Desidério Murcho

Desidério Murcho
Born	(1965-05-18) 18 May 1965 (age 56)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Main interests	Logic ethics philosophy of religion

Desidério Murcho (born 18 May 1965) is a Portuguese philosopher, professor, and writer. Desidério Murcho got his BA in philosophy in 1992 from Lisbon University and his MA in 2000 from the same university. He is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the King's College London since 2000. He is founding member of the Centro para o Ensino da Filosofia da Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (Center For the Teaching of Philosophy of the ).

He was the director of the online journal Crítica. He wrote a column in the Os Meus Livros magazine and wrote a weekly chronicle in the Público daily paper. He was managing editor of the Disputatio journal.^[1] He has worked in the training of secondary education philosophy teachers in Portugal.

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Author of:

• Essencialismo Naturalizado (Angelus Novus, 2002)
• A Natureza da Filosofia e o seu Ensino (Plátano, 2002)
• O Lugar da Lógica na Filosofia (Plátano, 2003)
• Pensar Outra Vez: Filosofia, Valor e Verdade (Quasi, 2006).

He is co-author of A Arte de Pensar (for the 10th and 11th grades) (Didáctica Editora, 2003 and 2004).

He edits, together with , the Filosofia Aberta series from Gradiva. He translated several philosophy works (including Logics, by William Newton-Smith, and The Last Word, by Thomas Nagel). He organized with João Branquinho the Enciclopédia de Termos Lógico-Filosóficos (Encyclopedia of Logical and Philosophical Terms) (Gradiva, 2001; Martins Fontes, 2006). He published articles and reviews in the Revista Filosófica de Coimbra (Coimbra Philosophical Journal) and in Philosophica.

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