Susana Cadilha
Appointed Research Fellow, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and EPLab Coordinator

Susana Cadilha (PhD, University of Porto, 2017) is an Assistant Researcher, coordinator of the EpLab, and a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at FCSH, where she teaches, at both undergraduate and master’s levels, courses such as Ethics or Applied Ethics. Her main research focuses on ethics, metaethics, and practical rationality, and she is the author and editor of books and articles published in journals such as PhilosophiaTopoiDisputatioThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismHistory and Philosophy of the Life SciencesEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, and Kant Yearbook.


Before joining IFILNOVA, she was an Invited Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, at Católica Porto Business School, and at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She held an FCT doctoral fellowship and, during that period, was a Visiting Researcher at NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA), where she completed training in Bioethics and the Ethics of Scientific Research. She was one of the principal researchers of the project “Conversations on Human Action and Practical Rationality” (funded by FLAD) and a Research Fellow in the project “The Bounds of Judgment – Frege, cognitive agents and human thinkers” (funded by FCT). She is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the project “EACH – Early Childhood and Sustainable Citizenship Routes in the Digital Era” (funded by the Erasmus+ Programme). Her individual research project “The Virtue Ethics Vantage Point” was funded by FCT under the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus — 5th Edition (Ref. 2022.00849.CEECIND).

Publications
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books
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book chapters
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2011
EPLab • book chapters
Filosofia da acção – uma introdução
Filosofia da acção – uma introdução
Susana Cadilha and Sofia Miguens
S. Miguens, & S. Cadilha (Coords.), Acção e Ética – Conversas sobre racionalidade prática (pp. 69-96). Lisboa: Colibri.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
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2025
EPLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
El Proyecto de Naturalización de la Ética como un Caso de Investigación Interdisciplinar en la Filosofía Moral
El Proyecto de Naturalización de la Ética como un Caso de Investigación Interdisciplinar en la Filosofía Moral
Susana Cadilha
Isegoría. Revista de Filosofía moral y política, (73).
Articles in conference proceedings
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2017
EPLab • Articles in conference proceedings
Why should moral objectivity be threatened by evolutionary explanations of morality?
Why should moral objectivity be threatened by evolutionary explanations of morality?
Susana Cadilha
International Scientific Conference Humboldt-Kolleg – The Limits of Knowledge, Cracow, 22-25 June 2017 (Young Researchers Competition section).
others
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2016
EPLab • others
Ética para Humanos – a ética e a ciência comportamental
Ética para Humanos – a ética e a ciência comportamental
Susana Cadilha and Carlos Mauro
<emJornal Porto 24</em