critique of Human Nature". Filozofski Savjetnik 1 (1): 101-116. ISSN: 3102-5528. DOI

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). “From Orientalism to Neo-Orientalism: A Study of the ‘Other’ ”. Journal of Law, Society and Authority 15 (1): 1-22. ISSN: 2253-0266 | E-ISSN: 2600-6219. DOI

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). “(Bio)Politics & (Bio)Power: Reconfiguring Michel Foucault’s ‘Dispositifs’ for Contemporary Research”. Brolly: Journal of Social Sciences 6 (3): 9-25. ISSN: 2516-869X | E-ISSN: 2516-8703. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2025). “Ética, Cuidado de Si e Parrésia: Um guia Foucaultiano para a auto-constituição do sujeito”. Human Nature Review 27 (1): 99-114. ISSN: 2965-1557. DOI

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2022). “The Emptying of the Metanarrative: Foucault’s Archaeology and Genealogy in the study of Normativity”. Master's Thesis, NOVA University Lisbon Repository. URL


Other publications

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2025). “O Método Foucaultiano e o seu Papel na Construção da Verdade”. Political Observatory #133. ISSN: 2795-4765. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2024). “Post-Scriptum sobre as Sociedades de Controlo: Do Mundo Moderno ao Pós-Moderno”. Minerva Universitária Magazine. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2022). “Democratic Peace Theory: Kant’s Heritage and Its Flaws”. Minerva Universitária Magazine. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2020). “Lenin on Civil War: Class Struggle and Revolution as Instances of Civil War”. Political Observatory #97. ISSN: 2795-4765. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2020). “Social Constructionism, Power and Behaviour: A Post-Structuralist Analysis”. Political Observatory #90. ISSN: 2795-4765. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2019). “Triunfalismo Democrático”. SDUL – University of Lisbon Debating Society. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2019). “Orientalismo – Propagação de Valores e Instituições Ocidentais em Sociedades Não-Ocidentais”. PACTA Magazine. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2018). “Youth and Democracy”. Estoril Conferences. URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2017). “Democracia”. O Cacique Magazine. URL



Presentations

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). "The Phenomenology of the 'Other': Power-Knowledge and the Construction of the Oriental Subject". International Conference – Phenomenology and the Political (2–4 December, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal).

  • CORREIA, Tomás & NUNES, Teresa. (2026). "Encenar a Falibilidade: A Vulnerabilidade Ontológica como Emoção em Ato e Drama". 2nd PRAXIS International Conference – Enacting Emotions in Today's World (September 3, University of Évora, Évora-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). "The Art of Truth-Telling: Parrhesia and the Self-Constitution of the Subject". International Congress Making Kin as Practice of Care: Habitable Bodies or Unexpected Alliances between Ecology, Technology and Feminism (June 25 and 26, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). “Epistemic Plasticity and Political Control: The Ambiguity of Biopolitics in Foucauldian Discourse”. International Conference After the Death of the Human – Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary (June 18-19, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). "Genealogias da Alteridade: Do Orientalismo de Said às Narrativas de Exclusão no Mundo Globalizado". 7th Luso-Brazilian Colloquium on Ethics and Political Philosophy (June 1 and 2, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal); URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2026). “From Perpetual Peace to Democratic Peace: Philosophical Foundations Revisited”. International Seminar for Young Researchers in Political Studies – Theories of Democracy (February 27, University of Minho, Braga-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás, & NUNES, Teresa. (2025). “Who’s Afraid of Them? Women and Machines in the Digital Age”. 1st PRAXIS International Conference – Rethinking the Practice of Thinking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (September 12, Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2025). “Power, Norms and Normalization in Michel Foucault’s Genealogies”. 6th International Philosophy Congress of the Portuguese Philosophy Society (September 3, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2025). “Speaking truth, seeking justice: dialogues between Foucault and Rawls”. International Colloquium of PhD and Post-doctoral Students in Philosophy (June 7, University of Évora, Évora-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2025). “The Interplay of (Bio)Politics and (Bio)Power – Rethinking Power, Governance and Control in Contemporary Research”. Ethics and Politics Conference – Tensions between Power and Justice (May 15, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2024). “Ética, Cuidado de Si e Parrésia: Um Guia Foucaultiano para a auto-constituição do sujeito”. 5th Luso-Brazilian Colloquium on Ethics and Political Philosophy: Paths of Justice – Contemporary Dialogues (July 29, University of Évora, Évora-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2024). “Revisiting Michel Foucault's Dispositifs: Exploring the Nexus of (Bio)Politics and (Bio)Power in Contemporary Research”. International Colloquium of PhD and Post-doctoral Students in Philosophy (July 5, University of Évora, Évora-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2024). “Poder, Normas e Normalização em Michel Foucault”. 2nd Edition of O que faz FALta é animar a malta – CulturUBI (April 17, Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2023). “Democratic Peace Theory: A Kantian Genealogy”. 5th International Congress of the Portuguese Philosophy Society (September 14, University of Évora, Évora-Portugal). URL

  • CORREIA, Tomás. (2023). “Michel Foucault’s methodology in the study of normativity”.13th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy (June 15, University of Minho, Braga-Portugal). URL


Event Organization

  • 2026 - Member of the Executive Committee, International Conference – Phenomenology and the Political, Praxis – Centre of Philosophy, Politics and Culture, University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal).

  • 2026 – Member of the Organizing Committee of the Cycle of Debates and Academic Conversations Philosophical Cafés – Cartographies of Indignation. Praxis – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal. URL

  • 2026 – Member of the Organizing Committee, the Executive Committee and the Scientific Committee of the International Congress Making Kin as Practice of Care. Praxis – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal. URL


    2025 – Member of the Executive Committee of the 1st PRAXIS International Conference – Rethinking the Practice of Thinking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Praxis – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal. URL

  • 2023 – Member of the Executive Committee of the SOFIME Annual Colloquium (Society for Medieval Philosophy) – De imagine. University of Beira Interior, Covilhã-Portugal. URL
Research Areas

Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Critical Epistemology, Foucauldian Studies (Biopolitics, Biopower, Parrhesia, and Ethics of the Self), Theories of Power and Normativity, Post-Structuralist Political Theory, Societies of Control and Digital Governability, Post-Colonial Theory and Alterity, Contemporary Democratic Theory.

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