Paulo Jesus

Research Group: HPhil
I studied philosophy and psychology at Coimbra Univ and Univ Catholique de Louvain. In 2006, I obtained my PhD in Philosophy and Social Sciences at EHESS-Paris with a dissertation on time, selfhood and cognition based on Kant’s critical works.
My main post-doc projects focused on “Self as a Unifying Process: Consciousness, Cognition and Action” and “Being-in-Stories: The Embodied Poetics of Selfhood”. In my research career I’ve also been: 1) the PI in a research seminar on the “Self as production of truth”, hosted by Collège international de philosophie (CIPh, Paris, France); 2) a Visiting scholar at New York University (under Prof. B. Longuenesse’s supervision) and Columbia U. (under Prof. F. Neuhouser’s supervision); 3) a Stagiaire Post-doc at the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, Paris, under the mentorship of Prof. J. Petitot); 4) a Professeur invité at EHESS, to present a seminar for Graduate students on Biographical Time and Experience; 5) the joint organizer (with S. Nour) of a research seminar on Cosmopolitan Justice at CIPh, Paris.
Drawing from my own research record and from my network of institutions and colleagues, I’ve conceived and launched an international, interdisciplinary, research project titled “Poetics of Selfhood: Memory, Imagination, and Narrativity” (PTDC/MHC-FIL/4203/2012).
Besides, I’ve participated in several research projects: 1) Subject and passivity, at Lisbon U; 2) Philosophy, Medicine, and Society, at Lisbon U.; 3) Luso-Spanish Integrated Action on Leibniz, at New U of Lisbon and Granada U.; 4) Medical Art and Scientific Intelligibility, at New U of Lisbon; 5) The conception of Nature in modern medical/philosophical thought, at New U. of Lisbon; 6) Affectivity and Liminality (ESF, Open U., UK).
My current research relates to time consciousness, narrative identity, hermeneutics of life-stories, phenomenology of intersubjectivity, virtue justice and care ethics.
Selected Publications
- Books
Formosinho, M., Jesus, P., & Reis, C. (Eds.) (2018). Ética: Horizontes e Indagações. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
Brandt, P.-Y., Jesus, P., & Roman, P. (dir.) (2017). Récit de soi et narrativité dans la construction de l’identité religieuse. Paris : Éditions des archives contemporaines.
Jesus, P., Marcelo, G., & Michel, J. (Eds.) (2016). Du moi au soi: Variations phénoménologiques et herméneutiques. Rennes: Presses U. Rennes.
Jesus, P. (2008). Poétique de l’ipse: étude sur le Je pense kantien (préface de F. Marty). Frankfurt /New York /Bern: Peter Lang, 508p. ISBN 978-3-03911-452-8
- Book Chapters
Jesus, P. (2017). La construction du « règne des fins » : épigénèse infinie de la liberté et de la justice. In M. Ruffing & S. Grapotte (dir.), Kant : L’année 1784 : droit et philosophie de l’histoire (pp. 313-322). Paris: Vrin.
Jesus, P. (2017). Récit mythobiographique de soi : vers une psychologie phénoménologique et herméneutique de la religion. In P.-Y. Brandt, P. Jesus, & P. Roman (dir.) (2017), Récit de soi et narrativité dans la construction de l’identité religieuse (pp. 25-44). Paris : Éditions des archives contemporaines.
Jesus, P. (2017). Poétique de l’ipse: une hypothèse sur le cogito postmétaphysique kantien. In S. Grapotte, M. Lequan & L. Sosoe (dir.), Kant et les penseurs de langue anglaise (pp. 51-70). Paris : Vrin.
Jesus, P. (2015). Kant’s unstable self: transcendental apperception between form and force. In S. Miguens, P. Tunhas, J. A. Pinto, & S. Cadilha (Coords.), Ser ou não ser kantiano (pp. 171-192). Lisboa: Colibri.
Jesus, P. (2015). Autonomie avec et contre théonomie : Kant et Lévinas sur la généalogie de la loi morale. In S. Grapotte, M. Ruffing, & R. Terra (dir.), La raison pratique : concepts et héritages (pp. 173-182). Paris : J. Vrin.
Jesus, P. (2015). The Poetics of Moral Selfhood: On Believing and Hoping As-If. In P. Kauark-Leite, G. Cecchinato, V. A. Figueiredo, M. Ruffing, & A. Serra (Eds.), Kant and the Metaphors of Reason (pp. 263-276). Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms Verlag.
Jesus, P. (2015). Being-in-stories: On the symbolic efficacy of self-narratives. In I. Fernandes, C. B. Martins, A. Reis and Z. Sanches (eds.), Creative Dialogues: Medicine and Narrative (pp. 244-258). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Jesus, P. (2015). Identité narrative et herméneutique de soi. In S. Nour Sckell & D. Ehrardt (Eds.), Le Soi et le Cosmos d’Alexander von Humboldt à nos jours (pp. 218-232). Berlin: Duncker und Humblot.
Jesus, P. (2013). Self as future: Vocational life-narratives and identity exploration in adolescence. In M. Paixão, J. Silva, V. Ortuño, & P. Cordeiro (Eds.),International Studies in Time Perspective (pp. 25-32). Coimbra: Coimbra University Press.
Jesus, P. (2013). Le Moi entre barbarie et messianisme : critique et jouissance du non-sens comme tâches éthiques. In M. Enders & R. Kühn (Hersg.), Kritikgegenwärtiger Kultur: Phänomenologische und christliche Perspektiven (pp. 233-247). München: K. Alber Verlag.
Jesus, P. (2013). La psycho-logique de l’Hypothèse-Dieu ou la nécessité d’une possibilité. In R. Theis (dir.), Kant : Théologie et religion (pp. 125-133). Paris: Vrin.
Jesus, P. (2012). Ética e Ciência: Questionar as relações entre a Verdade e o Bem. In C. Beckert et al. (Coord.), Ética: Teoria e Prática (pp. 355-366). Lisboa: CFUL. ISBN: 978-989-8553-14-0.
Jesus, P. (2011). “Omne ens est bonum”: Vers une radicalisation nécessaire de l’éthique. In S. N. Sckell & D. Ehrardt (Eds.), La Fascination de la Planète : l’éthique de la diversité (pp. 221-234). Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. ISBN 978-3-428-83653-6
Jesus, P. (2011). Self as unifying process: On the grammar and phenomenology of agency. In P. Stenner et al. (Eds.), Theoretical Psychology: Global Transformations and Challenges (pp. 73-83). Ontario: Captus Press. ISBN 978-1-55322-240-8.
Lori, N. & Jesus, P. (2010). Matter and selfhood in Kant’s Physics: A Contemporary Reappraisal. In E. Pires, B. Nonnenmacher & S. Von Stupnagel (Eds.),Relations of the Self. Bezüge des Selbst. Selbstreferentielle Prozesse in philosophischen Perspektiven (pp. 207-227). Coimbra: Coimbra University Press.
Jesus, P. (2009). La métaphysique entre le rêve et la folie: Visions précritiques du possible, du réel et du nécessaire. In L. Langlois (dir.), Kant avant la Critique de la raison pure (pp. 85-92). Paris: Vrin.
Jesus, P. (2009). Autrui-en-moi dans la phénoménologie de l’intersubjectivité: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas et la reconnaissance instable, in C. Lazzeri & S. Nour (dir.), Reconnaissance : identité et intégration sociale (pp. 123-141). Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest.
Jesus, P. (2008). Le labyrinthe du discontinu: le moi entre Hume et Kant. In V. Rodhen, R. Terra & G. Almeida (Hrsg.), Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants(pp. 289-300). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Jesus, P. (2003). Vida, expressão e compreensão em Der Aufbau (1910) de Dilthey. In A. Cardoso e J. Justo (Orgs.), Sujeito e Passividade (pp. 151-174). Lisboa: Colibri.
- Articles
Jesus, P. (2017). Michel Foucault e a revolução narrativa em psicopatologia e psicoterapia: ser-em-estórias entre pathos e poiesis. Rev. Latinoam. Psicopat. Fund.,20(3), 511-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1415-4714.2017v20n3p511.7, WoS, Scopus, IF: 0,0625
Formosinho, M., Jesus, P., & Reis, C. (2016). Emancipatory and Critical Language Education: A Plea for Translingual Possible Selves and Worlds. Critical Studies in Education, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1237983. Indexed in ISI and Scopus. 2015 Impact Factor: 1,532.
Jesus, P. (2016). A inteligência dos futuros contingentes: Interrogando G. W. Leibniz sobre a lógica do tempo. Trans/Form/Ação, 39(1), 9-36. DOI: 10.1590/s0101-31732016000100002. Indexed in ISI and Scopus. 2015 Impact Factor: 0,10.
Jesus, P. (2015). „I think“ as form and action: Kant’s self beyond time and substance. Estudos Kantianos, 3(2), 163-180. http://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/ek/article/view/5651/3875
Jesus, P. (2014). L’action comme événement: ignorance et sentiment cosmo-tragique de soi entre Kant et Kleist. Cahiers philosophiques, 139(4), 21-37. DOI:10.3917/caph.139.0021
Day, J., & Jesus, P. (2013). Epistemic Subjects, Discursive Selves, and Dialogical Self Theory in the Psychology of Moral and Religious Development: Mapping Gaps and Possible Bridges, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 26(2), 137-148. DOI:10.1080/10720537.2013.759030. Indexed in ISI & Scopus. IF: 0,423.
Jesus, P. (2011). Podem as razões subjacentes a uma acção ser as causas (eficientes) dessa acção? O labirinto do descontínuo: Gramática, fenomenologia e ontologia da acção. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 67(1), 105-128.
Jesus, P. (2011). Moi et temps chez Leibniz: ou l’unité de la notio completa et de la vis primitiva. Philosophica, 37, 59-72.
Jesus, P. (2011). Meaning-Creation, Selfhood and Religion: From Religious Metanarratives to Spiritual Self-Narratives. Estudios de Psicología / Studies in Psychology, 32(1), 131-145. Indexed in SSCI, ISI, Web of science & Scopus. 2015 Impact Factor: 0,221
Jesus, P. (2010). Le Je pense comme facteur de vérité: adéquation, cohérence et communauté sémantique. Kant-Studien, 101, 167-188. DOI: 10.1515/KANT. 2010.012 Indexed in AHCI, ISI, Web of science & Scopus. 2015 Impact Factor: 0,162
Jesus, P. (2009). L’instabilité de l’être-avec: configurations de l’intersubjectivité autour de Sartre, Merleau-Ponty et Levinas. Revue philosophique de Louvain, 107 (2), 269-300. DOI: 10.2143/RPL.107.2.2040721. Indexed in ISI & Scopus.
Jesus, P. (2007). From Homo Educandus to Homo Aestheticus: Kant on Education. Studi Kantiani, 2006, XIX, 121-130. ISSN 1123-4938.