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José Luís Brandão da Luz is, since 2012, a retired professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of the Azores, where he was a full professor from 2005. He served as directed of the preceding Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, from 1996 to 2000, and vice-rector of the University, from 2003 to 2011.
He completed his degree course in Philosophy, at the Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, with the final exam – De universa –, in 1973, and presented his degree dissertation the following year. He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of the Azores, in 1992, and agregação in Philosophy, in the discipline of Epistemology, in 2000.
He is the author of works on epistemology, initially in the line of the Geneva school and, latter, of logical neo-positivism and its criticism, as well as the history of Portuguese thought, with particular focus on the philosophy of sciences of the 19.th and 20.th centuries, phenomenology and metaphysic of knowledge.
He collaborated in the publication of the collectives works Redemption and Eschatology: Studies of Philosophy, Religion, Literature and Art in Portuguese Culture, from the Catholic University, and also participated in the History of Portuguese Philosophical Thought, from the Philosophical Center of the University of Lisbon; the Dictionary of Philosophy of Education, from the University of Porto; the Encyclopedia Logos, from Verbo editorial, and Azorean Encyclopedia, from de Government of the Azores.
He also develops research projects in the field of the history of Portuguese thought and culture, with special emphasis on authors of Azorean origin, such as Gaspar Frutuoso, Bartolomeu do Quental and others from the 19.th and 20.th centuries.