Nara Figueiredo is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and is a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the same university.
She currently works with philosophy of cognitive science with a focus on enactivism and language.
She has a degree in Philosophy from the same University, a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo-USP.
Her academic background is in philosophy of language, perception, metaphilosophy and epistemology.
She has international research experience at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading-CINN (2017-18), at King’s College London-UK (2013) and at Boston College-USA (2014).
Research
- Enactivism, Epistemology and Evolution
- Enactivism, body and language
- Enactivism, Psychology and Feminism