Paulo Renatus Jesus, Ph.D.
Center of Philosophy Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisboa
Portugal
Email: paulorenatus@gmail.com
YouTubevideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/paulorenatus
Paul Renatus Jesus studied philosophy and psychology at Coimbra
University and at University Catholique Louvain (MA degree with honors,
2000). In July 2006, under the supervision of Profs F. Gil and J.
Petitot, he obtained his PhD in Philosophy and Social Sciences at Ecole
des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), defending a
dissertation on time consciousness, selfhood and personal identity based
on theoretical research.
Since receiving his PhD, Paulo has been developing his own individual
research projects and participating in various collective international
projects. His main individual projects are focused on selfhood and
identity. The permanent host institution has been the Philosophy Center
of the University of Lisbon (CFUL, Portugal), but others have been: 1)
PI of a collective research seminar on the “Self as production of truth:
revisiting constructivism”, hosted and funded by “Collège international
de philosophie” (Paris, France) in 2006-08; 2) Visiting scholar at New
York University and Columbia U., in 2007-08; 3) Stagiaire Post-doc at
the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris, France, under Prof. J. Petitot’s mentorship), in
2009-10; 4) Professeur invité at EHESS, in March-April 2009, to present a
seminar for Graduate students on Biographical Time and Experience; 5)
post-doc in Moral Education at Coimbra U. (2013-14); 6) PI of a research
seminar on “Cosmopolitan Justice” at CIPh, Paris (2013-15).
Drawing on Paulo’s research record and his network of institutions and
colleagues, he has conceived and launched an international,
interdisciplinary, research project: “Poetics of Selfhood: Memory,
Imagination, and Narrativity” (PTDC/MHC-FIL/4203/2012. This was funded
by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, where he has gathered a very
diverse team of 34 scholars from 7 countries. Also, he has been an
active researcher and organizer of international conferences in
different collective projects at Lisbon, funded by National and European
Grants, namely: 1) “Phenomenology of Subjectivity and passivity”
(1999-01; 2) “Philosophy, Medicine, and Society” (2007-11); 3)
“Luso-Spanish Integrated Action on Modern Science”, a joint venture by
New U of Lisbon and Granada U, in 2010-12; 4) “Medical Art and
Scientific Intelligibility”, at New U of Lisbon, in 2013-14, funded by
Gulbenkian Foundation; 5) “The conception of Nature in medical thought”,
in 2012-15; (6) “Affectivity and Liminality” (funded by ESF, dir. P.
Stenner, Open U.). Paulo also lectures at Portucalense University for
several courses in BA and MA degrees of Psychology, Education, and Law.
He belongs to the Editorial board of 2 journals and serves as reviewer
in 6 journals.
Main Published Studies:
- Jesus, P. (2015). Autonomie avec et contre théonomie : Kant et Lévinas sur la généalogie de la loi morale. In R. Terra (dir.), La raison pratique : concepts et héritages. Paris : J. Vrin.
- Jesus, P. (2014). L’action comme événement: Ignorance et sentiment cosmo-tragique de soi entre Kant et Kleist, Cahiers philosophiques, 139: 21-37.
- Jesus, P. (2014). Identité narrative et herméneutique de soi. In S. Sckell & D. Ehrardt (Eds.), Le Soi et le Cosmos (pp. 218-232). Berlin: Duncker und Humblot.
- Day, J. & Jesus, P. (2013). Epistemic Subjects, Discursive Selves, and Dialogical Self Theory, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 26 (2), 137-148.
- Jesus, P. (2013). Le Moi entre barbarie et messianisme : critique et jouissance du non-sens. In M. Enders & R. Kühn (Hersg.), Kritik gegenwärtiger Kultur (pp. 233-247). München: K. Alber Verlag.
- Jesus, P. (2013). La psycho-logique de l’Hypothèse-Dieu ou la nécessité d’une possibilité. In R. Theis (dir.), Kant : Théologie et religion (pp. 125-133). Paris: J. Vrin.
- Jesus, P. (2011). “Omne ens est bonum”: Vers une radicalisation nécessaire de l’éthique. In S. N. Sckell & D. Ehrardt (Eds.), La Fascination de la Planète : l’éthique de la diversité (pp. 221-234). Berlin: Duncker und Humblot.
- Jesus, P. (2011). Self as unifying process: On the grammar and phenomenology of agency. In P. Stenner et al. (Eds.), Theoretical Psychology (pp. 73-83). Ontario: Captus Press.
- Jesus, P. (2010). Le Je pense comme facteur de vérité: adéquation, cohérence et communauté sémantique. Kant-Studien, 101, 167-188.
- Jesus, P. (2009). L’instabilité de l’être-avec: configurations de l’intersubjectivité autour de Sartre, Merleau-Ponty et Levinas. Revue philosophique de Louvain, 107 (2), 269-300.
- Jesus, P. (2009). La métaphysique entre le rêve et la folie: Visions précritiques du possible, du réel et du nécessaire. In L. Langlois (dir.), Kant avant la Critique de la raison pure (pp. 85-92). Paris: Vrin.
- Jesus, P. (2008). Poétique de l’ipse: étude sur le Je pense kantien (préface de F. Marty). Bern: Peter Lang, 508p.