He completed all his education at the University of Lisbon, where he earned a doctorate in Contemporary Philosophy (2004). He is a full professor at the University of Beira Interior, where he has been teaching since 2002 and currently heads the Faculty of Arts and Letters. At this university, he coordinated the PhD program in Philosophy (2017-2021; 2022-2023) and the PhD program in Political Science (which he co-founded, from its inception until 2019), as well as the master’s program in Political Science and the undergraduate program in Political Science and International Relations.

In the field of scientific research, he coordinates the Research Unit Praxis - Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Culture (2020-2021 and since mid-2023) and previously served as the scientific vice-coordinator of Labcom.IFP and IFP - Institute of Practical Philosophy. He directed the philosophy journal Análise (2004). Currently, he presides over the Portuguese Society of Philosophy and is part of the governing committees of the Ibero-American Network of Political Philosophy and the Ibero-American Network of Philosophy.

His academic interests revolve around social and political philosophy, as well as phenomenological and existential thought. He regularly writes columns for Jornal Económico and Público. He has published several essay books, such as Metaphors of Consciousness (Campo das Letras, 2000), on the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre; Mind and Consciousness (Phainomenon, 2009), a collection of essays on the philosophy of mind and phenomenology; and First Wills – On Political Freedom in Hard Times (Documenta, 2012). More recently, he published a trilogy with Documenta: What if We Stopped Surviving? – A Small Book to Think and Act Against the Dictatorship of Time (2018); The Disconnection from the World and the Question of the Human (2020); and To Live in Any World - We, the Places, and the Things (2022).

He was a Visiting Professor at UERJ - State University of Rio de Janeiro (2012) and at UNIFOR - University of Fortaleza (2012). He is also a member of the Laboratory of Contemporary Philosophy at UFRJ - Federal University.

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