researchers

Filipe Carreira da Silva is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. A sociologist by training (ISCTE, 1998), he begins his career as a teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology of ISCTE. In 2003, he obtains a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on classical sociological theory ("In Dialogue with Modern Times. The Social and Political Thought of G.H. Mead"). He then pursues his post-doctoral studies in the United States, first at the University of Harvard and later at the University of Chicago. In this latter University, he joins the Department of Sociology and begins working on two traditional lines of research of the first Chicago school of sociology, the city and a social theory of the self. After a two-year period at CES in Coimbra, he joins the ICS in April 2006. His current research interests revolve around sociological theory, urban political sociology, and citizenship studies. At present, he coordinates two research projects at ICS. "City and Citizenship in Portugal", developed within a University of Chicago-based international research network (the FAUI Project), studies the political and sociological consequences in our country of the societal value changes of the past few decades towards social liberalism and fiscal conservatism, while "Social Rights in Portugal" deals with the constitutionalization and socio-economic implications of the rights to education and to health since 1975. Paired with these projects, he maintains an interest in social and political theories, namely the "multiple modernities" approach, the model of deliberative democracy, and the historicism vs. presentism methodological debate. His recent proposal for a dialogical pluralism in the social sciences draws on all of the above. Filipe Carreira da Silva has written several articles and books on classical and contemporary sociological theories. These include Espaço Público em Habermas (Lisboa: ICS, 2002), Virtude e Democracia (Lisboa: ICS, 2004), G. H. Mead. A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 2007), and Mead and Modernity. Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008). He is also co-editor, with Manuel Villaverde Cabral and Tiago Saraiva, of Cidade & Cidadania. Governança Urbana e Participação Cidadã (forthcoming). He has served as referee for several international journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, and is currently co-editor for sociology of the Análise Social.