Vítor Miguel Silva Pinto is a researcher and doctoral candidate in Philosophy of Knowledge and Epistemology at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon. His academic background brings together philosophy, anthropology, and body studies. He holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in General Philosophy from NOVA FCSH, where he defended the dissertation The Epistemic and the Symbolic: Wittgenstein, Cassirer and Langer, under the supervision of Professor Nuno Venturinha, who continues as his doctoral supervisor. His research focuses on contemporary epistemology, particularly on the relations between embodied cognition, spontaneity, the aesthetics of action, and epistemic virtues. He is currently developing the doctoral project Epistemology of Spontaneity: Epistemic Virtues and Embodied Cognition. Alongside his academic work, he has developed for more than two decades a professional practice in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine, working as an acupuncturist and Qigong instructor, a practice that remains in dialogue with his philosophical research.