Philosophy Teacher and Researcher

Marcelo Fischborn is a philosophy teacher and researcher at the Farroupilha Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology, in Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. His research focuses mainly on moral responsibility and the practice of holding people responsible. Other topics and areas of interest include free will, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. He shares philosophical contents with a broader audience in this blog and in this YouTube channel (both in Portuguese) and has also some interests in the area of computing.

Contact

You can reach me at <marcelofischborn@gmail.com> or <marcelo.fischborn@iffarroupilha.edu.br>.

Education

I got a Doctoral Degree in Philosophy (2018) from the Federal University of Santa Maria, in Brazil, with a visiting period at the Florida State University (2015-16) sponsored by a CAPES/Fulbright Fellowship. I also have a Master’s (2014) and a Licenciatura (2011) degrees in Philosophy from the Federal University of Santa Maria.

Publications

The anomaly stands: revisiting some objections to anomalous monism, Cognitio 25 (1), 2024.

The evolutionary roots of moral responsibility, Philosophy of Science 9 (4), 2023.

Reforming responsibility practices without skepticism, Philosophical Psychology, 2022.

Aprimoramento das práticas punitivas e prevenção distal do crime: uma alternativa ao ceticismo sobre a responsabilidade moral, Princípios 29 (59), 2022.

Gilberto Gomes é mesmo um compatibilista? Filosofia Unisinos 19 (3), 2018.

Questions for a science of moral responsibility, Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9, 2018.

How should free will skeptics pursue legal change?, Neuroethics 11, 2018.

Neuroscience and the possibility of locally determined choices: Reply to Adina Roskies and Eddy Nahmias. Philosophical Psychology 30 (1-2), 2017.

Libet-style experiments, neuroscience, and libertarian free will, Philosophical Psychology 29 (4), 2016.

Monismo anômalo: Uma reconstrução e revisão da literatura, Principia 18 (1), 2014.

*Titles link to preprint; journal names link to official publication.

Courses Taught

Philosophy (2019-present; Technical Courses on Management and Informatics); Ethics and Society (2020-present; Technical Course on Marketing); Mathematical Logic (2020-present; Technical Course on Computer Repairing); Sociology (2019-2020; Technical Courses on Management and Computer Science).

Reviewer

I’ve reviewed papers for the following journals, among others: Consciousness and Cognition, Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Inquiry, Philosophia, Filosofia Unisinos, Principia, Manuscrito, Diametros, Dissertatio, Perspectiva Filosófica.